A/W 2013 Going Out Look Book

I don't claim to be an expert of fashion whatsoever, but as I am a slightly curvier person than most that I see online and in my magazines, I decided to show you a quick look book! These are some outfits I have put together for going out of an evening.

May it be to a club, restaurant, out with friends, or even for a work event, these clothes are all useful!
I've pieced together recent bought items with some pieces I've had for a while but never had a use for them until now!

Outfit One
Monochrome Dress ~ Primark ~ £5 (on sale)
Black Strappy Shoes ~ Primark ~ £6 (on sale)
Black Court Shoes - Select ~ £10

The cut-out part of the dress!

The dress is a simple monochrome look consisting of what I've always called jungle print. Whether that is the correct name for the print, I don't know! Like I said, I am no expert! The dress caught my eye ages ago due to the design and the cutout at the front of the dress, which is just below the bust, and doesn't show off too much skin, which is something I am conscious about. As for the shaping of it, I don't feel like a whale in it or feel like I will draw a chunk of attention my way!

I paired this with black shoes, a choice of two, depending on the weather. If you can brave cold feet like I can most of the time, the strappy ones fit it perfectly, but the classic court shoes work just as well and keep the toes covered!

Outfit Two 
Monochrome Zig-Zag Vest Top ~ Primark ~ £4
Black Pencil Skirt ~ Select ~ £8
Black Court Shoes ~ As above
Black Pointed Shoes - As above

This outfit is so comfy! You can wear either pair of the black shoes with it, though I favor the court shoes with this one. The top is a simple vest top, slightly baggy so it looks better tucked into the skirt. The skirt is made of a thick material, like jersey kinda thick! I bought this a few months ago but it was too hot for it, yet now it it colder, it is the perfect weather for it.

 It is about knee length on me, so fairly modest and the fact it is a pencil skirt shows off the curves that I possess in a way that I am happy with! The top is my favourite part of this outfit as I normally go for plain tops, but this caught my eye and I couldn't resist!

Outfit Three
Red Leopard Spot Vest Top ~ Primark ~ £4
Red Jeggins - Primark - £7
Red Court Shoes ~ Select ~ £10

I braved a bright colour. Plus skinny jeans. I know that sounds a tad dramatic, but me and skinny jeans have an up and down relationship. Sometime I love them and they love my thighs, other times we have a disagreement that lasts months at a time. I've been living in bootcut jeans for a year, so time to venture out and be bold in some red! You can wear this with the black shoes too, but I like to go big with a colour and match it everywhere. I usually have a red clutch to go with this too, so I am easy to spot in a crowd! Keeps you nice and warm in the winter and a bonus for us ladies is... one less leg shave!

I also paired all the three outfits with a black coat when going out, plus a matching bag and whatever accessories I choose at the time, as I am constantly changing my mind! I hope you all enjoyed my first look book! I love clothes, fashion and all things like this, so I thought I would give this a try. Monochrome is a style I will always love, so the red is pushing my comfort zone for me, but I love, love, LOVE, that outfit!  Let me know if you like this sort of thing and I will happily do more, though I will probably do so anyway!


Keep safe and have a great weekend!
Tania x

Tania Watches Downton

Okay, I am actually going to start blogging properly and with some seriousness from now on. Going to actually give it a whirl as there is such as thin as a blogging community that sounds hella awesome, and I want in! So here it goes. I'M GONNA BE A BLOGGER!

For those of you that don’t know, I am quite the fan of Downton Abbey. I joined mid-way through season two and have been hooked ever since. Sunday night (Sept 22^nd) was the premier of season four, set six months after the death of Matthew Crawley, Lady Mary’s husband, and he is also the father of his and Mary’s baby that was born at the end of the 2012 Christmas special. I am so happy it is back!

So to let myself come up with a blog post and to watch the program, I made a little running commentary as I watched!

WARNING: Below is a running commentary sorta-thing for the first episode of the season, so don’t read on unless you want it to be spoiled!

·         Oh Lady Mary looks so sad. Mourning period still in full swing I see.

·         Good lord, O’Brien has left! I loved her! She was quite the sassy bitch out of all the staff. Oh and all the bloody worker gossips spreading the news! I had no idea she wasn’t going to be in this season.

·         Mr Carson is my spirit animal.

·         TOM BRANSON! Having dinner with the bigwigs. I hope we see baby Sybill soon. Branson was always one of the characters that I loved and so glad he’s moved up a level in the Downton Abbey hierarchy.

·         Oh Mary’s baby is called George just like the new Royal Prince!

·         She called him an orphan baby :o BUT YOU ARE STILL ALIVE MARY.

·         Dowager countess Violet Grantham. Sorry Carson, this woman is more of my spirit animal than you are.

·         Thomas and Nanny West, dynamic there and he is just as rude as usual.

·         That newspaper is bloody massive Jimmy.

·         Glad to see Branson and Lord Grantham getting along at long last! *fistpump*

·         Isobel Crawley. Lost her only child and oh goodness her speech about not being a mother anymore… breaking my heart!

·         Naughty Mrs Hughes for snooping!

·         Oh it’s the girl from Twilight who played Tanya, and she is back and fully trained as a Ladies Maid, named Edna! Oh wait, I remember her now from a previous season…

·         What makes me think that the anonymous letters that Anna and Bates received were not from each other as they expected?

·         Okay Mary, I know the love of your life is dead, but please try and smile.

·         Who is this mysterious man that has been writing to Carson…? Oh his old ShowTime buddy.

·         Lady Edith needs to get married this season, BUT I am not a fan of the guy that likes her

·         OMG THE CHILDREN ARE SO DAMN CUTE

·         It’s so well done how they’ve showed the differences in the relationships that Branson and his daughter have, and the one between Mary and her son

·         Mrs Hughes’ hair reminds me of a pie crust

·         Branson and Mary bonding scene! Branson needs to be the one to pull her from her funk…

·         Branson is my third spirit animal of this show. He’s just wonderful and Irish and gush.

·         Lots of eggs in the kitchen. Me being me, wants to know if the props are made of wood or plastic

·         Nanny West looks set to kill Mr Barrow! Game on?

·         Mr Carson, save Mary please, please, please.

·         The look of pure horror on Lady Grantham’s face when Barrow approaches her about the children

·         Ah no! Mary said no to Carson, HOWEVER, she had some feistiness there that she seems to have lost from previous seasons

·         I think Mary has finally snapped. Oh sheez she left the room pretty quickly

·         A touching moment there between Mary and Violet >> ‘You must choose either death or life’ Urgh, feels.

·         Oh good lord now Jimmy’s gone and got Ivy drunk trying to make the other guy jealous

·         BUTLER OFF – Just like Bride Wars but Butler style!

·         I think Mrs Crawley is coming out of her funk! Yippee!

·         Very forward with the kiss there Edith! I do not ship this relationship

·         I can’t quite pinpoint where the new maid, Edna came from in the previous seasons

·         OH HOT DAMN THE NANNY IS A BITCH. Calling little Sybil a filthy halfbreed (I did think of Harry Potter at this part)

·         Mary apologized and Carson finally managed to crack her! Yay!

·         Mary is wearing a colour! Is the mourning period over at last! 

Well there we have it. Not really interesting, but it is a blog post of sorts and related to a programme I am adoring. Hope you all are watching it! 

So until next time readers, I will blog again soon

Love Tania x

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21 Year Old Here!

Hey guys, time for an update don't you think?

I've not blogged for a while, so there are probably a plethora of things to let you know about! I'll bullet point them for you, it will make it so much easier on myself and probably for your sanity when reading.

• I am no longer engaged, as I broke up with the guy in question
• My step-brother got married and I went to the wedding. It was such a lovely day and I was happy to be part of the bride and groom's day.
• I went on a date with someone that I met online, and it was a good date. I won't be seeing him again for a few reasons, but he wasn't a murderer as all my friends suggested when I said he was from online!
• I turned 21 years old in September! 
• I went clubbing for the first time, and enjoyed it! My anxiety & minor claustrophobia normally stops me from saying yes to these sort of things, but I powered through it and went. Glad I did, as I had so much fun with my friends.
• I also drank so much damn alcohol that night, that I got drunk drunk for the first time, yet no hangover the next morning. Pow.
• I've started making YouTube videos once a week now, and enjoying myself with the videos.
• I am driving a lot more now and building my confidence up a bit more with it, so hopefully I can start going further than my town soon!
• Programmes I have recently been watching: Game of Thrones, Whose Line Is It Anyway
• Book I'm reading: A Song of Ice and Fire ~ A Clash of Kings
• Films I've seen at the cinema: Despicable Me 2, Iron Man 3

So I think that is all the updates in my life that I can think of now, but I shall try and blog again sometime in the next week to keep you all interested! I PROMISE TO BLOG MORE OFTEN.

Here are my latest three videos!

Keep Smiling,

Tania x

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

~*~I solemnly swear that I am up to no good~*~

Well I saw this film ages ago but never done a blog post on it. So here it is.

OMG IT WAS FREAKING EPIC AND AWESOME.

And sad.

My childhood ended right there in the cinema in front of me.

I cheered when Molly Weasley killed Bellatrix, I cried when Fred Weasley died. I laughed when Mcgonagall said 'BOOM!' to Neville. I punched the air when the bridge collapse with the Death Eaters on it.

In short; I loved it and already pre-ordered the DVD off of Amazon.

The book franchise was what made me want to read. Up until Harry Potter was unleashed into book shops, I'd only read Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl and then one day in 1999, my teacher at school read us this new book she'd found and loved called Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. It changed my life. Shortly after Harry's first Quidditch game in the book, my Mum had been forced by me to purchased Philosopher's Stone and Chamber of Secrets. Eager to get me into reading something other than a battered copy of Fantastic Mr Fox, she let me have them. By the time my teacher had finished reading the first book, I'd finished the second and had bought Prisoner of Azkaban the day before.

I was hooked.

My copy of Philosopher's Stone is very worn out, the spine in peeling and the books have a thinned bottom right corner from page turning. As each book was released I got it that very day or the next day at the latest. My Mum had to fight (not like punches and everything, but you get what I mean,) for the last copy of Deathly Hallows at our book shop and she won :D (GO MUM!) My friend Jackie finished it in under three days. It took me five as I had to stop to locate tissues after each person was killed of. I cried the most at Dobby and Fred's deaths and I loved Dobby from the first book and the twins are my favourite characters. My poor sister on the other hand suffered five days of not being able to read the book as I refused to share it, and me walking into her room in tears saying 'you're not going to like this bit,' and walking out again.

But seeing the last part of the film where Harry has his family with Ginny and Ron and Hermione were a family as well was just....wonderful. But once that scene ended I knew I wouldn't have the excitement of another film release date or seeing the trailers on TV anymore. It really was over.

I've been part of this Pottercoaster for 11 years now and still read the books over and over again and watch the films with my friend Jodie. She's never read the books but has seen the films, so it's always interesting to get a text from her saying, 'Why is he doing this? What does that mean!!!????' And being able to explain it to her in so much depth I'm sure I bore her to death with my explanations. Since reading the books, I've managed to take on the Twilight series (Potter is still far better) and currently on Lord of the Rings, (only on Two Towers after 2 months), and so many more.

Also there's a Potter related book out this month called: Harry Potter Page to Screen. Check it out here.


Love Tania xxx

~*~Mischief Managed~*~