#OOTD Mango Dress & Nastygal Hat

Dress: Mango

Shoes: Call It Spring*

Hat: Nastygal

Necklace: Marrakesh

This post is very late, I meant to upload these pics today but time ran away from me. My lil sis and her friend came to stay this weekend and last night loads of us went to my GBF Ben's house for EUROVISION!!! AKA the gay Olympics.

 Denmark won and as I am half Danish I celebrated a bit too hard.

So hungover AF today, what should happen but my elderly neighbours (who previously hated us due to our mega loud house party) invited us round for a glass of wine.

I was actually dreading it, but you can't really duck out of drinks when your neighbours live right next door, so we went.

AND had theeee most amazing time. Our neighbours are so cool, they're like the dream grandparents. Their house is beautiful and full of books and art. I also go given a first edition of The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald to read. How lovely!

I feel a great sense of community now- speaking of which; here are a few shots of my parading round my community. See what I did there? 

Let me know what you think of the dress/tent. I actually adore it because at the minute anything that covers everything is a winner for me but I got a few sniggers at it. Also, eagle eyed readers will note I have my hands on my hat in most shots. It was windy and I kept losing the flipping thing. It would NOT stay on my head!

Is anyone friends with their neighbours these days? It's a rarity isn't it!

Best Of The Week

Here are the items threatening my bank account this week- please buy them so I don't have to. I'm eating Basics Bread! LOL! 

Use code UO10 for 10% off at Urban Outfitters.

Record Store

Hey Mr DJ put a record on, I wanna dance with my baby…

That my friends is a line from the Madonna classic, Music. Replace the word ‘Record’ with ‘MP3’ and you’ve ruined a bloody good tune.

Today I just want to talk about music, particularly going out and buying music, from a record store, holding it in your hands and rushing home to play it.

It’s no secret that there has been a major decline of the high-street record store; not just the independents either, even high-street stalwart HMV has gone now… it’s all pretty sad; there’ll be a generation of kids never having known the joy of hunting down rare gems, asking your local record man to save you the poster in the window or perfecting the record ‘claw’ for quick and easy flicking.

With a DJ for a father I had no choice but to be indoctrinated into the tradition of collecting dubplates and white labels and using our local record shop as a place to socialise and form my musical education.

That’s why I am very impressed with the vinyl room in the new Urban Outfitters Leeds store. Okay, I know cynics will dismiss this as a corporate company trying to make more money; but there are no record shops on the high streets anymore, and honestly, it’s not financially viable for most people to think to set one up.

What’s important is, there is still a place for all these wonderful old 12inch LPs and records and people can continue the tradition of flicking through reams of vinyls and findimg that one perfect song or album. The one that might be a soundtrack to the summer. Or the one that could change their life.

I love Spotify. I love my iPod. That’s all hunky-dory. But you can’t beat the smell of  wax. If you’re Leeds based. Do check it out. And let me know what you pick up!

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Dress: Minkpink

Best Dressed Celebs Of The Week

Obviously this week it's all about the Met Gala. The theme was punk which some guests embraced, others failed at miserably and others totally ignored (oh haiii Gwyneth Paltrow). Who do you think was the week's best dressed?

 Corine Roitfeld in Givenchy- I just LOVE the Bambi!

 British beauties Chloe, Jourdan and Ashley- All in custom Topshop (how jealous am I!?)

A Day In The Life: Urban Outfitters Shoot

I thought I would share with you guys a bit about my daily life as an Urban employee. I'm usually in the eCom offices but each week I attend the web shoot where our lovely production team shoot all the new clothes that will be going up on Urbanoutfitters.co.uk.