Hair Retrial

So, my sister and I, now that we had more than five minutes to try to do something rather than having to rush to steam broccoli for dinner, had a go at prom hairstyles again. 

Thank you for the suggestions! I was at a loss so I trusted Caoimhe to make up something magical. And she did! 

What does everyone think of this? (Ignore the mess of my room, pleaaaase): 

This is so much better than my failed attempts at plaiting/twisting my own hair! 

I felt like I was wearing a halo (oh, the irony!). 

Prom Hairstyle Ideas

So, my prom is next Friday. I have a dress, shoes, bag, makeup ideas etc. but I'm still slightly undecided about my hair.

I love the idea of a braid of some sort and I absolutely love milkmaid braids, a la Mary-Kate Olsen & Sienna Miller (like in the photos below) but I'm not sure it'll suit me and I know my hair is waaaaay too short.

So, one question on my mind (which I would love for you to comment and leave some answers for!) is would it look ridiculous if I did this, but lower on my head? Then I might have half a chance of my hair staying in and actually reaching all the way round my head in a plait. 

My adorable little sister attempted to do this roughly for me (so excuse the random array of bobby pins and the utter mess that is my unbrushed hair and myself in my pyjamas). Does it look okay? 

So, as I said, it looks a mess, it was done in about five minutes before dinner was ready, but you get the idea. Do I make sense? Would it look ridiculous or cute? 

Imagine it with my dress & everything.

Please, please comment! I'd love to know any opinions, advice or ideas you have to help (and I would definitely love you forever).  

PS: I know these are pathetically ugly attempts of mine/ Caoimhe's in comparison to the previous photos, so bare with me.

A Glorious Day In Bath

It's a pity that it's absolutely chucking it down with rain outside right now 'cause the weather today has been so sunny, hardly any wind and just purely tropical (well, for UK standards)!

I went to Bath for what seems the first time in ages without family - although I did appreciate my grandparents taking me there a couple of weeks ago. It's always funny shopping with them 'cause my granny finds things at crazily reduced prices and my granddad stuffs me with ice cream & talks about the architecture of nearly every single shop we go into. Seemingly, when I went shopping with them, I got loads more than I did today! Haha, they did pay for everything though, 'granddaughter's treat' they called it.

Today I went to Bath with Rhiannon (Pandora's Pinafores), so I had to face reality a little bit, I wasn't driven there and yes, I did have to use my own money!

First of all, we were committed and got up early to make it into Bath before 10. The bus I was okay with but anyone who knows me has a rather large idea of how deathly scared of trains I am. Considering that I'm going to Plymouth uni in September (hopefully) and there's a train station behind campus, I told myself that in the summer holidays I was going to get over that fear and for the most part, that's true. My stomach was throwing butterflies around the place & I swear my leg was twitching but I'm alive! Slightly odd as it is, I'm quite proud of myself & here's the train ticket to prove it (WARNING: may be a boring photo!):

See? I went all the way to Bath and back... Okay, so maybe that's only one station along from Chippenham on one train, but it's something, baby steps. 

I took Rhiannon for her very first Shakeaway, and QUEL HORREUR, she was planning on having a healthy one - no such thing! So I convinced her to have an apple pie milkshake which smelt amaaaazing. 

N'awww, the little cutiepie - no pun intended! (Ohhhhh, how hilarious I find myself!)

We went round quite a few charity shops & I took Rhi into Vintage to Vogue just because they have absolutely everything there - imagine the costumes from Titanic & that's exactly what you would find. In The Yellow Shop, she bought the most adorable playsuit ever, it was so so summery... I told her half the things she showed me were so bright that they reminded me of our friend Peter's kitchen. He's from the Caribbean and is kinda homesick, so he extended his kitchen with a glass conservatory & painted the walls the most orangey orange you could ever imagine. 

Finally, I can show you what I bought:

Only a few things. 'White orchid' Rimmel salon pro nail varnish for a couple of pounds to go with my prom dress next Friday, Topshop socks because I've been dying to buy some for absolutely ages & a Cath Kidston purse for £4 in the sale which I can use as a more attractive make up bag than the simple green pouch that I've had since dinosaurs roamed the earth!

One last photo, I took this to show my sister the Dr Martens that Rhiannon was wearing 'cause they're from the same pastel range that Caoimhe wants a pair from. So, excuse the extremely large width of my trouser leg (looks a bit clown-like) but here are the two most beautiful pairs of feet that you'll ever have the chance to see in your life (I joke... or do I?). 

Can you tell that we were bored waiting for the train home? The ground was so much more interesting. 

So that was my Thursday. How was yours? Also, comment below and give me ideas for my next posts! 

Lee Dungarees

Today, I was woken up by the doorbell & I knew as soon as I got onto the upstairs landing that it was the postman with my Rokit delivery - so I rushed downstairs, hair a mess, pyjamas scrumpled and probably gave the man a shock but they're HERE.

These dungarees are the cutest things ever. 26'' round the waist & 32'' long on the length so I can roll them up (which I've got into the habit of doing with trousers lately).

You'll have to excuse the fact that my hair's just shoved up after the shower & that I'm wearing my piggy socks from Primark but here you go, the beautiful dungarees! I'm going to wear these when I go to Bath with Rhiannon (Pandora's Pinafores) tomorrow so you can probably expect a photo of me styling these a bit better & looking more presentable in general.

What isn't there to love about these? They're made out of the softest cotton ever and they're so comfy, I feel like a 5 year old, or possibly even younger (like a baby in a babygro) and I've been dancing round the house in them to the Little Shop of Horrors soundtrack basically all day apart from a few hours for breakfast, lunch, dinner & walking the dogs down the cycle path.

As I said earlier, they're from Rokit, based in London. They sell vintage clothes, forgive my use of the word 'vintage' as I personally think it sounds a bit pretentious, but this means that they're charming pieces that you, mostly, can't find anywhere else unless (ironically) you choose to buy end of line dungarees like these ones, or Levi shorts like I did when I first ordered from this website:

Did I forget to mention that every single item is renewed by hand? Yes, time and care has gone into making each piece of clothing from Rokit so cute and unique. Personally, I think that's lovely. 

I swear to God, when I ordered these, I felt really happy that I'd finally found an item of clothing that I'd been searching for years to find. Little ol' me, wishing someday that I'd get to wear clothes like some of the (let's face it) cooler, more fashionable people than me. So I've basically just admitted that I'm a bit of a copycat, but who isn't in some small way? 

I think the best part about these deliveries is you get the logo on the packet, which I think is adorable & they give you little badges to go along with it. I probably won't keep the sticker that came with it (I have a bit of a thing about stickers/labels/plasters etc.) but the badge is so adorable & it's pastel green which is one of my favourite colours. 

So, to round this all up. Rokit are lovely, their clothes are such good quality and fit like a glove, delivery is within 5 working days (although both these deliveries came within 3). Go and buy yourself something from there, you really won't regret it!

Just a warning though, there isn't any universal sort of size guide for these clothes (although they attempt to make one on the website) and you do have to pay for delivery, so my suggestion is to check the measurements of the item on the website and measure yourself, then measure a similar size piece of clothing at home which you know fits you. 

Song of the Day

''Do I Wanna Know?'' - Arctic Monkeys.

So catchy, so so good.

18th!

I thought probably the first thing that I have enough to write about is my 18th birthday! My birthday is June 13th, so it wasn't that long ago and I had the best time I could possibly ever imagine.

I've finished school now, so I've got holidays but my family still have to go to work/school, nevertheless, they woke me up early to make me scrambled eggs & smoked salmon & to watch me open my presents.

This is some of what I got:

• Money from my parents, grandparents & Aunty Kay
• Jack Wills English Velvet perfume from my sister
• A joke present - a Jack Wills water bottle from my dogs 'cause I always steal Caoimhe's
• A pearl necklace and matching earrings from my parents
• Thornton's chocolate, a butterfly link bracelet and a Waterstone's card from the Bloomfields 
• A beautiful heart pendant from the Powells
• A flower crown & lipgloss from Rhiannon (Rhiannonbritten)
• Body Shop Atlas Mountain Rose perfume & body lotion from my wonderful friend of 14 years, Eleanor
• A new Cath Kidston bag from the wonderful Nadia, Mel & Shana who drove up to my house to surprise me - it was a replacement for my old bag which was breaking
• Finally, a surprise arrival today, a Cambridge Satchel Company Batchel in Vintage Brown (15'') from my grandparents for when I go to uni!

Seeing as this is a pretty big landmark birthday for any teenager, my parents invited my English grandparents and my Aunty Puddy down to celebrate - which meant I got to stuff my face with the most gigantic Sunday roast you could ever imagine! Last weekend, when all the exams were over, I had some of my girls round for a meal, which turned out to be an inside BBQ 'cause the weather sucked, but we still had a lovely time! Mostly meaning that I fed Mel triple her bodyweight, got singled out in embarrassing games of Truth Or Dare (minus the dare) & drank quite a bit of Pimms (if you haven't tried it, I recommend you find the limited edition blackberry & elderflower flavour quick!) which made it feel like summer.

About Me

I thought, considering I don't know many of you in person (although I'd love to, so please get in contact!), you'd maybe want to know a few things about me. I don't know, on the grand scale of things, how interesting these facts will be to you exactly, but here goes...

1. My full name is Roisin Kathlyn Kelly
2. I’m 18
3. My birthday is June 13th, shared with the Olsen twins, Aaron Johnson, Chris Evans & Kat Dennings
4. I’m only 1/4 English, my parents are Scottish & Irish
5. I have a sister called Caoimhe
6. I have an unhealthy love (not quite obsession) for Matthew Gray Gubler. I just think he’s the most perfect human bean inside & out.
7. If you think it’s odd that I just said ‘human bean’ then you clearly haven’t read The BFG.
8. Favourite songs: Wherever You Will Go - The Calling (heard this for the first time when I was seven and I fell in love with the music video), Steady As She Goes - The Raconteurs (especially the line ‘when you have completed what you thought you had to do and your blood’s depleted to the point of stable glue, then you’ll get along’); All My Life - Nizlopi. 
9. Favourite books: The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson, One Day & Starter For Ten by David Nicholls, Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (I even have a TGG mug) and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. 
10. Favourite films: Blue Lagoon, Peter Pan (2003), The Breakfast Club, (500) Days of Summer, Disney’s Hercules, Anastasia and Richie Rich - I watch it religiously every Christmas (excuse the pun, it was accidental). 
11. I’ve known the names of my future children since the age of 10. They’ll be called Ramona Avery and Spencer Perrin. Note, I haven’t chosen the name Spencer just because it’s the name of MGG’s character in Criminal Minds (although I do love Dr. Reid), I chose the name when I saw a bear in a toyshop in Edinburgh who was called Spencer but my Aunty K wouldn’t let me buy it. 
12. I think Justin Nozuka has written some of the most beautiful songs on the planet & I would happily meet him to ask him about them if I could. 
13. I love all pastel-coloured things, but my favourite colours have to be mint green & fuchsia/ watermelon pink. 
14. I used to live in Oxford & sometimes I wish I could go back. 
15. I’m hopefully going to Plymouth to study Psychology. 
16. I watch an unhealthy amount of crime programmes & used to tell people how they could murder someone with seven tubes of toothpaste. 
17. My friend Sophie calls me ‘pulchy’ - short for pulchritudinous. Which I am not, but it’s very flattering all the same. 
18. I really want to go to the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas when I’m older. I’ve wanted to ever since I first watched Holiday In The Sun when I was little. 
19. I have a habit of talking too much/too fast/ in mixed languages during sentences/ with inherent sarcasm etc. etc. 
20. I always set my alarm for three minutes before any time I actually need to be up for. I don’t exactly have OCD (I haven’t been diagnosed or anything) but I have tendencies which I’m slowly trying to work my way around. 
21. I have major girl crushes on Hayley Williams, Zooey Deschanel & Alexa Chung. 
22. I’m not the best at recognising my own mistakes, but I am quick to overthink them, so that’s why I got this blog (and later Tumblr) to type out all my frustrations & realise that I don’t actually have it as bad as I think I do. 
23. I highlight/underline/box my favourite quotes in books. 
24. I can play the piano, quite well in my opinion. I started at the age of 8. 
25. My favourite musical is Little Shop of Horrors, I’ve both been in a production & watched three productions of it at the Edinburgh Fringe (which I go to every year when I visit my family in Scotland). These facts are also written on my 'about me' Tumblr page, so check it out if you want (roisinkkelly.tumblr.com) If there's any other facts you want me to add to this list, then comment below!

A very warm welcome!

Hello! After almost 3 years, several exam tantrums & a lot of my time taken up, I finally have the whole summer ahead of me which means that I can go back to writing my blog which I've missed for so long.

I was actually inspired to start up again by my dear friend Rhiannon whose started her own blog (Pandora's Pinafores) so I'm absolutely grateful for all the encouragement I've gotten to do this again!

Please, I'm actually quite a nice person so if you like this blog and want to delve deeper into my life, then follow my Instagram, Twitter or Tumblr.

Hope you enjoy reading my ramblings & if you've got any suggestions/comments/ questions - I'd absolutely love to hear them!

Also, on a side note, I promise one day, when I become a little less gawky and a bit more tech-savvy, I will make a YouTube, but until then, you're probably better off not seeing my awkwardness on camera!  

Love, Roisin xoxo