Sunday 11 January 2015

Photo round-up of my year in 2014! :)

Sorry this post is a little late, as some of you may know I've just been on the best trip ever to Amsterdam with my boyfriend Joe, and I shall be getting a YouTube video of our fun times up sometime soon. I started doing this round-up of the year blog post last year, and I'm gonna keep on doing them each year as they're such a good way to remember everything that happened in the past year! Yet again 2014 has been a crazy year - I started the year finishing off my dissertation and now I've graduated and moved onto interning and the real world! :) The first half of the year was definitely more boring than the second half, as it was spent slaving away in my uni bedroom and the classroom studio, but the second half I got to do some super fun things! I definitely forgot how long these blog posts take to create too... I might try and do it per month during 2015 so that it's all ready to publish in December haha! :)


January

January was such a random one this year. We had an awesome New Years Eve at university and everyone was there together for the last time! I then shopped in the sales a bit and the rest of it was spent slaving away at uni, on Photoshop and buying fabrics for my final collection, as well as finishing off my dissertation.



February

February obviously included Valentine's Day, and this year it was actually mine and Joe's 5th year anniversary! February was another month of slaving away at univeristy but I also got my hair dyed a little bit lighter (looking back I actually really like the slightly ginger tone here), treated myself to lots of Models Own nail polishes, discovered the sweet flavoured Carex soaps (strawberry laces, chocolate orange and cola bottles, yum!) and went to Biddy's Tearoom in Norwich for the first time, which was so yummy! :)



March

March was pretty sunny in Norwich which was nice! I feel like all these first few months of 2014 were such a blur of uni work and stress! We had some fun times procrastinating on the balcony together though and I had my hair dyed even blonder. You can really see the difference in colour from February til March.


April

Despite all the stress, April was a really good month for me. It was my 23rd birthday (ahh I feel so old, but I loved everyone singing the Blink 182 song 'What's my age again?' at me because the lyrics are "nobody likes you when you're 23"), the new series of Game of Thrones came out, I got some awesome birthday presents and got to spend time with my loved ones. I also had my hair dyed even blonder and I was eventually happy with the colour :)


May

The month of May this year might've been the most stressful month of my whole life. It was the countdown to my final ever hand-in, my final collection being finished and the catwalk fashion show. This month I managed to finish everything on time, have a photoshoot of my collection and had an awesome catwalk fashion show, so as you can imagine we all went out and got very drunk! I also won Jim Chapman's giveaway to win the full collection of Tanya Burr's lips and nail collection, and he actually turned up at my uni house to deliver them as he lived so close!



June

June was so lovely as all the stress had finally been taken away from us and we got to spend time together as friends rather than occasionally swooping past each other in the kitchen area. We went for plenty of nights out, had many BBQs and also went to the beach. I popped home to surprise my dad for Father's Day which was lovely and I also helped man the uni stand at Graduate Fashion Week. I eventually had time to do some blogging this month after putting blogging on hold for several months. June was also sad though as it was the month we all tidied and packed up our rooms to move back home!



July

July was the month of my graduation, the day I never thought would come! So many times throughout uni I wanted to give up but I managed to stick it out, get a good grade and graduate with all my friends! I had a nice (orange) fake tan and it was lovely and sunny that day. My sister gave me the funniest graduation card which read 'Congratulations on finally wearing a tassel on something other than your nipples' hahaha! I wrote a full blog post about my graduation here if you'd like to read it! It was also Joe's 23rd birthday and I got him a rather fitting Heisenberg card! :)



August

During August I went to quite a few carboot sales and managed to get some lovely bargains! I also went to Reading Festival with my best friend and some uni friends, and saw some of my favourite bands ever! I did a full blog post on Reading Festival if you'd like to read it here :) I was also working in Costa Coffee during this Summer full time so I didn't have too much time for fun!



September

September was a really fun month this year and I got to do lots of fun things! I went to Alton Towers for the first time ever with my best friend, my mum moved into her new house with her boyfriend so we had a fun, champagne-filled evening celebrating, the steam fair came to town and we went on lots of rides and my blog turned 2 years old. I also went to LFW, had an Ikea makeover in my bedroom, went to a Primark A/W Preview and Blogger Masterclass with Victoria from Inthefrow and spent some fun days in London with my best friend :)



October

October started off very exciting, as me and Joe went to Scotland for a few weeks! It was amazing and I loved every minute of it! We camped in some amazing places, climbed up some mountains, saw some lovely waterfalls and stayed in a little wooden wigwam! I still need to edit and upload my YouTube videos from Scotland so keep an eye out for them! The new series of American Horror Story came out which made me super happy as it's one of my favourite series, I went to the Oh My Love A/W Preview Day and I did some fun pumpkin carving for Halloween! :)



November

November was another fun month this year. Everyone starts to get a little bit excited for Christmas and the festive season (even though not everyone likes to admit it!), the Lush Christmas bath bombs started coming out and the crazy Christmas shopping starts! I got to see some family friends that I hadn't seen in years which was lovely, I treated myself to the Naked 3 Palette and most definitely haven't looked back! I had a fun day in London with my sister going to a few blogger press days and I eventually upgraded my phone to an iPhone 5! :)



December

December started off really fun as I got to intern at one of my favourite clothing brands, Oh My Love! :) I wrote a full blog post about it here which you can read, but it consisted of everything from photoshoots to returns and helping out on the website. I also visited Winter Wonderland with some uni friends, had some fun times in London and ended up having a lovely Christmas with my friends and family :) and to top it all off, Joe treated me with a trip to Amsterdam as my Christmas present!


Wow I've eventually finished this blog post, it felt like it took forever! But yet again, I'm so glad I wrote it, even just for myself to look back over the years and see how much has changed! :)



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26 comments:

  1. I also did one of these and it was lovely to see everything I've done throughout the year with all of my friends and family! Love it and I hope the beginning of 2015 has treated you well!

    hannah @ http://hansaddiction.blogspot.co.uk/

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    1. I've had a little read of yours Hannah, sounds like you had a lovely year too! :)
      All the best for 2015!
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  2. Thankyou for sending me your link via Twitter. I loved reading this post, I think it's nice to look back on the amazing things you've done throughout the year :) A couple of my highlights from 2014 were a spontaneous trip to London with my Mum in March, winning VIP tickets to see McBusted, Seeing Arctic Monkeys at Leeds Festival, finally seeing Lady Gaga live after all these years & buying my first designer bag :)
    Natasha Paris x
    www.natashaparisblog.co.uk

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    1. That's okay Natasha, thank you for coming to read my blog! :)
      Ooh I'm so jealous, I really wanted to see McBusted!
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  3. This is such a lovely idea - it's so nice to be able to look back on the whole year in a post like this. It'll be really cool to look back at it in years to come! xx

    Eärendil

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    1. Thanks Abby! :)
      Yes definitely, it'll be funny to look back in like 5/10 years time!
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  4. Stunning recap!
    ♥♥♥
    Jeanne
    http://fashionmusingsdiary.com

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  5. Such a lovely way to look back on the year. It doesn't seem as long ago as March that I too bought Company with Zoella on the cover- how time flies. I love The Great Gatsby- I got that as a present either for my birthday in June or last Christmas. It looks like you had a fantastic year. You have a lovely blog- now following.
    Julz Obsessions xx

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    1. Thank you Julz! :)
      I know, that's exactly what I thought when I saw that picture of Company with Zoella!
      I need to re-watch The Great Gatsby as I loved it! :)
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  6. Wow what a fab year you have had! I love going to Amsterdam, such a lovely place x

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    1. Thank you Rachel! :)
      Ahh I have fallen in love with Amsterdam and I can't wait to go back!
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  7. Lovely post and it seemed like you had fantastic year! You always look so stylish! x

    Laura
    Pink Frenzy

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    1. Aww thank you Laura, what a lovely thing to say! :)
      x

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  8. Seems like you had such a great year and I love the fact you recapped it like this! xx

    Charli | Beauty and Lifestyle Blogger at CHARLI B

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    1. Thank you Charli! :)
      It was definitely a jam-packed year!
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  9. oh it looks like you had a great year!! it is just a great idea to look back at the year in pictures!!!
    love your blonde hair!!
    xo
    Alice | Alice's Beauty Madness

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    1. Aww thank you Alice! :)
      I'm glad I've eventually gone back blonde!
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  10. I love instagram for this reason - I can always go back and look at things that happened throughout the year and smile :)

    Creepers & Cupcakes

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    1. Same, it made me so happy going back through these photos! :)
      I'm excited to do it again next year!
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  11. Looks like you had a packed year. Love those cute little gingerbread men :-)
    Laura | A Life With Frills

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    1. Aww thank you Laura! :)
      Yes I love those, Morrison's every year!
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  12. It was so lovely reading this, it's funny how everyone's final year at uni kind of has the same timeline, like from about feb onwards you're stressed out working, April/May are horrendous and then June there's a massive lift and all the pressure goes away and it's one of the best months! xx

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    1. Thank you Sheri!:)
      Haha yes definitely, third year is horrible but then June is lovely!
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  13. Such a cute post, love the collective collages girl! I am not looking forward to my final year of Uni starting September haha but good luck!
    www.diamants-au-chocolat.blogspot.ie

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    1. Thank you Ayisha :)
      Aww good luck with third year, you can do it!
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