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! :)

A video posted by Dani Mason (@floraldanielle) on Dec 29, 2014 at 4:21pm PST

  

 

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OOTD - Antique posey.

Another outfit of the day on the blog today, this particular outfit was from a really fun bloggers event I went to last week with my best friend Courtney. It was a collaboration between Primark and the lovely Victoria from Inthefrow, and I filmed the whole thing so check out my YouTube for a video coming soon! I wore my favourite Motel Rocks maxi skirt for the first time and I've been in love with it ever since! :)

Ribbed black polo neck top - New Look

Navy floral maxi skirt - Motel Rocks*

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Black buckle boots - Topshop

So far I have the matching skirt and bralet from this Motel Rocks 'antique posey' collection, but I definitely would like the kimono and trousers too! I'm currently in Scotland with my boyfriend for a couple of weeks and am having such a fun time - so expect a lot of videos and blog posts coming! I also post on instagram daily @floraldanielle if you'd like to keep up to date with what I'm getting up to!

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Reading Festival 2014! And a new YouTube video :)

A couple of weeks I went to Reading Festival with some of my best friends and it was so fun. I knew from the beginning that I was going to be recording the majority of it because I was seeing some of my favourite bands and spending it with people I might not see for a long while! You can scroll straight to the end if you'd like to see the YouTube video I made with the footage :)

 There was loads of people there I knew and I camped with loads of my friends from uni but we all ended up splitting up when it came to deciding which bands we wanted to see! Most of my time was spent with my best friend Courtney, my cousin Joe and my friend Alex from uni as we all wanted to see the same bands. Me and Courtney shared her GoPro the whole time, and the boys enjoyed borrowing it to run through the audience and crowd surfing whilst recording themselves which ended up with some funny footage!

 My favourite bands there were Die Antwoord, Blink 182, A Day to Remember, issues and letlive. I also really enjoyed Jimmy Eat World, Deaf Havana, Queens of the Stone Age, Paramore (surprisingly really good even though I hadn't listened to them in about 6 years), Papa Roach, Hactivist, Arctic Monkeys, Royal Blood, Lonely The Brave... and the list could go on! There was loads more bands I hadn't heard of before which I ended up falling in love with!

It was such a fun weekend and such a nice break away from full time work, I can't wait to get back to my next festival! I'm fingers crossed that I can go to Download and Glastonbury or Bestival next year as they seem really fun! :)

 We also enjoyed recording ourselves whilst on the rides, and the footage from that was pretty hilarious (especially all the screaming!) I'm lucky that I can borrow my best friends and my boyfriend's GoPro cameras when I like, but I definitely need to invest in one for myself. If you don't know what they are, they're little cameras which you can get waterproof casing for, and you can attach them to your head, chest, or arm and not worry about them falling off! They give a funny fish-eye lens effect which I love and they're not too expensive so they're perfect for day-to-day videoing which I hope to do some more of, for both my blog and so that I have somewhere to look back on all my funny old memories!

 

 

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I graduated from my fashion degree! :)

There have been a severe lack of posts on my blog lately, and that's because I've been a very busy girl! I finished my university degree and had the fashion show featuring my final collection, then I had to move all my things back home and prepare for my graduation! I found out just over a week ago that I graduate with a 2:1 from Norwich University College of the Arts and on Tuesday I joined all my friends and family in celebrating our graduation together! :)

Me and the fashion girls who have all been through blood, sweat and tears together over the last three years! I'm so proud of us all, I can't wait to meet up again soon and I'm gonna miss them all so much! You literally get so close with people being in the same studio together day in and day out, love you my rats and goats! :)

My dad, my sister, me and my mum :) we were literally so lucky with the weather on Tuesday, we graduated at 10am (so we were up at 6am getting ready, collecting our gowns and getting professional photos by 8.30am!) and the sun was shining for us! We had a little bit of rain around lunchtime but then the sun came out again for the afternoon! 

Me and my lovely boyfriend Joe :) we've been together five and a half years, but 5 of those have been spent at different universities and in different towns so I'm super happy to be going back home so that we can eventually be together properly! Love you loads Joe!

Two of the loveliest boys I've ever met! We were part of the Oak Street originals and I'm sure I'll get to see them over the Summer :)

Amy has been the only one who has been through my uni experience in the exact same way that I have. We've lived together and been on the same course as each other for the past three years and I literally could not have done it without her. All the stress has been worth it though and I love you my little Essex babe, excited for all the fun things planned this Summer! :)

My best friend Courtney, me and my little sister Liv. So excited to be moving back home so that I can be right near these guys, I've missed them so much these past 3 years! There are gonna be so many fun things coming up this Summer with these two and I can't wait! :)

I swear that the blonder my hair gets, the more me and my sister look like twinnies!

Getting to meet and shake hands with John Hurt was one of the highlights of the day. (He might be better known as Ollivander from Harry Potter to you guys..."The wand chooses the wizard, Harry.") He is the Chancellor of our university and he was so lovely! :)

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I'll definitely be putting up another post once I've got sent the professional photos, and got the higher quality images from my boyfriend including ones with my housemates :)

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Sunday summary #8

Yet again, it's been forever since I've done a Sunday Summary blog post! I've tried to leave out any uni related photos so that I can do another post specifically on my fashion work (you can see the first one here), which has been rather hard as I feel like that's all I'm doing right now! I'm both happy and sad that the weather's starting to warm up - happy because I absolutely love the sun, but sad because I have to enjoy it from inside, or occasionally at the weekend :)

I watched the entire five series of Breaking Bad this term in less than a month. I was totally hooked and I'm pretty sad that it's over forever now, but I'm gonna watch it again from the start one day. It amused me how much the blue Jolly Ranchers look like Walter's blue crystal meth!

I'm starting to do some more beauty related posts on my blog recently, as I love doing my hair and make up as much as any other girl, so why not share my thoughts on products! The first of many is this review of the Model's Own new Hyper Gel nail polishes which you can see here :)

 We have a balcony on one of the bedrooms of our uni house, so on Sundays we like to all hang on there for an hour or two in the sun. #balconybants

I've recently left the dark side and gone blonde. It still needs one or two more sessions until it's the proper blonde that I'd like, but I'm loving it already! This photograph was taken when I was testing out my new Benefit Lollitint so if you'd like to see the full review you can see it here :)

 How gorgeous are these vintage locks!? I found them when fabric shopping in London and I think I'm gonna have to go back and purchase one! They're about as big as my palm, and the keys work on them still, I just need to find something I can lock up!

Primark have got it absolutely spot on with these My Little Pony pajama bottoms!

Some little outfit details - the skirt is from Topshop and the rings are from Waiste Vintage.

A recent black and white Wednesday wishlist which you can check out here :) 

Have any of you guys been using these Carex hand washes?! I'm absolutely obsessed with them, the smells are so realistic! I picked up Strawberry Laces, Chocolate Orange and Cola Bottles flavours. The Strawberry Laces one is currently in my bathroom and it makes me happy every time I use it!

Isn't this just the cutest kind of graffiti you've ever seen!? I go to an arts university so I'm not sure if it was part of someones project, but balloon art on the walk home from uni definitely cheered me up!

My friend Tim works at the local Starbucks so he gave us personalised names on our cups haha!

The Kings Pub in Norwich has the cutest pin-up wallpaper in their toilets, I really want to do this in my bathroom when I get my own house!

Need to get yourself a new notepad? Then be sure to check out Wilkinsons, how cute is this little doggie one?!

I've given my blog a little makeover recently and I really like the way it looks now. It included a lot of searching on Google for how to use HTML (I used to be so good back in the Myspace days) but I'm definitely feeling like change is a good idea.

When Joe came to visit last month we went to Biddy's Tea Room in Norwich, which is basically my favourite place right now! For under a tenner you can get unlimited tea, a few huge sandwiches and crisps, then a cake of your choice, all served in mismatching vintage floral china. If you're ever in the area you should definitely go there for lunch, it's all so beatifically decorated too! :)

The nearer it's getting to Summer, the more I'm getting excited for bringing out my colourful wardrobe including some lovely pastels. This jumper is actually from Primark and it's one of my favourites lately. You can read this full blog post here :)

I've eventually got around to sitting down today and reading this issue of Company magazine including lots of lovely bloggers who's blogs I love anyways!

Lastly but not leastly, a very happy Mother's Day to my beautiful mummy! I love this picture of us so much, I'm such a squished little chipmunk!

In the last Sunday Summary post, I promised I'd start leaving my favourite song/band at the time. This week I booked my ticket for Reading Festival. It'll be the first time I ever go to Reading and I cannot wait, so many of my favourite bands are playing. I've only started listening to Die Antwoord recently but they are fast becoming another favourite, and I can't wait to see them live this Summer!

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