Wednesday, 6 January 2016

Winter Beach Look book

For my first blog post of 2016 I am doing my first ever look book. When I first started my blog it was about fashion, beauty and lifestyle but after a while it became just lifestyle. However, from doing this shoot I really enjoyed showing what I was wearing and doing this shoot was so fun and new!

These photos were taken by Jenni Duffin , who is working on her photography and is also a blogger, check out her blog HERE.

This look book is winter wear for an outfit I brought together just recently.




















Coat // Topshop 
Top // BooHoo
Jeans // Topshop
Scarf // Oasis 
Boots // Primark 
Watch // Olivia burton - John Lewis

I hope you enjoyed looking through this as much as I did making it!

Love

ChristyJane x





Saturday, 21 November 2015

Uh oh...home sickness

Semester 1 has almost come to an end… and breathe.

Wow.

As a first year I am experiencing living away from home for the first time and truth be told, of course, I regularly get homesick like most other first years.

In many cases I find myself missing my home town, though not even knowing it until someone asks if I’m okay which then actually gets me thinking about my family and friends. This then makes myself feel lonely which can lead to a lack of motivation for my studies… NOT good.

So…


Luckily I live in a flat with 8 others so most of the time I am surrounded by people which stops me thinking about how much I'd love to go back. I try keep myself busy, doing work, house chores...blogging.

Also the change of weather from a warm Autumn breeze to a sudden bitterly wind is a no from me. I feel like hibernating.. which is pretty much what I've done today. I've been in my room working and feeling sorry for myself :').

This first semester is going extremely quick, however, the positive of only having a month worth left of lectures for this year is that we have just over a months worth of holiday. Starting up again in February... A well needed rest. Although I do have hand ins for the beginning of January so I'll most likely drive back up to Cambridge for the day and the be back for the rest of January... Bonus of being able to drive!

Now, back to studying I guess..

Love 

ChristyJane x



Wednesday, 4 November 2015

Printing photos on a budget! - Free Prints

Recently I've been getting a little homesick living here in Cambridge, missing everyone from my hometown.

Seeing my best friend having got a load of printed photos, I realized I didn't actually have many photos of friends and family so decided to do the same. Though I didn't use the same site as her.

I remembered a while back my friend back in Norfolk used an App to order her printed photos. She also wrote a post about the App here.

The App is called FreePrints

I was able to order 34 photos and only had to pay a small charge of £2 for postage.

WHAT A BARGAIN!

I was so impressed with the quality even at such a low price. Extremely happy with my photos and will definitely be using the FreePrints App again!

Here are some photos I got printed!




I really recommend FreePrints if your looking to print photos on a budget!

Love

ChristyJane x



This is not a paid advertisement. This is all my own opinions and findings.

Sunday, 1 November 2015

Halloween (OITNB)

So some of my flat and another came together to be characters from 'Orange Is The New Black'.

Here are the results... who was I and how flattering did I look in an orange boiler suit :')




Didn't even have to try 


Flat
Random cheerleader 

Mendez 
Safe to say we all looked fabulous!

It was an awesome night, however 'Miller' felt very fragile in the morning!

Much love

ChristyJane x

Saturday, 10 October 2015

2 weeks into my lectures!

So I'm now 2 weeks into my lectures and it's safe to say I'm thoroughly enjoying them!

One reason being is because I'm only in 3 days a week of which 2 of the lectures begin in the afternoon so I'm getting a good lot of lay ins... Bonus! However, Tuesday is the day I'm not such a fan of. Lectures all day, 9am-5pm.

As I'm doing Sports Science I'm not at all interested in coaching, so having 3 hours of coaching and behavior on a Tuesday morning is not the one. However, luckily, all the other lectures are science based:

  • Research Methods
  • Exercise physiology
  • Anatomy of motion
The reason why my science course has coaching involved is because the coaching course does the same first year as the sport science... so next year will hopefully not involve much to do with coaching at all!

If you can't tell by now I still don't like coaching.

On a higher note I've met some lovely people.

Lets talk reading.

So there is always recommended reading which can be found online but there was a book that I had to by and its just over 1000 pages. Help me. Its so heavy. 

Exercise Physiology
Trust me it looks bigger in person.

To be totally honest this is my favourite subject (second comes anatomy of motion) out of them all, I find it so interesting. I've always found the human body fascinating and now I'm actually able to study it in depth which I'm loving. 

Overall, it's going well so far and hopefully will continue to do so!

Love

ChristyJane x

Sunday, 27 September 2015

My University accommodation room!

Now that I've settled into my accommodation, after 2 weeks of being here I would like you show you all what my room has turned to look like. To be honest I am very pleased with what I've done with it. I have made it as homely as I can in a way where it sort of looks like my old room but without the mint green walls which I'm actually glad to get away from, I'm liking the neutral colours.

Yes my room is small, but its comfortable and big enough to do my studying and to possibly fit a friend on a blow up mattress when they come to stay.

I've taken a photo of each area of my room for you to have a little look at... Enjoy!



3/4 sized bed
So let's start with the bed. The size is a 3/4 bed which is smaller than my one at home but I can't tell much of a difference. It's not the best mattress but it will do. Though I have got 2 mattress protectors on to make it extra soft. 
If you are wondering, I got my striped duvet cover and zig zag throw from Dunelm.
Stripe Duvet Cover
The throw was in the sale so no longer on the website, you can always go check out your closest store to see if they have it!
The small grey and flamingo cushion are both from Primark a few months back.

Desk
Opposite my bed is my desk, which is where i'll be doing most of my studying. I keep my kettle in my room so it saves me going to the kitchen to get a green tea in the morning, very handy!
I have a calendar so that I don't forget to pay me next terms rent...very important!

DVD's and Books
Under my window I have a shelf full of my DVD's and a couple of books (student cooking and a toasties recipe book), I have so many more at home but there's not really anywhere I can fit them!

Wardrobe
Good sized wardrobe and draws. However, I've made it better by adding a David Bowie poster to it!

Desk shelf
This shelf is above my desk where I just put random crap but I cleared it up just for you guys. ft a shot glass and a fold up wine glass....oh and cute pictures of friends and family.

Second shelf
I like this shelf a lot as it contains a lot of memories. A jar on inspiration, prom picture with my mum, G's 18th birthday, a card from my brother and very sentimental thing is a rock I collected from the Ardeche in France... always reminds me of what an amazing holiday it was... and a cool pad of sticky notes.

Top shelf 
The top shelf is my favourite as it has many pictures of my friends and family, to look at when I miss home <3

Entrance to my room
Here is the entrance into my room, it looks narrow in the picture but really it;s a tiny bit bigger :').
Ft. my Red Hot Chili Peppers poster. I also added a rug as the carpet isn't the nicest material to walk on!



Now lets enter into the bathroom...without a bath.
Don't worry I have a shower just no bath which I do miss about being at home, being able to relax in a hot bath with candles after a long day.

Bathroom Shelf
Obviously I have quite a few products... just like any girl would! (oh there's more but you don't need to see that)...

Mirror selfie ft. the sink
So that's me, just gotten out of the shower which explains the wet hair and make-up free face. Sink is small and you can't drink the water which means a trip to the kitchen to fill up my kettle!

Shower!
Standard shower, heats up very quickly which a low and the power of it is amazing compared to the one I'm used to back in Norfolk. Will miss this shower during the Christmas holidays when I'm at home :').


That's it! This is my home for the next year. I hope this may have given you some inspiration if you're finding it hard what to put in your new room or simply enjoyed having a snoop :)

Love

ChristyJane x

Friday, 25 September 2015

My first freshers Fair!


As you should know by now I'm studying Sport science at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge campus.

It's freshers week and that means freshers fair! It was today (25/09/2015) and I'm glad to say that a got a bulk load of freebies... including Dominos pizza and cookies!

Nabbing myself 2 free drinking glasses, two bags from the same stall which meant double the stuff, winning some prawn crackers and a load of stuff I probably wont even use :').

This is not everything!


I also signed up for Yoga classes with a couple of my flat mates... Even though i'm a sport student I'm not that flexible, so this will be fun!




Me and my flat mate Sam also got free T-shirts for tweeting a photo of us wearing them...


After 2 weeks of living in Cambridge it is soon to be lecture time. Mine start this coming Tuesday which is very exciting but getting even more real now than when I moved in! I know it's going to be hard and stressful... (I guess the Yoga can help with that!).. finding out we have EXAMS in January, emphasize on the word exam because I haven't taken a proper exam since my GCSE's in High school, so for about 2 and a bit years ago... I hate exams.

Wish me luck for next week!

Love

ChristyJane x






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