Going back a few eras

I just died and went to heaven.

Isn't this little sweatshirt dress just gorgeously FIT?!

And I just bought it.

Ok everyone go look at the ebay shop 'yellow shampoo'. It is marvelous and not many people will have them as they're a shop from abroad.

OWWWH ♥

Ebay Binge.

I go way too mad on ebay, it's stupidly addictive, especially when you have no money, you convince yourselves it doesn't matter if you have no money because you get some stupidly fabulous bargains, which I have to say some of these really were! The navy lace top - £1.90, the cream & black top - £4.76, the grey sequinned top - £1.34, and the rare @ topshop nautical dress, slightlier pricer at £17.51. Nevertheless, had I purchased these all full price at Topshop I'm sure I'd be living in a cardboard box right now, so that is how I shall justify it.

And then, naughty Heidi went for the usual daily browse of the Ark website and discovered DUM DUM DUMM they had a sale so I finally baggsied the Motel black lace detail dress I blogged about a few weeks ago for a mere £14.99 down from £38.99 and a cute little navy & white striped crop tshirt with gold buttons for a mini £7.50. AND FREE POSTAGE!

This has clearly been an expensive (in terms of how much is actually in bank account) day, yet an absolute bargain at the same time.

On the downside I weighed myself today, very distressing and traumatic time & one must definitely lose 2 stone to reach her ideal weight. That's depressing, me and the word diet don't get on too well, I blame the daily showing of Come Dine With Me personally.

UFOS

This dress is AWESOME. So kitsch! Silk material with absolutely amazing structured shoulders which fits in with it's futuristic theme. I was uhmming and ahhing whether to go for it and just blow my last £53 on it in an Ebay auction, which would be a bargain really considering it's retail price in the Unique range at Topshop would have been £180. Bargain I tell you. Alas, I would've been broke for the next month and anyway it went for £57 inc. postage so someone just pipped me to the post. Heartbreaking. I will continue to pursuit this dress on Ebay and hope one crops up again! I just thought I'd share the love.

crafty

It's not brilliant but still! I just got a little bored. So I'm sat finding procrastination activities to avoid the dreaded uni work and I'm rooting through my box of clothing I no longer want & I came across this dress, there was a mud stain on the back as a result of festival related drunken activities so it couldn't be sold on ebay, or worn for that matter. Plus it's just a bit shit really. But I didn't want to throw it away, it seemed a waste! So I got a little creative, I always have buttons, beads etcetc lying around so I just thought I'd do a little customizing and the result is this little crop top. I know it's not Topshop quality, my sewing skills are pretty limited, but I still thought I maybe hadn't done half bad?! I'll see what you think. In which case you should click follow so I have more than 2 people on here, I know it's not a popularity contest but come on man, I want more than 2 followers! I might try and bring the sewing up to scratch and maybe sell it, after sporting it on one night out of course in the hope that someone will ask me where I bought it from and I then can respond with "I made it..." in a oh yeah no big deal kind of manner......

@!!!

SO, my exchanged pair of gold pimsols were as shit as the last pair, THEY TOO on the first day of wearing them fell apart, so I had to go back AGAIN for an exchange! FFS.

Anyway I've got some new additions to the wardrobe, 2 new lace leotards, one in peach and the other in black. I love it on the ark website when they're worn under crop tops and stuff, so you don't look a complete hussy baring flesh. Also won a couple of bargains on ebay - a plain white drape top with black buttons down the front by Topshop and a tyedye bodycon dress by Ark, which I don't actually like that much but I thought for £1.41 it was an opportunity not to miss, I'll probably have put it back up on ebay myself by next week lol.

Oh and I'm sure alot more internet shopping shall happen over the next few days, I have cleverly got very drunk and sprained my ankle and so am officially housebound. It's safe to say I am bored as fcuk.

Tara!

costy

So I had a traumatic fashion disaster today. So I'm all excited about my new shiny gold pimsols and I go wandering off to uni in them, and oooh my toes feels a bit nippy, look down, THE ENTIRE SIDE OF MY NEW SHOES HAVE COME APART AT THE SEAMS. Consequently, I then came apart at the seams, had to this kinda naff vintage shop in the student union and thankfully the lady felt sorry for me hobbling along like a knobhead and sold me a pair of little ankle boots at a discounted price of £10. £10 I should not have had to spend. Those boots are now up on ebay, after half a days wear. Pretty pricey pair of shoes for half a day. Grrr. So I went shopping to lift my spirit. Nothing too exciting, a gold eyeliner (you can never have enough gold in your life), denim look dress which I plan on wearing with trashy jewellery and floral tights, an amazing giant flower headband and a plain peach vest top to go with my various highwaisted skirts. Lovely jubbly. So all in all, I paid for a pair of pumps which burst, a replacement pair of boots, and furthermore shopping to get rid of my tizz the bursting shoes put me in. And now I'm £700 down on the rent. Brill!

lfw passers by

London fashion week

spectators. I love how

they can look just as

good as the girls on the

catwalk! Quite like kitsch

and quirky looking items,

anything colourful and

happy looking has Heidi

written all over it!

:)

Elle - March

Good edition of Elle this month! Got a pretty handy highstreet buys booklet with it which have some awesome denim shorts printed with the American flag....I'm not American but I can be if it means I get to wear those shorts! Haha, I'll update this more once I've had a good read of it and give a summary of the best bits. Though that may be in a few days after I've met this dreaded deadline for the 11th March. Analysing 2 of President Obama's speeches, actually maybe purchasing the American flag printed denim shorts might inspire me.....or maybe that's just an excuse to spend money I haven't got. Hmm, I'll have a ponder.

bonjour

OOOH LA LA! J'adore this cute little Paris flippy skirt by Topshop! Once my Alice in Wonderland tshirt has sold on ebay, which will hopefully raise a fair bit, everyone's gone mental for it like Pooh on honey with the forthcoming release on March 5th (this actually includes myself) so this might be in my wardrobe very soon! & I will be very very pleased. You shall be mine Paris flippy skirt, mwahahaha! x

peg legs

So, me and the boyfriend made a random trip to Tesco at midnight last night & I came across a very cute pair of pegleg trousers with militaristic style gold buttons across the waist, I'm going to change them for my own buttons just to make them more Heidi than Tesco brand. They're really cute though, I was so surprised as I don't normally buy supermarket clothes, but these are really cute! When I've customized them a bit with my own buttons I'll add another photo to this blog. Changing the buttons on clothes for some of your own are a really good way of making something more individual. :)

Just for you kitsch lovers, here are my scrabble rings. Don't let little vintage boutiques rip you off, I spotted them in a little shop in Sheffield £5 a piece, however a lack of letters prevented me buying them. So I ebayed them instead and got them for a bargain £2 a piece with only 99p p&p. x

everything that glitters is gold!

I purchased this little beauty in a one off little shop in Leeds today that handmakes all it's clothes. The photo does not do it justice, is beautiful ♥ ! Gold, lace AND sequinned. Could I find a more on-trend trashy piece?! For a bargain £15 as well because the shop was shutting down. I love it! It definitely perked up my day a little bit. I'm thinking body con skirt, some lush heels and some big trashy earrings, ring & bracelet to give it a really funky look. x

lace & studs

Spotted this on Ark's website, it's actually beautiful! I am really tempted to buy it. It really subtly involves the whole 'underwear as outerwear' look that's been happening and I love it! Not slutty either, bonus! Not sure how comfortable I'll feel with my belly on show though, I'll only ever get to wear it on nights out, I'm not sure if I'll still be able to breath in by the end of the night, possibly after a takeaway lmao :/ I'm going to have to have a good think on this one!

I also want the orange hair! It's awesome, I am actually loving ginger at the moment, if it's the right shade and style, definitely imagining it on my head, however I love it most when the hair is long and mine's very short so bit of a no-go atm! Nevermind.

Also saw this cardi on a girl who came into work yesterday, pretty cute for a casual day look.

Aside from my clothes fetish. I'm a very stressed little bunny atm. My boyfriend has decided to live with his friend at the end of university and that's put me in a little bit of a difficult situation! My Team Manager at work sat me down and worked everything I'll need to pay for, here's the breakdown, & lets concentrate on the word breakdown, because that works in two very different ways and both of which apply here really:

£55.88 per month Council Tax
£12 per month TV License
£30 approx per month Gas & Electricity
£400 per month Rent

& That's not including Internet & food costs :(
Also I'm gonna think realistically so just a job that pays £12,000 a year, but even then Tax takes approx 25% so that leaves me with only £750 a month.

Well I'm not gonna be able to afford anything next year, let alone clothes. Joy, life begins here.

Dots & Spots

I swear polkadots will never go out of fashion. It's quite amazing how such a simple design creates such an adorable look. I have to say I do prefer bold polkadots to the teeny ones. Anyway, I am deliberating the likelihood of how much I would wear this.... these skirts don't always look their best on me, my child bearing hips only accentuate the already wide look of the skirt. I normally opt for highwaisted skirts to clinch in the waist and detract from the lovehandles and what not!

Also, not had chance to catch a glimpse of any of London Fashion Week yet, I'm excited! Instead I've been bored to death with the powerful language of poetry. Ironically I think it's shit, so it can't be that powerful. Why did I decide on an English degree again? I suppose it will make the prose in this blog that I assume absolutely nobody is reading to sound half sufficient. Sigh, pointless waste of 3 years and 15,000 grande of my moolah.

Come on rude boy boy

If I was gay I would definitely have to opt for Rihanna. Did anyone just see her on Alan Carr? The twinset hotpants and cropped jumper and the short ginge tinge hair? And yet she still manages to pull of 'sexy'? Lets give her some credit. She's stunning, and damn she has style.

Latest needs & musts.

Can't possibly get enough of all the romantic looking items in at the moment. Lace is classy, unless you spot those hussys round town wearing lace leotards with leggings over the top and bits of thigh hanging out, they simply remind me of Madonna looking like a kuger in her music videos. Surely it's not a good look.... Dusky pinks, frills, ruffles, ribbons etc, innocent and classic looks, very niiiiice.

Also just purchased a set of scrabble rings spelling out my name. I haven't quite found a suitable time to wear them yet, but I pretty pleased with myself to own them.

And despite them being brought out so very long ago now, I am still desperately soughting the Vivienne Westwood dragon heart heels in baby blue with the bright red heart. I am actually selling half the items in my wardrobe to afford them right now, that and my rent deadline which is beginning to loom near.

Also, is it just me or has everyones hair miraculously grown? The pixie cut was in not too long ago, and suddenly people have hair sprouting to nipple length. How has this happened? Nevermind, I embrace not having to do anything with my hair when I roll out of bed.

Just won quite the bargain on ebay, fluffly crop jumper in lilac with pearls dotted across it by Topshop, it better be through my letterbox by tomorrow, I hate having to wait!