Hometown Glory

The past week has seen me hop-skipping back and forth between home and Southampton, twice! - quite a record, especially considering I hadn't gone home since the Christmas break previously.

As every student will agree, home comforts are literally the best thing. Thanks to my mum's knack of over-stocking at Christmas, there were still chocolates lying about at every glance...these I took full advantage of whilst I could (I hardly ever have tasty snacks to hand in Soton). Tea and biscuits and delicious home-cooked meals and puddings and plentiful stocks of every type of food imaginable; my stomach had not seen such action since Christmas. And, of course, it was lovely to see my family again, and being in a warm, cosy house was definitely a novelty.

I decided to dye my hair 'naturally' with lemon juice whilst I was at home. After researching into how to naturally bleach your hair, wikihow and ehow managed to convince me that lemon juice was the way forward.  It basically involved me juicing a lemon into a jug, dipping my hair into the jug and combing it through the lengths of my hair, then sitting outside in the sun for half an hour...by which time, my hair was as dry as straw. I washed it out, as advised, followed by a lot of deep conditioner. I haven't noticed a grand difference, but apparently it works gradually anyway...which I don't really understand, but I guess I'll have to wait and see.

My camera had a disastrous tumble the other week (I swear it wasn't my fault, it was the bad spirits lurking in my room that did it), which meant that the lens broke. I thought I was gonna have to fork out a couple of hundred on a new one, but luckily my brother found one for around £60 on ebay, and it arrived whilst I was home. I put it to good use and took a load of pictures...312, in fact.

[01] Close-up portrait

[02] Maria, vintage photoshoot for uni

[03] Grand piano <3

[04] Silverware (testing out the zoooom & focus)

[05] Photoshoot location...lovely countryside

I was impressed with the lens, it's so much better than my old one so perhaps that'll give me the incentive to use my camera more. As much as I love it, it gets neglected rather a lot.

In other news, I would please please like to own the following!:

[06] Batman tights, needs no explanation

[07] Baby pet fawn!

[08] Charlotte Olympia fruit shoes! Love!

[09] These nails.

Unfortunately I think only two of the four items are somewhat achieveable for me to own. My budget doesn't extend enough to cater for £870.01 (why the extra penny?) shoes, and nor does my conscience cater for illegal pet fawns.