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Hi ladies, Radio One's Big Weekend on the bank holiday officially opened the festival season and it is time to get our cute floral headbands and 70's inspired fringe accessories out. With regards to jewellery, aztec remains a must-have for me and in today's post I'd like to show you some of my picks that I'll be taking with me to the up-coming Glastonbury Festival. I was recently contacted by Touchstone, a company that supplies High Street retailers such as Select, New Look or Debenhams with fashion jewellery. My special package contained some super sparkly treats such as gold bangles and geometric necklaces which I'm going to show you now in more detail. 1. Five Row Gold Hoops, £3 at Select And Red Bead Stretch Bracelet Pack, £5 at Select* Gold is a massive trend colour this summer and these bangles are super sparkly. They fit nicely around my wrist and they are adjustable, so they can also be worn by people with smaller wrists. The red bead stretch bracelet pa

Hi ladies, it's been 10 years since I went through my A-Levels and I thought it might be the right time for a little light-hearted reflection on the many lessons which I've learnt in school and how they've worked out in 'the real world' aka life. This is a very light-hearted post and you don't have to agree to any of it, I just wanted to reflect on my school life and be a bit nostalgic about it. Hope you'll have fun and let me know what school has taught you and how it has turned out in your adult life. Maths School lesson: Use the formula for a linear way to the solution. This is the fastest, safest and most efficient way to do it.  Life version: Many ways that turn out as long-winded detours will lead you to the solution. Be prepared for some some serious WTF obstacles though and sometimes you may have to start all over again, but eventually (and with a lot of compromise and sacrifice) you'll get to the solution. English / Foreign Language s School les

Hi ladies, yeah the bank holiday is finally here and there's time for us to head down to the movies and catch up on some great films. I can't wait! Let me know if you're going to see a movie (or two, or three) and hope you'll enjoy today's film post.  Far From The Madding Crowd  7/10   Who says only city people face intrigue, drama and love triangle problems? Far From The Madding Crowd is a spectacular and ostentatious film adaptation of Hardy’s Victorian novel starring an A-List cast of Carrey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen and Tom Sturridge. It centres on strong independent Batsheba (Mulligan) who rises to wealth through a generous inheritance. A confident, beautiful and rich woman of course attracts lots of attention so she’ll soon find herself vowed by not just one (Schoenaerts), but three admirers (Sturridge and Sheen). If you love period drama and adaptations of epic British literature, than FFTMC is for you. For anyone else, the 2h film of emot

Hi ladies, we're blessed with another bank holiday this month. Yeah! I'm so excited for this long weekend. Hope you are too? What are your plans? Well, here are mine. 1. I'm going to use the holiday to get some writing work done. I'm currently working on an application that requires me to hand in a feature, opinion piece and a news snippet by Monday midnight. So far I have my topic 'Identification and Immigration in the UK' all set up and researched. A first draft has been created for the feature but I need some ideas for the opinion piece. The news snippet will be fairly easy as it will only require 2-3 sentences answering the 4-w and 1-h question. This task will keep me busy and creative all weekend long. 2. Tonight is Eurovision! I'm such a nerdy fan, but only since I've moved out from home (OMG it comes to 11 years this year!). As a kid my parents always made me watch it and I hated it. And what have I done ever since I left their nest? I watched it.

Hi ladies, Style Lingua's birthday  is a month ago. I can't believe how fast time has gone by since I left my old blog Lunch Break Adventures behind and re-branded as Style Lingua. I hope you've enjoyed the posts and new layout so far. I'm still learning and working on improving this blog, especially the photography is a major point I'd like to enhance in the next couple of weeks. Anyway, as today marks the first month of Style Lingua I'd like to celebrate with you and of course where there's a birthday, there's cake involved :)  To celebrate my first month of Style Lingua and the start into a new bright blogging future, Baker Days kindly sent me one of their letterbox cakes*. From a wide collection of different designs for various occasions I decided for the Little Birdie cake with the customised message Wishing you all the best for a wonderful future as I found the classy design would best match the purpose of my re-branding.    On Baker Day's we

Hi ladies, I went to London for a few days earlier this month and the big highlight of my stay was a trip over to the  Victoria & Albert Museum  to visit the iconic and much talked about fashion exhibition  Savage Beauty  by Alexander McQueen. The exhibition showcases masterpieces of the designer who sadly passed away in 2010. To be honest with you, I knew very little about the British designer who committed suicide in 2010. Before my visit to the exhibition I have to confess I ignorantly expected to see clothes presented in a museum but I couldn't have been more wrong. Savage Beauty is in the first place an art exhibition dedicated to the incredible work and contribution to fashion by the artist McQueen. You won’t see ‘mere clothes’ exhibited but expect 10 lavish rooms with installments to reflect McQueen’s genius heritage.    The pieces showcased at Savage Beauty are on a high and different level of fashion to any other clothes that I've seen before. The 'clothes'

How is everyone?  My first Stradivarius head to toe fashion post  is a while back, but I've been in their Stratford store again and hauled it. You can literally go in there and come out with an entire new outfit, without the hourly long search for matching items. Don't you think today's ootd has a little bit of a French touch? Hope you'll enjoy today's post. Have fun! Stradivarius is the boho casual little sister brand of Zara with super romantic styles and laid back outfits. I only wanted to buy a new pair of jeans but they are at the beginning of the shop and the fitting rooms are at the end. So on the way there, I picked up the shirt and the blazer (I didn't need a blazer, but I checked the prize tag and I couldn't resist). That's why I love Stradivarius so much. You pick up stuff that's nice and actually looks nice on you and they are affordable and just wow you completely over. The last time I had this 'hauling' fever was back in 2009/2

Hi ladies, today's post is a quick round up of my trip to the Stationery Show in London. You may remember that in late April, Britain celebrated National Stationery Week and I included a few posts on my favourite stationery brands and a piece on handwriting including a  review of Sheaffers Sagaris pen on Style Lingua. On the 28/29 April the Business Design Centre in Islington hosted a fair - the Stationery Show and highlight of #NatStatWeek. I'm an addict when it comes to stylish journals and shiny writing instruments so I made my way over to London and checked out the latest stationery trends.  The two day fair was held at the Business Design Centre which is a short walk from the tube station Angel. I arrived at around 11am and after I picked up my press badge, I found myself in the midsts of stationery lovers and brands waiting for me to get discovered. The show was in the first place for trade only, so I felt that brand representatives shied a bit away when I outed myself

Hi ladies, how are you? Earlier this month I was invited to The Blogger Thing, an event organised by my amazing blogging friend Ting . She organised a fantastic beauty and photography workshop for us bloggers and I had the pleasure to meet some amazing blogging ladies from Birmingham. Here's my outfit that I wore to the event.  I'm very excited to show you my latest bargain handbag from Bicester. It is a Kate Spade (again!) but they had a 20% off before Easter so I couldn't resist to get my hands on this beauty. It has a strap on the inside which folds the ends nicely so it looks similarly to a MK Selma handbag. At the moment I haven't put the strap on inside so you can appreciate it in it's original glory :)  As you know I like to keep my outfits classy and not too over the top. So I teamed up my purple Peacocks viscose blouse with my all time favourite tulip skirt from Mango. My figure is not the most flattering when wearing skirts so I have to be careful when cho