science & faith.

The Script - Science and Faith 

"You wont find faith or hope down a telescope

you wont find heart and soul in the stars 

you can break everything down to chemicals 

but you can't explain a love like ours"

Love Victoria xo 

we're the kids in America

I know I blogged about the American style trend we're seeing everywhere like last week and all but this is a little different and shorter. The style that I featured in that post was more the' American girl' kinda thing, this is more varsity. Anyway, I wanted to show these because I also thought it might be a slightly cheaper alternative to the asos.com 'look' they are featuring. The following items are from a 'preppy American' look they have on boohoo.com. 

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These were my favourite pieces. They're quite casual, if I could I'd buy all of these and then all of the clothes I showed in the asos American style post I did too. 

Sorry if you feel like I'm repeating myself. 

You like? 

Love Victoria xo

telephone necklace anyone?

 I'm not a massive jewellery fan. There was a stage when I was apparently in competition with myself to wear as many bracelets on one arm as possible, but I'm over that now. However, I always stop to have a look in Accessorize. I usually um and ah about jewellery, thinking will I wear it enough to get my moneys worth, (I must be so annoying to shop with) and usually end up leaving it, convincing myself I don't need/want it enough and to be honest I probably don't. *cutting to the point*. I was having a look on their website and found a few pieces I liked which I thought I'd share.  

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A phone on a necklace! LOVE.

Also, I have a major want for a big inconvenient ring. The bigger the better! I adore this River Island one and the bird one below from Accessorize. Amazing.  I mean it would probably snag some of your clothes, but who cares. Look at it! Sheer brilliance in my mind. 

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Contrary to the above choices, I don't usually like gold jewellery, much more a silver girl. Oh well. 

How do you like your jewellery? Big, dainty, silver, gold?  

Love Victoria xo 

listennnnnn.

Yesterday was a little bit rubbish to be honest. Nothing really happened to make it rubbish, which makes me feel a little bit guilty because of lack of perspective, but some days just aren't great. I didn't sleep well, school was blah and the weather was blah, which I'm sure you all noticed. So, I went to Tesco with the mother and bought myself Look and Vogue to cheer myself up. Yes, I did only buy Vogue because I wanted to read the VB interview.   

Lighting is horrible, but it's dark outside and they're shiny. ha. 

Jokes aside though, I really did enjoy her interview. So many people don't like her because she never smiles or comes across moody or whatever. And to be honest, I used to think that, simply because everyone else did. Then when I started to be a little bit more interested in things other than Polly Pocket and Blue and started reading magazines and seeing interviews or snippets on television that VB was in, my own opinion began to form. The interview is quite straight talking, she's doesn't deny that she doesn't draw and that instead she hangs things on her and see's what works. She speaks quite down to earth, in my opinion anyway. 

Also, we share the same name and my birthday is the same as David Beckhams (2nd May ;] ) , so how could I not buy it, right? 

Also, I'm about to start reading Happy Ever After by Nora Roberts. It's the fourth and final instalment in a set called the Bride Quartet.  It follows four childhood friends who have formed a wedding planning service, through each of the books you see one more of them find love. I'm not going to lie, they are fairly predictable in the baseline of the story but each is different in its own way. And to be fair, they have all been so beautifully romantic and whimsical that is hasn't mattered and I can't see it being a problem with the fourth. I love them,  I've read them, my mum has read them and so has my grandma and her friend! 

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Also, Glee was back on in the UK last night. I am a little aprehensive about this season because I'm worried it's going to be all about getting the celebrities in and using new current songs. Don't get me wrong, a bit of that sounds good but I want to make sure they include some older songs because last season was so good and helped me discover some new music. But I enjoyed last nights, so hopefully I will the rest of the season too. Below is Charice who played Sunshine singing 'Listen' from Dreamgirls, my favourite song from the episode.
Did you see it? 

Hope you are all well?
Love Victoria xo 

Weekly Playlist.

found on weheartit from here

So I've kind of lacked in my 'listening to this week' posts over the Christmas/NY/going back to school period. Buttttttt, I don't like the title, so I'm changing it. simples ;). Anddddd, I think I'm going to just list and link the songs instead of putting youtube videos for them on here, because this means I can list more songs without having to fiddle around with the videos and all that plusss I need to do some homework. I'll probs change it back to the old way next week, knowing me. I got half way through two pieces last night but stopped because I couldn't do them. Good attitude ey, so back to them I go. 

Anyway, look how I ramble. 

Playlist

Fight For This Love - Cheryl Cole

Candle in the Wind - the Rebecca Ferguson version  

(seriously can't stop listening to it!) 

High School Never Ends - Bowling for soup 

(just discovered this band this weekend! exciting stufffffff) 

Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol 

Coming Home - Pixie Lott ft. Jason Derulo 

(I got her cd for Christmas, and have had this on replay!) 

Invincible - Tinie Tempah ft Kelly Rowland  

So there it is! I put Fight For This Love in because I kept hearing it last week, it was really weird. haha. 

I think it's a kind of (modern) eclectic list this week, but I just put down the main ones that I've been listening to a lot this week. 

Hope you're all well

Love Victoria xo 

Blake Lively for Chanel

Via here.

Blake Lively has been announced as the new face of Chanel Mademoisell handbags.

Blake was seen in a lot of Chanel last year and has also become good friends with Karl Lagerfield so I think we were all expecting something like this soon. 

I love Blake Lively, (seriously don't get me started on her hair ♥) so I'm very happy she has been chosen for it. 

She said 'A dream come true is an understatement'.

 I can believe that! 

Her campaign is due out around March. 

Read a more detailed (and better written) article here.

Opinions, opinions, opinions? 

Love Victoria xo 

American Style?

I was snooping around some clothes store websites. The usual ones for me; new look, river island, topshop, occasionally asos and some others.

To be honest, not many things had caught my eye so this look around was rather swift, until I reached asos. There was a little feature showing/advertising a new 'look' called 'All - American girl". The clothes the model was wearing were really nice, short-ish floral long sleeve and check skirt. I like the stereotypical (?) American style we've seen working it's way into stores all over the country, most commonly through the varsity jackets (love!), but now it seems to be a little less obvious but I love it all the same, possibly more. Anyway, I decided to take a look. I'm glad I did.

Here are some (a lot) of my favourite pieces/styles from the look.

View the whole range here.

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The top three and the fifth are particular favourites but I do have a slightly strange love for tops like the one in the penultimate image. You know the whole different colour collar and sleeves thing, I think the love stemmed from watching so much one tree hill.

Overall though, I love the contrast between some of the looks. Being that some are incredibly girlie (not a look I usually go for) and some just aren't. The colours in some are a lot darker and the actual style is different but it still represents the overall style of all-American girl, if you follow? I would completely understand, given the last bit of that sentence.

What are your thoughts and opinions on this style?

Love Victoria xo

all photos from: asos.com