Prom on a budget

At the start of the 'prom hype' that swept my year (and me) I was adamant that I would not spend more than £100 on the dress. Then, the whole prom thing started to become a much smaller deal than it was at the start. There were arguments and bitching and way too much stress over just one night. Then we started dress shopping, this only reaffirmed my cheap skate status. If I can't see value for money in something then I'm unlikely to buy it. This was only increased as my parents were paying for this dress so add the fact I didn't feel comfortable them paying a lot to my cheap skated-ness = dress hunting got hard. 

I soon started saying I didn't want everything I needed for prom to cost over £100. This didn't turn out to be the case. Over all it cost a little under £150. However I have made some investment pieces. 

First off the ticket for prom cost us £35 so there is no getting around that. 

Dress was £49.99 from Missguided.

(sorry rubbish picture, its the only one  I can  put on as it was already saved to the computer.  It wasn't taken on prom day btw. )

Shoes - £19.99  (investment buy) 

Clutch - £13.00 (will be re-used)

Both New Look.

 Nails - Free ( A friend did them but you could do them yourself or buy cheapy fakes)

Hair - £20 - haven't got a photo right now, sorry.

Bracelet/Necklace - already had. 

  

You can do prom cheaper than I did. You can do your nails and hair your self. Use shoes you already own or borrow someones and the same goes for the bag. You could even borrow a dress. Our transport only cost £10 because it was a favour but some people just got dropped off in parents cars that had ribbon on. 

 I haven't decided if I will sell my dress now. I can't see another time I will wear it in the future and it would be nice for my parents to have some pennies back! I'll see. 

Overall, I think I managed to keep to a good budget especially considering I spent less overall than some people did on their dress. It's each to their own and everyone can afford different budgets but I think this helps prove you can do prom on what ever budget. 

If you have done any prom posts I would love to see them, leave me a link! 

Victoria xx

cakes.

I made these cute cakes a while ago and took a loadddd of photos. They look delicious and they tasted it. They were a little sickly but thats probably because I'm not keen on white chocolate. I think they were a Betty Crocker packet. 

I can't resist posting pictures of cupcakes apparently. 

My next post is one i've been planning on writing for a while! 

So, until then

Victoria xx

p.s. I really will create a new header soon. 

1795737th bunting post

I'm aware a lot of people have done bunting posts but i made mine yesterday, they look cute and i'm proud of them so I'm going to show them! 

I'll do a quick method just in case someone is interested. It's a pretty quick process. 

1. Create a template of the size and shape you want the bunting to be.

2. Use your template and cut around it on the different pieces of paper/tissue paper/wall paper/card.

(I made eight but thats up to you of course!) 

3. I used ribbon to put the bunting onto. I held the ribbon up to the wall to measure how much i would need and then added on some extra either side to curl for decoration!

4. I then stapled the triangles onto the ribbon. I did two staples per triangle. 

5. I then blue tacked it up to my wall. 

I love it. 

Thoughts?

Victoria xo

There are impressions to be made

It is my sixth form induction day tomorrow! I'm not really that nervous because the sixth form is part of the school I was at for years 7 - 11. Also the majority of my friends are carrying on there too, so its not really that big of a deal. 

Sixth form is non-uniform, so that has the potential to get stressful! We have to stick to the dress code so tube skirts aren't reaaaaly allowed (despite the fact every girl in uniformed school is wearing one!).  So that means trousers/jeans/leggings. 

I have been needing a new pair of jeans/trousers for a while now. So i took the opportunity to order some for induction day, from New Look (their sale is on FYI!). Impressions and all. I ordered these in blue and these in the oatmeal, which I'm not sure about. 

If I keep any I will deffinately only keep one because they're expensive for someone with no job! Butttttttt, induction day is tomorrow and they're not here. Improv time?.

random picture of flowers to break up the text!

Today, I watched something like two and a half hours of Kardashian related programmes with two friends. Spending a large amount of time planning how we are going to marry Rob Kardashian.. 

Victoria xo

Run away with me and experience something new

Cee Lo Greens video for his single I Want You is out and oh my, it is amazing. 

His outfits are so beautifully extravagant. The detailing is just so stunning and delicate. More videos should have costumes like this.

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The pictures were the best stills I could find of the video, but you really should watch the video to get the full 'experience' of them. 

The song isn't too hard on the ears either, I'll admit it, I've had a few sing a longs.

Are you as amazed as me by this or have you seen better?

Victoria xo 

SUMMER HAS STARTED!

It is officially summer. 

My exams are done and i literally have nothing to do now. No school, homework, coursework or anything. 

My last exam was textiles on wednesday. I had finished (and checked my answers) and totally had a high school musical moment, staring at the clock waiting for summer to start. 

I never have to go to school again. I have finished compulsory education. It feels so weird to say that, it's cliche but the time really has gone so fast. It doesn't feel like i've been in secondary school for five years. It's been amazing and not so amazing at times but mostly amazing. I don't feel this old, or look it apparently as me and my friends got mistaken for year 10's (14/15) and when we said no, they went lower to year nine. Surely, you go up. ouch. 

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Anwyay. I have an insanely long summer this year, about 12/13ish weeks. That is a double summer. I really hope we make the most of it, summers have a tendency to be a let down. We build them up so much and plan all these things that we never do. I think I am off to a pretty good start though. On Wednesday my exam finished at quarter past ten and I went to a friends house with another friend. We ate biscuits and crumpets and watched keeping up with the Kardashians. We also made the window cleaners coffee in fancy dress. Today I went shopping with the same people plus one. Bought a dress which may be shown here, i'm undecided. I also bought some fake tan that I'd been told is really good and cheap. I'll see how it goes and let you know. Tomorrow is the last exam for the people in my friendship group so we're going out for a meal to celebrate and practice walking in our heels. Our aim is to stop looking like we've wet ourselves. It's not going excellently at the moment, prom is seven days away so we have time.

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I I Cant wait to get back into blogging. I always kept up on blogs while i had exams but didn't have time to do proper posts and thought I'd just leave it for now. As i said in my last post, I've got some ideas for my blog including layout, header and posts. Obvs, I have a new blog name now so the header needs changing.

Summer plans?

Victoria x

CHANGING BLOG NAME.

Look at me doing a cheeky post. 

My exams aren't quite over yet, two left. In five days I am officially done though and honestly can't wait. 

I want to do a lot of changes to my blog, the first being the name. 

This isn't the first time I have changed my blog name but its my blog so it's okay, right? 

I'm going for one with my name in the title. 

I'm going to change it to victoriawrote.blogspot.com. 

Maybe this name will last, ey? 

How do you guys come up with your blog name?

Loves V xo

p.s. I will change the header soon!