London calling

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OXFORD STREET

BOND STREET:

HYDE PARK

BIG BEN

LONDON EYE

I have had the most perfect weekend, and thank you to those of you who left a 'happy birthday' comment!  Going to London is something which I have always wanted to do, and my eighteenth seemed to be an appropriate time.  We stayed in the Hilton Hotel in Canary Wharf, which was lovely.  We spent the first day shopping at Westfield shopping centre which was huge and amazing, and then did more shopping on Oxford Street the next day.  No shopping took place on Bond Street (I didn't even dare walk into one of the shops) but even walking by all of the designer names was like being in another world, and Sam had a little bit of eye candy too when we spotted a ferrari parked up.  We then took a stroll through Hyde Park and thankfully the sun was shining but it was too cold to have a nice sit down on the grass.  I even enjoyed the moments spent on the tube - great for staring at people people watching.  There was a lot of shopping and a lot of walking, but I wouldn't have changed any of my weekend and I would LOVE to go back some time.  It completely lived up to my expectations.  (Oh, and I bought a couple of blazers too!  That's two things crossed off my 30 before 30 list.)

tattoo inspiration

Getting a tattoo has always been something I've wanted to do as you can see on my list, and since it's coming up to my eighteenth birthday I've been putting quite a lot of thought into what to get and where to get it.  I think the first place where I would get one is on my back, as then it's easily hidden just in case but you can show it if you want to. I especially take inspiration from Rihanna and Freja Beha's tattoos (who is pictured twice above), who have quite a few ones but they're relatively subtle.  I like the idea of having one word, but I'm not sure which word I would get... And the picture of the tattoo down the spine bone, I cannot get out of my head, the back is probably my favourite place on a person's body, there's something so delicate yet attractive about it, I think.
Do you have a tattoo?  What would you get?

30 before 30

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1. Go to Paris and see the Eiffel Tower
2. Visit London
3. Get married
4. Have a lizard/snake as a pet
5. Get a tattoo(s)
6. Get a job which I like
7. Own a pair of Louboutins
8. Expand my French and be able to carry out a full conversation
9. Sign up/donate money to a charity
10. See Rihanna live
11. Attend a music festival
12. Go to at least one show during a fashion week
13. Purchase something Chanel
14. Own a Mulberry bag
15. Visit an aquariam
16. Buy a blazer
17. Stay in a 5 star hotel
18. Visit some of my family in Canada
19. Dance in public
20. Buy a new laptop
21. Watch a tv show in a live studio
22. Wear my hair up
23. Buy a chunky watch
24. Go to the cinema on my own
25. Knit something
26. Make breakfast in bed for someone
27. Buy the Lion King box set
28. Get invited to a blogger event
29. Visit New York
30. Take a class in something

So I've seen these lists appearing on lots of blogs lately and after reading a few I thought it would be a great idea to do one myself, I like the idea of actually making things happen for you rather than waiting for something to just... happen.  Writing it down and ticking things off seems to make them that little bit more serious, don't you think?  Mine aren't in any order really, just wrote them down as they came to my head.  I've wanted to do most of these things for ages now, whilst the others are more recent.  I realise that some of these things may be a bit extreme BUT you gotta have ambitions, right?!