Croesyceiliog Leavers Ball...What I Wore.

Hello! just a little tangent, I didn't make this blog to write a new post every day, I made it just to write when I felt like. So if your thinking ive gone a bit MIA, its just that I didn't want to force myself to write something that would be a bit poopy!

so yes, back to what this post is all about. As you may have read in previous posts, I have just left 6th form, and as a tradition, much like many schools we had a leavers ball. I got into the habit of calling it a prom, but after attending, I know why they didn't call it a prom. It was much more sophisticated, and less showy, no big poofy dresses etc.

I bought my dress waaaaaaaaaaaay before the ball, amazingly, a bit of a bargain buy  from Tkmaxx. I loved the colour and fit, but the style was not the best for me, so I asked my wonderful Nan to make a few alterations to make it look nicer. The dress was a very good make, so I was a bit chuffed to find something so nice in Tkmaxx, and it was also on sale, even better! I knew the type of look I wanted to go for, for a long time before the ball (one shoulder, flowery etc) but this dress didn't have flowers along the strap, which is what I wanted. sooooo I  added hair flowers along the strap purchased in Sainsbury's of all places,that were a lighter colour than the dress to make them stand out. Nanny Jenny spent a long time sewing on little beads to give the flower petals a little sprinkle of sparkles. I recycled my Prom shoes, as when I wore them no one saw them, and I thought I may as well use them again!



All in all I can say is that this Ball was a LOT less expensive than my Prom, simply because I was a bit more aware of ways I could recycle and change things to look how I wanted them too.
 (I did have my hair done by my hairdresser simply because I cannot do anything pretty myself!)

A Very Eye Opening Birthday Party.

Hola!
so a few weeks back, one of my closest friends turned 18! yay!

and me and three other chums, along with the birthday girl attended what can only be described as a very childish birthday party. This was definitely not a bad thing, as it made me feel like a little girl again (i dont know about the others but i think they would agree) which, at the age we are all at now, is something were moving away from quicker and quicker, however much we want to stay 'children'
soon enough we will all be off to University or wherever life takes us as we have all left school, and this scares me. So, as you can imagine, we all jumped at the chance to act like 5 years olds and have a jolly good time.

Rhiannon, Me. Maria, and Jessie

Pizza Hut is thee place to be, for a childish party, so, in high spirits, we all piled into one of the cool round booths, decorated with the obligatory balloons, banners, little 18 confetti's and to our amusement, BUBBLES. Now. if you know me, you will know that bubbles excite me. A lot. I just love them, there so pretty! we also each got a little bracelet, with cute little charms on (I believe these are for children, but hey, they still fit us!) we ordered the yummiest pizzas, and got down to business. the colouring booklet. oh yes. clearly the waiter realized our child needs, and arrived carrying tubs of crayons and colouring booklets, which we thoroughly enjoyed!
After demolishing our pizza, the childishness got even more intense, as the waiters brought out a big birthday cake, with sparklers and whatnot, much to the birthday girl's embarrassment. we then dug in to ice cream and sweets until we could not eat one more bite.

BIRTHDAY CAKE!

now here's where this party got very eye opening. After leaving the best birthday party (and a lot of mess for the staff hehe) we hoped into cars and took the birthday girl for her first drink. I guess it was just odd, going from blowing bubbles and colouring in, to sitting, behaving ourselves in a bar, acting like proper adults. It pretty much went from one extreme to the other, and felt very symbolic of what we are experiencing at the moment.