Wednesday Waffling 34

Hey guys! I'm back to doing Wednesday Wafflings, joy to you :) 
Not too much has really happened recently. I've started taking instagram photos of what I'm wearing each day to do a compilation at the end of the week, kind of like how people are doing their 'week in photos' posts (which I'm debating hopping on the bandwagon for) but with photos of what I've worn each day of the week (apart from today because I forgot). I thought it would be a good way of showing you outfits as I struggle to find the time to take proper outfit posts, but I still want outfits to be the main subject of the blog. So yeah, the first instalment will hopefully be this Sunday :)


On the subject of instagram, I got a new phone! I managed to upgrade to an iPhone and I couldn't be happier. Instagram was the first app I got. My username is emma_white93 if you're interested.


Now, the beautiful photo up there. I'm currently sat in my friend's flat on his Mac and thought I'd take a stunner on it. Turned out great! He's being lovely and making me a website for my online portfolio. It's one of my current units at college to promote myself and one way of doing so is by having a website so I've enlisted his help at the price of cooking him dinner. I'll show you when it's done and beautiful :)


Got an exciting weekend planned. Going up to London to celebrate a friend's birthday and going to some workshops at a gallery. Hopefully it will be lots of fun and informative. 

Wednesday Waffling 33

Hey guys, quick post today as I'm shattered.

I've had an awful week at college and haven't been on my laptop since Sunday because I've been too tired and stressed. My deadline is next Wednesday and all my work has been going wrong. The last 3 days have been wasted because of it. Was ready to give up yesterday. 

I'm also going to Brighton tomorrow which originally would have been ok because my deadline was today, so I arranged the trip then my deadline got pushed back. Now it just adds extra pressure because I will be wasting valuable work time. 

All in all, I'm super stressed. Sorry if my posts slack because of it, but I just don't have the time to do any at the moment :(

On the up side, do you like my new banner? This one is actually my feet, and my own image (kindly taken by my friend). I'm really pleased with it!

Wednesday Waffling 32

Hey guys! So the biggest news of the week for me is that I dip dyed my hair pink! You can't see it very well here but you can get a rough idea. It came out pretty well and I'm really pleased :) It's quite a deep pink too even though the original plan was candy pink. Now that I've done it I'm a bit worried about what work will say because I originally asked if I could dye my full head of hair two weeks ago and never heard back so.... I just did it. I don't see why coloured hair is so offencive anyway, doesn't mean I suddenly won't do my job!
But yeah, I don't know how long this will stick around, maybe a month tops. I've got another tube of colour left so we'll just have to see how it fades :)

In other news, deadlines are getting closer. I'm kind of stressed now because I haven't done nearly as much printing as I would have liked! I wish I had my own darkroom, it would be amazing. I heard there are public darkrooms though which I find crazily wonderful! I just hope there's one in my area. Also, for anyone who is interested, I've created a tumblr that will be dedicated to my photography. This means my college work and stuff, probably not pretty sparkly pictures, but give it a go!

Why do I have such wonky eyebrows? They only look straight when I tilt my head. I guess that's what a history of over-plucking does to you!

Wednesday Waffling 31

Hey guys! I'm actually churning out a post this Wednesday! Here features my 'just taken out of a bun' hair, all lovely and crazy. I don't think there's any other time that I can get such volume haha! My fringe certainly needs a good cut though, and my highlights need to redoing. Speaking of hair, I'm actually thinking of dying my hair pink for a few weeks. Got to get the ok from work first though :( If they say no it's pink tips! I've never dyed my whole head of hair a colour so I think it's something I need to get out of my system, then it'll be back to blonde :)

My college deadline got extended by a week, but only because the darkrooms are out of use for a week, so really it's not an extension. Just more time to stress over something! There is one darkroom available during this time, with about 10 enlargers for 40 students to use, so I doubt much printing will actually get done. I'm also heading back to Brighton for a day which was originally after my deadline but now isn't. I can't work out if this extension is a good thing or not! Another bad thing is that when I get home from college all I can do is sleep and it still doesn't seem to be enough to tide me over a whole day. Slept for 10 hours last night and slept again during a lecture today. I had some energy drink two hours ago and it's only just kicking in and I need to be up tomorrow!

On the up side, I'm going to try and do some work and cut up some shorts tomorrow. I'm going to resist going into town because I will buy everything! Is there anything you guys really want in the shops at the moment?

Wednesday Waffling 30

Hey guys! How has everyone's week been so far? Mine has been very cold! Usually I love the snow, but this year I just haven't been into it. Didn't go out in it once until I had to trek to college, and didn't even take any photos! (Bad photography student). I missed college on Monday due to the weather, and haven't really been feeling it all week, but now I've finished for half term and I am so excited! College has just been a bit ... blergh recently :( So I'm looking forward to the break!
I'm hopefully going to Brighton this weekend and I couldn't be more excited to go. I'm visiting a friend down there and staying with her for most of the week (which means that my posts will probably have to be scheduled until I come back). This is only if it doesn't snow again, as Mum has banned me from driving down in the snow. Boooo :( I have a feeling everything is going to be against me because I want to go so much. Fingers crossed though!

Tonight I went to my local camera club meeting for the first time. They were having a judging for a competition but it was really interesting to hear the comments about all the photos. I learnt quite a lot! However I'm going to test out a couple more meetings before deciding to join or not. Still a bit unsure.

Lastly, I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who filled out the shorts survey I had. It was really helpful to me! I now can't wait for the studds I ordered to come through so I can start experimenting and hopefully selling. Unfortunately though that probably won't be for another few weeks as the studds are coming from China :( But I'm going to start putting some designs together now! So yeah, thanks guys! : D

Wednesday Waffling 29

Hey guys! Just a quickie tonight as I'm off out soon. A friend is home from uni so we're going to take advantage of student night! :D

The weather as of late has been rather threatening. There is constant talk of snow but the sky doesn't deliver. I only want it in the hopes of not going to college though. Some has been promised for Saturday, to then be gone by Sunday which is not what I want at all! Knowing my luck, it will snow when I'm due to drive down to Brighton in a few weeks, in which case I won't be allowed to go (Mum's orders).

I'm hoping to try and build up a bit of a buffer in terms of outfit photos this weekend for the blog. I much prefer taking photos in the daylight, and I feel like I'm cheating if I do it at night time. My goal is to get about two done and do a couple of product related things too (ie. my Litas! They're on a proper test run tonight. Scary stuff). Fingers crossed!

I hope everyone's week is going well :)

Wednesday Waffling 28

Hey guys! Ok, I seriously thought I posted over the weekend. I literally had no clue it's been a week since about a few minutes ago. Major fail on my part, sorry!
I have come to the conclusion though that posts on Monday's and Tuesdays are very unlikely purely because of college. Maybe in the height of summer? It's all down to the light.

College is getting super hard. I'm only a month into my project and there's already so much to do! It seems like every day there's five new things we need to put in our books ready for the next day that I'm just lost at what I'm doing when. It's probably because it's three units in one project, plus one of those unit's is darkroom, and darkroom is intense stuff! On top of that we were given two mini one week projects to do for next Monday as Ofsted (school inspectors) are coming in and we need to impress them. Blerghhhhh. I was really annoyed that I got assigned holiday this week at work, but now I'm really glad!

If you follow my Twitter you will already know that I went out and bought a real pair of JC Lita's! I haven't worn them out yet, but I'm planning to slowly break them in. I must say though, I am in love! A full post on them will be coming :)

I'm off to Lakeside tomorrow partly to return some stuff to shops that aren't local, and partly to (inevitably) spend money I now really don't have. Not a good idea! But it's happening anyway. I also have the dentist, which doesn't bother me at all. I've never been bothered by the dentist, so I can't understand why others are so much so. Until I'm scared myself I won't know.

Wednesday Waffling 27

Hey guys! So I scheduled this post for Wednesday evening while I was out, came home and it hadn't posted. So, here it is in the early hours of Thursday :)

This week has so far been relatively uneventful. All I ever really do from Monday to Wednesday is go to college, eat and sleep/nap. I can't believe I'm about five months into my course and I still haven't gotten used to the long days. I just can't stop napping when I get home! It's a problem because it means that 1) I don't do any work in the evenings and 2) I can't sleep till 2am meaning that I've only had about five hours proper sleep for the next day of college. What a brutal cycle.

I've styled my fringe differently today. This is how it's always dried when I get my hair cut at the hairdressers, and even though I love the convenience of my normal pinned and poofed fringe, I think I should probably change it up a bit more often. This is a much bigger pain in the arse to maintain like this. It's rock hard with hair spray and I feel like I'm fourteen again flipping my emo fringe out of my face (don't take offence. I've been there and done that). But people seem to like it, if only because it's something different and they're not used to it. Like, quite a few people seem to like it when I put my hair up, because I always have it down. Now I HATE putting my hair in a ponytail because I spent like my whole school life with it tied back, so I love having loose hair (far easier). But people aren't used to it, so when it does go up they like it. Typical the way things go 'ay!

My skin has been awful lately, and it's starting to stress me out. I swear no spot cream ever works, and now that I've discovered I don't do well with either tea tree or witch hazel it's difficult to find something that works for the super lazy person like me who can't be bothered to exfoliate, cleanse, tone and moisturise every night. I should probably start getting into better habits. This also includes going to the gym more.

Wednesday Waffling 26

Hey guys! I've been pretty slack lately with the blogging. I think I've gotten into a bad habit :/ I haven't been doing my Wednesday wafflings because I've been making the most of my friends being home from uni and Wednesday being student night in town. They've all gone back now so I won't be out on the lash and will actually post :D I'm also back at college now, so for the first half of the week I can't do any outfit photos. I was gonna show you guys some stuff I got for Christmas, but everything got put away before I could photograph it. I was gonna do the same with the stuff I bought in the sales, but again it got put away haha.

I joined the gym just before the new year, because fitness first were doing an amazing deal on off peak memberships. £15 a month in a 12 month contract! Certainly not bad, as it's usually £30 for the same thing. I've also got 2 free personal training sessions, and I've signed up for a block of 15 with my Mum which will take me into about April time. I had my first PT session last week and I died. Completely died. My whole body ached the next day and for a few days after, and I'm going to go through it all again tomorrow! I actually quite scared.... So as I'll be getting all sweaty, probs no outfit photos tomorrow. I'm holding out hope for Friday! :)

I hope everyone's new year was good. Mine was rather calm....played a board game haha. Finally saw the Inbetweeners Movie though so that was good. I'm hoping to get stuck right in to my new college project - film photography. I think it's going to be a tough one, but I'm going to try and keep on top of it a bit better this time! Fingers crossed :)

Wednesday Waffling 25 It's Nearly Christmas

Hey guys! So, it's Christmas on Sunday, and to be perfectly honest I'm not really that excited. I haven't gotten in the Christmas spirit at all this year which is a shame. I used to love Christmas! But I think it's so much more fun when your younger; now that's I'm older my main worry is 'Oh God I've got to buy presents and wrap them!'. I'm still stressing slightly about presents. I went into town today to try and do some stuff but got basically nothing done which annoyed me.

Is anyone else in the Christmas spirit?

I'm out tonight with quite a few of my friends! They've all come back from uni so we're celebrating :) I hope it's a good night! But town is going to be so packed. I bought two dresses in town for me to wear, one being a very tight 'hey I'm a slut!' dress (ok it's not really like that, but it's rather tight) because I don't actually own one (Mum hates it) and I got another far more acceptable one. In the end I don't think I'm going to wear either of them! It was a last minute thing because I wanted a dress that made me feel good and in reality neither of them really do the job :/ £25 down the drain! Can't take them back because they were in the sale...

Had hoped to keep tomorrow and Friday free, but now I'm helping out with a shoot tomorrow and will probably have to go back to town on Friday because of how today failed. Goodbye relaxing days!

Wednesday Waffling 24

Hey guys! Been very busy recently with my college work. My final deadline is looming in the next few weeks, but I've been stressing over getting my test and final shoots done. I've got my test shoot with my model tomorrow which I'm looking forward too! But I'd booked the studio yesterday too which she couldn't make, so I thought instead of wasting the session I'd just do a test shoot with myself! Weird I know, but this way I got to test out the makeup, the studio, the styling and potential poses. Here's one of the photos! I'm quite pleased with it, but I'm hoping I can get some amazing photos tomorrow!

Wish me luck!

In other news tonight some of my friends are home from uni so we're going out! And I'm going to a party with my college mates this Saturday which I'm looking forward to. Got to turn up fashionably late though because I'm working :( Apart from that, LOTS of college work is on the agenda. Thank God we're not getting any over the holiday!

Wednesday Waffling 23

Hey guys! So another week has passed and for once I don't actually have much to talk about! There hasn't been anything 'of note' happen to tell you about.

I've still got a lot of college work to do, but I finally booked a model for my shoots! On the other hand, I couldn't book the studio and I'm finding it hard to get the studio, the model and myself all free and booked on the same days. I need to do a test and a final shoot! So I'm a bit nervous as to whether I will actually get any photos at all, because I've only got 3 weeks from today left.

Stressing a bit.

Fingers crossed it all goes ok and I can get the images I want.

Wednesday Waffling 22 My Internet is Back!

Enjoying some cookies

Hey guys! It's now been over a week since I last posted and I've got a good reason. I had no internet! It went down last Monday, and I thought it was something that would be alright the next morning, but it wasn't. Waited another day, still nothing. Phoned the provider but they had a call system failure so couldn't help me. Pressed buttons on the router and it broke some more. Then went away to London for the weekend. Got a friend round on Monday to fix it but it got worse. Woke up Tuesday morning and it had all fixed it's self and we were connected again. And there you have it! 

Unfortunately this down time has gotten me majorly behind in my coursework. I needed the internet for research, image gathering and conducting model searches and casting calls. None of that could happen so I'm a good 2 weeks behind now instead of 1. Joy! So I'm freaked out haha. 

Apart from that I haven't been up to much, just visited my friend at uni in London. I've bought a few things that I'll hopefully show you. Might have to have a massive outfit photo session were I just put everything on again to photograph! Seriously need to get back into the swing of doing outfit posts, but short winter days make it tough. Damn you winter!

Wednesday Waffling 21

Hey guys! I took this on Saturday before going out to a rather crazy halloween party. My friend has an iPhone and I was messing about on instagram. I really want an iPhone just for instagram!

But yeah how was everyone's halloween? I used to get really excited about the prospect of dressing up, but I wasn't this year. Probably because of costume was rubbish.

Other than that I've been on half term, been at work loads (and will continue to be until after Christmas it seems) and now I've had a tone of new work dumped on me for my new college project. I've got to get actual models for studio shoots, and I've never done that before. I've only ever used friends and I'm really nervous about finding models, working things out with them and then actually shooting them. Has anyone had any experience with this that they can share? I'm probably going to use Model Mayhem and do TF because I can't pay them. It's just all a bit out of my comfort zone because I've never done it before. We'll see how it goes.

Hopefully going to Westfields on Friday! Mainly going to return something to F21.... but I'll shop while I'm there haha. It's such a silly reason to go but what the hell!

Wednesday Waffling 20

Hey guys!  Short post today just to update you on my schedule for the next week. Tomorrow I'm heading to Westfields to do a bit of shopping with one of my besties (srsly) then heading back to her halls for the night. Coming back Friday to go straight to work. Saturday I'm about, then Sunday I head down to Brighton to stay with another friend at uni until the middle of next week, then come home to go party with my work mates, so posting might be tough. Just a heads up.

I received the October Glossy Box the other day and can't wait to use the products! I'll do a post on that when I've got something to say about them all.

By the way I'm holding to bottle of energy drink. Currently running on about 3 hours of sleep. I should rest up because I won't get the chance to get it back until after London, but I want to watch Gok :(

Wednesday Waffling 19 (Always Asleep)

Hey guys! It's unfortunately been another week of nothing special on the blog front. I'm getting really annoyed that I'm not posting/not doing outfit posts. I seriously want to show you some of the stuff that I wear to college but literally, I wake up in the dark and come home in the dark. On my days off I'm getting ready for work, or just wanting to lazy around in my PJ's and sleep.

Talking of sleep, I'm starting to think I might have something medically wrong with me. Ever since I can remember, I've always been tired. For a long time I've put my love for sleeping and my will to stay in bed in the mornings down to pure laziness (I am SO lazy), however over the last half year it's started to get stupid. I'm always tired, and all I ever want to do is go to sleep. It's getting so bad that now my college work and work placement are being affected. I'm behind on college work because everyday I get home, I instantly fall asleep, and the days I'm off I sleep well into the afternoon, cutting my work time in half. With my job, I have targets to meet and time restrictions, but there have been many times I nearly fall asleep there. I'm so lathargic that it's starting ti affect my productivity.
Not too long ago I went to sleep for 21 hours, and a few weeks later about 18 hours. I woke up tired, but when I get the recommended 8 hours I'm still tired. If I get about 4, I'm really awake when I get up but the lack soon catches up with me leaving me more drained and more likely to have another stint of 12 hours in bed.
I don't want to be like this, and I know a lot of people will just say I'm simply lazy, but I've nearly fallen asleep in so many places it's getting a bit scary. I don't do the things I want to, because I just want to sleep. It's not even the fact that I wake up at normal time and just don't get up, I would sleep through till the afternoon if no one woke me.

I checked it out online and it said I have Diabeties, but then again everything I check out online says I have Diabetes (oh wait, maybe that's a sign?), but I'm hopefully going to get checked out soon.
(Can you guess yet why this post is a day late? Lol)

Anyway! I'm determined to do an outfit post this week and finally get my London Blogger Meet Up post up (I'm so sorry girls!).

Wednesday Waffling 18

Hey guys! This is just me chilling with my zoom lens haha. Put it on my camera in prep for a trip to London with College yesterday. Had to take street portraits! They came out ok, but the whole trip was really behind schedule so we didn't have much time in between looking round galleries. I like street portraits, they're lots of fun! But they're not something I like doing with an exhibition in mind. That puts too much pressure on it!

I'll hopefully take some outfits photos over the next 4 days as they're my days off. Surely I'll get some time! I'm going into town tomorrow to spend money I can't afford to spend (seriously can't afford) and going to a bootfair Sunday morning which I can't wait for!

Just a quick update on my activity, I know it hasn't really become much more regular, but I received news that after this 7 day project, I have 1 more 7 day project, then a 14 day project, then my half term and then I get into the proper 2 month long type projects. This will mean more time for posting! The 7 day ones have been very difficult what with college, working and trying to do shoots and print them up. Also, I haven't been able to take any outfit photos as now when I get home it's quite dark :( Please bare with me, I'm trying my best, but for me my education comes first.

Wednesday Waffling 17 (What's Been Happening)

Me attempting my photography project at the London Blogger Meet

- Hey guys! I am so so so sorry for the two week silence. It has really been crazy - any time I've had to myself I've just lazed about or slept because I've been so overwhelmed.

Basically, it all started when I started college on the 8th (two Thursday's ago). I was instantly given a project which I only had 10 days to do, so that instantly had me stressed. After two days of traveling from Chelmsford to Southend on the trains (about a one hour 45 min - two hours journey because of the walking and the having to go to Shenfield first) I was absolutely knackered because I'm not used to all this travelling. For the last two years I've only been a ten min drive from college and being able to get up at 9. Now I have to get up at around 6/7 everyday. So since I started, my week days of consisted of going to college, getting home at about half six, eating dinner then falling asleep.

Then, on Saturday the 10th I went to the London Blogger Meet which I will be doing a full post on. That was such a lovely day full of lovely people and I can't wait to tell you about it! It was cut short though because I had to run back home to start a shift at work, so again I was completely shattered, which continued through to Sunday.
Monday to Wednesday was spent at college, Wednesday night I went out in town which was cut short by my friend being punched in the face and hitting his head pretty hard on the pavement. 30 mins, 1 ambulance and 2 police men later the night was over :( My friend was fine though, just a bit shocked and concussed.

Thursday and Friday was spent with my friends because they were all leaving for Uni on the Saturday (the Saturday just gone) so I had no time then either. That has been pretty emotional for me, because I'm basically the only one left at home now. I'm also feeling a bit abandoned by my best mate, because now that she's at uni she has no time to talk to me because she's at parties every night and I'm assuming too hung over in the day to talk. She hasn't even started uni/fresher week yet! So I'm a bit afraid that I've lost her as a friend already.

Saturday I was lucky enough to get some last min tickets to the Look Show! I entered about seven competitions so when I got the email I didn't know which one I'd won it through haha. I was really lucky with my seats and the show it's self was amazing. I'm going to do a full post on that too :)

So yeah that's why I haven't been posting. I really have been so overwhelmed, and I hoped it would all be alright by now but I'm still getting back from college and falling asleep straight away, which isn't good because I have so much work to do (until October half term, all my projects are only 7 days long and include quite a bit of work). I'm going to try and get all the important, overdue posts done before I go back to my normal outfit posts, I just can't leave them any longer because it will be rude on my part.

Thank you for sticking with me, and I hope you'll be patient with me while I try to get into a new routine :)

Wednesday Waffling 16 (Religious Symbols in Fashion)

 All images from google

- Hey guys! Today I've got a bit of a themed post for my Wednesday Waffling. I want to talk about religious symbols used in fashion, likes crosses and such. The debate is out there about whether these symbols should be used in fashion, especially if the people wearing them don't support the religion.

Personally, I think it's a bit of a difficult subject. I completely understand the point behind 'If you don't support/follow the religion you shouldn't be wearing it's symbols especially for fashion' as I can' understand that many could find it offensive for something that is so important to them to be mass produced and sold as an accessory or something. 

However there's also the argument that everyone has the right to wear what they want and that they're not doing any harm by wearing the symbols.

The one that is used the most is the cross - especially in the last 6 months - on necklaces, rings, t-shirts, shorts. You name it, it's got a cross on it. I personally think that wearing such things to 'make a statement' is a bit disrespectful, because if that is your reason for wearing it your taking the meaning of the cross into complete disregard. If you happened to like that top with the big cross on it, then that's fair enough but if someone wears it to make a statement (I'm talking about if they're not Christian here) then that's like sticking your middle finger up to Christians and saying 'this symbol is really important to you and your beliefs, but I'm going to use it to make me look fashionable'. I do think though that many people wear cross items simply because they like the look of them, which really isn't doing any harm. I'm not a Christian, so I can't comment from that point of view but I could understand if a Christian found it offensive.

What do you guys think about this? Do you wear religious symbols? I'm am talking only about those wearing said symbols as a fashion, not those wearing them due to beliefs and such. Also, I'm not bashing people that do wear them for fashion! I'm just putting the possible arguments out there.

Personally, I don't wear crosses, but that's mainly because I had a freaky experience were when I was younger. I tried wearing a simple cross necklace (I went to a church school so I thought maybe I should wear something like it) all the time, including at night, but whilst I had it on I had horrible nightmares about death and the dead. They only stopped once I took it off. Seriously creepy, so I refuse to wear crosses now, if only to preserve my sanity. I don't think I'm a devil child, nothing as creepy has happened since :(
 But anyway, I want to hear what you think :)

Wednesday Waffling 15 (Deep Thinking)

 

- Hey guys! Not much happening today, I did a test drive to my sister's in Southend for when I'll hopefully spend some time there for college. Then I went into town with my Mum for a quick snoop around and bought a couple of things that I'll show you soon :) I was going to do an outfit post when I got home but it was cold so I just wanted to snuggle up somewhere warm haha. However it appears I might be going out drinking tonight, brrrrr!

- So yesterday the final five Look Show bloggers were announced, and I'm not going to lie, I was really disappointed not to be a part of them. It's probably because there was so much hype around it and I was so close and ahhhhh no. Haha :P But I really am very grateful to have made it to the shortlist! However, this experience has taught me something, that good things only last so long and that you should really make the most of them because you don't know when they'll be over. And what am I going to do now with my blog? What's the next step for me to take? I'm going to enter again next year, but I'll feel like those people who keep entering X Factor every year after they get turned down haha! But I appreciate the boost the competition has given me, and I've found some cool new blogs along the way, as well as gained a few new followers (hi guys!! : D)

So, congratulations to Sarah, Cassi, Fritha, Sarah and Jade and Tara! If you haven't already you should head on over to their blogs, they're awesome :)

- I've recently re-taken up knitting, and I'm trying to knit a simple scarf, but I've re-started it about 10 times now. I went through a day or so of 'I can't do this!' then calmed down and tried again haha. I think once it's a few inches long it'll get a bit easier. fingers crossed! :)