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Jean shopping. I hate it, I actually hate it. This past week I have been trawling about my city centre going into every shop possible to find the right pair of jeans and quite clearly they do not exist (or are incredibly difficult to find)

My body shape is an awkward one, I'm not complaining though, I don't particularly mind my body. My legs are a size 6/8, my bum/hips are a 10 and my waist is a 4/6 (UK size). So as you can probably understand it is quite difficult to find good fitting jeans, especially high waisted jeans which are my faves. A size 8 jean is just a bit too small around my bum/hip area but fits my legs perfectly. A size 10 fits my bum/hip area but is way to big on my legs and the jeans look baggy. I can't win. I also just do not understand all these w28 l30 sizes, HELP PLS. 

It just seems that whatever shop I go in they do not fit or don't even have my size. An 8 in River Island was so skin tight I walked like I'd shit myself but an 8 in Primark was extremely baggy and fell down, WHAT IS WRONG WITH JEANS. I have 2 pairs of jeans that fit me perfectly and I've had them for about 5 years because I just cannot find anymore. This problem lies more with skinny jeans or just fitted jeans in general in my opinion. I have a few pairs of Mom jeans and I've never had a problem finding them to fit as they're baggy anyway. Although I have to wear a belt with every pair as the waist is just too big.

All I am asking for is just a pair of high waisted jeans that fit me perfectly, so I don't have to sacrifice having to either wear a belt with everything or having my legs sucked in super tight. 

Ya hear?

If anyone has some recommendations of good places for jeans let me know!

Frankee x

Today I went to Lou Lou's Vintage Fair which was in Nottingham at the Albert Hall Conference Centre. It was such a beautiful building inside as well! Having been a vintage lover for several years now I've been to a large number of vintage fairs but, this is now my favourite! 

At some vintage fairs you find that the stalls include vintage clothing that has been altered or tie-dyed, which wasn't the case here. Everything was just pure vintage and hadn't been touched or altered and was just awesome. The stall's were all really reasonably priced as well, vintage these days can be quite pricey but here that wasn't really the case. 

As well as the obvious clothing stalls there was vintage china, cutlery, tea cups, records, magazines, a vintage style cafe and a make-over area.

It was such a lovely atmosphere and with the 50's music playing I felt like I was an extra in Grease ha ha.

I've been after a Levi denim jacket for what seems like a lifetime now, and I found this one for an awesome £24, from a stall called Shado Vintage. Check them out on Facebook here. 

This is just the perfect stonewash denim that I've been looking for and I'm so pleased! The price is so great to say it's vintage Levi as well. *happy face*

I also picked up another silk scarf (I'm obsessed, soz) I couldn't resist, look at that cute golf pattern!

Jumper - H&M (Here)

Jeans - ARK

Boots - LoveClothing (Here)

Bucket Bag - Primark

Scarf - Braderie

I bought this chunky knit jumper in the H&M online sale and I'm in love, I only paid £7 and now it's even cheaper in the sale arhhhhh! I'm obsessed with the seventies look that's working it's way into the s/s collections right now, which inspired me to buy this gorgeous silk scarf from a vintage store called Braderie. I'm thinking of styling it either with my new bucket bag (which was only £4 from Primark, day made!) or as a cute neckerchief to add a touch of colour to my usual monochrome filled outfits.

Frankee <3

I decided recently that I wanted to redecorate my room. It was really outdated and just didn't suit me anymore, I'd out grown it shall we say. The walls were a garish pink and yellow, *shudders*. I was a bit of a hoarder as well and there was just clutter everywhere, I hated it. 

So, in my University reading week (No I didn't read anything lol) I decided it was time to decorate!

I actually quite liked my furniture, I just hated the color of the pine! So after some research I decided to have a go at painting and distressing the furniture myself, and I'm actually really pleased with the results - so I thought I'd share them with you guys!

I started off by sanding down the surfaces with a fine sand paper, then removed all the knobs off of the drawers as I knew I wanted to keep them the original colour. Once sanded I applied two coats of an undercoat/primer paint, which was white.

Once the undercoat had dried I applied a white emulsion paint as the top coat, and I only applied one coat of this. Once this has dried I got my sand paper and started to distress. Sanding down small sections to reveal parts of the wood, like it had worn away over time. After you've distressed to your hearts content all you have left to do is apply a clear wood varnish and you're done!

Here is my dressing table before:|

and after...

Here is the rest of my furniture:

I'm so pleased with the results! And it was such a simple thing to do as well, and just really lights up the room. 

For my wall colours I went for white and one statement wall in a gorgeous grey colour from Wilko's called "Flintstone". Grey, white, black and a hint of pink is all the colour I need in my room now!