'Let's sing a song about spring'- Primark and Forever 21 Haul

Spring is upon us, well kind of, April is always a mix of weathers (drip drip drop little April showers). But rain or shine there is always time for shopping I'm sure lots of people can agree with that! So when my mum and I went up to London last week we made a detour to Westfields at Stratford and had a wonder round, and spend what felt like an age in Primark, shortly followed by Forever 21, but I can certainly say I did not leave empty handed. So I thought I'd share the lovely Spring inspired items I got, starting with Primark;

There is a fair amount of Gingham is this post, so you have been warned, and also apologizes that the background is a bit crazy, due to all the pictures, but there is no place in my room which isn't like this!  

Gingham boxy shirt-£10
Mint Peter Pan top- £6

Green Summer dress- £5 (what a bargain!)
Paisley printed trousers- £9

 I could not believe what a bargain this dress was, especially considering its made out of fairly thick material, so a Spring/Summer must!

Pink Gingham midi skirt- £12
Green midi skirt- £12

 I've gone a little midi skirt crazy recently, and after purchasing two from Primark, trust me I almost brought more but resisted the urge, and also ones from Asos and a charity shop, but its because they are a great fashion trend at the moment and I've fully jumped on the band wagon. They are great for Spring because you don't really need to wear tights with them, but they are long enough to still look Spring-ish without have all your legs on show, which is a big plus for me because where I am so pale my legs just look like milk bottles, which isn't the best of looks.

Grey Wizard of Oz roll sleeve top- £6
'Take me to Neverland' printed top- £6

 As well as being a massive Disney fan, I also am a HUGGEE fan of musicals, in particular Wicked and The Wizard of Oz, so when I saw my friend Elise pick up this bargain of a top I knew I had to find one, all they had were 6's and 8's when I was there, so being a size 10 I was instantly disheartened, but I've found that the size 8 fits just fine, where is is a baggy fit its fine! I am in love with my Peter Pan top as well, and I think I'll save this one and wear it in Disney Land when I go, which is in 2 WEEKS! 

Blue Gingham 'Prom style' dress- £17

Following on from the Wizard of Oz obsession when I saw this beautiful blue Gingham Summer dress I knew I had to have it. It is very Dorothy Gale inspired which  I love, and although I did think that £17 was a little pricey, it does have a small netted petticoat underneath so I guess that makes up for it.

Pink hair bow- £1.50
Pink and black hair clips- £1.50
Pastel roses and gold chain necklace- £3
Two pack pink scrunchies- £1.50

 Primark have been fab for Spring/Summer hair accessories and jewellery recently, and they are so reasonably priced as well, I feel every time I go in there I'm pricking up a different coloured scrunchie!  

Electric blue point toed shoes- £8

 Recently I've been loving pointed toe shoes, and a few weeks ago I saw a pair very similar to these blue ones in New Look and they were £17, so practically double the price of these, but when I tried them on they didn't look right on, because I have very wide feet it looked as though they were spilling out, which wasn't good. So when I found these in Primark in the 'Wide fit' section I was having to have a double take. They are super comfy, look nice on and like half the price of the other ones I saw, what could be better?

Purple floral shorts- £8
Minnie Mouse sunglasses- £2 (each)

 I picked up these shorts more for me to wear on my holiday later on in the year when I go to Spain, but these amazing Minnie Mouse sunglasses I picked up for me and Meg to wear in Disney Land in 2 weeks! We are going to look so hip and cool haha. The glasses were from the children section of Primark (says a lot really), but they were too cute not to buy. 

Moving onto Forever 21 now, starting with the two accessories I brought:

Pastel jewel hair bands- £3.90
Pink sunglasses- £4.90

Red and orange jumpsuit- £19.75
Blue and yellow floral playsuit- £14.75

 I saw the jumpsuit on a model in the shop and had to find it, and considering I'm fairly short it doesn't look too bad! Plus the great thing with jumpsuits is you can dress them up and down, depending on the occasion. 

White rose off the shoulder top- £15

Then finally the last thing I brought was this Rose bud strappy crop top. What I particularly liked about this was that is almost has two scraps, the actual spaghetti straps that hold the top up, then the frilly straps that fall off the shoulders, which I though was super cute and Summery. I'd probably pair this with a long maxi skirt and make it almost Boho like. 

Anywho that's my haul for today, I know its not very Disneyish but do not despair my Disney on Ice post will be up soon! 

Cheerio! 

Hannah 

Happy Easter Folks

A massive Happy Easter to you all! 

I hope you've had and are having a lovely Easter weekend, despite the naff weather this Sunday afternoon. Luckily here in England the weather was nice on Friday and Saturday, so when we had my sister, nieces and brother round Friday we managed to have an egg hunt for my nieces, which was lovely. 

But while I sit here on Easter Sunday watching Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory I thought what a prime opportunity to talk about my lovely afternoon tea that I had with my mum up in London a couple of weeks ago, (mainly because of all the sweet treats we had, reminded me of Easter). 

So for Mothers Day this year I took my Mum up to London for a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory inspired tea at the One Aldwych, and it was fabulous. When you first sit down you see the Menu which has two illustrations of characters from the Musical. 

After we chose what tea we wanted, (we opted for the caramel tea, which was delicious) the waitress went and brought over the savoury part of the tea, and there was cucumber sandwiches, Salmon on flat breads, tomato pastries and these cheese tart type things. 

Our caramel teas  

The savoury menu 

  

Then once we had eaten our sandwiches the main part of the tea was unveiled. This was the sweet part, and my goodness it was sweet. What was nice was that you had a little piece of everything, so where the desserts where on the smaller size it was nice because you were able to enjoy everything. There was raspberry flavoured candy floss, a golden chocolate egg with vanilla mousse and mango on top, mini eton mess,  warm scones with cream and jam, blueberry brioche, lemon and orange chocolate pops, and little bottles of chocolate caramel milk.   

Yes, it did taste as good as it looks

I think we enjoyed our candy floss too much 

After taking a few cheeky pictures we didn't fancy heading home, and we had Charlie and the Chocolate Factory bug so we set out in search for some tickets for the show in the West End. 

The outside of the theatre at Drury Lane 

Our excited faces after getting tickets

We managed to get tickets, but since we got them last minute and also the fact it is a very popular show we were sat in the back row of the top balcony. We still had a very good view, despite being very high, and we really enjoyed the show. All the children in the musical were very good, especially the girl who played Veruca Salt I was very impressed. The special effects and the set in the show was incredible, with some very catchy songs as well. 

All in all we had a fab day, and I would recommend both the afternoon tea and the show to anyone who enjoys a good musical and has a sweet tooth. 

Here is the link for the afternoon tea, you make a reservation then pay on the day. 

  http://www.onealdwych.com/food-drink/afternoon-tea

Anywho that's all for now, cheerio! 

Hannah 

Happy Birthday Disneyland Paris!

In 1992 Disneyland Paris was opened on the 12th of April, therefore meaning that yesterday was the parks birthday! 

This is also a very exciting time for me since I go back to Disneyland Paris in just under a month with my best friend! So I'm literally counting down the days till I can go back, as I went for the first time in March 2013 and it was amazinggggg, I went with 3 of my best buddies from school.

This is Lauren, Elise, myself and Jack with Aurora. Who needs a holiday to Zante when you can go Disneyland!

So I'm looking forward to that, and its also been a good couple of weeks Disney DVD's wise for me, what with Frozen coming out the other week (of course that was a must have) , I also used some of my Disney movie rewards to get 'Meet the Robinsons' and the other day at the super market I pick up 'Marry Poppins' for £5! Absolute bargain! 

I went to London last week with my mum for her Mothers Day present I took her for a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory inspired afternoon tea, but that's a whole other blog post! 

But while we were there we did a spot of shopping, which meant of course I had to have a little look in the Covent Garden Disney Store. 

While I was there I couldn't leave empty handed, so I got this lovely Elsa mug, which I have had my eye on for a while now on the Disney website. The lady who served me even packaged it with some pixie dust, so I was sold. 

Those are all my latest Disney related purchases, then this weekend has been lovely. Yesterday we had a first cast read through of the play that I'm in, which is The Ladykillers. It was so great to read the play to the end with the whole cast, the script is hilarious as well, so I'm super excited to get rehearsals on the way as I'm sure show week in September will roll around very quickly. 

Then today was my brothers birthday, so we all went out for a meal in the sun and had a lovely time, it literally didn't feel like April. 

So a big Happy Birthday to my brother!

Next weekend I'm seeing Disney on Ice so be sure to keep an eye out for that post coming soon. 

But that's all for now, cheerio!

Hannah

'Just a spoon full of sugar'

So today I had a chilled day at home, and what kind of chill day would be complete without a little bit of Disney? 

I threw on a really comfy casual outfit, that also has a very Spring/ Summer feel to it. 

My 'I'll be your Minnie' top is from Forever 21, my floral trousers are from H&M, and my brown belt is from Primark. 

I love this top, I just think its super cute and a really fashionable and everyday Disney top. 

I wore just my usual everyday make-up, with the exception of the bright pink lips, which I wore to match the pink colours in my trousers.

I achieved the look on my lips by applying my Bodyshop lipstick in shade 55, then putting my lovely Tanya Burr lip gloss in the colour Aurora over the top. They are practically a perfect match, and the lip gloss is nice because it enhances the colour on the lips. Plus the name is just perfect since Aurora is my favourite Princess. 

To Disneyfy my day I decided to make biscuits, but not just normal biscuits oh no, you see I collect the Disney Cakes and Sweets Magazines, which are amazing if like me you love cooking cakes and all things sweet and Disney

 With each magazine you get free gifts, so I collected all my Disney cutters together and got cracking. 

 

These were my finished biscuits, spot each of the different characters! I then watched 'Planes' with my Mum, in the past I have avoided this film along with 'Cars' but to my surprise it was actually very good. I'm not sure why I was so surprised I mean it is Disney after all. 

That's all for today, cheerio! 

Hannah

Yo Ho, Yo Ho, A Pirate's Life For Me

It seems that just as I start a blog I'm already neglecting it! I'm letting myself off due to the fact I've had a hectic couple of weeks, what with helping backstage at my Drama Schools Junior Production of The Pirates of the Curry Bean, yes this meant that I listened to The Pirates of the Caribbean theme tune and had it suck in my head for the whole week, but I loved it. I'm so proud of all the children, especially our youngest who were Rats and Monkeys, especially the fact that we were at a lovely theatre all week just topped it off. 

Then after that had finished I had an audition last Sunday for my theatre groups production of 'The Ladykillers',  which is a comical play about a group of men who pose as musicians and rent a room in an elderly lady's house in order to fulfil their plan to rob a bank. I auditioned for the part of Mrs Wilberforce, who is the elderly lady, and I was so pleased when I found out I was successful! It's going to be such a fun part to play and I'm so excited to start rehearsals. My Dads reaction to me getting the part was just the sweetest thing ever, his eyes positively lit up, it was such a lovely moment, as The Ladykillers is one of his favourites. 

Now that I've given that little update I'll crack on with getting a few more Disney related posts up! 

Toodle-pip!

Hannah