Aztec In The Forest

As you will know if you've read my post from last Monday, I have been in Center Parcs for a week. As the Internet was very temperamental there I decided to wait until I got back to post the OOTDs/OOTNs I had decided to write about, there is only 2 more after this as a lot of the days I wore similar outfits (shorts and a top) and it would just be very repetitive. 

I never normally wear jewellery, the most is earrings and on most days I forget to even put them in! Ever since I lost (sadly) my Thomas Sabo bracelet I just forget to wear arm jewellery as I had that on 24/7, so when I remembered I had this bracelet/ring duo I immediately packed it and swore myself to wearing it at least once.

As I had these gold and 'diamond' earrings in already all day, I thought it would be the perfect chance to wear the bracelet, the gold accents added some colour to the black and white outfit as well as going with the gold studs on the shoes.

Dress - Tesco (kids section)

Blazer - Topshop

Shoes - Primark

Belt - Next

Earrings - River Island

Bracelet/Ring - Primark

Lipstick - Christian Dior (not sure of name/shade as my mum gave it to me)

Collaboration: Columbian Fashion

This week I set up an account with IFB (independent fashion bloggers) it's a great platform for getting your blog noticed and meeting and interacting with other bloggers with similar interests/blogs to you.

Through IFB I started speaking to Tatiana who runs the blog brujuladelamoda.com and we decided to collaborate together. After having to admit rather embarrassingly I didn't know how to add her on what's app, she added me and we started to talk about what we should do to collaborate. Tatiana came up with a great idea of interviewing each other about the fashion in our countries, she asked me questions about fashion in London and the UK which you can see here and then it was my turn to ask her.

Question 1

"What are the current trends in Colombia?"

Answer

"In Colombia the inspiration is Europe, Medellin, my city, is the fashion capital in my country. We have many designers and the current trends are a lot of jeans with boots or sandal, a hippie chic style but the culture in Medellin is like look with the trends in other countries like London, New York and Paris."

Question 2

"What would you say are your season 'must haves'?"

Answer

"In my country we don't have seasons, because its a tropical country, all the time is the same. The must haves are for example, a black skirt, white t-shirt, blazer in different colours, and very elegant heels, and it is very important to have many things in denim."

Question 3

"Do you personally follow trends or do you prefer to dress however you want? Also do a lot of people in your country break out of trends?"

Answer

"I think the best position is to be in the middle point, it's important to know the trends for me and my work but the style is the most important. It's a mix between trends and style."

I'd like to say a huge thank you to Tatiana and I'm so glad she suggested collaborating as it made feel like I'd reached a milestone in my blogging and has actually made me want to put a lot more effort into my blog to make it better and bigger.

If you'd like to read what questions Tatiana asked me and what I answered, click here.

These are all her links if you'd like to check her out:

http://www.brujuladelamoda.com

http://www.bloglovin.com/brujuladelamoda

http://instagram.com/tatiuribem

https://mobile.twitter.com/tatiuribem

I'd recommend checking out IFB if you run a fashion blog as it really does help you to get your blog noticed and make some blogging friends! My IFB account is intheeyeof-this do if you do have it/join it make sure to add me as it would be nice to talk to you!

That's all for today's post, I enjoyed talking to Tatiana and collaborating, if any of you would like to get in touch with me, I'll leave all links below.

alicerwright10@gmail.com

Instagram.com/alicewright_ (personal)

Instagram.com/wonderlandalice_ (themed)

Twitter.com/_alice_wright

Day out: Cambridge City

So this post won't be like my other posts,  - beauty/fashion related - instead I'll be showing you some pictures I took whilst in the gorgeous Cambridge, which I'm telling you, one day I WILL live there.

I took these about 3 weeks ago now, my dad, little brother & sister and I travelled down for two reasons: to get my brothers MacBook fixed - the silly boy spilt water on it - and to buy my gorgeous iPad with Retina display in preparation for sixth form in September (I managed to convince my dad to buy it for me early and so a HUGE thank you goes to him!!!).

Anyway, after we got those two things out of the way, we went for a walk around Cambridge city as it is such a beautiful place and just provides the most perfect opportunities for beautiful photos (hence me taking my canon).

There is always loads of bikes in Cambridge, so pretty!

More bikes!

I really loved the look of this ice cream stall for some reason

How cute are the little daisies on this gate?

This day was extremely hot and sunny - I thought it would be a good idea not to put any sun cream on and ended up with a well deserved sunburn although that has now turned into a tan so what can I complain? - and whilst walking along a bridge we saw people were punting (think Italy with a romantic couple and someone pushing their boat standing at the back), we decided to walk down and have a look at how much it was and after hearing how reasonable it was we hopped right in the queue and waited for our turn on the punt.

Five minutes of waiting and we were walked onto our punt, joined by eight other people and our lovely tour guide/punt pusher. We got lucky with our tour guide as he was so interested in Cambridge and its history and it seemed like to him doing this was more of something for fun than a job which made it so much more enjoyable for us - and he was very attractive - so thank you to that man! 

Anyway, the punt lasted fourty-five minutes, meaning I had a huge amount of time to get some gorgeous snaps of the lovely scenery of Cambridge, as well as getting a good history lesson on all the different buildings and gardens - good thing I'm a keeno for history, miss GCSE and A-level history student over here. 

Little Brother, sister & I

How amazing does this ivy covered building look?

Said to be one of the most famous photo taking place in Cambridge

Underneath my favourite of all trees: a weeping willow

Is it weird I find these cute?

In real life this house was more of a light blue and Oh My! I want to live in it so bad! Ah.. a girl can dream

Finally back to where we begun...

After the punt ride we walked back to the shopping centre (Grand Arcade) and had a look through the market which had some amazing things you just could never think of, for example, these amazing wooden figurines powered by a battery pack making them so much more interesting than a normal wooden figurine, you can see the amazing amount of detail that went into them.

We then went to get some ice cream and decided our day was done so ventured back to the car.

I hope you enjoyed this different style of post, I enjoyed writing something a little different and I think I'll do more posts in the future talking about days out :)

What do you think of this style of writing?