#760: Hello, Monday.

First outing for one of my Flapper Girl lady ties, so lovely.
Good morning!
I hope you had a good weekend, mine was nice. Some of our Uni friends came up to watch the rugby at Moon's on Saturday, I hate sports so I joined them afterwards, it was so good to see everyone and hang out. We went for breakfast at Frankie & Benny's yesterday morning and it was terrible, I've been thinking and I don't think I've ever had a good meal at any Frankie & Benny's restaurant. We laughed it off just because it was so awful, safe to say I don't think we'll be returning, milk for tea/coffee in a shot glass, come on!

So, towards to tail-end of last week I was feeling really demotivated, but the sun is shining and it's a new week. I've already had a promising phone call from Portsmouth University's recruitment agency, Purple Door and I've got a list as long as my arm of jobs to apply for/enquire about so I hope to keep busy.

Here are some things that are exciting and nice about today.

The sun is out and even though I am restricting myself to inside, my room is warm and bright.

I'm seeing Russell Howard this evening.

Hello 22 followers, I hope I live up to expectation.

Crafty Creatives — This is an incredible idea, it's like a Glossybox but for crafts! I think it will provide a much higher standard than those magazines you usually see floating about right about now, already subscribed.

Orla Kiely for Uniqlo — If I can't afford her beautiful homewares, I can still wear her designs, currently lusting after one of the tunics. Here's hoping the local Kingston Uniqlo is stocking it.

Lovely jobs, and not in the falsly advertised reed.co.uk sense.

Models Own new Beetlejuice colours — Was a good excuse to place an order for a new bottle of Top Turquoise and some other pretty springtime shades, can't wait to get them. I only ordered Indian Ocean from the new collection, not for any reason other than that I'm not a 'metallic nails kind of girl' and I thought the other two were a bit too gold/copper for me.

Like any good Internet user, I rounded off my Sunday with videos of cats, there are too many 'awhs' to not share. :3

Here's to a productive and happy week, did I mention I'm seeing Russell Howard tonight? *squee!

My weekend.

I have just had a great weekend back home, now I am back in Portsmouth with even less of an idea of what to do than before. Eep, I took a few more photos for it but they'll be in the next post.

So, I was back home to see Russell Howard with Moon and my sister got me tickets for Christmas and couldn't go. He was so funny and we had a great evening out, even if The O2 does get super-busy.
Here are a few photos from that sort of period, they're all a bit muddled. We also took a trip to Pollock's Toy Museum, which was a bit nostalgic, some of the stuff in there could do with a bit of a spruce up though but then that is also part of it's charm too. I found the best Paperchase in the world too, I'll have to go back there when I have some money, it has everything crafty I could ever want, and once I'm not a student any more I might have some time to feel less guilty about not doing projects and actually do them.

© Ruth Johnston 2011.

Things you forget about when living in Portsmouth:
- How green everything can be.
- Flowers are quite nice.
- There are many other kinds of birds other than seagulls and pigeons.