Happy Mother's Day!

Good morning:)

  The weather is so lovely once again, words can't begin to tell you how glad I am that summers on the way finally! I've never been much of a winter person personally and summer is definitely my favourite season. 

   What makes today more special is the fact that it's Mother's Day so I'll be spending the entire day with my gorgeous mother, so I wanted to not only dedicate this post to my wonderful mother but also anyone who is unable to see their mum for one reason or another today, my thoughts are with you <3 but I really hope you enjoy your day either way! 

Jess xo

Summer and Saturdays! Captain America and the winter solider

Hello again! 

Ok so today was absolutely gorgeous weather wise, even to the extent that I dug out my comic book dress. Definitely a good day. 

   So what did I do on such a gorgeous, sunny day? I spent mine in a cinema, in the dark. And it was amazing.

   I went to see Captain America: the winter soldier with a group of friends and I have to say it was beyond what I have ever imagined. Being a HUGE marvel and comic book fan, I'm quite juvious when production companies release a film based on a comic book character because to me, it could literally ruin an entire series for me. 

   But with the Captain America movies (so far) I've been quite impressed. They are one of the few movies that stay true to the original character portrayal without mocking or making it uber cheesie, and the Winter Solider is no exception. The cation is fast paced and high intensity. The lines sharp, witty and clever written and the special effects superb. Possibly my favourite Superhero movie ever. Definitely worth a see. 

Well that's it for today lovelies, I'd love to know your opinion if you've seen it yet. 

Jess xo

*another* music post!

Hey there, 

  So I just had to write about two new artists I'm becoming sort of fond of. Recommend by a friend of mine who's actually been a fan of both artists for a while, I downloaded a few of Ben Marwood and Jim Lockey & the solemn sun's songs and I have to say I'm really warming up to them. Both fuse a country/folk style with inspirations from punk rock and contain a lot of acoustic guitar accompaniments. 

    Two favourites of mine would have to be "under lock and key" by Ben Marwood and "our fathers" by Jim Lockey & the Solemn Sun. 

  Both definitely deserve a lot more recognition then they have had so far and I would well reccomend anyone:) 

 

I'd love to know what you thought of then if you've only recently listened to them or if you've been a fan for a while. 

Well that's about all, 

Jess xo 

Grease!

Hello again! So I didn't really have anything specific that I wanted to blog about today so instead I thought I'd recap on the last musical I did....Grease! From October through to February I spent countless hours singing, dancing and perfecting an American accent for rizzo. Though there was a lot of stressing out and shouting, a lot of tears and tantrums there was also a lot of laughter and good memories made along the way. I honestly grew to love the rest of our pink ladies and t birds and members of the chorus. I wish nothing but the best from them on their different life paths and can't wait to do another show with the remainder next year! 

Jess xo

Music on Mondays!

Hello again! 

So this post is,yet again, a music post. But I wanted today's to be very different from yesterday's by giving my review of one of my favourite albums: Tape Deck Heart by Frank Turner. 

  Ok so the albums like a year old? But it's one of those that I don't think will eve lose relevance to me personally, hence why it's still one of my favourites and why I wanted to bring it up. Now I know a few frank turner fans who aren't really that fond of tape deck heart for a few reasons; whether that's because they feel the likes of Recovery are too 'synthetic' sounding or because they don't like the heavier issues and lyrics of 'Broken Piano' and 'Tell Tale signs'. 

For those of you who might not have have heard the album before the album includes; 

Recovery 

Losing days 

The way I tend to be 

Plain sailing weather 

Good and gone 

Tell tale signs 

Four simple words 

Polaroid picture 

The fisher king blues

Anymore 

Oh brother 

Broken piano 

The deluxe album (the one I have) also includes the tracks:

We shall not overcome 

Wherefore art thou gene Simmons 

Tattoos 

Undeveloped films 

Time machine 

Cowboy chords

So admittedly you could argue that tape deck heart is a lot different from the likes of 'love ire and song' and 'England keep my bones', and I'd have to agree, there is  a difference between the two. But isn't that the idea? To keep growing as an artist? Personally I loved tape deck heart just for the openess and vulnerability behind some of the heavier songs on the album, particularly 'Tell Tale Signs'. The song itself is beautiful only added to by the vulnerability of the lyrics. If you haven't heard it before I'd definitely recommend it, in fact I'd recommend the whole album and I'd love to know what you thought of it. 

Well that's about it, 

 Jess xo 

Craft divert

Hi again! 

   So I'm going to partially divert off of the usual topics of the blog today for more craft based post. 

  As some of you may know we have prom coming up (and I'm so stereotypically excited) since my dress is big and floor length I wasn't really looking forward to spending a full night wearing uncomfortably high high heels when you wouldn't really notice them (plus seeing as how 5 ft 9 inches tall they are totally unneeded) so I decided to get a pair of black converses customised in diamontes for the night time and wear heels for photos. Not wanting to spend too much money on them I decided to re-vamp some old heels and with the help of my lovely mother I've finished up with the above photo^. Taking into account they started off as plain beige shoes I'm pretty proud of how they turned out! 

   Incase anyone was wondering how we did them all we used were; 

- old unused shoes

- mod podge gloss (bought from hobby craft, also available online) 

- black nail glitter (yes nail, extra fine works best) 

- and finally, some clear rhinestones bought from ebay 

 

It's really simple and there's quite a few tutorials online you should try! 

Well that's about all, I'd love to know what you think about them:) 

Jess xo

Fashion Fridays

Well hello there! So I've decided I'm going to do a fashion post every Friday of something different each time:) 

  So this weeks theme is budgets, something that can be a real pain as a student. I mean it's fine after payday or holidays and birthdays to splurge on some really cute stuff but I really hate those in between periods where you have something coming up, want something new but just haven't got the money. Which is why I love to find some cheap clothes that don't look cheap, you know? 

So these three dresses are my latest bargains, all together costing me just £8! Originally they should have cost me about £47 if I'd bought them at full price and the best part of it? They look good on, are good quality and aren't even second hand (surprisingly for the price). 

My cream and navy dress actually was a little bit more expensive at £15, but still a really good price for how much I love this dress. It's so simple yet elegant and is diverse enough to wear at all sorts of events. I really do love it for all formal and some informal occasions. 

 

Jess xo

Summer music

Two posts just after one another, I know. But I figured I may as well write this one whilst I was thinking about it. :) 

So as the weathers gotten warmer I've noticed I've started to subconsciously change the albums and song I'm listening to. At the moment I'm a little obsessed with Vance Joy - riptide, just because it gives everything that summery feel good factor, you know? 

   But I have to admit another *returning* summer favourite of mine is definitely Frank Turners 'Waterloo sunset'. Definitely gives summer a positive effect. I mean, I'm probably a little biased, but I don't think I've ever felt better then last summer being surrounded by friends in convent gardens just before sunset. London is definitely one of my favourite places to be. 

 Well that's about all for now. Do you have an automatic summer playlist that brings back memories? I seriously doubt that I could really be the only one! 

  Jess xo 

Hi there:)

Well, this is sort of a new thing for me so I suppose I should start somewhere:) 

My name is Jess. I'm an aspiring actress from England who started this blog admittedly because Twitter became boring ;P. 

I don't really have a set theme for the blog though most of the posts will likely be about music, clothing/fashion and films and the theatre. 

So that about it really, 

 Jess xo