sharing a bit of me...

i am the type of girl who wants to be as free as a bird, but cares too much about others opinions.

i am the type of girl who is scared to love, but needs to be held.

i am the type of girl who has so many acquaintances, but only a few friends.

i am the type of girl whose trust is almost impossible to regain if you lose it.

i am the type of girl who doesn't want the world, just to be happy.

i am the type of girl whose therapy is shopping and blogging.

i am the type of girl who writes lists and then never finishes ticking off all the points.

i am the type of girl who wants to be reassured that people like me.

i am the type of girl who'll think of counter-arguments 3hours later.
i am the type of girl who'll watch the O.C and Gossip Girl and be depressed for days afterwards.
i am the type of girl who loves shiny, sparkly, glittery and glamourous everything.
i am the type of girl who is a 'typical' girl, with unusual personality traits for this typicality.
i am the type of girl whose boyfriends mums only like her if they have no daughters.
i am the type of girl who will write this post, for everyone to see, then hope no one reads it.

i am not a type. i am me.

an outfit...

Oh please excuse the shocking quality of these two pictures, they are not good photos in every way shape and form! But I was quite liking this outfit so I had to take a pic for you guys to tell me what you thought of it. I wore it out when I went to the pub for drinkys with my boyfriend, I had doubts whether it was too casual for drinks...?

The cardigan is from Zara about two years ago, the dress I bought from the British Heart Foundation charity shop, about 10 sizes too big and it was knee length when I bought it! I altered it to make something a bit cuter for outfits like this... The tan belt and tan shoes are both from Primark.

SMILE. XO

p.s sorry again for the shoddy photos!

sunshine makes me smile

It's been a really lovely day today in England, I even managed to squeeze in a little bit of sunbathing (and got a bit of colour to my lily skin!)

Oh yes, before I forget to mention, you may have seen the three sets of photos from two lovely ladies called Lois Catterall and Georgia Russell, they are two girls who attended the same college as me and I thought it would be cool to feature some of their work here on Grey Pavement Regular, the point of this blog is to just stress the normality of my life, but trying to inject a little bit of glamour into my life, and these two ladies definately do this in their photo shoots. So I'm going to continue theses little posts with photos by some photographer friends I have. If you like them, I'll seek out some more from that particular person :)

Anyway back to today! I bought some really hot stuff! I got theee cutest necklace; some gold stud sandals and some really hot leopard print sunnies... Here are a few pics...

Gold sandals- £25, Leopard Print sunnies- £15, Clock necklace- £7 all from Accessorize.

Sorry about making all the pics black and white I only realised after I uploaded them that it was stupid...but hey I'm a silly girl.

Anyways, I'm off to work, will probably be buzzing by the time I get home so I will say hey then... SMILE :) its infectious XO

boxes...

Photography by George Russell

Good Morning to you all, I hope you are well and had a spiffing evening :)

I am going to go on a hunt for my camera-laptop cable today as I have a lot of photos to upload for you all to feast your eyes upon.

Anywho ciao, have a nice day :)

(And SMILE-it's infectious) XO

Happy Birthday Jaz

It's one of my best friends birthday today, she turned 18 :)
She's officially a 'big girl' now, like me; apparently. (pssscht to growing up)
We went to Brighton, did some shopping, had a spot of lunch (at the good old Golden Arches) and she got a tattoo!! She got a really cute little butterfly underneath her boob! She was in some pain thought! So I don't envy her at all, although I desperately want one....

So what did you get upto today? We saw some really cool graffiti, I took some pics for you to see :) (sorry about the quality I took them on my Blackberry...)

Have a good evening, I'm out clubbing (eurgh that word sounds horrendous) and what's worse is I'm going to the club where I work. Not cool. Anywhooooo, take care.

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Smile- it's infectious XO

I do not care...

I'm with a guy, and lets just say he lives comfortably. He says he loves me. I don't think I love him. The question is how do you know? Well, anyway, I found this quote and I think it's perfect to describe how I don't want anything from him but to make me happy.


Smile its infectious. XO

Style obsession...

My current style OBSESSION is with Ashley Olsen! One half of the amazingly beautiful and stylish Olsen twins, I personally feel that Ashley is almost ...cleaner(?) if thats the right word, she has an air of sophistication that I don't see about Mary-Kate; DO NOT GET ME WRONG I LOVE MK's STYLE! But I just think Ashley is more... me :)

This is my favourite look out of the pics I chose for today. The simplicity of this look is what makes it rock for me, the way her hair is scraped but with the sunglasses. The oversized scarf and top with the skinnies and boots. I love everything and would be eternally grateful if I were given this outfit haha. Outfit number two, again is very simple yet sooooo chic! I love the oversized bag, ripped jeans and flats. This outfit would be very simple to re-create. Me likey.

Outfit number three again simplicity is the key, a fur coat with leggings and a pair of killer wedges all come together perfectly for Ashley. Adoring her style more and more by the second.

This fourth outfit rocks because of the booties we see again the oversized bag with skinny ripped jeans, but the boots are incredible. Yes please. Lets see if the closet angels could do their magic and let these boots appear there tomorrow!

This final outfit I just wanted to get a picture of to further stress how beautiful and sophisticated Ms Ashley Olsen is, there is no tacky bone in the young lady's body, she is all class and looks a vision in this beautiful The Row gown at the Costume Institue Gala.

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All of these photos are borrowed from brilliant Olsens Anonymous, a fabulous site with beautiful pictures of the Olsen sisters, and their inspirational outfits. (Go check it out, you'll be hooked like me.)

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Anyway, if I had Ashley's wardrobe I would need a spectacular closet to keep it all in, so if you click here you can see Joanna Goddard's article on fabulous New York closets....

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I hope you all had/are having a fabulous day, mine was rather dull, but I remembered for tomorrow, I have some photo uploading to do. Yay. I'm off to sleep now, so I'll see you all tomorrow. Lots of love. XO

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P.S remember- Smile, its infectious xo

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P.P.S I saw this gorgeous Kate Moss for Topshop dress in about three different weekly mags and they all quote different prices, but I found it here on topshop.com and its only £40!!! What do you think of it??? xo

EMERGENCY! call the doctor...

SO something completely hideous has happened. After a break up over a month ago, the current busy and stressful exam period and having some unknown illness causing loss of my appetite- I have lost weight.

Whats the big deal I hear you asking? Well.... My beloved high-waisted demin shorts no longer fit me! :(

I'm pretty much devestated... I wear them like all the time and just generally love them. They are a UK size 10, so I'm glad that means that the 8 (that I tried on in the shop and were too tight) but now I'm a pair of hot shorts down. (ASWELL as countless other items that might now fit now.) AH bad times!!!

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Moving on to lighter times, I spoke to my best friend on the phone earlier, after what seemed like for agessssss, and she told me some really interesting stories about stuff that has been going on in our group of friends lately (I've been a bit of a social recluse due to revision for exams), and anyway, the amount of gossip is unreal. And some of it isn't cool at all!

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I'm also going to apply for a new(old) job... I used to work at this really cool mexican restaurant, but quit because I didnt like my manager, but the manager has left now and they are looking for part time staff so I'm thinking of reapplying! More mohoneys for me for sexy clothes and holidays etccccc...... What are your plans for summer? Holidays? No holiday?

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Smile- Its infectious XO

wowzers...

Photography by Lois Catterall.

Leaving home...

I cannot stop thinking about going to uinversity these last few days. Even though I am not going until the end of September, I'm just really dreading it. I think I want to keep this blog going though because at least then, when I move away, 5 hours from home, at least this environment that I know and love will still be the same as long as I have my trusty lappytop with me :)

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Moving out of home for the first time is soooo daunting, how old were you guys when you first did? Or do you still live at home? Did any of you get really homesick when you went to uni? Any answers to these questions would be a delighful help.

So I thought what way to make myself feel even more homesick? I know I'll do a post on things that I'll miss from home...

I'll miss the way my pussycat licks my hair to wake me up in the morning to feed him; I'll miss the beautiful sun shining through my curtains, reflecting off the crystals hanging at my window; I'll miss the sound of my mum hoovering outside my door on a bright summer morning; I'll miss the way the postman is never ever early so you have to wait around half the day for your important mail; I'll miss my best friend who is going to still be here in this same town whilst I'm away up there; I'll miss the massive wardrobe and all the storage I have in my boudoir; I'll miss half of the clothes and shoes that I wont be able to take to university with me; I'll miss the five minute walk to my nan and grandads to talk about them hating eachother in the 60s because they were mods and rockers and then telling me how they fell in love; I'll miss waking up to the smell of my mum's delicious peanut butter cookies; I'll miss the way the the little children knock on my front door saying "my balls in your garden can you throw it over please"; I'll miss the familiarity of the people whom I have seen everyday for the last 18 years in the road where I live; I'll miss the friendly shop keeper who always says hi to me when I buy my fashion mags; I'll miss the friendly lady bus driver who always asks me how I am (even though I rarely see her anymore anyway as I passed my driving test); I'll miss the closesness to Brighton Pier and the fabulous shopping in the Laines; but most of all, I'll miss my mum, my best friend and protector for the last 18 years. Now I'm off to fend for myself.

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Anyway, have a nice day. After the long weekend revision starts again for me, I have some VERY important exams coming up, so I have a feeling I'll be popping by alot to give myself a break from it all.

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If anyone has any tips about moving away from home, or tips to not worry about doing such a thing, or any sort of advice they can give me to stop panicing about this whole shabang, then please- don't hesitate to comment lol.

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Smile- It's infectious XO

A quick one to say...

A MASSIVE thank you to Jordan Clarke over at The Art of Jordan, who so kindly put together the fabulous new header for me, as well as the cute little banner.

Jordan has a feature called 'banner swap' over on her blog, she'll put your banner up and you put up hers. Simples.

I recommend you go take a look at her blog, its pretty ace.


XO

well hello you.

Good morning life, good morning love.

Today I woke up to the birds chirping, the sun shining. I think its going to be a good day... I hope :)
Its my little cousins birthday today, so I am going to a family shin-dig, hopefully I can take some pics, I looked uber chic last night in skinny jeans, chiffon top and tan wedge heels, but I'm afraid- no pics of the outfit, but I did get some pics of my pals.
Had a really good time at the bbq actually!

I took some pictures of my little pussy cat the other day, and I just wanted to share them with you...

This is his little meerkat tail, he broke the tip along time ago and I think it is sooo cute. Adds character!

As you well know I'm not the best photographer, but I try. Anyways my dears, I'm sure I'll pop by later today, going to have a look at all the fabulous posts that have popped up whilst I've been sleeping!

Remember- Smile; its infectious. XO

we are now on...

...Twitter.

I don't know why I would sign up to such a thing with a fan base of approx. 4 (lovely readers- I thank you for taking the time to visit my shoddy blog)... but hey. If you've just stumbled across here (hello, nice to meet you (: ) then feel free as a bee to 'follow' this blog on Twitter. The all important link you need is here.

Ooo, I went to see Girls Aloud in concert last night, it was rather fabulous, however I did get rather tipsy, also I went to a restaurant called 'Zizzi', it was delicious. I think it may just be an English chain though, so sorry to all of you not in the 'lovely' land of Eng. Im in a really annoying mood right now, can you tell? I think I'm just extremely bored. Oh and if you know of any blog or site that is about or has posts about DIY-ing your clothes, then link me please. I have finished college now, so I have a lot of spare time on my hands, and what better way to spend it than making my clothes look fab?

Anyway, what are you upto this evening? It's bank holiday Monday tomorrow here in England, so its like another Saturday night for me, aren't I lucky. I am going to a bbq I think, which will be nice... I shall take some photographs. (Maybe- that isn't a promise, we know how rubbish I am at keeping those.)

Take care, be happy & smile.

XO

golden ladies...

Photography by Georgia Russell

peek-a-boo...

and now I present to you some of this season's hottest heels... I could easily accept any of these as a gift. (if your planning on sending a pair to me feel free to email me for a postal address :) )

Black (l-r): Kurt Geiger; zushoe.com.au; stevemadden.com; heels.com
Neutrals: heels.com; heels.com; bluefly.com; heels.com

Brown: nowdiscountshoes.com; heels.com; Kurt Geiger; Dune

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My favourites are the Black pair of Kurt Geigers, and the brown Dune heels. Reminder to self, "this is why you are going to university in three months time, to get a degree that will lead to a well paid job that will be able to fund your shoe fettish." I really don't want to go to university this year, I would love to just take a gap year and visit some quaint little places. Dare to dream.

i am....

a rubbish blogger, but i persist, never give up, always try. i have lots of facebook friends, but in reality where are you? i cry at fiction, but immune to crying at fact. i love my mum, but she drives me insane. i begged for a sewing machine for ages, got one for my birthday and have only had the time to use it twice in 4months. i like feeling loved, don't judge me its just who i am. i am scared about going to university, 5 hours away from home, all alone. i can't cook, and i don't try to either. i say i don't drink alcohol, but at every social event a glass appears in my hand. i have over a hundred handbags, yet use the same two all week long. i have eyes that people compliment on all the time, i like my eyes too thank you. i am not in love with my boyfriend, how can i tell him that without breaking his heart? i can take pain, but don't like to. i have a 'pretty' face, but have never felt uglier. i want a body covered in tattoo's but no where near cool enough. i wear glasses and have an inhaler, which i think are two requirements of being a nerd. i read alot of books, requirment number three i do believe. i am a fashion addict but sometimes you would not think so. i am not what you would expect, from the moment you see me to the second i open my mouth, you will be shocked about your pre-judgings. i feel i am too immature for my 18 years, then other times act like i'm 80. i am addicted to fruit pastilles, they should give me shares in rowntree. i don't know why i'm writing this, but i hope someone reads it and tells me i'm normal. Overall, i am a beautiful contradiction...

Because my brain is about to explode.

I have been revising for over 10 hours today for my Government and Politics exam which is first thing tomorrow morning, and now my brain is hurting so I am going to do a nice gentle post tonight... I got tagged by the Febrina at Bebelicious, so here goes..

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5 Things found in my bag:

*My Blackberry Bold. I could not live without this beauty!

*Airwaves gum.

*My Purse.
*Car Keys.
*Vaseline & Victoria's Secrets lipgloss.

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5 things found in my purse:

*My driving license.

*Bank Cards.
*Mo-honeys.
*BLOCKBUSTER CARD!
*Photos of me and my besties.

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5 Favourite things in my room:

*My brown leather sleigh bed!

*My Pussycat curled up on my bed.

*My wardrobe filled with all my clothes.

*My inspiration board with memories and aspirations

*My sewing machine.

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5 Things I always wanted to do:

*Teach myself to play the piano

*Speak french.

*Go to New York.

*Go to Paris.

*Learn to love what I've got.
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5 Things I am currently into:

*Gladiator sandals.

*Revising, sleeping, eating, revising, sleeping, eating (in that order :P)

*Chocolate fudge brown Frijj milkshakes.

*Fruit Pastilles.

*Ashley Olsen's style.

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The person who is inspiring you now is: Mischa Barton

Your five impressions of her:

*Funny.

*Talented.

*Beautiful.

*Stylish.

*Love her handbag collection, I have two :D

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Love to you all. I'll come up with something a bit more creative tomorrow, thats a promise. XO

An Outfit to think about...

Jeans-Dorothy Perkins

T-shirt- store.delias.com

Bag- shopjake.com

Sandals- Net-a-Porter

Sunnies- Love-worn.com

Bracelets- funaccessorice.com.au

Ring- modcloth.com

I love this outfit, suited to a lunch with the girls, shopping trip, meeting his parents etc.. Easily made smarter by adding a pair of heels gladiator sandals and a clutch bag.

Take care. XO

P.S.. What fashion trends do your boyfriend/brother/father or any other males in your life HATE?

I read here that guys hate gladiator sandals along with them 5year old type jumpsuit (rompers) things...

I should be revising but....

...I couldn't stop myself from browsing the net... and I found some delicious items of clothing that WILL be in my wardrobe one day!

Designer:

This beautiful sequin dress is by Matthew Williamson on Net-A-Porter, costs only £1,850. So maybe I would need to save up for a little while to acquire this dress then............

VS. High Street:

Some thing a bit more reasonably priced...

This sexy sequin shift dress is from Topshop, priced at £75.

Designer:

These chic shorts are perfect for those hot summer months... From Net-a-Porter, these Chloe shorts retail at £805..

VS. High Street:

Or you could opt for the cheaper version from ASOS...

At £50 a go you could by 10 pairs!!! And still have money over...

Designer:

Some sexy Louboutin's to wet your daily shoe appetite...

These fringed beauty's are £625 from Net-a-Porter.

VS. High Street:

Or- a cheaper (and slightly tackier) version...

These shoes are from only $33 from here. (Also available in grey.)

The final pieceis both designer at a definate high street price which we all love, you may recognize it from Matthew Williamson's summer collection for H&M, which hit stores on 23rd April, nearly a month later the items from the collection are going at extortionate prices on sites like ebay.

If you were lucky enough to get down to H&M's flagship store in Oxford street last month then you would have been able to buy this beautiful peacock pendant for only £14.99.

Personally I think Mr Williamson is crazy! I would have paid alot more for something so hot!

What are your plans for the day? Your outfits?

I'm sinning today, and outfit repeating big time, I was running so late this morning that I just had to grab what I knew looked good. I'll be round to your blogs throughout the day as I'm going to no classes today so no doubt I will be just browsing blogs all day!

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the post. Let me know (via the reaction buttons and comment box- you know the drill).

Take care. XO

Welcome...

...To the newish blog, you may notice the difference in URL, colours, and title... and hopefully after we get into the swing of things you may also notice the change of direction in post topics!

I have literally been non-stop lately, May and June are always busy months for me as I'm still at college, but this year especially as I am doing my exams to get into university. BIG important stuff!

I have recently rocked some hot outfits, but each time forgotten to take a picture for you all to see! I suck at this game!

Also I have some questions for you genius bloggers out there, if you could help me with a few answers that would be excellent!...

1. What programme do you use to edit your photographs?

2. How did you build up your large reading audience?

3. Any ideas or design ideas for my blog header? I can't seem to do one because I'm using only paint to create any header images.

...Any answers to those questions would be fabulous help!

My week this week was hectic, I had college 5 days, and then went out on wednesday night, got a tad drunk and paid for it the next day!

Here's a picture of me and my best friend:

Anyway what are you upto this Saturday? I have work again tonight! But before that I'm going on another date, which means yet another hot outfit to conjour up. I think I may be heading over to Bebelicious, Art of Jordan, and Chictopia for some inspiration!

Who and what inspires you for outfits?

Comment away guys, oh and it would be a great help if you could click the love, like or boring buttons below this post as it will give me a hint of whether this direction is going the right or wrong way!

Love to you all. XO

When celebs go hating...

According to MSN today, Lily Allen went on a rant about two of my fashion idols, Cheryl Cole and Victoria Beckham branding Cheryl as "stupid, superficial, as ugly outside as inside." and Victoria as a "monster".

Now, I'm no genius, but who is the one that goes around promoting themselves as superficial and a monster? Not the two WAGS thats for sure.

I don't dislike Lily Allen, but I do think that the woman goes around looking for fights, and loves to make enemies. And that my friends is NOT COOL. do you agree?

I thought I should represent Lily Allens personality with a picture. Funnily enough it is a picture of herself! The pic was taken at the Glamour Awards. Ok where shall I start? With the hideous bubblegum pink hair or that freakin awful dress????????? I'm sorry but who would design a dress with dying deer on it?! Some people are a bit twisted.

Anyway, have a lovely saturday :) XO

The greatest thing you'll ever learn...

...Is to love and be loved in return.

Moulin Rouge, an iconic film. With a beautiful message.

MOON FACES is changing!

After alot of soul searching, and racking my brains about the direction in which this blog is going in... I figured that what we need is a theme.

(Which right now we do not have....)

So I'm kinda gonna go with the theme of my old blog on which I just didn't care about what I was saying and spilled my guts to the world (ok not quite the world considering no one read it)... but anyway...

The new blog (this blog) is going to be changed to 'A Grey Pavement Regular' (URL will hopefully be something along the lines of greypavementregular.blogspot.com). The idea came from my love of Red Carpet Fashion Awards, I am not like any of those fabulous ladies featured on that blog, I do not have the money or the clothing to look that great, so furthermore inspired by Fashion Under $100 I decided I will make my new blog fashion-y, but at real prices, mixed with my Grey Pavement lifestyle, and what I aspire to achieve and become.

The new blog will be hitting your computer screens in the next week or so. I will become dedicated. And we will expand the blog. Whilst I am preparing everything however I will contine to upload my random shizz. So have no fear.

(I wish they did blogging tutorials or something... OOoo maybe they do. I will def have to look into that.)

Well lots of love. Alana Victoria. XO

I just...

...Signed up to CHICtopia.

It's going to be fun trying to keep up this little venture when I'm neglecting this blog as it is!

I dont have enough time in the day to do this let alone another project!

I have a busy month ahead of me whilst i'm revising for my exams so excuse me for a little while longer, once they are over this blog will rock, i promise.

For now your stuck with whenever it is possible.

I love this Sunset shot. Brighton beach always has the most gorgeous sunsets. :)

This quote is pretty cool. It reminds you to plough on. Your desire is yours. And worth every second spent desiring it.

This is the last shot I got that evening. I am not the best photographer (mainly because I am lacking equipment and time) but if I was then think how great this shot would have been.

Love to you all. I must sleep now. Sorry for the neglect I have been showing. XO