the guide book.

(image from here)

AS you may know by now, I'm off to Los Angeles. What you may not know however is that I am off to L.A in 7hours! I have to be up to leave for the airport in only 2hours however I haven't even had a wink of sleep yet! I'm too excited what can I say?!

So after all of my scouting around trying to find the best places to go/see/visit whilst I would be in the city I thought I would compile a list of all the things I plan on doing whilst I'm there.

The venues were all suggested to me by lovely ladies (Erinn, Emily & Lisa) currently residing in LA, so you know that the spots will be hot, hot, hot. Enjoy lovelies.

the coolest places to eat in LA:

*cliffsedge.

*pinks. ((via lisa's likes))

breakfast

*the griddle cafe.

*grub.

lunch

*toast bakery cafe.

*sur.

*clementine's.

dinner

*pizzeria mozza.

*sasabune (sushi) ((all via Cupcakes and Cashmere))

the best places to shop in LA:

*milk. boutique on third street

*opening ceremony.

*intuition.

*madison. ((all via Cupcakes and Cashmere))

*planet blue ((via Cupcakes and Cashmere && Lisa's Likes- Double seal of approval!))

*the grove. ((via Lisa's Likes))

the hottest spots to bathe in LA:

*zuma beach. ((via Living and Loving in LA))

*manhattan beach ((via Lisa's Likes))

pretty places to visit in LA:

museums

*LACMA

*MOCA

*the getty

other bits and bobs

*farmers market ((all via Lisa's Likes))

Next time you visit LA I hope you plan on visiting these amazing spots.

I'm off now, have alot to do before I jet off.

I'm going to be twittering alot, so follow me to see what I'm upto all the time. I'll be popping in from time to time also, comments and emails will be muchly appreciated.

Goodbye lovelies. Have a fabulous 2 weeks ;)

SMILE. Because its the only vacation I'm getting this year and I'm so god dam excited!

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I missed you lots.

So after a long long week, and a break from blogging, as of today I'm BACK! To blog blog away.

A quick recap of whats being going on in my life....

• I had a pretty hair cut.
• Been busy organising the fashion show for the Phillip Green Memorial Trust, wow its hard work!
• I went to Oxford Street, London and hit Topshop. Yummy.
• My mum went on holiday and is now back, so I can once again eat nutritional meals. Phew.
• Jazzy got her new Beetle, its called Bam Bam! So we've been driving around in that.
• I got tonnes of new clothes so I've had lots of fun this week having soooo much choice! LOVE. Some outfit posts may well follow. So keep your eyes peeled!
• I went to see BRUNO, THE HANGOVER and HARRY POTTER. Good films!

Here are some pics from the week... i'll post some of my big night out later! :)

This awesome tattoo is my friends sisters, I love leopard print so I completely fell in love with it, however I'm not sure I'd ever get it done!

This is my friend from work Shane and I, we went out for a few drinks one night, and I got a bit tipsy. Hence why I look so phased haha. Good times.

My 'evil' eyes. And Jazz being a child again with the hair dryer hehe. Wow we need to grow up. 18 and very immature.

Love to you all, I'll be catching up on other blogs later. I'm sure I've missed lots and lots!!! Hope your all SMILING :) XOOOO

Sorry.

I am so sorry that I have been so incredbly lame and not posted for a few days, it has been very hectic for me....

-weds: a spot of shopping early AM, then revision all day at the LRC (college library), and then BRITNEY (who was fab-even though she didn't sing live)

-thurs: Revision all day at the LRC, then out with a gal pal for a few drinks

-fri: Revision all day at the LRC, then work in the evening.

-plans for today: to update you lovelies with some happy happenings (such as my new purchases), revise some more (I'm retaking an exam on World War I literature, it's truely fascinating), see the friendboy and then work again tonight. Tomorrow no doubt will probably just be all revision. BOOOOOO.

Right now I'm just looking at car insurance and BLOOODY BLIMEY! It's so expensive, I currently pay a ridiculous amount a month, but once I have my own car I will be paying an even more ridiculous amount, which quite frankly I cannot afford.

Oh isn't life even more interesting when you don't have a lot of money.

Well anyways, I shall be uploading some pics of my crapola cam later and shall post them for you, if you don't read this post then I do not blame you- a post with out pics, how dull of me.

SMILE :)

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

mankinis

I just tried to upload you lovelies some pics of a project that I did, I bought this floral dress from a charity shop and altered it to make it lovelyyyyyy and floraly for me to wear.

However the images aren't uploading so I shall attempt it again tomorrow.

I have also decided that I am not very good at this blogging shizz, however, I shall persist and make myself succeed. (Guys my own pictures that I am uploading always come up extremely small, how do I make them larger?)

Sweetest dreams to you all.

XO

P.S I just watched BORAT. The best film in the world!

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P.P.S One of the most beautiful and stylish women I have ever seen, over at this cool website Chictopia.

coming up...

...on moonfaces we have some hot summer outfits, inspired by the three girls from yesterday's post, a look at Mischa Barton's style at high street prices, some hot summer handbags, and some of the prettiest places to visit this summer.

As you can tell moonfaces is about to turn summery, this is due to the nice hot weather we are getting in England at the moment, which I happily welcome :)

Love to you all.
XO

another one of those busy busy weekends

Sorry I haven't blog that much lately, again it was a hectic weekend.
I can't guarantee you that this week there will be a lot more bloggy bloggy with some extra special posts to make it upto you.

Sorry again.
XO

P.S don't you just hate it when things don't go to plan after a lot of hard work into organizing something?
I have a similar story to share with you later.
Stay tuned.
XO

P.P.S if you have those monday blues again then I have a great post coming up all about how to get inspired to get you through spring and into those beautiful summer months.
XO