Thursday 29 August 2013

Conversations in toilets

"When I compliment you, I compliment myself, because I am who I associate with.”   Jarod Kintz

 
You know when your world has gone mad when you are minding your own business, releasing your bladder in the toilets of the wine bar and from outside the locked door you hear, "Omg are you Laurina's mum?" Now granted the first thought that went through my head was oh no, who's that? and oh no, what have I done now.  But then for my mum to be like "yes that's me" (And I know mum was probably thinking the same as me,) and for the lovely Joanne to be like "I recognise you from her blog," was the funniest thing & most surrealist thing to me.  The fact I had to then casually walk out of the toilet & be like Hello!! It's lovely to meet you! Thank you for reading my blog, sorry let me just wash my hands before I shake yours!

 
I spent my lovely long bank holiday weekend up home visiting all my family that I hadn't seen in a while.  My little sister got amazing GSCE results so we were celebrating those as well.  I am still getting loads of wear out of all my birthday presents.  I love baseball tops at the minute, loved this look that I wore on Saturday night to the Mermaid Kitchen in Portrush.  My BFF zoe asked me what I craved the most for my birthday and I said that Connor had hunted high and low for a baseball top but couldn't get one.  Well that's gay cause they are in Primark for £3 was her reply. Probably the one place he didn't look but thanks to Zoe who then went and got me this one!
 
 
After my slight mishap with my work clothes recently, I have been really trying hard to dress up for work and wear as much of the sample pieces of the collections that we sell.  So now for weekends I just love dressing down.  I am fighting not to get back into my jeans until the last possible moment when my legs fall off from frostbite! But it's becoming harder and harder.  But then I think well technically you only have 4 months to go till you can shop again! And that man from the Waterboy pops up in my head, "You can do it!!"
 
 
But when I am off work, I am never truly off work.  On Monday, Mum, Carla and I made a mad dash to Derry/Londonderry! Derry seems to be the place to be this year! With it winning the City of Culture 2013, the amount of events happening in Derry is amazing!! For a week in September, they are holding a Culture Tech week with events through out the city! Check out the website, there is just too many to name! http://culturetech.co/
 
 
Myself and 2 other bloggers from Northern Ireland, Gemma-Louise from That Belfast Girl and Caroline from the Red Dutchess will be attending some of the events over the 9th of September to the 15th of September to tweet, take photos and blog our experience! In conjunction with Foyleside Shopping centre, we each will be modelling fab outfits from the centre at these events! More on that later!  





6 comments:

  1. Can't wait to hear all about the Derry trip - GL is up there today! Lol'ing at the toilet story...I always seem to meet readers when I'm looking particularly unstylish, like today after swimming with the kids - tracksuit bottoms and a raincoat #fail Ax

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    1. Aw Avril, it's that stomach dropping moment when your like oh no who is this person who knows me?!? Then it's like oh yeah I write a blog which randomly people actually read! Sometimes I forget it's not a secret diary! xx

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  2. lol great read Laurina, love your writing style! Love those baseball tops!!!

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    1. Thanks Caroline! I love them too, I seen other bloggers wearing them with pencil skirts! Going to try that next x

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  3. I loved the first time someone said to me 'Oh you are silverbrogues' - I think I was more excited than the girl I met!! Cute skater dress, love the idea you can wear from your work collection!

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    1. Yeah I can Rosanna but the problem is they are 3 sizes too big for me. I don't think my boss understands that it just doesn't look good at all. I've got bits & pieces like oversized jumpers & stuff but even I'm not that good at styling pieces!! x

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