Hi Hi Hi… how are you my lovelies? Thank you for
dropping by and hope you have had a very Merry Christmas!
Well it’s been such a long time, this blog was originally created as part of a module course to document my Masters progress but I enjoyed
blogging and I decided that I will continue with it so here I am to round up
the year and get you up to date before the New Year starts. So a lot has happened
and time flew by in a flash, where shall I start?
Ok so I left of in May, let’s start from May… this
is going to be a long post so be prepared, sit back and have a cuppa…
May 2015
Well I finished the course and had the fashion show,
enjoyed it so much I feel like it was one of my best collections I have done. Unfortunately I
didn’t manage to get any images from the fashion show as I was back stage. But don’t worry
I will be shooting a photoshoot of the outfits in the coming month. Hopefully in
the new year… Currently arranging and organizing with models and photographers
so I will definitely be posting to show you on here. Alongside this collection I will also be shooting
my BA collection as I don’t have any images for that too. On completion of my module I wrote an evaluation for the Minions collection and I had explained
what I did, if it went wrong and how I felt about each garment so be sure to
come back and check it out and give me some feedback on what you think too. Any
sort of feedback is appreciated…. :)
Ok so moving on…
June 2015
As soon as Uni was done I had to go back to work
full time as staff started to leave and I ended up working 6 days a week. I felt
so tired everyday all I did was work and sleep... there was nothing exciting
even on the 1 day of I had, I ended up sleeping or watching Korean dramas.
I did attend the New Designers at the Business
Centre in London on 24th June. The New Designers is an exhibition to
showcase new graduate portfolios and their final pieces, awards are given and it is an opportunity for the industry to spot your work. I found that most of the work exhibited was
mainly textiles and print or jewellery, there was hardly any clothing designers. Although it was nice to see all the fellow graduates’ hard work the overall exhibition wasn’t
what I thought it was, to help us into the production or design industry.
July 2015
July was a life changing month! I had LASER EYE
SURGERY!! Yes I did it! I have always wanted to get laser eye treatment but I never
knew it would be so soon. Before the surgery I was looking into it for a long
time and never found any in depth detail about it like the after effects, what
to expect and during the process. Mainly good reviews and how many per cent
they were satisfied with the result. So I decided that I will be writing a post
on what I went through and how the surgery went, costs and effects in a
different post… stay tuned…
August 2015
Back to work and more and more staff are leaving, some
went on holiday and some resigned. It got to the point where there was not
enough staff to work so I had to close the shop for a week. At the same time
three other Take away stores had closed for holiday so all their customers came
to us. We was low on staff already and it got so busy it was a good choice to
close, I know that the business will be racking in sales since the other
takeaways in the area have closed but it was too much for us to handle so we
decided to take a break.
During our break we decided to visit Amsterdam it
was a good experience, I went with my two siblings and dad. It was a short
break but we all needed it, we went via ferry as we had never experienced
traveling on a ferry. The first night we was on the ferry, second and third night at the Novotel hotel in Amsterdam and then the final night back on the ferry to make our way back. It
was fun and we all enjoyed it, in fact my brother vlog the trip. Check out his youtube channel here and don’t forget to subscribe.
Selfie of selfies and a photo bomber :)
September 2015
1st September I attended a beautiful wedding… it was
the Chinese banquet and the whole restaurant was filled with people, the vibe
was amazing the bride and groom was beautiful. It must have been exhausting and
stressful to be able to pull together a celebration that big!
Congratulations again Esmond & Harriet Fong
Thank you for inviting me and my family to celebrate
your special day.
The new IPhone came out! I got the ROSE GOLD IPhone
6S!! I have had the IPhone 4 for almost 4 years and I have finally changed. The
IPhone 4 was still working fine and it would probably still be going for a
while but because it was a 8GB I couldn’t store any more on it and it got
really slow. Sometimes I had to wait about a minute just to unlock the home
screen, so it was time to move on… since knowing that the IPhone was definitely reliable and last such a long time I stuck with Apple. This time I got the 64GB
and hopefully it would last as long or even longer, after all it did cost £619
and I am sure I will make the most it.
His and Hers Iphone 4 and 6S
October 2015
A friend from Malaysia, Esther came to visit so I took
her to Aberdeen for a few days with the younger siblings; it took me 6 hours to
drive up and 7 hours back. I have never driven so far before, and it has now given
me so much confidence in driving. I am now ready for my USA road trip! (Something
on my bucket list) it was a nice little get away, loads of walking and exploring.
November 2015
I continued working full time until the week before
my birthday where I finally got away from the Take away. I celebrated my
birthday with my close friends and siblings, we went to a teppanyaki restaurant
and had our meal cook in front of us, it was so much to watch. My lovely
friends and family bought me so much stuff here are some of them.
We then went to Spinningfields for drinks but it was
pretty expensive and we felt like it was getting boring after sitting there for some time sipping our
cocktails. We then decided to go to K2 karaoke it was so much fun, having your
own room to sing, drink and play drinking games. It was so much cheaper aswell a cocktail costed £8… and at K2 it was £24 per person for 3 hours and you could order up to £24 with of food and drinks.
December 2015
December came rushing in and out its ended so
quickly I don’t even remember what happened and we are still in December. ..
hmm ok so I went to the Clotheshow Live in NEC Birmingham on the 4th it was the first show and
first day of the exhibition. I haven’t been since 2010 it used to be so fun
with all the freebies and the fashion show. Despite friends telling me that it's rubbish I went alone and the first stop was
the fashion show I was pretty impressed and enjoyed it… I did pay for the platinum ticket which was £35.70 (student price) but to my disappointment it was defiantly
not worth it. The only thing I got different was a free goody bag, the goody
bag used to be filled with lots of different interesting product and even a t
shirt. But this year there was hardly anything in it mainly leaflets and a few
random bits for example a chocolate bar, a hot chocolate sachet, a sanitary
towel, a lip balm, femwash and some shampoo sachets.
There was some other goodybags like Models Own and
Barry M but it was £10 for each goody bag. Models Own was the best you could
pick up to 4 nail polish of your own choice and it had some beauty essentials. The
Barry M goodybag had 6 nail polishs, a small make up bag, eyeshadows, lipstick
and eye pencil but all of random colours.
Christmas came by and left us quickly, I celebrated with my family and had lots of catching up, ate lots of food and got loads of presents…
Merry Christmas xx
Enjoy the rest of 2015…
Have you actually read this whole post?? Thank you
so much for all your support....
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Rachael xx
