GOODBYE 2014, HELLO 2015.

My last post of 2014. Another year gone by. Here's to a hopefully awesome 2015. Happy New Year!!

image source

LOVE VANESSA xx

THE MUSIC POST | TOP 5 SONGS OF 2014

Can anyone tell there's a running theme in my last few posts? If not well I figured I'd do a list of favourite things of 2014. Here are my top 5 songs of 2014.

1. Thinking Out Loud - Ed Sheeran

2. Drowning - BANKS

3. Love Me Harder - Ariana Grande ft The Weeknd

4. Yours - Ella Henderson

5. Yellow Flicker Beat - Lorde

Whats your favourite song of 2014?

LOVE VANESSA xx

THE MOVIE POST | TOP 5 FILMS OF 2014

This year there have been some great movies out. Here are my top 5 films of 2014.

1. Guardians of the Galaxy

2. Only Lovers Left Alive

3. Captain America : The Winter Soldier

4. The Hunger Games : Mockingjay Part 1

5. Divergent

What were your favourite movies of 2014? 

LOVE VANESSA xx

TOP 10 POSTS ABOUT BLOGGING OF 2014

image source

Not all of us are well versed in the world of blogging and I am still learning about it all. Blogging advice posts are one ingenious way of getting quick tips for upping your blogging game. So I thought I'd share my top 10 blogging advice posts I've read from this year.

1. 21 Things I Have Learned From One Year Of Blogging

2. Blog Topics: Starting Your Blog

3. Blog Class: What An Editorial Calendar Is & What It Can Do For Your Blog

4. Getting Into Your Blogging Groove

5. Things To Bear In Mind When It Comes To Blogging

6. Blog Class: Six Ways To Beat A Blogging Block

7. When You Think You Don't Have Any Ideas Left

8.  Marketing for Bloggers: Useful Links

9. 20 Ideas For Blog Posts

10. Thoughts & Ways To Show Blog Love

If you have any more tips or links to blogging advice hit the comments below.

LOVE VANESSA xx

THE FASHION POST | CHRISTMAS & NEW YEARS PARTY OUTFIT IDEAS

It's that time of year again... Christmas & New Year is filled with family gatherings, work parties and going out on the town. When it comes to figuring out what to wear to these events it can be incredibly challenging. Here are just a few outfits to inspire.

Very have some great outfit ideas in their A/W '14 lookbook to help you along the way and they can all be ordered straight from their site it couldn't be easier.

For those tomboys out there you can't go wrong with a fitted suit.

Metallics are perfect for New Years Parties.

Go edgy with a faux leather dress.

Or for a more family appropriate outfit maybe this will give you some inspiration.

All images rights go to Very, no copyright infringement intended.

This post was written as part of the #VeryBloggers competition run by the awesome folk over at Very.co.uk. Do check out their amazing site.


LOVE VANESSA xx

QUOTES FOR MOTIVATION

We all love a good quote and I love motivational ones especially so here are a few.

source

source

source

source

“It's not because it's difficult that we don't try. 

It's because we don't try, it's difficult.” 

― Volksweisheitheit

Let me know in the comments your favourite motivational quotes.

LOVE VANESSA xx

UPDATE | IT'S BEEN A WHILE AGAIN...

It's been almost 6 months since I last wrote a post on here and during that time so much has happened. In August I had a marketing internship in one of the biggest publishing houses in the UK Random House. I then finished my MA in Publishing at the end of September. It's been a busy last few months of 2014 and I was just so unmotivated to blog. Which has happened before and I promised it wouldn't happen again but alas it has. 

I really lost interest in reading blogs which in turn meant I lost interest in writing on mine. 

I don't have that many followers compared to other bloggers out there and that doesn't bother me so much. I think when someone decides they're going to blog they enter the blogging world with so many hopes and more often than not it doesn't live up to your expectations. I've learned that while you may not gain a huge following overnight it takes a lot of hard work and tenacity to blog on a regular basis. I take my hat off to those of you who manage to do so. 

But anyway I'm rambling. I wanted this blog to be a place that I love and can write about whatever I want on it but it started to feel like a chore. That's not what blogging should be like. So I went on hiatus and concentrated on other things. But slowly I am coming back to blogging. I've been mostly active on bloglovin liking posts etc even if I haven't actually been blogging myself.

So here I am not making promises and blogging with no expectations. :)

LOVE VANESSA xx