simple

evening all!

how are you today? i hope you had a nice day. today i spent the day with my little big sister janelle and we went to see bridesmaids. it was a really good film! had us both almost tearing up with laughter although i must admit the first half was funnier than the second and that it was a normal predictable chick flick. but if you love rom coms like i do then it's a definite summer see! :) 

janelle was being lazy this morning and left herself only 30 minutes to get ready (which if you know janelle is ridiculous because she usually takes 2-3 hours), nevertheless it took her 50 minutes but we had to sprint for the bus... as in, i had to take my wedges off and run for the bus barefoot. not good. but feet can be scrubbed and scrubbed they were! 

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today i decided to wear something simple, seen as i only had 10 minutes to get dressed (i was being lazy too :P). it's been a warm but breezy day today so this is what i decided to wear:

lace top - h&m. as seen in previously.

soft jeans- hollister. as seen previously.

wedges-office. belt-topshop.

bag-topshop.

so as you can see, nothing new here :) just simple things paired to make a fantastically summery outfit. i really love the pattern on my lace top because it's flowery and you can make the flowers out.

these are my new wedges! as you probably saw when i wore them on leaver's day. they're actually so comfortable, literally like walking in flats and now they've gone down to £12 in the sale so wida if you're reading this, go get them!

these are one of my pairs of "go-to" trousers (along with my "go-to bag). what i mean by that is they're perfect for any and every occasion. i call them soft jeans because i don't like the term "jegging" :P, but if you're going for a pair of jeggings then i'd definitely suggest hollister.

all in all, i really like this outfit, it's simple like my last one but it's definitely one for summer.  

as you can see from this picture, i wear too much sun cream :P but that's just me. 

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also, one last quick thing today, siobhan's lovely boyfriend aaron is running the london asics 10k on july 10 (possibly in a dress or spongebob boxers) to raise money for the combat stress charity which specializes in the treatment of service-related mental illness. the charity and aaron are grateful for whatever you can give, even if it's just a pound so head to aaron's just giving page - http://www.justgiving.com/Aaron-Nunkoosing/ and share some love :)

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i hope you enjoyed this bright post! have a fabulous week! ronan xxx

diy's and simple for sun

good afternoon everyone!

hope you've had fab weekends and if you're in england, been enjoying the gorgeous weather we've been having! i've also had quite an exciting morning with sorting the dirty blonde photoshoot which is on thursday, and i've also been contacted by the lovely amy who wanted to know whether i'd be willing to make and sell  tees and vest tops similar to the ones i gave away to which i said yes! so if anyone else wants me to handmake them a unique top with a design of their (or my) choice then contact me at ronan.mckenzie@yahoo.co.uk and i'll charge £10 for each one. 

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i also spent today doing a little bit of diy-ing so i'm going to show you what i made, also what i wore yesterday to go to see my friend, and also what siobhan's wearing today! first, here are my diys!

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1. sesame street tee-originally from american apparel

i never wear this tee and found it shoved at the back of my wardrobe. 

i've seen shredded style tees in vintage shops and even more high street shops more recently and i've always sort of liked the style but never found a pattern or design that i like enough to pay for. 

as you can see, i've clearly done it myself because it looks well and truly shredded haha :P but i had fun doing it and i know that noone else has one like this. 

although i shredded the front, i decided to leave the back of the tee as it is because for the sole reason that when i wear this, if i take the train or the bus, i hate having bare skin on public transport so i left the back on :P and i guess also so that it's sort of a backwards mullet - business at the back, party at the front ;)

i also cut the neckline and sleeves because the neck was a little restrictive, especially with my masses of hair and i just thought i might as well cut the arms too.

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2. send my friend tee-given to me by the "send my friend" organisation when i visited ghana as an ambassador for the global campaign for education.

this is the t shirt before. i've only worn it once in a promotional video you might want to check out here (click play video). it's also got more about my journey in ghana and working towards education for all if you're interested in that.

i shredded it! i also decided to shred this to funk it up a bit and make it perfect for summer. what i like about it is that it's wearable with almost anything ie. shorts, a bodycon skirt, jeans, leggings etc.

i decided to keep the back on this one for exactly the same reason, although on this i cut the seam up the side so it's open but still has sleeves which i think is really cool. 

i think this is now a cool top for summer but i can also promote the send my sister to school charity at the send time- win win!

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here's what i wore yesterday, just something simple for a boiling day without having to do my legs:

cotton chinos- topshop, vest top- from an old pajama set

plaited belt- topshop

i love this outfit because although simple, it's comfortable and lightweight, absolutely great for just a simple day out in the sun.

what i was trying to show in these photos is how flexible my trousers are. i can touch the floor in them so that shows something haha!

i decided to wear this vest top because it was simple and plain which is what i was going for. it was in my pajama box but i thought "what the heck" and wore it out anyway. i like this outfit because it shows that plain doesn't always mean boring :)

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and finally, here's what siobhan was wearing today, i just liked it.

matching shoes! siobhan loves them too because they're supercomfy :)

similar to something siobhan was seen wearing in a previous post, but i really love the way she's wraped the white shirt around the leopard print to give the whole outfit a great summer look :)

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so! i hope you have a really fab week, and enjoyed reading today's post :) i'll be spending this evening cooking chorizo stuffed chicken breast, baking cake and watching made in chelsea the finale! ronan xxx

leavers

helloo!

just a short post from me today as i've been put on cooking duty and my rice is ready soon! sorry i haven't blogged all week, my internet's been absolutely rubbish and now i've hijacked my dad's wifi :P so i hope you've all had a really lovely week! 

today i helped out at the a fashion event behind the bar which was super fun i actually really enjoyed it! when i'm 18 i think might try and get a part time bar job because i actually really enjoyed making cocktails and serving drinks. the good looking barman was a plus too :P also this week, i had my school leaver's day, which is sort of a final goodbye to my school, although i'm sure i'll see everyone again :)

i thought i'd just share a few photos and memories with you, i hope you enjoy.

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just quickly, this is what i wore today :)

i didn't think of taking pictures while i was wearing it, but black high waisted shorts and striped top - topshop.

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leavers 2006-2011

keisha looking stunningly glam as per usual. keisha got the "smarties" award which she had to for being the clever cloggs that she is. it was either that or some sort of most glamorous or most organised person award. keisha has a mary popping bag!

siobhan made my leaver's dress especially and it's exactly what i hoped for and more! love it so much thanks von.

dodie i've known since we were tiddly and did ballet together so we've been friends for about 11 years and i hope we're friends for years to come :) even if just so i can nick the jumpsuit she's wearing :P

leda and i have had quite a few ups and downs but even though she's a ginger nut (hahaha) she's a really lovely person who's wearing a really lovely dress :)

here is where i start being a head taller than everyone else :P

kimmy has had so many different hair colours in the last few months and has now settles on ginger for a while haha, best shopping buddy and eliza doolittle fanatic! now kim's got a job and is minted so i'll be expecting my lunch out soon! 

anissa as seen in a recent posthttp://ronanronanronan.blogspot.com/2011/06/anissa.html. anissa and i always have such a jokes time, for example once we went ice skating on a day off so technically it was during school time. and because it was in the morning there was noone there so first we had to do "the old knock and wait" hahaha and then once we got in, we realised it was the oap skating time... never again will we go at 11am. 

sasha has amazing style too, and we also used to go ice skating together every week when we both did figure skating lessons (and sash kicked me with a skate on for pointing out how tiny she is:P). we were also in the same ict class where i beat her at numerous games of bmtron (snake) haha, we will be friends for a long time i'm sure!

this is mrs bennet, well, now her name isn't mrs bennet because she got married and had a beautiful wedding in croatia! she showed me all the photos :P she's also the lady who encouraged me to start athletics training and made me promise to invite her to my competitions! 

also notice in this photo, keisha's fabulous clutch bag and matching jewellery, when i'm holding my aero's and certificated haha!

tiny maryam who never texts me! she's been in my form since year  but we only started talking when we were put together in science in year 10 and we just hit it off. an unlikely pair maybe but maryam's one of the loveliest girls ever and when she gets credit she better text me!

i've always been friends with jaisea and her gorgeous hair since year 7, when we used to have long extensive talks which have turned into long bitches (not gonna lie :P), long teary conversations and long job searches together! and i'm sure jaisea will still be diving at me for hugs in years to come :) 

this is my tiny irish hamster head of hear mr marley, known for his accent and long boring assemblies about exams haha. but mr marley's the kind of teacher who you can always turn to like when i stormed into his office ready to kill ms anderson for confiscating my earrings. i'm sure i'll see him around, walking his tiny kiddlywinks to nursery or in sainsbury's (cringe). 

this is grace, who hundreds of people have confused me with over the years! apparently, grace and i are identical which neither of us have ever seen haha. in fact my friend josh insisted on calling me grace 2 for about a year, and some randomer added me on facebook thinking i was grace (even though my name is clearly stated :S). nevertheless, apart from grace's laziness and flappy armed running (hahaha!) she's a really great person who i'll always know.

citcat (kitkat) and i met at the beginning of year 10 in art, where i sort of adopted her as my pet haha because she has the softest hair ever! and is so so cute, and tiny as you can see. the reason her name "citcat" is spelt with a c, is because for aaaaages i thought her name (catrina) was spelt with a k, and she insisted that her nickname was spelt with a c too. this was a special occasion because citcat's always got her hair tied in the tiniest little bun, and she straightened is specially :D

cathy was in my music class, well.. our music class consisted of cracking jokes at our overgrown baguette looking teacher and moaning about any work we were given. cathy's also been through many different hair colours and once got internally excluded for dying her hair bright pink and refusing to die it :P she wants to be a lawyer, and i'm sure she'll do well because once mr burstow tried to confiscate her magazine in music, and she squealed "no!" at him every time he tried to pull it until she managed to get it into her bag. hahaha good times. 

elysia! my athletics buddy, which reminds me i must send her photos of us at athletics in year 9 when her hair was blonde :P. funny story actually (please don't kill me elysia!) but in year 9 we were at an athletics competition and we were sitting on a hill by the track while some boys were running around and elysia yelled "ooh look there's a fit one" so we ran upto the track to find that the fit boy was a really ratty, scrawny, bright red year 8 boy hahahaha. i'll never let her hear the end of that! 

amna and i have walked to school together for 4 years (with leda and rhiannon also) and for most of it we spent taking the mic out of each other which was absolutely hilarious! well.. more me taking the mic out of amna :P but still, i remember this one time when we were in the corner shop and amna (being half german) put on this highly annoying german accent and repeated "ronan can you pass me the wotsits" about 100 times before i turned around and screamed "nooooooo" and we both burst out laughing. which resulted in me getting amna a packet of wotsits for her birthday last year haha! we've had so many jokes and i'm sure we have loads to come!

hannah and i never really spoke that much during school, but whenever we were together we could never stop laughing! last weekend we were on a camping trip together which resulted in hours and hours of cruel-ish jokes which are our specialty ;) it's a shame that hannah and i only really became good friends near the end of school, but i'm sure it'll last and there will be lots more cruel-ish jokes in the future!

funny story with rukaiya and i, in year 7 we were good friends, well.. i let her copy all my science work and get merits for it! then i'm not sure what really happened but we were really rude to each other for 2 years, then in year 10 we decided to quit it and become friends haha! which i'm glad of because we've had 2 years of hilarious english lessons which i'll sorely miss :( but i know we'll stay friends!

similarly i'm sure apryll and i will stay friends, we've only really become good friends since year 10. but we've spent hours together taking as long as we can to get things out of lockers and lul about before our boring english and science lessons! we also have an understanding about bad weave... which will definitely not stop because school's finished! :)

this is the class photo that my form got put on a cushion for out form tutor :) this is 11w, 2006-2011. we really are the best form winning every competition and event that's happened, and just being amazing in general! do you guys remember ms dunning in drama? she stank and made us pretend to be melting candles. and do you remember when madame temps yelled at us and none of us could stop laughing?

we've all become really close and i hope that it's not the end :) 

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i really hope you've enjoyed reading a little about my school experience, ronan xxx

recent purchases

hello everyone! hope you're all very well today!

first day of summer and the first time we've had sunshine in ages! nevertheless, apart from going for a run with my little big sis janelle, i spent my day sorting out my wardrobe and putting into it all the new clothes i've bought recently. i've learnt that if you're trying to fit more clothes onto one hanger (there's like 2 things in my wardrobe that have a hanger each :P) for example skirts. hang the skirts upside down and more of them fit on! try it ;) oh also today i went to the post office to post my giveaway winners items! so they should be with you soon :)

today i decided to show you all my recent purchases! long overdue but i was waiting for h&m to deliver some stuff and it finally came!

technically i didn't buy this because my sister is amazing :P bodysuits by siobhan. available from her website in various designs and patterns. supercomfortable and perfect for summer with pretty much anything!

pink and blue bodycon skirts - h&m. janelle bought these a while back and she never ever wears them! so i decided to take them off her hands free of charge ;)

wedges- office. siobhan bought a pair of these and i fell in love with them so she kindly bought me a pair as well :D they're so comfortable and light because of their espadrille sole but also a love nautical design in the great british colours-perfect. 

haha look at my toe in this one :P 

trousers - vera moda at asos. 

i really wanted a pair of chino-ey type trousers for a while but i couldn't find any that i really liked until i came across this pair and i instantly liked them. they were only £28 so pretty good for trousers and you can feel the quality in the fabric, they're really soft as well and quite different to most other pairs i've seen. 

vintage skirt - dirty blonde

i found this little beauty in this fab little vintage store on brick lane. the fabric is almost chiffon with a purple underlayer and i hadn't seen anything like it before. i love the colours and i knew i definitely needed it for my summer wardrobe!

also, the man in dirty blonde actually asked me to model for the dirty blonde asos shop which will be really good fun so i'll let you know what happens there! :)

plain black bodycon skirt - h&m

a girl can never have too many bodycon skirts was my reasonings for buying this. i have a similar one in navy blue and a frilly one in black but i didn't have plain black. i thought it would be good for college and more formal things and for £3.99 i thought it was quite a good deal! 

vintage levi's-the vintage store.

i love the really vintage look to these, the acid wash black really does it for me and i saw them when i was poor, so had to go back for them! i noticed my bum looks so weird in this photo, (i'm at a weird angle i promise!) it looks like it's been photoshopped :S but try and ignore it and look at the beauty of the shorts haha :P

i noticed when i was flicking through my photos that it looked like i was walking so i decided to make this little animationy thing for you. pretty cool i think! don't ignore little piana in the background though ;)

playsuit - h&m

apart from taking 3 weeks to be delivered (and i paid £4 for delivery!) i was really pleased when i received my new playsuit! it's really cute and i love the pattern. very comfy and the material is soft - bonus!

dress - h&m

i love the pattern on it, there were 3 different designs and these dresses sold out in literally minutes when they went down in the same to £3.99! the gorgeous fritha louise from the fish tank, has the yellow version of it - check it out.

initially i wanted the yellow version but it sold out, so i decided to go for this white flowery version instead and i'm really glad i did because it's lovely. it's really lightweight and i like that it's really floaty.

baseball jacket - rokit 

i've been wanting baseball jacket for ages but i wanted to get one that no-one else would have and also that had proper leather sleeves!

then, i found this diamond tucked away at the back of rokit, priced only at £25! i wanted one that had an r on it but i couldn't find one so i decided to go for this one, which won me other with the amazing exclamation mark on the back. once i put it on and i felt the silky soft lining i knew i had to have it, and although it might be a little warm for summer, i know i'll wear it all year round ;)

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and there you have my recent buys! i'm sure i'll probably have more to add to this :P but for now, i hope you've enjoyed reading and have a lovely week! ronan xxx