Date Day

For our fake-kissiversary (I see our anniversary as when we first kissed, Dima doesn't - so we get two!) me and Dima had a marathon date day. 

We started off for lunch in the most amazing place I have ever eaten - Barrafina - which deserves its own separate post, and made our way around London.

Dima felt like a second dessert, Asian style so we first stopped at Candy Cafe in Chinatown for some unusual treats. 

Dima very happy with his mango shaved ice and bubble tea!

^ What I can only really describe as a cold sugar explosion..

Whilst I settled for stealing his treats whilst sipping demurely on my white coffee - I have loved this coffee since Steph gave me a couple of packs on it and it's quite sad to go back to plain coffee :( 

We then strolled around Chinatown and came across a seemingly ordinary convenience store... but I spotted the birthday cake flavoured oreos in the window. 

It was a magical shop. 

THESE ARE INCREDIBLE. 

AS ARE THESE. The caps are out. 

Filled with mini pretzels, 'shortbread cookie' which is more like a mini shortbread, almonds and peanut m&ms, these made the perfect energising snack to run around London on. I demand all American treats come to London immediately! 

We were on a search for a board game (I love them and for once Dima was in the mood!) and ended up in the most crazy fan shop ever. Filled with comics and tv show memorabilia, it was quite surreal (Game of Thrones pendant for £100 anyone?!) but also quite (ssh) fun.  

It was quite freakily centred on Adventure Time, which may or may not be one of the weirdest cartoons you will ever see. 

We then pretty randomly ended up at the British Museum, which neither of us had ever been to before! It was beautiful, and huge. 

Then obviously it was time for ice cream. We stopped off at Selfriges, where there is a Magnum pop up where you can MAKE YOUR OWN magnum. Magnum is one of my favouritest ice creams in the woooorld so this made me very happy, even though I wasn't allowed one for myself because of the sugar highs and lows I had been on already that day. 

You pick your own topping - we went for coconut, sea salt and bits of gold but they had a huge range including goji berries, brownies, silver balls, honeycomb, mint pieces, edible flowers.. You choose three and they get a mini cocktail shakeabout to mix things up a bit. 

The next step is choosing which kind of ice cream  you want, Dima went for vanilla (why anyone would go for vanilla over caramel or chocolate is simply beyond my comprehension) and then choose the outer chocolate layer - white, normal or dark. Dima went for normal. If I had had it my way it would have been a chocolate on chocolate on chocolate magnum! 

The result was aaaaaaaaaaamazing. The best magnum I have ever had. I helped Dima finish his off, good girlfriend award :') 

Looking back I can't believe how much we managed to do in one day, and I haven't even told you about the main event yet... Barrafina's godliness. It was a fab day with a fab boy :) 

Summer nights

Haven't we been so lucky with the English weather lately - everyday has been up to 20 degrees and the sun has (mostly) been shining! I love summer evenings when it stays light until 10pm and everyone in London is smiling for once (above ground that is, the tubes can become pretty awful in the heat) - they call for BBQs! 

I found myself a handsome fellow and a working BBQ in his garden he wasn't aware of, and we set to cooking a feast!

I was on Pimms duty... I make it half lemonade, half pimms and a splash of elderflower - works brilliantly! ;)

This BBQ in particular ended with us all toasting marshmallows (or setting them on fire and blowing it out quickly) and stuffing them between two lebinz chocolate biscuits - perfectiooooon. 

We also had a baking afternoon, I made The Londoner's irish soda bread which is amazing and ridiculously easy to make..

but very difficult to not eat all in one go!

...it's healthy right??

Whilst Dima relived his past travel adventures and cooked Thai Pancakes which was a very laborious process, but oh so worth it. After making the dough, letting it set for half an hour, rolling out many extremely skinny pancake bases and cooking them quickly, you are 'supposed' to have them with condensed milk, banana and egg but I found that nutella, marshmallows and banana works much better. Nutella>everything. 

Here are a few other random snaps from the past week...

Sheltering from the summer showers!

Hippy hair at Asos - if only I could recreate this at home! 

Very cool flowers found in Mile End

Jelly shoes - so excited to wear these in Croatia! 

What have you been up to this Summer? xx

Work Lately

So since I came back from Cyprus I haven't exactly been partying the Summer away after better-than-I-could-have-imagined exam/degree results (69%!)... I've been working. Almost every day!

This has mostly been for Asos - who I am soooo excited to work for, everyone that works there is lovely and they really look after their models. But the sample sales are definitely the best thing about working there - literally heaven!





It was one of my super big modeling aims to work for Asos so I'm really pleased I got the chance to! :)

Another exciting thing was the Missguided campaign - it was one of the most fun shoots I've ever done!





Shooting in a giant London mansion complete with suncatcher garden and it's own pool, what's not to love? Especially when you get to play with inflatables and wear roller skates at the same time!





They also have a really cool video from behind the scenes on the day which you can find on the Missguided website.

Although it's a slightly unconventional summer, one of the best yet! Now I'm just waiting for Lisa to come back from hula-hulas in hawaii so we can go to Croatia and top up our tans :)

Cyprus - part two!

Before we were lazing about in the sun, dozing off in the sand and relaxing on lilos. This is where it gets a little bit more interesting, beginning with a casual jump of a cliff!

Cape Greko, inbetween Ayia Napa and Protaras is famous for it's breathtaking views and watching fools jump off this cliff. It's one of the scariest things I've done for a while! Me and Nicola went for the big jump (above - egged on by the crowd of guys behind us!) whereas Katherine and Jade settled for the slightly safer one below. 

Next up was the beautiful beaches of Protaras - and a casual bit of parasailing! 

If you are in Cyprus, definitely make a stop at the beaches in Protaras and Ayia Napa. Beautiful, clean water and sand - what more do you need? 

Nissi Beach (above) has foam parties and the best jacket potatoes ever. Me and Lisa used to come all the time and eat them, hungover from partying until sunrise the night before. 

^ This was apparently 'one' potatoe - we asked for one to share - amazing!

Now for Ayia Napa. We started with a classy dinner at Castelli (my favourite restaurant there, they have great food for wonderful value)...

Then with our food babies we headed out for a wild night of partaaaaaying

Ayia Napa is where me and Lisa basically grew up, out every weekend without fail - nostalgia! It was fun Cyprus, see you again soon xx