Key West

Hello from Key West! I'm currently in Florida visiting my Auntie, Uncle and Cousins who live here (I know, they are so lucky!!) It's been super hot and sunny so I've been making sure to apply the factor 50 and sit in the shade because I burn easily!
Yesterday my Auntie and Uncle had work so my Mom and I headed out for a girly day and to do some sight seeing. First up we visited the house that Ernest Hemingway lived in while he was a Key West resident.

It's probably quite bad that I've done an English Literature degree and have only ever read 'The Old Man and the Sea' by Hemingway, but it was still very interesting to learn about his life in Key West, and the house was beautiful.

In the house live 45 cats, all descendants from Hemingway's own cats, and many of them have 6 toes, just like their ancestors who were Hemingway's pets also did. They were so cute and out guide fed them lots of treats! The photo directly above is of Hemingway's studio, where he wrote many of his most famous works. 

After visiting Hemingway's home, we walked over to my Auntie and Uncle's guesthouse, The Artist House. It's such a beautiful building with it's lilac shutters, so my mom was kind enough to snap a few outfit photos for me.

The hat is practically glued to my head at the moment, I am in love with the colour! The dress is one I bought from a shop in Aberystwyth years ago and the shoes are a battered but very comfy pair from New Look.

Me with my beautiful Mom.

I can't get enough of the colour scheme of the building, it's so pretty!!!

I know these aren't very good photos but I just wanted to show these cakes from the bakery opposite the Artist House, aren't they just incredible?





And this was the amazing salad I had with peanut sauce and spicy thai sauce along with a big portion of chips. A lot of my chips were already eaten by the time I took this photo! American food is just amazing!!!

And a more than honorable mention goes to Bones the dog, for just being the sweetest dog ever!!!  My cousin and I took him for a walk along the pier the other day, and here he is looking gorgeous! 

Much Love

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When I Grow Up

I am definitely in love with mustard yellow at the moment! I picked up this skirt for £6 from Traid in Clapham a couple of days ago, I just love how bright the colour is!!! The shirt is one I bought a couple of years ago from a charity shop, but I really liked the way it clashed with the skirt, i was feeling very bright for some reason!!! And the tights were an Ebay purchase. I wore this outfit to go and watch Matilda the Musical. I cannot recommend the show enough, it was so energetic, hilarious and enchantingly beautiful all at the same time. The children in it were so wonderfully talented and it was really inspiring to watch as someone who is currently auditioning for an acting course! 'When I Grow Up' was one of the many beautiful songs in the show, and I absolutely loved the swings!!! If you ever get a chance to go and see it, do not hesitate!!!!

 

Much love

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Of Peace, Quiet and Monsters

I've finished my degree!!!! It's a really lovely feeling to know I never have to write any essays again, but it's also a pretty sad and confusing time. It feels like the end of an era and now I don't know what to do in the next chapter of my life. I've had a bit of a love/hate relationship with University and generally living in London, but I feel very underwhelmed and down at the moment while trying to decide whether to live in London next year or move back home for a bit (if I don't get onto the Post-Graduate course I've applied for anyway).

Anyway, on to more positive things. This dress is an Ebay bargain that I fell in love with on one of my many procrastination sessions (another dress that my ebay procrastinating generated will be appearing on this blog very soon too!) I won the auction while I was in the library and it took all of my strength not to squeal in delight! It's a vintage dress from the 1950s, and although it is a children's dress, I'm fairly child-sized anyway and I really like the fit of it. This hat is definitely going to be a summer staple for me. I'm terrible with having my face in the sun as I'm quite pale, so the wide brim is perfect. On a less practical side, the mustard yellow colour is absolutely amazing and I love the big bow on it!!! It cost me £4 from a charity shop in Peckham so it wasn't too pricey either. My brogues are my favourite pair from Clarks and the bag is a cute one I picked up for £3 from a charity shop in Wolverhampton yesterday.  Anyway, I would love to know what everyone else's plans are for summer and maybe even further into the future than that, maybe you can inspire me with something to do with my life haha! Loads of love, 

 Jodi Pops 

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Just to say

Hello everyone!

I hope that you are all well and enjoying the spring!!

I just wanted to do a quick post to say hello and explain why I probably won't be able to post again till next month. I am currently in the final stages of my degree so at the moment I'm spending 14 hour days in the library trying to get everything ready for my final hand ins, which unfortunately doesn't give me much chance to take outfit photos!!!!! I am handing my dissertation in today, and then I am left to work on the rest of my essays which are in on 1st May, and then I am done!
I really miss blogging and I have plenty of ideas for posts lined up once I have finished, so I'd just like to take this opportunity to say thank you to everyone for bearing with me through my rather sporadic posting over this last few months.

In other news, I've just set up a Twitter account for this blog, so I would absolutely love it if you fancied following me on there, it's @Jodipopsblog. 

Also, I'd just like to say a quick thank you to the wonderful Becky Bedbug for mentioning me in her Friday Favourites post. If you don't already know about her blog, go check it out, she is a total babe!

Anyway, thank you for reading, I will hopefully see you all after the 2nd of May if I manage to survive my final days of 3rd year!!!!

Loads of Love,

Jodi Pops

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