Back for a week

So the easter holidays are over and it's back to Galashiels for a week. This post comes to you from a matress on the floor in a friends house, I'm kipping here tonight in order to make a 10am presentation slot tomorrow.

To describe the scene there are 5 of us, books everywhere, Britney Spears playing dully in the background to help drown out a constantly moving printer churning out pages and pages of tables and graphs and several cups of half drained coffee scattered around the room.

The cause of the commotion? A presentation and report on Production Management including testing methods, factory layouts and other fun things like SMVs and Line balancing. Who says fashion is easy eh?

To put it lightly, my trip to Tesco for a healthy dinner resulted in the purchase of two cans of red bull, a box of croissants and a concealer stick to cover the evidence of what is going to be a very poor nights sleep.

So in under 12 hours time I will be face-to-face with my lecturer trying to explain what it is exactly that I've been doing for the past two months whilst trying to sound enthusiastic and confident about a subject I'm honestly sick to the back teeth of.
It has never been an ambition of mine to control a factory, ensure my workers are paid enough and it deffinately isn't on my agenda to set up an AQL about how often I should be testing garments in mass manufacture.
51 pages my rambling has managed to get me and hopefully the work will be worth it!

At least I have this weekend to look forward to, me and some family and friends are off to a caravan site for a few days to let off some steam before I'm subjected to a 3 hour exam on the future of textiles.

Heres some of the fun stuff I'm dealing with!

Right laugh huh?

In the nude

Next week is my last week at University so I'm up to my neck writing my final report and trying to think of smart things to say when doing my collection presentation so it's no wonder my mind has started to drift off and think about my upcoming weekend away to Ayr.

Whilst we are only staying in a caravan park and are going to be with close friends there is a definite air of trouble as us 'kids' get a caravan together! Plus the promise of crazy golf and penny arcades makes my seven-year-old inner child squeal with anticipation!  Don't even start me on the alcohol filled nights we're due to have either...

So naturally I've had phone calls from my friend asking how 'dressy' I'll be going for the evening entertainment and disco (tribute band 'Spice' are playing so for at least one night I'll be dawning lycra and pigtails) and to be honest until a few days ago my holiday style was getting completely ignored but dawning deadlines and nights spent pored over scribbled notes I wrote many months ago have called for some immediate retail therapy purely just to stop myself from going insane!

Below is one such gem I have bought in the deadline desperation, purchased from the sale section of asos (whilst university is more or less over the remaining workload has halted overtime at work so my student  budget still applies) and I have to say I fell in love immediately!

I will admit that the search for this started off as a search for a satin, long sleeved maxi dress for a trip to London later this year but this was too pretty to ignore and will be ideal for my little weekend away! Whilst a kimono style sleeve has never been something that appeals to me this fabric makes it look a lot less 'old.' Plus the colour is to die for, admittedly a lot of my going out dresses fall into a category of black or navy so this is a nice change from my comfort zone and since it's getting to summer it's time to lighten up!

So that was just one of my 'exam blues' purchases, however this one was much better than my Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets game purchase that happened a few weeks back...next week I'll probably have bought something else a bit cooky to keep my spirits high!!

Gotta love the instant cheer a new dress brings at the end of term!