University room year three

As I've finally had time to get round to it (yes, I've been very absent over summer) I thought I would do another blogpost showing you the ins and outs of my university bedroom. For the past three years I have done a post including pictures and bits and bobs inside my room to give anyone some inspiration  about how to style a uni room. Or, if you're just nosy, like me it's always nice to have a look inside people's bedrooms.

I put a lot of effort into decorating my room each September as I feel that it's nice to have a area where you can chill and feel relaxed when you are doing your work or just laying about. I like my room to feel cute and homely and just a sweet place to be so I am always collecting little trinkets and odd bits to put in it. 

This year my room is up in the attic, right at the top of the house. It's been weird having to get used to the sloped ceilings but I think they actually add to the cosiness of my room. 

Most of the items in my room will be mentioned in the previous years blogposts which I will leave below, anything that is new I will leave details about here. So this is my bed, I love how it is next to the sloped ceiling as it gives it a nice tucked in feel. I struggled to find space to hang too many pictures because of all the low walls but I hung a picture above my bed and a dream catcher which I bought when I was on holiday. I hung some bunting to the ceiling which I think gives the room a bit of a festival feel to it.

As I had a lot of floor space this year I got a rag rug from John Lewis for about £20 and I love it, it really fills out the room and adds lots of bright colours! 

When I first moved into my room I had too many bits and bobs which made my room look untidy and cluttered. I went to ikea and got this fab storage shelf for £20, it's great for shoving all those bits and bobs you have no where to put! 

I also love the blue insert drawers which were £2.50 which add a pop of colour to your bedroom! On top of these shelves I love to put candles which make your room look really pretty at nighttime! 

Here is my very cluttered desk but you get the idea, I like to get lots of colourful bits to make a dull room seem a bit more lively. I also added some fairy lights  to my pin board to brighten it up.

I just have a very simple plain mirror which is hung up on the wall, and around it I have some sweet little flowers which were from Amazon just to add a more girly touch. 

I also added some more fairy lights which were £5 from tesco home. I got them in spaceships theme as I thought this would look super cute at night time with the sky window.

Lastly, my favourite part of the room is this little right hand corner where I just put lots of ornaments and bits and bobs. 

I love this turquoise blue colour as I think it's bright but calming at the same time. I have three little tea light holders from Tiger, and a cute teacup and teapot set from Marks and Spencer's. I also bought a vintage style clock from ikea and filled a Amazon jar with some fairy lights.

I think it looks very relaxing and cosy when I'm tucked up in bed with all my candles and lights on!

 Finally, I made a little display of polaroids hanging above the chest of drawers, I purchased some heart shaped pegs and just attached them with string to give it much more homely feel!

Thank you for taking a look inside my room, if you fancy looking at the other two years here they are; 

Year one; http://yayalicemay.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/little-uni-bedroom.html

Year two; http://yayalicemay.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/university-room-year-two.html

I would love to take a look at some of your bedrooms or some homeware items so leave me a comment. 

See you soon, 

Alice May 

Xxx

Candle mad.

So anyone who knows me well will know that I have a slight obsession with candles. 

I am forever burning them in my room to make my room smell lovely and look all cosy and cute. Basically, whenever I am in my room I am burning a candle because I love them that much, so I thought I would share with you some of the candles which I am absolutely adoring at the moment!! 

The candle I'm using at the moment is something I got as a Christmas present, it's a small sized Yankee candle which smells like midnight jasmine. It's a really fresh and relaxing smell, and is really nice to have on at night time before going to bed. 

Yankee candles are quite pricy, however they do last a long time and have such a lovely and strong smell that your whole rooms picks up the scent. 

I was also really excited when two new candles arrived in the post last week. Firstly, my rose tea cup candle. This is such a cute little vintage accessory for your bedroom, I absolutely love it. I haven't yet burnt it because I like it that much however it does smell like roses. 

I also always light tea lights in my room just to again have a bit more light and a few more candles in the room. I normally use plain ikea tea lights or lightly scented ones such as vanilla, although I have recently picked up these sweet heart shaped ones which also smell like rosey flowers. 

The other candle I recently ordered was from Lily Flame, these are also quite expensive but also have a very powerful smell and can burn for up to thirty hours. I chose the Mango Fandango scent as I thought it would give my room a more fruity burst to it. I also love the little chunks which stick out into the candles and I think they just look so fresh and soapy. 

I just think if you want to add a more girly touch to your room add some candles it just makes it that extra bit cosy. 

 Lots of love 

Alice May 

Xxx

Bits and bobs I'm absolutely loving

Hey lovelies, 

So although my New Years resolution was to made sure I blogged more I have to say I have been so so busy with coming back to uni and having exams that I have had no time to blog... 

However, I am back and now free for a while so I'm thinking up some new posts for you all. 

For now, I thought I would just show you a few things that I am absolutely loving at the moment.

Firstly, are these two Body shop products, the strawberry shower gel and the strawberry body polish. I love body shop products as they smell so lovely and fresh and the strawberry is perfect for the spring and summer months which will soon be here. 

This is definitely something I am loving at the moment. My new aqua blue laptop case. This case is from amazon and also comes with a cute rubber key set which turns your keys blue too, which I think makes my mac look even more pretty. The Alice in Wonderland sticker I actually stuck onto the case myself but that is also from amazon and I think it just adds a nice quirky and girly touch to the laptop. 

I am a massive massive fab of all of Rob Ryan's beautiful stencil art work. So I think this calendar will be a favourite all year round for me. Each month has a sweet stencil style picture with a little message. 

I'm always keen to make me room look as pretty, girly and vintage as possible. So therefore I am so pleased how lovely these vintage style roses look when I folded them round my mirror. Very shabby chic! 

Something else I really enjoyed was these selections of chocolates from hotel chocolate. They have a mixture of flavours strawberry cheesecake, chocolate truffle, dizzy praline and rocky road. And the mixture was just perfect what more would you want from a selection really. I honstely don't know. 

Finally, I am also the biggest fan of candles, therefore these little tea lights have got to be the sweetest thing. They also smell so fresh and girly, yum. 

So that's most of the things/bits and bobs I'm really into at the moment. I would love to see what you are all really liking as well!! 

Hope you enjoyed reading,

More posts to follow! 

Love love, 

Alice May 

Xoxox