Victoriana shoes

I find it so excruciatingly painful to sit down and write a blog post nowadays. Not sure exactly why, but it feels a chore again as opposed to a stroke of inspiration, which is worrying as it took me years to get comfortable with blogging. It could be because I'm not shooting at the moment and have less to talk about; because every thought formed in my head at the moment is about clothes and shopping and chunky cardigans and snuggly scarves and elbow patches oh my godddddd (pardon my loss of control); or more likely because I no longer like my blog layout. I'm in the process of building my website now (check out my err, oh so creative holding page over at www.aliyastylist.com), so may just build a new blog to go with it, most likely on Wordpress. Sorry Blogger, you've served me well but no longer tickle my fancy.

I've been at Fabulous magazine since mid-August, but switched from the fashion desk to Art desk last week and am loving it so far. Designing pages on Indesign is something I enjoy at university and would love to pursue so it's great to be getting practice and experience at a publication. Plus, I'll get loads of pages into my portfolio, which is why I do a silent squeal every time I'm given a fashion or beauty page.

Now, onto the shopping talk; I am obsessed with this weather. Despite having a blossoming cold and flu, the thought of snuggling into a warm, oversized scarf as my (yet to be purchased) blanket cardigan floats gracefully in the (bloody overpowering) wind has sent me into a fit of shopholicism. I love Autumn/Winter clothing with a passion, even more so since I mastered the skill of dressing appropriately for the weather (see my first ever blog post). Alongside this, I'm very much enjoying the Victoriana and heritage trends at the moment - the gorgeous shoes I've just purchased (pictured below) are a perfect example of the former, and the various elbow-patched items I have on my shopping list are inspired by the latter.

Suede slippers - £52.00, Topshop

In two weeks' time I'll be returning to university to for my final year as well as finalising a mid-October shoot with Faye Sampson, so expect lots of updates on that. Hopefully my website will be up by then too. For now, the only thing I have to talk about is shopping, so bear with me and my worrying antics.