I am going to Don university

I was serving an eight year old girl today that told me she hated school I told her school was the best part of my life as working is a pain.. She said to me 'as long as i love my job ill be happy when im older' and then she turned to me and said 'do you love your job.'
I automatically said yes because my boss was right next to me and laughed her off but then I really got to thinking and I actually do LOVE my job. I love being able to give advice on shoes and I love having customers actually listen to my opinion and choose the ones I thought were the Most stylish.

My boss also made me feel valued by asking my opinion on the new shoes she was ordering as she thought I had a good eye for what people liked.

Then I arrived home made myself a fry up. Which might i blow my own trumpet looked AMAZING! I am going to be cooking at uni all the time if I remember I can cook like that. Which reminds me.. I booked halls, ready for September just need to save up to pay off my first payment and get some household goodies! (Which means a trip to IKEA .... Yaaaaaay)

I had a few doubts the other day about uni but today really made me realise Im gonna seriously enjoy my time and i am gonna full on kick some ass!

News

So as i told you all at the end of last month.. I applied for De Montfort University and as promised..
I bring you news of how my interview resulted. As you all know by now, this was in my head the only place I wanted to go.. I decided after my interview that if i didn't get in to Leicester I would put off University for another year and do a foundation course before applying again for DMU.
Over the weekend after my interview i was at work then home, then work again, constantly worrying and thinking about what they thought of me.. I had a hope that because I was older than the other candidates and have a lot of experience in the retail aspect of shoes that i stood a better chance.. turns out,
I am able to ace interviews and i got my place on my dream university course. If you havent realised what im trying to say already... I got into De Montfort University to study Fashion Footwear Design with a Unconditional. I was eating my lunch at work when i recieved the email. It was The best news i've had in my godforsaken life. Ecstatic doesn't even come close to how im feeling about going to Uni. Now im not bragging.. but i get to meet Jimmy Choo.. go to milan fashion week.. London Fashion Week.. I am so lucky that my life has planned out the way i wanted. I hope if anyone else is going through Interview stages that they get the courses they want.
Just remember though in the interview they want to see the real you. Express yourself but don't try to pretend you know everything. You're going to uni to learn from the masters of that subject not to teach them. Although im sure there will be a couple of things they'll learn from you.

My fingers are crossed for the lot of you.. especially my friend Jasmine - scrap that actually fingers crossed and hope is lost, fingers round and hope is found! SO... Fingers Round you beautiful people..

Laters Babies, Nina x

Update on my life

Soo.. i may have ditched this for a while and now i realise this could really help me in my future with the course i am now enrolling myself on. I applied via the confusing yet helpful website of UCAS to do a Footwear Design Course. This course was perfect for me and in a slightly unhelpful way there were only three places in the united kingdom that offered this course title.

The first is the most obvious, take a guess as to where it could be.. you were correct if you guessed the presitigious, London College Of Fashion. It is a great place to study, yet i feel that im not quite ready to be thrown in that deep, and the quality they expect is a little too high for me. So i decided against even viewing the place or applying as i convinced myself i wouldnt get in.

The second is Northampton and im going to try and be as diplomatic as i can about this one. It offers an incredible course and i genuinely did like the sound of it but.. i couldnt live in that area for three years of my life.. maybe from living in winchester for nearly thirteen years im a bit of a snob, but i genuinely just couldnt see it. The campus was decent but the town felt more like an industrial estate and whereas some may like it i just couldnt envisage me studying there. However i did still apply as i felt it was an option if all else fails. I also applied for the Fashion Marketing which i got a straight unconditional for which was pretty good for my self esteem.

Now the final place i love. I want to go here... wait no. I need to go there. Its De Montfort University in Leicester. Now there are two universities in Leicester.. leicester uni and thats one the outskirts of the city.. and DMU and thats slap band in the middle of the city say less than a ten minute walk for highcross shopping centre and the other main city attractions. DMU was a polytechnic college and has recently been changed into a university. I visited the university and city three times, two open days and once just to have a little look around the city. The first time i visited i instantly fell in love with both the uni and the city centre. I felt at ease and as if i belonged there. I knew then and there that this was the university for me. I applied before christmas.

So all in all i applied via UCAS for DMU, Northampton and Nottingham trent.
DMU - Footwear Design
Northampton - Footwear design
                        Fashion Marketing
Nottingham Trent - Fashion Accessories (Footwear)

I was also offered an interview for Nottingham and DMU,
i attended the DMU one on the 31st January and as far as i can tell i did well.. so fingers crossed, wish me luck and ill let you know next week whether or not i got in :)

Nina x

blah blah shoes blah, dmu blah.

hello again. i know ive neglected this for a bit, but ive been busy going out and spending all my money on alcohol. I've come to a time where maybe i should stop drinking so much and maybe start focussing on my career in the future. I've decided now, that i am determined to open a shop when im older. With or without the aide of my brother, who recently told me he wanted to open a males clothing shop and if i ever created shoes, i could if i paid him stock his shop with my mens line of footwear. How kind of him, i know. However ive started to really think about it all, and i really like the idea of being a buyer for a magazine at the early stages of my career.

So here goes to actually getting my act together and trying to find someone willing to trust me enough to let me do this for them. Or even just let me observe whilst someone more experienced takes the reins. Either way, its what i am craving to do as i sit in the childrens shop i work in, watching the world go by. Everyone else seems to be moving forward with their life, whereas i am stood still. Failing to move on after the last couple of years. As a lot of my close friends know, i went through like four years of operations, and like me they thought id be a hell of a lot happier afterwards. Which i am. I am happy with who i am as a person, just not with what im doing with my life.

I live in the serious hope that if i do go to DMU (de montfort university) that maybe this will kick start my real passion, because it is in there raring to get out and explore the creative path i want to go down. But i guess winchester isn't really as creative as it thinks it is. Yeah it has the beautiful architecture and the history. But where is the passion, the drive and the CULTURE. This place has been my home for ten years and the culture has been the one thing this place has lacked since day one. Maybe its just the fact i come from london and that place is buzzing from it, but there isnt anything out of the ordinary in a creative sense. Everything is mundane and similar. So until leicester i shall create, a somewhat creative streak in myself, on myself maybe? and to stop me from ever becoming a mundane wintonian i shall adorn myself with ink tattoos. Therefore no one will ever be the same as me. I shall then also be restricted from an office or ordinary job.

Rant over. Have a nice day chickaaas.

Train your mind to let your feet remain comfy...sometimes

Now recently, i have started becoming obsessed with trainers. I feel if worn with the correct things, they can look really nice, yet you remain completely comfortable.So recently i had a little look around for a comfy shoe, that still was quite fashionable. Instantly my mind said trainers. So i had a little gander round my hometowns shops. Which were bleak. So i reverted to online, and found converses, which i had long forgotten about. I used to wear these beautiful creation back when i was about twelve, when the whole of the united kingdom went crazy about them.  I instantly found a supplier and went and bought myself a shining white pair. In hindsight yes this was a very idiotic idea of mine. But i purchased with the thought that they'd go with everything. Which they did, but they also attracted a lot of black markings and dust. Honestly though i couldn't care less if they're dirty. With them being so comfortable and versatile i wear them with everything; leggings, dresses, shorts, the list is endless. I work in a kids clothing and shoe shop, the one staple item in my uniform is my converse.

The other fabulous thing about converse is that they're a canvas shoe, which means, with a little helping of clarks shoe shampoo, you can pop em straight into the washing machine and then when they come out, they pretty much look brand new. Which certainly helped me out when i spilt a nice refreshing pint of cider and blackcurrant all over them. Yes you heard me a bright purple drink all over my white converse. But no word of a lie, they are no longer pink after their little spa treatment.

In future though i shall remember that white maybe isnt the best colour.

So after realising the insane comfort of trainers, i shall be purchasing a few more in the next coming months, but which ones to go for you ask... here are my top five, in no particular order.

I have been lusting over nikes, low blazers for god knows how long. Today i may have found the ones. Now i know purple may not go with everyting, but i've never been one for shying away from clashing colours.

Then there are the beautiful adidas. The 'top ten hi sleek lil bow' The bow on these adds a touch of feminity on a high top that is normally deemed quite manly. I do feel though, many high tops look feminine with a floaty dress or pretty patterned leggings. Okay so they may not be everyones cup of tea, but i like 'em.

Then i need these in my life. The adidas gazelle, they look delish in grey. Again i know that the colour may not be ideal, what with our english summer, consisting of rain. But i feel that with some colourful leggings, they'd look mint. So another pair are added to the wishlist.

Then superga. Since working in the kids shop, my horizon on the shoefront has been widened and i have opened up to more brands recently, superga being one of them. And since finding out they are one of alexa chungs favourites they have appealed to me even more.The classic 2750 is my ultimate superga. Its so plain yet so different to other trainers i have my eyes on. The colours that i love most are; Ottanio, Ultramarine, Blue Caribe and Island Green.

Then my last trainer i am forever lusting over is... the puma suede classic ensign. The colour of these is gorgeous and i want them in my life.

Enough about trainers im off to look at jeffrey campbell shoes and cry into my pillow about how much i need them in my life.

The New Girl

So im certainly new to all this blogging malarky. But as my obsession has grown stronger in the world of shoes. What with myself hopefully venturing out to university to study the things. I had a sudden thought, why not start a blog about what i love about shoes. So in the last month i've had a look around the world wide web for a blog that i love and want to seek inspiration from. And yes, some do have a couple of shoes i like, but not one do i shout with excitement and i am yet to fall in love with a particular blog. So to heck with that, i shall seek inspiration from my surroundings away from the internet.

You're probably all thinking who is this female, whats she even about. Like i said i want to study Fashion Footwear at university and hopefully in the future be able to design or even create shoes that i love and other people will instantly fall in love with. I think ive always had a slight obsession with shoes. with my first pair of heels being when i was about nine. Now don't get all, 'OMG, why were you allowed heels at this age?' Just so you know, when i say heels, i mean i was maybe an inch off the ground. They were tiny kitten heels, which i despise now. They were these silver glittery things that i loved dearly and used to love watching my friends reel in jealousy whenever i wore them. They made me feel wanted and must i say it, beautiful. Cheesey, i know. But they did and since then ive loved shoes with a passion. I refuse to wear anything lower than 4 inch heels nowadays though, purely because if im wearing a heel, its to give me height. Therefore i want to be a giant.

Now, the reason for me wanting to actually design shoes, is purely for the reason that i can never find a shoe that is visually stunning, yet comes with a reasonable price tag. I usually find knock offs of amazing louboutin or campbell shoes. Yes they may look beautiful for the first couple of wears, but soon they will start to turn to crap. And then i might aswell have saved up a little more money and i would have been able to buy the real things. i say a little more, i mean the whole of next months paycheck. And from working at clarks, who are reasonably priced and good quality. I feel they lack just one thing, which yes i admit they are getting better at, is style.

So here goes, my mission to change the world... for feet and our purses at least.