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This week challenge is: Back to School.

Group: Indie

 
This is my outfit for the first day back at school. I will be wearing my overalls, with a mustard-yellow sweater underneath. For accessories I will wear a brown watch to match my brown boots, and yellow glasses so I can see from the back of class. I will carry all my school supplies in my vintage yellow satchel. For hair I will have my hair in two buns, and when I walk into the building I will have my head held and strut my stuff, with not a care in the world.
 

EXTRA POINTS:
2 for entering: YES.
2 for tagging your team mates: YES.
1 for using one of the 'featured items' : YES

 
Darling team mates:

- @darcy-directioner - 15
- @serafia - 5
- @silver-sparrow - 4
- @xoxo-olivia - 5
- @biddy4ever - 29
- @almost-infinite -
- @loveabbyxo - 5
- @happygee4 - 5
- @closetoinfinity - 5
- @tasmin-in-wonderland - 35

 
Go Indie team! WOO :)
xxx

This is my first set for Battle of The Models. This week is all about settling into your houses, and getting comfortable.
 
I have included two outfits. The blue and white spotted jumper and pastel pink pants is what I will be wearing when we are snuggled up around a warm, blazing fire, snacking on gourmet pizzas and nutella-dipped strawberries, while listening to indie music and sharing stories and telling everyone about ourselves. The floral t-shirt and shorts is what I will be sleeping in, if we get any sleep that is!

 
Extra points:
2 for tagging your team members: YES
2 for using one of the items in the 'featured items' list: YES
1 for using a picture of someone in a sweater. YES
 
Tag:
@leashiekate
 
Team members:
- @darcy-directioner
- @serafia
- @silver-sparrow
- @xoxo-olivia
- @biddy4ever
- @almost-infinite
- @loveabbyxo
- @happygee4
- @closetoinfinity
 
Remember to enter lovelies! Go indie models! :)
xo

tumblr ; floral-b0nes.tumblr.com
instagram ; instagram.com/araina_tasmin
ask.fm ; ask.fm/arainatasmin
 
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how kind of me to grace this set with my horridly hideous face. my most sincere apologies. the photo in the bottom right hand corner is from the photoshoot i did a couple weeks ago that i mentioned. the photographer has only put one up on her facebook page, and i swear she picked the absolute worst of me. bleh, i hate it. hopefully i'll get the rest tonight, as i have modelling. yay! i am so very excited, as since it has been the holidays, i haven't been for a few weeks. i love it more than anything in my life right now. i've already planned my outfit out... i am going to wear my new blue skater skirt, a long sleeve sheer lace top with a black bandeau underneath, frilly lace socks and black heeled ankle boots. i quite adore the outfit. modelling also gives me a chance to wear a bit more makeup than i usually do, so i shall probably do a cat-eye. i believe we are starting our speeches for the graduation night, which should be most interesting. i cannot wait.
 
it is also the last day of holidays today :( i go back to school tomorrow. yay for extreme anxiety, stress and people i hate.
 
i have discovered a new love.... avocados. oh. my. goodness. they are the absolute best thing in this world.
 
that is all for now, stay lovely darlings.
 
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i'm really quite enjoying make these types of sets :)
 
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only one more day of holidays left. i think i might cry. help.
 
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i will eat the prettiest flowers
and drink only rose water
i will snack on dandelions
and count the calories
they say you are
what you eat
i just want to be
beautiful for once
 
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i adore that poem more than anything right now.
 
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i'm really, really proud of this set. i actually adore it :)
 
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yesterday I downloaded a whole heap (i really do mean a WHOLE HEAP) of music, which makes me very happy indeed. a simple thing such as music is beginning to be the driving force of getting me through each day. it really does bring me so much joy and distracts me from myself. i might post a playlist in the next few days if you would like?
 
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ask me things on ask.fm? i just made an account. the link is:
http://ask.fm/arainatasmin
 

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honestly i’m just so sick of everything. this last week has been bad. really bad. and it’s only the holidays, so i don’t know what it will be like when school starts again. can it really get any worse though? i don’t want to learn in a classroom anymore. i want to travel and talk to people and learn that way. i want to learn as i go, gathering knowledge and not being rigorously tested on it. i don’t want to lose passion in the things i like because of the worry of tests. i want to be fuelled by snippets of knowledge i gain from people and be inquisitive. school has stolen my passion for the things i’m interested in and i hate it for that. i hate it for the stress and anxiety it brings me. i know school isn’t supposed to be fun, but it isn’t meant to make you want to kill yourself either.
 
the only thing keeping me going is the thought of the future. i’m living so i can travel the world. fall in love with someone and grow old with them. wear baggy sweaters and drink tea on rainy days. live so i can have a house with a sunflower garden, bookshelves full of books, typewriters, window seats. i’m living so i can climb onto the roof with the person i love. bring blankets and we’ll lie down together, and look at the stars, and whisper and laugh and kiss, and forget the world we left on the ground. i’m living for the thought that tomorrow could be the absolute best day of my life and i would never know if i’m not around to see it.
 
but although i still have a will to live, i often wonder if anything is worth it at all.
 
and once you’re broken, do you ever become what you were before?

This set is inspired by the lovely @laura-can-fly.
 
Laura has one of the best personalities around. She is so genuinely lovely and just wonderful to talk to. We are very similar in a lot of ways, which gives us a lot to talk about. She is always there for me, which I appreciate a lot. She also shares my love and obsession for a lot of things, including tumblr poetry.
 
Her sets are also very fabulous. They're all so perfect, and she has great taste in fashion. As well as her sets, her tumblr is incredible and you should all certainly go check it out! It is one of my faves.
 
I really don't know what else to say, Laura is just too wonderful.
 
Love you babe.
xxx

This set was inspired by the fabulous Dilara, @forever-love-and-random13.
 
Her sets are honestly literally my favourites in the whole of Polyvore. Like, I can't even. Every single one of them is absolutely flawless and gorgeous and perfect and gah! All the pictures and colours always go so well together. She also has flawless taste in fashion. I cannot believe she only has 1000 followers! She deserves 10 times more. If you aren't following her already, please go immediately and do so!
 
Dilara is also one of the kindest, most caring and sincere people. She is so great to have conversations with, and I still remember our conversations from a very long time ago. We are very similar in a lot of ways too. She is seriously just too wonderful.
 
Her comments on my sets always make me smile; they're beyond kind. I also love reading her set descriptions, as she is a very good writer and always has wonderful book suggestions.
 
Dilara, when you're a famous actress/singer, please don't forget about me!! ;)
 
Stay beautiful darling!
xxx

Created in the Polyvore iPhone app. http://www.polyvore.com/iPhone
 
This set was inspired by the lovely Lilah (@itslilahlovess). Her sets are all so adorable and her taste in clothes is flawless. She is also a lovely, caring person. I know she is going through some hard stuff at the moment, some of it similar to me, so she is very strong for that. Keep your chin up darling! xx
 

 
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In the last couple of days I watched two of the best movies. The first one, It's Kind of a Funny Story, may have completely changed my current mindset. It was remarkably beautiful and heart-wrenchingly honest and relatable. I loved it to pieces.
I also just finished Now Is Good. I cried. Actually, I sobbed. It was so incredibly sad, but absolutely lovely at the same time.
I definitely, definitely recommend both of them.

Check out my new bio on my profile lovelies? Let me know what you think please :) xo