Style Focus: Karela Brigidi

Karela is my beautiful diva of a cousin. Continue to learn about her style while I think up creative ways to raid her closet and get out alive with enough shoes and purses!

Love the jacket

My style is a mix of smart, casual and free. 

I'm so sure those are my size!

I love neutral colours especially the colour black.

I feel a nice, practical handbag does the trick in any outfit because it gives a more elegant feel to the look.

That blazer is on point!

Have a lovely Sunday guys!

MJ.

Ho Ho Ho!

Last Thursday marked the beginning of the Christmas season in Cardiff. Thursday is my busiest day at uni but I managed to catch the tail-end of the festivities that took place in the City Centre.

The Christmas lights were turned on throughout the City Centre and the temporary stalls which had been built less than a week before were all opened for business. There were also mini-shows, mini-concerts and displays.

 These stalls sell everything from Scottish food to locally-made Christmas and other goods.

Making his goods right there in his stall.

A Santa live band playing Christmas songs on different instruments

The City was full of people in all sorts of costumes. There were mini-Santas, christmas tree decorations, wreaths, firecrackers and some other people/things I couldn't recognise.

 By far the best part was Santa's Grotto which happens to be literally around the corner from where I live. Hmm! All these things i failed to enjoy as a kid. The opening of Santa's Grotto was grand. He even had live reindeers! That just made my day. I'm not sure how Santa and his little helpers will feel when I turn up to sit on his lap and gist but I guess I'll just have to wait and see.

xoxo

Miss Jack

Blast from the Past

Thinking of the future...

You know that feeling when you have a brainwave and it's like the pieces of your life suddenly fall into place? That happened to me sometime last week and I've been on a self-induced high since then. I can't wait to move up to the next stage of my life which I have only just figured out in partial detail. Excited is an understatement...I think I'll shut up now before I start rambling incoherently.

Back to the present...

As my workload piles up, I can only focus on the fact that in a few weeks, it will be over for a minute and I will be smiling all the way to Nigeria. Yup, no white christmas for me this year! 

*Now doing the moonwalk*

Any one of you who will be in that vicinity come December, feel free to holla. I will be buried in coursework due January but I shall come up for air more often than not. 

In other news...

 I have a pile of work eyeballing me at the moment so this is the part where I say goodnight!

xoxo

Miss Jack

The wise bits: 1.4

"Don't worry about what people think, they don't do it very often."

- Jacqueline Delisle

Pink, Leaves and Tweed

Hey guys!

Yeah, I missed you too. :)

I apologise for not posting Sunday's Style Focus feature. I've simply been too busy with coursework. However, I promise that the next few features are going to be so worth the wait! Wait until you see the beautiful, talented and wonderful people I have lined up... I know, I can't wait too! ;)

Church was lovely, thanks for asking! Speaking of lovely, I totally liked what beautiful Doyin (yup, she's so fine she deserves an adjective) wore today. Sheer top, blazer, denim, wedges, purse, earrings and bracelet....all VERY well put together. To borrow the words of Ms Johnson (a msjacksays reader whom I featured here) - Ms Jack approves!

By the way, that is all her own hair (and it's longer that what you can see here)...jealous much!

I wish you all a wonderful week!

xoxo

Miss Jack

The wise bits: 1.3

Some people are only meant to be in your life for a season in 

order to teach you something. Learn to accept that. Do not 

confuse seasonal people with life-long commitments. People 

come and go. Let them.

Miss Jack.

Rain, Rain, Go Away!

 Here's my Ugochi-inspired outfit as promised in the previous post (Eat & Greet). It did save me a significant amount of time this morning. :)

Continue for photos...and some more photos!

 The weather today was simply depressing. There is nothing about rain that brightens my day. All that dancing in the rain crap is strictly for TV. 

Ended up having to swap suede heels for leather flats and it still didn't make me look any less conspicuous as I attempted to balance my school bag, an umbrella and breakfast while I power-walked to class. Of course that meant indoor photography, poor lighting inclusive.

I did mention that I am an agbaya (basically, an overgrown baby), right?

Well believe me when I say, you don't know the half of it!

xoxo

Miss Jack

Eat & Greet

I did mention a while ago that I am the current secretary of the Cardiff University African Caribbean Society (ACS). Well, the ACS managed to keep me quite busy especially in the few days before our most recent event which was 'a taste of africa and the caribbean' (last week Thursday), basically plenty food for little money. After all the running around and restaurant-type cooking my kitchen had to bear, we (the committee) were beyond pleased that the event turned out to be a success!

The crowd was fantastic! I saw faces from around the world and the feedback was amazing! In all, it was a very fruitful endeavour.

Below are a few photos of looks I liked on the night (full album is on the ACS facebook page). I spent more time in the kitchen than at the event so I wasn't able to take half as many photos as I would have liked to.

Silvia - one of our wonderful performers on the night.
I love the top and the leather jacket.

Tuoyo - Love the colour combo and that fab sweater-blazer!

I love Daima's crop top! The demin finished it off nicely.

Ugochi was my personal favourite! Loved it all, top to toe!

It's all in the details...!

I think I will take a cue from Ugochi as regards my outfit for tomorrow. Sure will save me a lot of potential wasted time tearing apart my wardrobe in the morning. Watch out for those photos! 

xoxo

Miss Jack.

Someone say lovely day?

Yesterday was an amazing day! It was my free day so I had already planned to attend a Law/Careers Fair and spend the rest of my day either studying or spread out on my couch watching Two and a half men.

However, a very good friend of mine from Nigeria who happened to be in London came to spend the day with me in Cardiff. The feeling you get when you hangout with very good friends you don't see on a regular basis = AMAZING!  We did everything from over-feed to showing our non-existent talents at the bowling alley. I had buckets of fun like I haven't had in quite a while and fell asleep before my head hit my pillow last night.

Unfortunately, I can't post pictures of my fun day *insert very sad face* because the friend in question is a  Nigerian celebrity *coughs* and I know how my fellow countrymen would jump at a chance for exaggerated gossip and a possible scandal! I'm too young for big wahala!

So... enjoy the photos of what I wore to the Law/Careers Fair sans grey blazer and everyday bag which you see ever so often anyways.

xoxo

Miss Jack

The wise bits: 1.2

Nobody can go back and start a new 

beginning, but anyone can start today and

make a new ending.

- Maria Robinson.