Retail therapy.

As I am a girl and seem to adhere to the stereotypes of a typical girl I went shopping yesterday. I love nothing more than spending all my money on tat and then crying about how poor I am the next day. Despite the latter, the cycle never ends.
So yesterday I decided that it is officially spring. The sun was out, I wasn't wearing my big coat and my woolly jumpers went to the back of the drawer for another year. This of course means that I need to go shopping and buy some spring-y things, and that's exactly what I did.

So here it is, my first ever haul:

The first item I snapped up was this beautiful little satchel bag in this corally-orangey colour which I am loving. I need a new bag for that in-between of not wanting a big day handbag and not wanting a really small going out clutch. Just a nice summery bag for when I don't need to take too much out with me.

For £6 from Primark it's a barg and a half.

The next thing I bought was a shirt from New Look. I'm loving pretty shirts at the moment and this one is perfect. It's quite hard to see in this crappy photo I've taken but it's pale pink with a white heart pattern all over.

Here I'm also wearing a pair of grey skinny jeans that I also bought but they are boring so no need to describe them.

And the last thing I bought to update my spring life was this cute little tea light holder, also from Primark. I love candles but definitely think they are more of a winter thing but I think this holder feels very beachy so I can keep them burning through the summer months.

So there we are, just a few little items a picked up on my travels yesterday to bring me up to date on the seasons and get me looking forward to summer.
Bye for now xx

New beginnings.

Two years out of university with nothing to show for it, bored of the same monotonous days at work, and need something to do. Anything…

Enter BLOG.

Yup, so I've decided to start blogging. I've done Blogspot before (when I was about sixteen) and tumblr but how about something a bit more grown up. Who am I kidding I'm not a proper grown up I just pretend to be.
So I am obsessed, no literally obsessed with beauty/fashion channels on Youtube and have delved somewhat into beauty blogs but would definitely like to get more involved. While I'm not ready to show my big face on camera I can dabble with blogging and see how it goes. I will probably do a bit of 'What I'm into' 'What I've bought' 'What I'm wearing' type things, and then once I'm a bit more integrated into this whole blogging thing maybe a 'Who I'm reading'.
Maybe an introduction, yes, that would be appropriate.
Hello, my name is Beth, I am twenty two years old and I live in lovely Bournemouth. I decided to call this blog 'Beth by the beach' because that is exactly where I am. In june last year I packed up all belongings, jumped in a van and made the big move down to the county of Dorset with my lovely boyfriend. Previously I lived in my home county of Surrey and my uni town of High Wycombe but I've always wanted to live by the sea, so this was the perfect plan. So this is where I am now, in a little flat ten minutes walk away from the beautiful seaside so I will probably take some photos soon to show off how lovely it really is.
I work in a cafe/children's play centre which is fine. It's a job and it pays the rent and it's fine but that's it. Fine fine fine. I want something more. I don't quite know what that something more is but when I find out I'll let you know.
So I'll leave it there for now, but I did a bit of a shop today which was nice so I will post some of the things I bought tomorrow probably. Hopefully see you then x