Stripes in the Park

Striped crop top (now £4 in the sale) H&M

Fedora: New Look

Jeans: Topshop Jamie

Let's be clear, my stomach does not look this flat post-Christmas and New Year binge! All the more incentive to actually find a form of exercise I like in 2015. I'm really excited about the new year and all the greatness it's going to bring! How great is it that we don't even know some of the fabulous stuff that's going to happen to us yet? But it could be just around the corner...

Happy New Year everyone! Hope the first few days of January have been filled with family, friends and food, mine have.

Photos by Rianna Tamara

New Year, New Bag

I do apologise for my long absence from Shanika Says, I had some time off to enjoy a lovely Christmas with my family away from London, a great New Years with friends and then I got struck with an awful virus in the new year which had me bed ridden for a few days and totally out of action. After that I was taken up with a few auditions so I've been super busy! 

Well 2014 is here and with a new year comes a new bag. This little beaut was a Christmas present from my aunt, directly from her boutique on the Isle of Wight and she was named Fern by someone at a project I'm on at the moment. Isn't she pretty? Don't you just want to stroke her? Strangers do, frequently. 

With the new year comes a new diary and I'm utilising the hell out of my 2014 diary already, filling it up with appointments and deadlines and generally trying to be a more organised person than I was last year.  

2014...I'm ready for ya!