Asos Trouser Glory!

I am not normally a jazzy trouser kind of girl I never really tend to go *there* as it all seems too daring for me and high maintenance.
When am I going to wear a hot pink pair of trousers, in January? Really?

I end up believing that this whole fling with the idea of statement trousers is over
and over and over
and over
until I decide that I keep being drawn back to fun print trousers and jewel tone colours, what good reason do I have for it not to be -oh so me- ?
I took the leap into trouser choice heaven (Asos

They may not seem that exciting to you, but to me this is a Pretty Big Deal 
My drawer of trousers contains lots of shades of denim, lots of textures of black, some khaki green and coffee coloured cords.

I took the plunge and ordered a few pairs in a few sizes- I wasn't sure at this point of the damage that Christmas may have done to my thighs. I opted to begin building up a selection with this raspberry/crimson tailored pair that have a cute crop to them.

I know it's probably impossible to tell which one is a stock photographs and which one is being modelled by yours truly..

I won't lie to you, chilly ankles in this weather, but if I am popping out for lunch and I'll spend most of the time indoors then I can take the cold for a few moments.
I pair them with a cream knit jumper, embellished with roses in blue, yellow and an almost identical pink, the jumper is quite open knit and loose to give the whole look a 'casual winter brights' appeal that I hope I pull off.


The next pair are the jewel in the crown, delicious sort of iridescent blues, embroided with roses that resemble textiles only used for curtains in a time gone by.

Something about these scream oriental, so I just had to have them. They are light, and silky to touch and look very 'casual classy tailoring' with a cream blouse. I cannot get enough of them but feel that they are harder to look 'right' in Autumn/Winter because the blue is so fresh and spring-like whereas my pink pair are like a zingy stab in the dark winter days.


My style does not change often, and I stick to what I know meaning that I have pieces , in my eyes, that still work after years and years. This was a little off the wall for the likes of me, but what a fun and rewarding switch from the denim winter blues.

How to make yourself feel better on a sick day

I'm still sick, so I woke up feeling super groggy so made myself a blueberry smoothie containing just blueberries and water. To drench out the blemishes and general redness on my face I had to bleach out the photo like this:

My jumper! In case you were wondering is from Forever21 and it was in the sale so It's probably not available in every branch

I ended up feeling much better because although I had to do some food shopping, my cupboards really were empty and dragging myself out of bed I was delighted to come across a sale at Gap which led to two striped garments coming home with me

I love me some mint green stripes! Especially long sleeved tops because I've given up all hope on being able to wear short sleeves in England ever again! These were £5.99 each!

Then.. I found a pretty blouse in forever 21. I love how it has the interesting criss cross pattern across sort of just below the collarbone, it just hits in a classy and feminine place and while I may not get to wear it in this country I have high hopes that I can wear it overseas!

So I felt a bit better, then I got home and I think I had overdone it because now I just feel quite dreadful and slightly worse than this morning I think- never mind, it was probably worth it to come home with these beauties!

Knitted outfit of the day

 This is my outfit today! My first real 'wintery' outfit even though everything here is old, except the jacket- but I thought i'd share it with you anyway.
On my top I'm wearing a Black vest top from Primark and over the top a navy blue bell-sleeved jumper that's about a year old from Joe Browns, I like it because of the white detailing on the bottom of it.
Around my neck is a scarf from Topman that is super old, but the print on it kind of matches the print on the bottom of the jumper
My jacket was in the sale at Internacionale for £34, I like it because it has studs on the collar, it's kind of edgy and cute

 On my bottom half I'm wearing some grey striped shorts that were originally from Topshop but I got them from Ebay, then some thick grey knitted leggings underneth from TK Maxx, you can't see below the knee but I added my charcoal legwarmers and had them poking out from some plain black, low heeled ankle boots from New look

Wintery knits woo-hoo!

Oh My Mickey Mouse!

It makes me feel sad that winter clothes are back in and sandals and shorts are on the sale rails in stores, we didn't really get a proper summer here, at least it didn’t feel like it. Even more so because I was in England for the whooooooole of summer.
 
Anywho, I spotted this little cutie pie on the rack at H & M and all of a sudden the day seemed to get brighter, even though now I’m hoping for snowy snow and rain so that I can wear this bad guy!

 
I love how the Mickey Mouse is actually knitted into the fabric rather than being a transfer over the top so that hopefully it will last longer.

 It cost £19.99! The knit of it is super cute too, the sleeves are a different more ‘textured’ knit while the rest is a ‘smooth’ knit

It makes me wish that I could knit myself, I could do a matching Minnie Mouse one, or if I could knit any pattern I’d knit a candy floss jumper with baby blue and pink candy striped sleeves, with the rest being baby blue and a baby pink giant cone of cotton candy on the front!

 If you could knit any jumper design what would you knit?

Crafty Monday ~ Reviewing a book!

When I'm having a craft-block I tend to turn to my crafty books for ideas, and my frquent 'go to' is "Generation T: Beyond Fashion: 110 T-Shirt Transformations" so I thought I would share my attempt at an unbiased review with you! You can get this book from Amazon, I got mine from TopShop.

An eclectic collection of all sorts of projects for your tshirts that are too small, too big, stained or old.
A good book for the open minded crafter, rather than the fashion conscious stitcher as some designs are beyond hippyish, an example is the 'knot above the rest' shawl that I can only imagine would be good as an addition to a witches Halloween costume, and the gaucho pants which I would only wear as Jammies and therefore probably not go to the effort to make them.
A problem with the designs in the book is that lots of the ones that appeal to me require multiple tshirts in size Large, therefore to make the design I would have to go out and purchase several tshirts in that size- which goes against the recycling message of the book.
Despite this, there's a lot of sweet and very wearable ideas in the book, I found the children's section to be the most inspiring and innovative in terms of variety of designs and just downright good ideas. Many that I could and would make as they're practical fun and appropriate for little kiddies that grow fast. Contrastingly, I thought the home-wear section was the weakest and would only appeal to those who can't get enough of 70s interior design, the most memorable being the fabric square coasters stitched with a raw edge, the table runner which is essentially the coasters stitched into a long line and the fluffy toilet seat cover that is probably the most unsanitary concept I ever saw.
It became apparent in many ways that the author was running out of ideas in every category, which detracts from the 50% of very good, and inspiring ideas. I would think more favourably upon this book had it been half the size and containing just the best ideas. Perhaps its extensive range was a way of appealing to as many people as possible, while I may think the 'legalise pot holders' were gaudy, of course many out there won't.
To widen its potential market further there is a large selection of 'no sew' options and designs that could be stitched together by hand making sure that no one with a bit of a creative flair is excluded.
As a whole, the book is an original concept with many good ideas that encourages a tshirt crafting party with a playlist at the start of each chapter, but nothing will blow you away, nor is anything suitable for wearing as anything other than very casual- everything is made from old tshirts after all!

I just want to reiterate that I do love and use this book really often, but I also know that for this to be any use to anyone else, I'd have to find things to criticise too sot that you get the full picture because not everyone is me, or has my taste!

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ASOS Sale Fail

Asos had a big sale going on and I nosed around to see if anything appealed. Unfortanetly a whole lot more appealed than I intended and this is what I came away with:

 A fun piano clutch to match my music note dress to wear to a wedding this month!

 A frilly bikini top, I love the foamy flowers they look like sweeties! I didn't buy the matching bottoms because I prefer when they mismatch

 Pretty heart pumps that I thought would look cute with my pastel jeans

Even though I got these cute gems a lot had to go back including another bikini top because it was too small, a bag in the shape of an encyclopedia because it had a horrible brown panel, a cute bunny watch with a gross ink stain across it and a dress with cupcakes on it that felt cheap and thin!
Ah well, then I can save those pretty pennies to spend on something that I do like, hooray for free returns!

Pastels- NEXT!

I love and adore the pastels thing going on this Spring, it's pretty rare that I ever jump into a fashion trend head first as fashion dates so fast, but pastel colours are just completely irresistable to me and before I  know it I have a whole pastel rainbow going on!
So here's my pastel favourites from my wardrobe

Pink pastel skinny jeans from Next £18

...and they were soo comfy I got the lilac from there too, same price

Mint ones (my personal favourite) are more super-skinny and the best colour! from H&M they were a present from my sister so I don't know the price!

 Polka dot mint blouse from Next, also kids section priced at around £16-£18 I can't remember!

Black shoesies are not very -fresh- so I go for white pumps the same kinda colour as this shirt collar
I got a mint scarf it came from Brick Lane market and cost something like 50p! Wee!

To top it all off.. a vanilla cake bag! Yum

♫ ♫ It was acceptable at the time! ♫ ♫

Okay, so my jewellery doesn't fall into the retro catagory yet, but judging by what I found I think it will only take another decade or so!

Since I moved house I have only unpacked the 'essential' bits of jewellery and just bought new bits since I've lived here, but last night I suddenly remembered that I had some earrings that were still packed up and wanted to get them out.
So after a lot of hunting, and cutting through various layers of newspaper and sellotape to hold my jewellery box together I found some beauties and some hideous-ies

I'm not sure what catagory some of them fall into so I'll show you and you can decide!

A Spongebob Squarepants locket, it came from Clairs Accesories I believe

 I love this fun bow earring! I would never wear them as a  pair though as I thought that was too much going on with my head!

 These are giant, like the gem is the size of a 5p coin, I liked them because they reminded me of cherry gum drops or wine gums and I kind of wanted to eat them up!

 These were a present but I always thought they were cute, I used to think it would be a cool idea to get five holes pierced in my ears and have my name spelt out on my ear...er....yeah...that would have been 'super stylish' I'm sure...

And finally! My amazing charm bracelet I found! My sister got it for me and for birthdays and christmasses would get me a few more charms to add onto it. I forgot I had it so I wore it today and lots of people commented on even though it was old, it was still 'so me' I don' know if that's really a compliment through, my favourite charm is the chocolate bar on the end, I love that one!

What's your favourite?

Thank Zip for that!

Today, thanks to Google's adorable doodle we all know that it is the birthday of Gideon Sundbäck!

Who? You say....

The man who invented the Zip, Zipper, Zippy or Zip-Zip whatever you want to call it

Zip is such a funny word when you think about it, the word zip actually sounds like the noise that a zip makes! Maybe that's why he called it that!

Look at all these great things that never would have come to be if it wasn't for good ol' Gideon...

Zippy! You'll remember this if you were around in the 80s/90s

A purse made entirely of zips!

A dress made of zips, something about this doesn't seem so classy though; although you could unzip certain sections to make your dress look diferent each time- or to cool off, while keeping it modest!

A trainer that with a few unzips- becomes a flip flop! Great space saver

And the only thing that I might actually wear among this stash- these zippy boots, although imagine the annoying 'jingle-jangle' every time you walked!

A Zip file! If it wasn't for Gideon maybe they'd be called velcro files, or popper files!



Zips are surprisingly important when I think about it, I'm more inclined to buy bags and purses with zip fastenings because they feel safer, but maybe that's just me!

Stars in my eyes!

Galaxy and space prints have been popular for a while now.
What's great about them is that lot's of the colours in the galaxy and outer space are pastel coloured which makes them bang on trend for this Spring, but the mixture of silky fabrics and inky blues for the night sky dress up pastel colours to stop them looking too innocent and day time and to jazzle it up a little!

Here's my favourite galaxy products:

These leggings are so fun and delicious! They're from Blackmilkclothing.com, Black Milk sells amazing clothing but it's pretty much all the stuff of dreams for me so I just browse and drool!

This top is so fun and perfect with some casual shorts and little booties andd... it's much more purse friendly at £9.95 from here good ol' eBay!

If you're not into the colours in galaxy prints then maybe these are your thing, they sure are mine!
Mostly because they GLOW IN THE DARK!

These would be so fun on a night out, and it's a sure way to have everyone looking at your pegs!

Available from here

If you're snazzy with a sewing machine you can craft something beautiful from this, I kind of fancy a fabric cuff from this beautiful stuff! Available from here

Orr..... if you hate everything here and think stars belong in the sky and not on clothes then you just might love love love one of my favourite Apps to date 'Star Walk'

It's incredibly beautiful, and it shows you the stars above you, it gives you facts and incredible 'pictures of the day' from our universe; minus the complex language and scary astronomy chat.

It's relaxing to look at before I fall asleep. It makes me feel a lot of wonderment and is grounding to realise how immensely huge the universe is; it's a comfort not to worry about the little things and let them deal with themselves in a world as big as ours.

P.S Remember tomorrow is Earth Day and Origins are giving away free products! Check my post on April 1st for more details!

Picture THIS!

A few weeks back I went to get some new pictures taken!

It was a long and sweaty day (under all the lamps, they make you sweat) and my face got a little sore from rubbing on and off makeup for the different looks. I talk a little more about it here since that was what I blogged the day of the shoot!

My favourite pictures are the block colour ones! They're so fun!

Here's a little looky at the untouched photos- I haven't cropped them or anything for now:

I'm excited to upload a video about it finally since I couldn't do any uploading while I was away- but I'm home now!

I hope you enjoyed seeing what I got up to!

Which jeans do you prefer? The lemon or raspberry?

Pssst... Everything was from Primark! (except the lollipops! and purple ring) 

Clouds of mint green

I am very excited that pastel colours are deemed the 'in' colours of this and next season. I've always had a huge love for that pastel mint colour, a kind of bluey-green that is just delicious to look at but findig clothes in such a specific colour is not always so easy, until now!
I came across this jacket which I am just drooling over

I love the stud detail, and the colour is just so perfect! I found it on Pinterest, so where it came from will probably be forever a mystery!

I love this mint satchel

http://www.asos.com/ASOS/ASOS-Leather-And-Suede-Tucklock-Satchel/Prod/pgeproduct.aspx?iid=1853398&SearchQuery=mint&sh=0&pge=2&pgesize=20&sort=-1&clr=Mint

Although I put my bags through their paces so I imagine the suede would get grubby pretty quickly

and finally, what I love the most are these mint jeans, which unfortunately look as though they've sold out, which is too bad as I imagine these to look perfect with some crisp white shoes!

http://www.asos.com/ASOS-Petite/ASOS-PETITE-Zip-Back-Denim-Tee/Prod/pgeproduct.aspx?iid=1899451&SearchQuery=mint&sh=0&pge=2&pgesize=20&sort=-1&clr=Mintgreen

Sweet peppermint dreams! And do you like the pastel trend?