Lest We Forget

Today is the 64th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings on Omaha Beach in Normandy, France. I have posted this becuase it is important to honour the brave men who risked their lives so that we could live in peace. In honour of this I have decided to dress in a somewhat 1940s style tomorrow. It might not be much but it is a somewhat homage to them. If I had known of this day sooner I would have dresssed up today.

Let us always Remember them.

Dreamy Wander

I love this video ever since I came across it on the 'Cherry Blossom Girl' blog! I love the Alice in Wonderland-esque feel to the whole video piece. I also especially love Zooey Deschanel's outfit in this video piece! Very last century but somehow modern.Hmm I need a large bow in my hair now....

Outakes, Outakes, Outakes....

Dress: Topshop Fall 07 via e-Bay.

Lipstick: Red Chanel lipstick.

Glasses: Valentino.

Looking like you are from the war: Priceless.

When the bee stings....

As In a line from that infamous song from the Sound of Music! I have quite amassed a talent of refrencing my post titles to lyrics of songs! Well basically this post is about some of my favourite things that I like to wear, use or eat on a daily basis. Some of these things are new purchases and some of them I have had for a while. So without further a do I present, 'Some of My Favourite Things.'
This is so yummy! I wish I could eat this on a daily basis but I think my blood sugar would be through the roof. What it is is Tesco Finest* Raspberry yoghurt icecream, Raspberries and dark chocolate! Yum yum yum!

This is my faithful Vintage brown leather satchel. I bought it for £3.99 in the Oxfam in Belfast. I adore this bag and has been everywhere with me! From nightclubs, to fields to airports and back! It holds a lot and is not to big to be used as a going out clubbing bag. It does need a good clean inside but I do love it so. The best thing is that it goes with every outfit!

These are the Wingtip Oxford Brogues from New Look. I bought them for £5.00 of e-Bay and they arrived the other day. I must say I adore these shoes and they are somewhat comfortable to walk in-though I think I shall have to buy some party feet sole cushions for these shoes!I love them becuase they remind me of shoes from the 1930s and 1940s and I have a penchant for anything from these particular decades!

Yes I do admit to owning one of these bags from Marks N Spencers. But so what!? Theyre cool and stylish (I think) and I can lug my books and art materials around in it for next term. At least it looks better than a Tesco Bag For Life! Although on that note I do have the hessian material Ladybird bag for life that was out over a year and a half ago. The nice little one that was made BEFORE they stuck , 'TESCO BAG FOR LIFE,' on it!

If you got no money, Honey, we got your disease

This is a reference to the song, 'Welcome to the Jungle,' by my all time favourite band the mighty Guns n Roses. I basically have no money left after going shopping yesterday and also I think I have a disease known as , 'Shopping Addiction.' I hope you liked my purchases becuase of them I am totally broke and yet I have to go out tomorrow. Well not so much as 'have to' as 'need to' as I am of work and do plan on getting royally wasted. Yes, I might dress like a lady with some Grunge thrown in for my own amusement but I do admit that I am young and like to get drunk with my friends and do crazy things!

Anyway there is the information for the purchases as follows:

Mock Croc Bag: £6.00 Primark

High Heel Oxford Brogues: £22.00 TKMaxx

Red Patent Bag: £3.99, Vintage, Oxfam.

White Over the Knee Socks, Black Alice Band and Corsage: £5.99, £2.99 and £5.99 respectively. All River Island. I normally do not shop here as I find some of their clothes to be somewhat Chavvy but I had a voucher from Christmas that needed using up so I decided to buy these lovely items.

Gold Chain: £3.99 H&M Kids Range-with a picture of Maria in it!

I also bought two coats-one nautical themed and one a woollen swing coat. Both from Primark, but I need to take better pictures of them. I also managed to buy that tutu skirt that has become popular amongst fellow fashion bloggers. It is the one from the H&M kids range and I also bought a Primark boob tube to use as a Body-Con skirt (not an original idea of mine though!).

However, I turned the skirt and boob tube into a dress of sorts. I did this by attaching ribbons as straps to the boob tube and again the attached it to the skirt. Though I think I shall just tuck the boob tube into the skirt as it is only pinned to the dress. More Pictures to follow tomorrow!

Why what are you wearing there darling?

Here is some snapshots of the outfit I was wearing yesterday. I must admit that I have to get somewhere more suitable place for taking my pictures or perhaps set up my camera somewhere to take the photos-or get my sister to take the photos for me.

I was going for a somewhat girly 1950s-esque look with this outfit. I had it planned out the night before which is something that I have been doing quite often this past while as Im not in a rush to get up for University or anything!

Hairband: Claire's Accessories

Coat: Vintage

Tights: Primark

Brogues: From New Look but I bought them for £5.00 via e-Bay.

Top (actually a dress): Primark

Skirt: H&M Divided from about a year ago.

Necklace: Marks & Spencers.

Bracelets: Primark

Studded Bracelet: e-Bay from about 3 years ago.

Artiste Du Jour

These pieces are by an artist by the name of: Lyndsay Hull.

One of my favourite artists from my University's, 'End of Year Show,' for the graduating third years. I will post the information on this artist once I sift thought the various leaflets and flyer's that were on hand to tell me about the artists!SEE ABOVE I do love her work though- it is old fashioned, vintage yet modern as in it is her own concept of the past! I have included these pictures of art on here as this is just not a fashion blog.

Well I try very hard for it not just to be a fashion blog! I am an art student and therefore naturally I am interested in art and artists themselves. Therefore expect more artistic posts in the future.

Finally an Update

So there has not been much of an update on here from Thursday! This is for many reasons, mainly due to the fact I work most of Friday and Saturday to fund my shopping addiction! I also had to slightly part-organise my mothers 50th birthday party that was on Sunday. And coupled with the fact that my daily outfits were not that inspiring as I wore nearly the same thing or my work uniform. I actually wore just my high wasited pencil skirt come pinafore with some variations on the shirt, shoes and tights combination.

Last Wedensday, I wore these flats with my black high waisted pinafore and my striped shirt from Primark in the first post on this blog. I also wore it with a pair of white tights that had little ribbons on it- I never got a picture of them though. Here is some pictures of the flats:


Black Flats- From Topshop some years ago. You cant see in this picture but they have little Kitten Heels. They are so comfortable and easy to wear! Although they kept getting stuck in the cracks in the pavement and my shoes came of as a result! How embarassing!

I did have one nice outfit that I wore last week. It was very 1940s inspired and I am raging that I did not get any pictures of my hair as I put it up in a 1940s victory curl style! And at my mother's birthday I also had a very nice Dita Von Teese style outfit on-and a alas no pictures!

The shirt is actually longer and just tucked into the high waisted trouers. It is from Bay Trading Co - a few years back though. I don't even know if this shop is still in trading.

Necklace: Claire's accessories-a few years ago.

Red Nail Varnish- Barry M

High Waisted Trousers-Primark!- I could not believe these when I saw them in Primark. They are so comfortable to wear and you can wear them with flats or heels. I am definetly going to be wearing these throughout the Summer just out and about and actually going out to go clubbing.

Here is a somewhat close-up view of my trousers.

Toodle Doo for now lol xxx

Tag Alert!

Okay so this is my first ever tag from the wonderful Mo over at Like A Fox.

5 things found in my bag:
1. My fancy smancy digital camera-His name is Bert. And he is somewhat tempermental.
2. My iPod.
3. About a million reciepts.
4. A gold headband from a night out.
5. My mobile phone.

5 things found in my purse ( I don't really have a purse and isnt a purse the same thing as a bag?)
1. A lot of change for the printing cards in Uni.
2. Red Lipstick.
3. My Tesco club card-gotta get them money off vouchers!Ha.
4. my house keys with a really random keyring of some garden centre's number.
5. random pieces of paper.

5 favourite things in my room:
1. My Marie-Antoinette style wardrobe,desk and matching chest of drawers..
2. All of my old art drawings.
3. My random collection of flyers, posteres, pictures and articles.
4. My hat box come shoe storage box.
5. My jewellery stand.

5 things ive always wanted to do:
1. Travel to Russia-to visit the Imperial Palaces.
2. Live in Paris.
3. Go Clubbing New York and L.A..
4. Have someone buy my art.
5. Play Guitar.

5 things im currently into:
1. Silhouettes.
2. Jane Austen.
3. Potato anything.
4. Playing Agatha Christie, 'Hercule Poirot,' games on my laptop.
5. M.I.A

the person who tagged me: the wonderful Mo from Like A Fox:

my 5 impressions of her:
1. She lives in Australia-Im extremely jealous, Ive always wanted to travel there!
2. She has great taste in Music. Namely Jim Hendrix. Enough Said.
3. Unique sense of fashion-very French inspired-who knows maybe she was French in a past life!4. She has the best black fedora that I seriously want!
5. She likes film noir!

I tag AC & CC over at All of the Above!

Annoyance!

Can anyone possibly tell me why when I post picture posts there is a long gap before the end of the post? Whenever I insert a picture into the post it inserts itself at the top of the post instead of the place I want it to be and then the post becomes really long with a large blank bit at the bottom!?

P.S. I couldn't resist posting this picture again! I love her facial expression!