sleep is gooooood.

Hello!
Much apologies for my absense recently! My new job has me working all the good long day and it takes me anout a good hour to get back to my house thanks to effing traffic taking me back aaaaaaagggesss!! Although, I am enjoying the new job so much so it's all good! Afraid this is a boring post with no outfit pictures, or pictures at all, I'm just super busy at the moment! Hopefully I'l lget things up to scrath soon! I'm off for a fab bubbly bath *YAY*

Sea x.x

Let the record play

Hey!

I am dreading this weekend since I have to be in work for 8am tomorrow, I find it basically impossible to even wake up at that time! However, after that (assuming I survive it...) Sea and I have a night out planned and I have new velvet-y greatness to wear so it's not all bad! Today's outfit;

I look really moody in these photos but the reason is that they were taken at like 8.45 in the morning (I will very rarely be happy if I am made to wake before 9...). The jumper dress was a gift from the family in Australia, the tights are H&M, Dorothy Perkins shoes (urgh, flats again!), the belt is H&M and the jewellery I thrifted t'other day.

In other news; velvet is my kryptonite. I bought this belt off ebay last night; FYI there was a matching bag that I was [ ] this close to also buying...Have a great weekend everybody!

Char x

Lovin' it

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Dressing like an OAP

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Today's outfit looks a little bit like what my Granny would dress me in, if she were to be in my wardrobe for some odd reason! The really weird part is that I don't hate it...

The cardigan is from Topshop, the skirt is a thrifted one I altered (i.e. cut with scissors) the tights are from tightsplease, the shoes are from New Look (I'll admit that I changed into flats because my feet still hurt from breaking in the new shoes!), the green top is ancient asos, the bangles are a mixture of New Look and vintage and the necklace and brooch I thrifted the other day!
Hope everyone has some interesting weekend plans!

Char x

Blue blazer black

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I broke the heels-wearing pact today as I thought I may be going out tonight and everybody knows that heels in the day + heels at night = not a lot of dancing! So I broke out my vintage boots for comfort, they are my equivalent of Uggs! Today's outfit;

The boots are vintage, purchased from ebay, the tights are H&M and the skirt is ancient Zara, the "R" t-shirt is H&M as are the necklaces and the cardigan was a gift. Yesterday's outfit;

Topshop shoes, H&M tights, Topshop dress over Primark tee, Primark cardigan and gifted beads.

So, I did it...I went back for the dress I saw while thrifting yesterday, I had to! I was so happy that it was still there today. So I present to you; the velvet, studded, bodycon dress!

I had the most amazing thrifting trip yesterday (I didn't even mean to shop, I was waiting for the careers officer to start so I could get some essential CV advice!) the thrift gods were truly smiling upon me! The blazer;It reminds me of that episode of Friends where Joey gets a job at the tour guide at Ross' museum and can't sit with him because of his blue blazer. In a good way, I think! It fits me really nicely and was only £4.99 so I couldn't leave it! And this cute Country Casuals cardigan with tags;

Please excuse the flash, I wanted to show the pretty detail on it! I also got some pretty awesome jewellery but I can't show you since some of it will be presents! Not sure which pieces yet since I'd quite happily keep it all for myself, but that's not the spirit of Christmas! I did most of my shopping online yesterday and now I'm pretty sorted now, anyone else do their shopping before it's even December?

Oh, speaking of vintage jewellery, I picked up a useful tip at work; how to tell if pearls are real or not. You rub the pearls on your front teeth - I know, it's a pretty unpleasant thought! - if they're real they feel gritty and if they feel smooth then they're not real! Kinda useful, especially where vintage pearls are concearned. It's probably not the kind of thing you do in public though!

My Mum sent me a text asking me what I wanted for Christmas this morning so I've spent most of the day mulling it over and emailing her links to things!

Char x

Velvet Crush

Hey there!

One of my current obsessions (and really, this one has reached the level where it can legitimately be called an obsession) is velvet. Maybe it's the colder weather and Christmas approaching fast with memories of past beloved winter party dresses, one Laura Ashley red number in particular. I wore the ugliest duffle coat two winters in a row for that red dress, to placate my Mum because it was expensive, apparently. I got this most perfect velvet dress on ebay, it arrived on Saturday and it fits like it was made for me and is the perfect length. After being inspired by fashion robot I decided to style it in a Lolita kind of way. I have had an obsession with the Lolita subculture in Japan for a while now, though it is not as big as my obsession for the Ganguro style - that's a whole other post there!

Not so sure I'd wear this whole outfit out but I like parts of it, like wearing the dress with my vintage shoes (an etsy find) which also have a velvety feel. The shirt is vintage and also from ebay, the tights are H&M, the cuffs are from etsy and the socks came from some weird sex/fetish shop on ebay since I wanted white ankle socks and my feet are too big for girls' school socks!

I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of this cute skirt (also from etsy) but, alas, it may be a while as it's all the way in the USA!

I am jelous of these amazing velvet shorts my friend F bought in H&M on our last shopping trip, jelous because a) they're awesome and b) she has the legs to actually wear them. My thighs do not get on with shorts...but I might have a second look anyway! I'm also using the alchemy feature on etsy (famously used by Susie Bubble for the creation of an awesome cage dress) to get the velvet leggings of my dreams...I need them and I need them to be ankle length which any not-made-especially-for-me ones will not be, darn 36" legs!

I thrifted today (purchases to come!) and saw a dress that was both velvet and studded...why didn't I buy it? I may have to go back tomorrow!

Excuse the rant, but I have an obsession I needed to vent, it'd only get worse if I held it in!

Char x

drawing a blank

After much time over at polyvore (www.polyvore.com), I've decided upon posting this set, its inspiration that I have been getting from things over the past few weeks/days.


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Hopefully, it has worked!
Various things such as; fave music at the moment, pictures from Paris, a few items that I so wish to have an various day to day things too :)

Sea x.x.