style resolutions III - not everything is black & white

That, dear readers, is a big pile of colour.

A big resolution to myself is to buy less black and grey next year. I have plenty.

Although I totally need to replace my BELOVED grey uniqlo cardi, which I might have accidentally dyed purple by washing it with a bright pink skirt.

Sigh.

If eBay throws up nothing I will literally be dyeing it back to grey.

Anyways, a recent charity shop jaunt added to the pile of colours; and in the spirit of procrastinating from doing uni work, I had a right old go at putting some "colour only" outfits together.

This is harder than it looks.

Unless you don't mind looking like a box of crayons.

Also, I had grey tights on and couldn't be bothered to take 'em off.

Also, I'm still allowed nudes cos I say so.

vintage skirt & lace onesie; thrifted/DIYed gold vest; legwarmers

Legwarmers?!?! Ana left me them. I've never been down with legwarmers. But I quite enjoy these. I also kinda enjoy the vests fraying hem.

asos stripe top; thrifted silk vest & wrap skirt; vintage shoes

orange and pink shoulnd't work, but it totally does. right? RIGHT?!

thrifted blouse&scarf; vintage lace onesie; topshop skirt; peacocks boots

coat&scarf - christmas presents!; thrifted dress and VersaceJeans skirt; ebayed Lagerfeld loafers

It amuses me that the skirt is the same colour as my hair.

Topshop/christmas present cardi type deely; gold crop vest; blue skirt DIYed from a dress; Pierre Cardin shoes

I am alllll about this cardi/jacket effort right now.

Let's take a closer look at that last one, cos I tied/folded/weaved that scarf into a turban type deely that I will likely never be able to recreate; but that I thought was totally hot for about 5 minutes.

This all came about cos we went ice skating earlier in the day and I donned this.

thrifted henley; vintage skirt&belt&lace onesie; asos boots; primark legwarmers&tights; DIYed scarf; ebayed coat; various jewellery

Hmm, outfit heavy post.

K, I've got stuff to be doing.

Like NYE tomorrow; still dunno what to wear, but it's likely that TS jacket/cardi/thing will make an appearance cos I LOVE IT right now.

blue christmas

Yeahhhhhhh! Another outfit post!

Bryony's christmas affair....

pink coat (girls; tiny), the free shop in London; sheer grey tunic, thrifted in Berlin;

blue dress and belt, vintage; blue socks, Primark; shoes, New Look; Topshop jewellery

I don't remember the last time I wore nail polish; but here it is.

I do like that jade Chanel colour (no chance of getting it though...), but this deep green I've had knocking about in my nail polish bag for months is pretty hot, non?

a christmassy christmastime

Photo-heavy post alert!

:D

I believe this is Cat's plate o' food. Yeah I made all that - homemade cranberry sauce, homemade apple sauce, a big-ass chicken and a pork joint too. Everyone was reet happy, and shovelled it down and all we had left was enough chicken to make a couple of toasties the next day.

In the spirit of 'Jenn's family christmas' which is what I essentially forced on my unsuspecting housemates, there were stupid games a-plenty after dinner, including peas. Which involves dry peas and straws.

A minute to move as many peas from one plate to the other, in 2 teams of 4 - Auntie Kath would be proud! (I hope you read this Auntie K!)

Me, Aaron and Cat ended up at Jukebox; there were loads of folk we knew there. Excellent and most spontaneous night, I heard.

And again, in the spirit of a family chrimbo; the obligatory family photo. In the snow. VERY FESTIVE. (and cold.)

Plus, of course, some candids.

Merry Christmas!

(and a big ol' happy 21st to my friend/ex-housemate/treasured reader Deanne, whose birthday it is today. Obvs. :D)

an avalanche

An avalanche of outfit posts, that is.

Christmas dinner (post coming later!) was on Friday - it was a right old treat; I done a lot of cooking and drinking and playing games and then dancing at Jukebox, and was worse for wear on Saturday but had to do it all over again (well, the eating part) at Bryony's fake christmas.

I was "going for" a "victorian" look.

Lies.

I put the brown dress on on the morning to wear to cook in and was gonna get changed for tea, but then I put this super awesome and amazing vintage blouse on to keep me 'warm' (blouse what I charity-shopped for a fiver when I worked in Cancer Research) and tucked it under so it was at the same height as the waistband and decided that was a festive enough outfit.

Fur coat (what is super warm and fluffy and I can't help but snuggle in) & beret for popping to Boots/the post office....

beret, some shop in Australia; fur coat & blouse, vintage (fur coat from Paris!); brown dress a

freebie off of placement; tights from tightsplease.co.uk; boots from

peacocks (?); necklace off of portobello market.

And the tights! The tights I ordered when I was in Dundee, the first time. THE START OF NOVEMBER. And they finally got them in stock last week, and they came on Friday morning, and I got in on Friday night to discover I'd managed to ladder them in approx 4 places. NON IMPRESSED.

Debating buying some more (they were only a fiver) but god knows how long they'll take to get here. Gawd.

i want one of these

I finally got around to Christmas shopping - this time on friday I had zero presents and now I only have two to get (and I know what they are and where I'm getting them, I just haven't bought them yet).

Ah, the wonders of Internet shopping.

This prompted me and Gemma to have a lengthy conversation about internet shopping vs actual shopping - I wholeheartedly endorse actual shopping; I ALWAYS try things on and I like to feel fabrics and look at construction (as encouraged by uni tutors...), but when it comes to Christmas shopping (or any shopping involving Primark), I just can't take the crowds. Shopping shouldn't be rushed, it's a leisure activity. It's my main source of exercise, man.

The only exception for this crowd-based rule is sale shopping, but even then I'm certainly not one of those who gets up at 3am on Boxing Day and queues up outside...pretty sure these people are a bit mental.

Thoughts?

Unless I'm buying something that can't be found online, or something I really need to see in person, Christmas shopping is a lovely chilled, stress free experience that can be done in a day.

Course now I have to wait for my etsy, ebay, and amazon purchases to make their way to me, but there you go.

ANYWAYS

my point is, in the search for prezzies (including Luke's birthday one!) I inevitably come across things I REALLY NEED IN MY LIFE. Including this:

Floating Wireless Speaker - £39.99 from iwantoneofthose.com

When I have a bath, it is always accompanied by music; through my tinn-y, crappy speakers which are all wires and threat-of-drowning-ipod-y. :(

These speakers are all FLOATY AND WIRELESS. Genius.
I can imagine they'd be ace floating around in the pool on holiday and such, too, although no plans for any holidays right now. I wonder if they'd be down with me taking it along to Byker Pool and floating it about there while I swim? Man I haven't been swimming for ages.

moustachioed

Traditionally, I don't think about christmas until after my birthday, but given that that's 2 days away and meaning I have 6 lovely weeks and no money with which to collect pressies for all I figured I better start looking.

Actually, no, that's a lie, I had a present idea for a couple of people and thought I'd see if anything suitable was on etsy when I stumbled across these slices of genius.

This is by Little Angels, and they have loads of 'tache based goodness, as well as some snazzy cufflinks (I've been looking at cufflinks ever since I ebayed my blue stripy shirt, what is a proper shirt what needs cufflinks and everything).

The scorpion ones would be appropriate, non? Good to be a Scorpio.