In The Bedroom Mirror

la mode de l'automne et l'hiver, que j'ai volé de Vogue et interprété pour moi...

2010-07-19T13:21:00.000-07:00

Okay, well no more excuses. As of tomorrow the summer has officially began. No more exams. No more coursework. For six weeks. I repeat. SIX WEEKS. hurray. so I am going to be blogging propperly. yays.

There is a reason for the french title is that i got a good mark in my french exam today. whoop whoop. so I thought I'd be cool and use the highly innacurate and unneffective google translate tool to write out what (according to said website) roughly translates to meen; 'autumn and winter trends, stolen from vogue and interpreted by me'. and thats basically what this post is going to be about.

Okay well you get the idea and i dont really feel much explanation is necessary but I loved the floaty fabrics used by the designers above and I didnt have a floral dress in this sort of fabric so I layered a sheer black dress and a floral one to give this effect, obviously its a quirkier interpretation but I cant help looking a bit crazy, I meen its me for gods sake.

tigthts and both dresses are from primark, H&M belt

I'm loving this idea of mixing knits with glamourous fabrics. One of my favourite ideas to have come out of this seasons shows. My interpretation is less glamourous and I was undecided whether to upload this because it doesnt really fit but lets go for it.

I got given the satin dress, primark tights, topshop legwarmers with my own ribbon attatched to one, my mums cardi with my own green ribbon threaded into the knit, H&M belt.

Very similar to the last trend, infact one could argue they are the same thing however as I said before I'm really loving it at the moment so I dont really care about what you say to me doing to similar trends because I feel that, in my interpretation, I have approached both in entirely different ways.

Old dressing up skirt, random tank top, mums cardigan, TopShop glasses.

I don't know quite what has happened here and why the models have gone all skinny and odd, however I don't have the energy or the broadband speed to do anything about it. hehe. Therefore I'm hoping my outfit is jubbly enough to redeem my lack of effort in the sizing of images.

Dorothy Perkins tights, Fat Face shorts, random top, H&M belt.

As you can probably tell I went a bit crazy in the editting department today, however it was good fun and I'm hoping that you'll agree when I say that being a teenager with a blog is definitely more about fun than sophistication. blah sophistication. when since have I ever been sophisticated. I'm not trying to imitate vogue. I'm having fun with editting software that may have gone slightly over the top. but y'know. hehe.

Hope you enjoyed my friends.

Tomorrow x

Okay quickly, quickly... daintily though

2010-06-12T03:26:00.000-07:00

Okay well I would write reams and reams about this dancer and the video had I bothered to research it propperly but I really dont have the time due to the need for revision and the slowness of my computer so I hope that you get the idea of the inspiration for these photos.

Tomorrow x

Some Place Between Twiggy, Steampunk and My World...

2010-04-09T13:48:00.000-07:00

Recently I've been fascinated by the various sub-genres of goth, punk excetera. Mostly after some long discussions on my beloved facebook with a friend who is into 'alternative' and 'goth' fashion. Perhaps my favourite of these styles is steampunk. I have to say that I have never met or even seen someone who would class themselves as steampunk but its something I find wildly exciting because of the fantasy, historical elements. I found this picture on the internet for those of you who dont know what a steampunk is. I particularly like this image because its a red head, admittedly I am a big fan, she has white pale skin (obviously achieved with some sort of makeup but must have been fairly pale skin in the first place to pull it off) like me, however I am largely red from sunburn or laughing too much. And aside from that she is stunning. What more could you ask for.

Twiggy is my other influence today... tehe... my darling best friend bought me a photography book on twiggys modelling career and I have read it several times over... thank you Jamie.... and obviously my makeup is largely influenced by twiggys drawn-on lashes.

A couple of photos I took on my phone to show the twiggy style makeup... I know it meens you can see all the inacuracies of it but thats what I love... I hope you see the perfection of its imperfection too.

can you quite believe this jumping shot is real?? I cant believe how high off the ground, my positioning, my face... everything, something always goes wrong with my jumping shot, but not this one... this time its real.

Not too bad, funny face, not far enough off of the ground, bootlace undone but its okay.

I look like a bird. scarrryyyyy.

H&M Jacket and top, Zara trousers, Primark boots.

Hope you enjoyed my musings yet again. I have delighted in sharing it with you. Steampunks make me really excited.... tehehe... well fashion does to be honest.

I love my blog

Tomorrow x

Egyptology...

2010-04-05T12:25:00.000-07:00

I've had this book since I was much younger. I recieved it as a Christmas present from my grandparents who had heard that I had been studying egypt in school. When I saw that it was a book about egypt, I came to an immendiate misconception that the book would be dull, boring and text book-like, but on opening the book I discovered it to be none of the above. Infact it was one of the most beautiful books I've ever owned. Okay these photos really dont do the book any form of justice but I suppose they are neccesary simply to pad this post out so that it is not entirely made up of my ramblingness. There were enveloped letters and fold out games, encased in tiny origami packages and fold out hyroglyphics, the hole book is just so stunning its a wonder I havent done an inspired outfit before. By the way, if your an artist, design student, or just a blogger who is fond of arty, street style, fashion books that you enjoy trawling amazon in order to find (okay I know I'm kind of describing myself here but I'm sure theres others) then you should buy this book, even if ancient civilisation makes you feel like commiting suicide (erm thats me!)...it is stunning.

I was going to post some photos of the pages from the inside of the book aswell but the pages seem to be really shiny and the ones taken with flash the light has just reflected off of them leaving big white marks in my photos and the ones taken without, well they are beyond an acceptable level of blurriness.

okay, I attempted egyptian style makeup because I meen, how can you not, and I failed but, hey, please get over it. I'm fifteen. I had fun and at the end of the day this is why I blog, so that I can share with the world a way in which I enjoy myself. Like I've said before... there is something beautiful about imperfection.

H&M satin dress (rolled up and worn as bodice) and belt, Zara shoes, dress from the clothes show.

God, I must be the only teenager on earth sad enough to stand infront of an awkwardly balanced camera leaning against a pencil pot and a battery on her bedsides table on a loudly bleeping self timer and hold a pose such as this dressed like an ancient egyptian... tehehe, it does make one feel maginally pathetic.

Okay I'm crazy, one day I'll get over telling you that.

Tehe....

Tomorrow x

Skinheads and regurgitation of old posts...

2010-04-02T12:58:00.000-07:00

well I'm sure I've done a post about skinhead culture before and for some reason this image wont rotate... and I know I've definitely posted this collage before but ah well you get the inspiration behind my outfit. I'm afraid its not as imaginitive and well thought out as yesterdays but its an outfit post all the same.

This post is starting to look like a regurgitated mix-up of previous posts because I used this teddy in a punk inspired post as well but sometimes I see things in my room and I just think... like the dreamcatcher yesters... oh I'll grab that... it will work with my outfit and it tends to work out quite nicely and it just so happens that i had the same train of thought twice.

Bear Factory teddy, random tights, DMs, Ethel Austin shorts, Next shirt, random denim hair tie.

Sorry this post has been rubbish so I'm going to bore you with 'a breif history of skinhead culture'... Tehe... Only joking lol... okay I cant resist a very brief one... skinhead culture originated in 1960s Great Britain and became so popular that the rock band 'slade' temporarily adopted the look... hahahaha can you believe that... yes thats really what I wanted to tell you... tehe.

Tomorrow x

Alice through the Dreamcatcher...

2010-03-31T12:19:00.000-07:00

Hello again bloggettes, Today guess what? We have an outfit post... gasp... I am so impressed with myself... I doubted that I even had the ability to take blog photos, its been that long.

Anyway basically there are four inspirations for todays post, the first three of which is evident from the title of the post... obviously the first one is alice herself. The idea of this girl with such beautiful imagination and the concept of wonderland itself is one that has always fascinated, intrigued and excited me. I really enjoyed the Tim Burton version and if you still haven't seen it... why not?... go and see it in 3D it is simply stunning. I was blown away.

Another alice based inspiration and the most significant one, is Anne Hathaways role as the white queen, however I did feel in the movie her acting was rather too realistic for the abstract style of the film, noone can deny the beauty of her soft white skin against the blood red lips and all with elegant posture and poise... I am incredibly impressed with the picture bellow for Anne Hathaway was someone I had always considered stunning but I could only see this on film. Every time I had seen shoots she had done for magazines I had felt that she struggled to connect with the camera but in this photo she has definitely proved me wrong.

Dreamcatchers have been something Ive had since I was tiny... I have been given them by various relatives for years and obviously santa has been known to put the odd one or two miniture ones into my stocking on a night before christmas, however I really know very little about the culture and history behind these things. To be honest I have rarely hung one in my window as your supposed to they have just been pretty things I have lying around, but I love the idea of them taking your bad dreams from you and to combine that idea with the idea of a dreamt up world really excited me.

I was even more excited when I read on shop it right now about Ann Sofie Blacks dreamcatcher necklace... I like the idea of having a dreamcatcher necklace for Alice because it would protect her from her own dreamt up world... is that not a lovely idea... I think that I definitely need to do some artwork based on this concept and perhaps I could have a go at making my own Alice inspired dreamcatcher necklace though I'm a little unsure of how complex this would be to achieve.

And final... less deep and well thought out inspiration is this young hollywood shoot that appeared in the terrible monstrosaty of a magazine that is Teen Vogue ages ago and is one of the only shoots I have ever felt has 'feeling' or 'inspiration' behind it.

Okay so enough on my inspiration shall we get down to the nitty gritty and start posting some outfit photos.

I love this... I have achieved the dreamy feel (aka blurriness!) by taking the photo by placing my dreamcatcher over the lense of the camera... you can see a little bit of the feathers creeping in on the corner too.

Old ballet pumps, TopShop two tone tights (rip off of the chanel ones which I love), Dress bought at the clothes show (dont ever go, I went with school, it was a waste of time), yes I am only wearing one glove and its a vintage doe skin one and I have no idea where the dreamcatcher is from or who bought it for me etc.

These photos really remind me of my fantasies of wonderland as a child.

Okay well there you go... I am definitley starting to feel like my life revolves around my blog, much to the disgust of my parents who dispise me using the computer and I do this kind of derranged fast typing and cant even turn around incase I loose my train of thought when I am blogging. I know that meens most of it is illiterate but I dont really care... I dont feel the need to strive endlessly for perfection.

So here I am, overly inspired, being creative once again with my jubbly outfit posts.

Tomorrow x

I Am Sorry Bloggers...Sorry With All My Heart

2010-03-30T09:54:00.000-07:00

I feel so terrible at the unbelievable length of time its been since the last time I posted and most of those posts involved the words 'sorry I havent posted in a while' but I've had sniffles on and off and been tired and stressed from school and for one reason or another have felt too detatched from myself to just well... be me. And thats what my blog is primarily about... me sharing my world with all my lovely bloggettes.

So massive apology over lets get back to some blogging... I'm afraid theres no outfit post for today as I've lost my camera charger and theres no batteries in our family camera so thats no use really but I'll get hold of some batteries and use that until my charger turns up. But for now guess what there is theres some art and theres some crazed goth photos from my vain obsession with uploading myself to facebook via my phone.

Its a people tree... tehe.

Its another people tree...

This is one of the first ones I did... I had just had a shower and as you can see my hair is drenched but I kind of like it... it makes me look as if I'm from another planet.

some slightly less dark ones... liking the face on the middle one here, it really makes me laugh, I do have silly facial expressions but its good to laugh at yourself...tehe

pushing emo territory here a little... reminds me a little of jonny depps eye make up in alice in wonderland and seeing as I appear to be eating myself in the first one may meen I'm acting a little like a mini mad hatter too... tehehe

its deep... haha no its not its makeup :)

This ones a bit weird... I look kind of like a fish lol.

crazy old me

and all happy and light again... these are my favourites, theyre not so scary.

Anyway apolagies for there not being an outfit posts... and if you were worried i had died or something during the extensive period of no posts well I'm back and blogging now and thats the best way I can think of to say thank you for being amazing.

Hope youll be back to read whatever I have to say... even if its truly nonsense... another day.

Tomorrow x

Clashing Florals...

2010-03-03T12:18:00.000-08:00

H&M shoes, Acessorize socks, River Island tights, F+F dress (on top), Raw dress (underneeth), H&M belt, Primark pencil case worn as bag attatched by metal chain, Vintage gloves...

I must thank you patient bloggers for not becoming agitated at me for my extreme lack of posts (and when I have posted it has probably not been anything of any interest) over the last couple of weeks. I hope that I can make it up to you with a decent outfit post. The inspiration behind this was that spring is trying to poke through but winters harsh tallons are clawing it back, so I used spring patterns (flowers) and winter clothing to achieve this. Clever or clever?

Haha.. I will try to post more but I still have the sniffles...

Tomorrow x

etsy finds: Vivienne Westwood Inspired...

2010-03-02T10:05:00.000-08:00

Hols is running like a little contest on her blog to see who can do the best post inspired by Vivienne Westwood. I have been wanting to do an Etsy finds post for ages because I always enjoy the emails I recieve from Etsy full of jubbly new finds...

Vintage 80s oversize sex pistols tshirt from tusk and weave

I adore these union jack gloves from knithappens

Amazing tie die tights (I want them) from DAIXIAOLE

Geisha print shirt from angeatelier

Double layer tutu from lily at the well

Tomorrow says in croaky voice: I'm sorry for recent lack of posts due to school/ shows etc. I will try to blog some more from now on but seeing how tired and ill I am.. *snuffles* and *sniffs* I'm not sure how that will pan out.

Tomorrow x

Julian Louie...

2010-02-21T03:25:00.000-08:00

I have always been a big fan of Julian Louie's acclaimed nutural colour blocking. Thinking that it was an incredibly chic look that I would really appreciate being able to pull off and would love to be an owner of any of the pieces from these collections. But this season Louie appears to have made a big leap forward... in previous seasons Louie's work has been lacking intricacy and texture and been made up of mostly blod statement pieces... I feel that this season Louie has really come into his own and shown his true craftmenship and impressed us all with a very very chic but highly individual collection.I hope you agree with me that this is a truly stunning collection from a very talented designer and that the collection is a brilliant way to show minimalist individuality...

This is my favourite look from the collection...

Tomorrow x

I Made a Video... Gasp....

2010-02-18T08:50:00.000-08:00

Doesn't it anoy you when random people with no place in the world sit in front of cameras and make YouTube videos about themselves as if you might actually be interested? Well that's what I've done... It was insanely good fun making it in an obscure kind of way except I have gone one step more annoying than that... I have made my video on it's side... tehe... how did I manage that one, I'm such a douche... I took some photos to accompany my video so that you wouldn't find this post too irratating... here are the photos first because I am still waiting for my YouTune vid to hurry up and load so I'll load photos while I'm waiting...

Dr Martens boots, My old dance tights, Skirt was a costume I wore in a show once a long time ago, vintage top, H&M shirt...

7 minutes remaining until the video is successfully uploaded... It's risky business having YouTube and Blogger open at the same time if you have a PC like mine so lets all cross our fingers and pray that it can last seven minutes longer... if it refuses I will have to start again.. noooooooo... tehe

5.55 minutes remaining... It's looking good...

4.39 minutes....

10 MB to go...

1.10 mines... nearlly there

woohoooh... its uploaded... I am nervous about this... tehe...you may find yourself falling asleep if you watch it.... here goes

Thank you if you did watch it... If you didn't... you probably made the right dicision....
Tomorrow x

Please God, Let me be Tall....

2010-02-17T13:13:00.000-08:00

Today I woke up feeling small.... I always used to be tall and therefore a lot of people think of me as tall or average height but the truth is I am actuallu quite small... I have barely grown since I began high school and I am desperate to be tall and elegant and I try to 'think tall' (quote america's next top model... yes I watch trash... get over it) Anyway this is an outfit inspired by tall people... tehe.

Vintage shoes, TopShop leather trousers, Old ballet skirt, Primark nude vest, F+F belt, Zara lace top

Oh how I long to be long....

Okay some of these are the same... tehe

But there is one benefit of being small.... this is it....

I can be very, very small... haha tall people...

Tomorrow x

Jumping Shots by Tomorrow Result in Utter Fail...

2010-02-15T11:03:00.000-08:00

These photos really do not do justice to my lovely dress... It has a purple underskirt which is covered in black lace and the combination of the two colours is simply stunning and I am so impressed that it was only £20 from H&M. I think that it is insanely lovely and am so dissappointed to not be able to show it to you in its true glory but I hope that this is enough for you...

H&M dress and tank top, Ethel Austin shoes, Boots grey tights and my apple ipod touch ear phones...

A couple of exceptionally unimpressive jumping shots though it is a lesson I have learned that taking jumping shots takes several tries and I only had the time to do about ten or so, therefore resulting in utter fail....

Tomorrow x

False Eyelashes go Beneath the eye...Duh

2010-02-14T09:20:00.000-08:00

Another of my crazy little outfits that I enjoy doing so much. There was really no inspiration behind this look which is very rare for me, it was just random styling and then I added the false eyelashes for good measure. I didn't think that they would look as fantastic as they do on the lower lashes (well in my case on my cheek bones. Tehe)

Winsors boots, Dress bought at the clothes show (its rubbish I went with school) M&S cardi, Hood from Ludlow Medieval Market (its amazing I went with my grandma) and flower from accesorise.

Tehe, look at my eyelashes I reccomend everyone gives it a go, it looks so quirky and inspiring and it was such a last minute thing to do as well.

Tomorrow x

Photos That never got posted...

2010-02-11T09:19:00.000-08:00

Bored with a camera...in the car :)

All of these ancient, ancient photos and the drawing above are from centuries ago but I love them all so I have just posted them on.. I particularly love the gritty reality of the family photo, the light is also beautiful.

Tomorrow x

Amanda Palmer...

2010-02-10T09:55:00.000-08:00

I have been so uninspired over the last few days, hense the major lack of posts, sorry bloggers, I have just been really down with school and stuff so I have just had no drive to get up and do things which is so un-me. I am used to just having the inspiration to do whatever I feel like but over the last few days that inspiration has just not been there.

So to make up for what has been long time, no see and so as not to post some rambling garbage that will interest nobody I have decided to post about the lovely Amanda Palmer who has been inspiring me for ages. I didn't just want to talk about her fantastically individual style but also about her fantastically individual music that I love so much. I meen not only did she write a song about my favourite football club she also managed to make it pretty damn good. I have been listening to it over and over on my iPod. I love that her voice is so deep and unique. It's original and new which is rare in todays society.

I love the way this photo's been edited. I think all of the photographs of Palmer really sum up how she wants to be percieved. For her it's not about being punk, goth, glamourous or even unique it's just about dressing and acting the way she feels and doing things because that's what she wants to do. That is the attitude I want to channel and I'm loosing it a little bit at the moment because of school pressure and things like that.

Here she is pictured with her band the Dresden Dolls, I love this photo too because all though the costume and set is very unique and excentric it doesn't look overthought.

I will have to do an outfit post or a drawing inspired by her maybe tomorrow or the day after. I promise to try and get back into daily posting because the posts seemed to be flowing quite nicely from one to another over the last few months of daily posting so I don't really want to loose that.

To be honest blogging should be an escape shouldn't it so I'll try and keep my worn out emotions for the real world and turn all that negative energy into some new and exciting blog posts!

Tomorrow x

Sheer Perfection...

2010-02-04T12:09:00.000-08:00

I really want to get my hands on a lovely sheer dress to layer over my various different outfits just to give it a bit of an edge, though it's definitely an either or between The Clash converse and one of these, I have been scouring the net for some designer ispiration before looking at the options more within my price range! I'd love to know your opinions!
Here's my inspirations, sorry there's so many, I've tried to only keep the most relevant photos but when attempting I kid myself that they're all relevant!

Few! Marathon upload! Okay on to my price ranges' options! Be great to know what other bloggers opinions are! I was originally going to do this on all different websites and high street stores sheer goodies but it ended up me finding nothing that I liked on any site except from the lovely Etsy!

25 USD from FancyCatVintage on Etsy! I really love this one and I have a good fealing about it! Maybe this will be the one! It's sheer enough to see the clothes underneeth which is important to me! Its about the right price and everything about it is what I Envisaged.

So insanely dated it's chic! I might end up buying this and trying to pull it off in a quirky way! That sort of thing exites me! This is another etsy find and it 4.99 USD from waywardmermaid!

18 USD from faithfullvintage on etsy (again!) I really like this one and would be gorgous for summer and would brighten up my wardrobe but it is drastically different from what I originally imagined!

Okay please comment, comment, comment because I really need your advice! They are all so drastically different so I just have no idea what to do!

Tomorrow x

The Little Flower that Tells me Summer is Coming...

2010-02-02T13:18:00.000-08:00

I always think that it is proof that summer is about to arrive when I get light like this in my photographs. Photos where I have not had to use a flash and have come out beautifully!

I am not very good at photography so I don't really know how to get the light to look the way I want it to so usually it's just random luck and on this occasion it has been one of those rare times when the light in the photos stunningly reflects my look!

vintage belt, vintage shoes, Falke socks, vintage shirt, Dorothy Perkins dress, vintage hat (Frank[sorry I named my hat]!)

Tomorrow x

Collage the (imaginary) Collaborations....

2010-01-31T08:51:00.000-08:00

After the last post I did some more googling and still couldn't find any decent band/ fashion collaborations. I decided to veer away completely from punk rock and just choose a few bands I like and do some polyvore sets, thinking about if I was the designer for a collaboration with one of them.

The Fleetfoxes are one of my favourite bands and their style will never be considered memorable, infact some may say it is even unstylish but I think it is the way they wear their clothes not actually what they wear!

you may have seen the fleetfoxes tshirts advertised across the internet (all the t-shirts in this set) and I have to say I do really like the simplicity of them.

Another band I'm massively into, I am afraid after taking the fleet foxes style very litteraly and basically just using pieces practically identical to what the fleetfoxes actually wore I felt the need to be alot more abstract with my Coldplay set.

I found these photographs of Coldplay on polyvore and fell in love with them immediately and decided to base my set around the cosmic theme, however, I didn't want to loose Coldplay's style so I encorparated adidas into the set and the big trainers as these are commonly seen worn by the band members.

Last but by absolutely no means least it's my beloved beatles! As a devoted fan since the age of two I was surprised how difficult their style was to interpret. It seamed it was so individual not many stores had replicated it. Obviously the yellow submarine bag was a stroke of extreme luck and don't even ask about the rollerskates (they look good okay!!?) Let me know what you think!

Tomorrow x

Tenuous Links and Weird Coincidences...

2010-01-29T12:50:00.000-08:00

Obviously not a punk band but the Kings of Leon one of my favourite bands and in my head the link between this post and my previous posts over the last couple of days was far less tenuous than it now appears!

Basically, my thinking was that they're a rock band, not a punk rock band, but a rock band, and the clash collaborated with converse, so I wanted to do a post about how cool it would be if more bands collaborated with stores.

Susie Bubble was talking about weird coincidences in her post today and I have to admit that that is a weird coincidence because I have had a similar experience of a weird coincidence!

I was going through my inbox and I find a message from cototure telling me about a collaboration between the Kings of Leon and menswear line Surface2Air after I had been doing all my posts about punk and thinking about music and fashion! That is so spookily weird!!!

And an added bonus is that I actually really like the collection! I wish I had a brother or a boyfriend to practice menswear styling on...

I hope some more bands get round to collaborating with stores because I'm a little bored of endless designer collaborations! (let me know if you know of any minus converse because I know they have collaborated with quite a few brittish rock bands!) As gorgeous as some of them are its always nice to see somebody doing something new!

Tomorrow x

Punk Me! #2

2010-01-29T10:16:00.000-08:00

And punk inspiration is continued... I hope you all like the punky preppiness of yesterdays outfit, I had a great time piecing it together so now I'm having another go! I just wanted to wear my boots really so I decided to work around them!

My jeans were destroyed by me with bleach and siscors, it was an idea in an old edition of Vogue, i just adapted it to make mine look the way I wanted them to!

self destroyed jeans, self made shirt, Dr Martens boots, Top and bangles were presents, Headband bought at the clothes show.

Tomorrow x

Punk Me! #1

2010-01-28T12:51:00.000-08:00

I've finally got round to doing this! I was so scared of my post ending up looking like avril lavigne that I decided to go for almost a menswear look because I knew if I tried girly punk the avril risk would significantly increase and I would have died if that had happened!

Here are three punk rock bands that inspired my outfitt! The Clash being my favourite ofcourse!

The Clash

The Sex Pistols

The Velvet Underground

My friends call these my gokette glasses, they're not very punk I know but I thought they looked wacky! Okay my whole look doesn't scream punk at you really but I hope that you can see the inspiration from the bands!

I had a great time taking these photos! They all make me laugh so much!

Camden stall top, H&M trousers, vintage boots, my dads tie, TopShop blazer and glasses, bangles were a christmas present (I think their trade craft or an eco friendly make like that which is good!)

I love this photograph! You can see how badly I've done the tie! This is the first time I have ever worn a tie in my life because both the schools I've been two both wear polo tops so theirs never been any need! I had to search for youtube videos on how to tie one! I learnt in the end though!

I will be back with more punk 'inspired' looks over the next couple of weeks because I am completley addicted to punk culture at the moment!

By the way I am still running my brightest brights challenge I'd really appreciate it if I could recieve a few more entries! Send them to me mirror.leggings@gmail.com or comment on this or the original post!

Tomorrow x

The Skeleton Hand Bracelet...

2010-01-26T09:10:00.000-08:00

Ever since this image appeared in UK Vogue in March 2009, Delfina Delettrez has been seen as the designer to watch! Her full name being Delfina Delettrez Fendi, Delfina is the daughter of Silvia Venturini Fendi accesories director at Fendi.

The braceletts and designs I am most interested in (and the ones I presume you'll recognise) are the skeleton hand bracelets which have caused alot of excitement in the fashion and jewellery industries over the last few years.

I love the idea that the bracelet moves with your hand and the fingers are rings! It makes me think that someone has made one of those cheap glow in the dark hands that teenagers have at halloween and made it from murano glass and silver.

I would really like one of these and this really is an exceptional demonstration of how to bridge the gap between pretty and dark.

As you can see, all of Delettrez Fendis designs are quite other worldly, resembling the jewellery you might imagine, say a mermaid to wear. All her jewellery contains that gothic element which is the main focus of her collections.

I love the crocodile, he is so quirky yet edgy. I am really into individual jewellery that is not just your classic boodles eternity ring, jewellery that has something unique and exciting about it. You would have to agree that Delletrez Fendis designs definitely achieve this.

Tomorrow x

Clash Clash!

2010-01-24T11:45:00.000-08:00

Today is an age where trends come and go so fast and people change their minds about style and society so frequently but noone can turn around their ideas of style as quickly as me!!! I am over my goth fase and after seeing that converses had collaborated with the clash, my love of punk rock music and fashion was suddenly reignited!

So be prepared for a series of punk inspired looks over the next couple of weeks!

Here are those gorgeous shoes that sprung from the ingenious collaboration of Converses and The Clash!

Love the badges! Though you really could do this yourself with cheapo converse fakes and some badges and red shoe laces from camden stalls!

Bellow are the ones I want to get! How gorgeous are they!!!!

They have london calling written on them! Sorry, i forget, you do have eyes! Gosh how cool are they! Okay there not really that punk are they? But they're a collaboration with a punk band, a band I really like so who gives one!

Look, each shoe has a different coloured lining and come with extra laces! I am so excited!!! I have to get them!

I didn't want to post this post incase all the blogging world went out and bought them and made them sell out! but seeing as I'm averaging about ten comments a post I'm sure I'll be okay!

Tomorrow x

Playing In Plaid...

2010-01-22T12:05:00.000-08:00

Yet more bubble inspired outfits I know but let me off it's been months since the last time but dont you just love her! And those converses= enviooouuuuusss (all my friends say =jeallloooouuuus on my darrling facebook so I thought I'd poshify it!)

I did this look and I was happy with it but I was having really strange de ja vu (!) so I set up my camera ready to take the photos and instinctively picked up a teddy bear from my bed, I posed with it in the mirror and it totally finished my outfit off! And then I remembered why I was having de ja vu! It was that Marc Jacons add campaign from last year!

Here are two of the adds photographed on my collage wall (left and right) Aren't they amazing!?

Vans trainers, Pamela Mann for mytights.co.uk tights, Miss Selfridge coat, Primark bag, Accesorize flower clip, Zara shirt

I'm afraid the susie inspo is blatantly obvious here but hey! I was just trying to create something quirkey and different and I did not mean it to be quite so similar to susies look that's just the way it turned out!

I've had these Vans for ages but I'm totally obsessed! They make every girly and pretty thing I've ever owned look immediately tomboy, quirky and edgy, which is what my style is about and not being girly!

I am going to get some high top converses soon which will hopefully help me to achieve the same effect just using a different style!

Tomorrow x

PS: Brightest Bright Challenge still running please enter!

The last of my goth fase.....

2010-01-21T13:11:00.000-08:00

Ive been drawing again! Finally back into it! It's been so long since I did some decent art and finally I come up with this. Masks as usual I know but I'm proud of it!

I was not going to admit that the effect this picture achieves was achieved by accidently dropping my sketchbook in a science lab sink but I think it's quite a funny story so I'm telling you!!!

Anyway it had to inspire an outfit didn't it. I've gone all gothy on you I'm afraid but I promise to get right back into my colourful world of jubbly bubbliness tomorrow!

Random tank, H&M skirt, Pandora bracelet

I've kept the red eye because it looks really creepy and weird and I like creepy and weird at the moment! Basically I have taken the drawing very litterally and just created something using the colour scheme and matching my eye makeup!

Colour is promised for tomorrow, for now just enjoy the crazyness of my attempted 'pretty goth'.

Tomorrow x

PS: my brightest bright challenge will be running for a couple of weeks so you can still enter http://inthebedroommirror.blogspot.com/2010/01/brightest-bright-challenge.html

Brightest Bright Challenge!

2010-01-17T10:36:00.000-08:00

Okay the challenge is official. Please tell everybody and let them get involved. Yesterday it was all a bit spur of the moment and not really well enough thought through!

Ive had a day to think it over now and was reading yesterdays comments and the lovely Jen suggested I did a rainbow! How amazing would it be if we got a hole rainbow of brights.

So the rules are your outfit must consist of only one Bright [colour] but you may use as many shades of that bright as you like (or you can do it all one shade like me!)

I will draw pictures of the outfits of the 'Brightest Brights' for you to put on your blog!

Good Luck and please participate! I would love to have the hole rainbow!

To enter comment with the link or email it to me mirror.leggings@gmail.com

Tomorrow x

Inspired by an iPod app....

2010-01-16T06:42:00.000-08:00

Lakita is the amazing fashion photographer that took all of these lovely photographs. I discovered her when aimlessly browsing the app store and I came accross an app called 'Lakita photos' and one of the tags was 'fashion photography' so I had a quick look at some screen shots, which I liked so dowloaded the app and loved it! I have since looked her up online and she appears to have even more gorgeous photos on her flickr which you must check out!

Anyway after the initial excitement of discovering Lakita's unique and colourful style I decided to do an outfit post inspired by her gorgeousness so I did and this is it!

My mums old top, New Look tights, Dr Martens boots!

Funny faces!!!! Somehow I dont think my style quite lives up to that of Lakitas but she was a brilliant inspiration!

Raw dress, New Look tights, Evans shoes, Accesorize flower (in hair!)

All in red!!! This photograph is terrible but so were all of the others! But I love the idea of dressing up all in one single bright! Have a go at it yourself, comment or email me mirror.leggings@gmail.com if your going to have a go!

Tomorrow x

What would we do without Jason Wu?

2010-01-13T13:23:00.000-08:00

If you only do one thing today try to take the time to watch this amazing video from the brilliant style.com about Jason Wu's spring 2010 ready to wear collection and I know it seems like an age since then and yes, Wu did do a pre-fall collection more recently but there is not an inspirational style.com vid for the pre-fall collection and the collection was not inspired by one of my favourite artists Tara Donavon!

The review on style.com by its executive editor Nicole Phelps described the collection as 'a confident leap forward for the 26-year-old designer'. When I read that I was shocked! 26? This is such a beautiful and mature collection something the top most well established designers would not be ashamed of.

I agree with Phelps though, as his previous collections may have been technically impecible and have contained some beautiful pieces thats just what they were. This collection has an edge... an edge that makes it stand out... an edge that makes me want to blog about it... an edge that makes me want to do an outfit post about it... and a mini inspo-board!

As it says in the video the collection was inspired by artist Tara Donavon who did the sculptures used to behind the style.com photos on the left page. I just think this collection is so incredible and am still gobsmacked at what a 26 year old has achieved.

Now here is my little attempt at a Wu collection inspired look!

Really old jeans I've had since they were way too big for me, Evans shoes, self made skirt, accesorize scarf, H&M dress (worn as bustier), sheer tank made from an old pair of tights!

I tried to channel the spirit of the collection by using the black lipstick and the satin fabrics; giving a pretty look an edge and I used the jeans because in the video Wu talks about updating an old look and these are my really old jeans so I tried to update them with new and exciting takes on them!

Tomorrow x

A little bit of a random post...

2010-01-08T10:27:00.000-08:00

Matalan hat, Primark scarf, TopShop coat, River Island Leggings, Office Wellies.

I love snow so much! This was the day my family tried to be spontaneous and drove up a hill to find some snow (this was before it had fallen where I live) in order to go sledging and we managed it! Usually my family try to do spontaneous things and end up in a coffee shop sipping hot chocolate and eating cake but for once (admittedly we did end up in Costa afterwards) we actually managed what we had set out to do!

When the snow started to fall (on Tuesday evening!) I went outside with my dog; Alfie (before having the mother of all snowball fights with the other kids in my neighbourhood) and my sister took these lovely photographs of me and Alfie for me! I love them all and their are loads more!

Okay anyone can manage a blog that tells the story of their dull daily life but I want to write a fashion blog that is creative and unique so I've compiled my boring snow pictures that everyone is doing with loads of other stuff that has been awaiting blog publication for some time!

A mini-inspo board I did of what my favourite high street stores are doing at the moment as I plan to go on a major shopping trip in February to sort out my 2010 wardrobe style! I am going to do the same for online shops, Vintage and handmade and see what I end up with! I'm sorry my scanner quality is so terrible!

The lovely susie! Is this not inspiration enough!

Toxic...he comments on my blog all the time and his is brilliant and he makes his own trousers from old girls skirts so he deserves this!

And just a last minute thing I've been given an award by samichami and apparently I have to come up with seven random facts about myself so here they are!

1. I talk to myself all the time in the third person and I absolutely have to do maths outloud (yes exams are a nightmare.)

2. My house is big and old (like my dad!)

3. My best friend is 100% perfect (this is fact!)

4. I am inspired by Ariel Excel Gel bottles they are just so cool!

5. I come out with stuff that is just so insanely random people can't believe I'd bothered to be that creative in saying something stupid such as 'imagine if you were a foetus and you were just walking around school like a jelly blob of flesh with sunken eyes and half arms!' and last time I had an insult war with a friend my come back was ' you look like your eyes just fell out of your head...o wait, they already did!

6. I agree with the rest of the blogging world (for once!) on the gorgeousness of the Twenty8Twelve dress Sienna Miller wore to the MTV movie awards.

7. I love watching contemporary dance on youtube (I do not have a background in dance, haven't had ballet classes since I was six and have two left feet but I find it inspiring!)

So there is my seven random facts!

I hope you've enjoyed my little bit of randomness!

Tomorrow x

I Love Goth...

2010-01-04T12:57:00.000-08:00

Top - made froman old pair of tights, Pull and Bear skirt, F+F vest top

The cable that connects my camera to my PC is totally defunct at the moment meaning that I'm really struggling to load my images, this one I managed to load via the SD card via my printer but it meant that only one or two loaded (well I could have loaded more but it would have taken decades!) So here I am with just the one photograph.
Anyway back to the topic at hand; Gothic Fashion, I've been a massive fan for ages and ages, I love to get out my black boots and sheer clothing from time to time. I have a strong dislike for scene and emo and hate big eyeline coated eyes and arm warmers in thick bottle green and black stripes! And I think to an extent goth has been fased out and replaced by these trends. Gone are the days of black lipsticked teenagers in their tight black lace hanging in gloomy places and smoking who-knows. Now its a crazy bunch of neon brights listening to Hannah Montanna (yes the emos at my school do listen to the Mileyator and HSM and GaGa face too!) with hair dye that is just so out of this world. And anything individual or unique is so exactly what I want to see more of, but this fashion may be more unique than TopShop and erm more TopShop and the celebrity versions who can afford Balmain, but its not that Unique is it? And with goth come so many spin offs, one of my favourites being the Japanese Lolita (which I wont cover today), but my favourite gothic trend is this prettier one adopted by celebrities, okay, you may choose not to classify this style as goth, but its the feminine pretty stereotypical female blonde celebrity image with a gothic edge.

Evan Rachel Wood of the true blood series, gone from hardcore goth, to pretty goth and now, much to my dissapointment into girly blonde celeb but I am hoping that it will not be long before she returns to her gothic origins and produces some more fabulously photogenic style, like the outfit above, I am in love!

Now this is a girl you would not expect to see doing goth, but since her recent press outrage at agreeing to star in the goth musical version of Cinderella along side Marylin Manson I was surprised to see how effortlessly (for such a stereotypical good girl) she managed to pull of such a difficult trend. I suppose it's just proof she can pull off anything!

This post was basically inspired by this girl. I'm don't read the sun, or gossip blogs and to be honest I have no desire to so I have no opinion on her attitude or persona as most probably do all I know is that I love everything she wears and her eyes! Well done Peaches. I also love this stunning photo for New Zealands No magazine which I need to try and purchase a copy of from ebay etc. because it looks fantabulous!

Obviously not forgetting the gothilator! The girl who made celebrity goth and stuck with her look through thick and thin. An inspiration and a crazy fashionista, the one and only, Dita Von Teese.

Now I'm off to celebrate Leeds win against Manu yesterday!!! Wooohhooooo! (yes I am a Leeds fan - as is Chris Moyles so leave me alone!)

Tomorrow x

Collage the Decade...

2009-12-31T05:31:00.000-08:00

F+F jersey top, H&M top and shorts, Boots tights, Winsors boots, Matalan hat, tape measure (!)

Everyone is doing little noughtie tributes and review of the years and blogging highlights of 2009 in their blog posts at the moment so I decided that before then new year officially hits us, I should probably join them!

Well everyone knows how fond I am of my collages, whether I've used MS Word, Paint or my beloved Polyvore (or indeed siscors, paper and glue!) to achieve them, so I thought that it would be nice for me to do my noughties tribute through collages.

I sat down and thought how I could make this work and I decided one thing I could do is to come up with a look that summed up the noughties style for me, I could not settle on one so I decided to do two!

The first is the look above...the noughties took casual to a whole new level, tracksuits and UGGs (which I'll talk about later) hit off in a big way, so the look is casual but it's important to show that the noughties did spurt out some more fantabulous new casual trends which I think will be here to stay with us throughout the next decade such as the tights/ shorts/ boots cobination. And talking of boots, Dr Martens became widely accepted and are no longer ascosiated with heavy metal grungers. So I am wearing my DM style boots to show off this!

And as well as coming up with some classic new trends, I believe that the noughties will continue to be known for the decade that regergitated practically a hole century of styles. Everything came back into fashion, from 1920s flapper dresses to 80s leggings. I chose to show this with my leapord print boots (animal print is definitely one of the most major trend come-backs of the decade) and my ruffled shirt.

Dress Raw, Tights boots, boots Vintage

Vintage has definitely made its mark on the previous decade, and I know my dress is not vintage but I think thats quite hard to believe (!) and my boots are, so here is a big thanks to the noughties for making vintage work. Also vintage styles are massive now and every shop is showing retro trends frequently; the reason I managed to find my dress in a modern store.

This collage was done in Polyvore and I wanted it to represent all the styles I consider to have been 'invented' by the noughties, as you can see I had a lot of fun doing this one but I am probably guilty of nearly all of them at some point in my life minus the 'born and bread chav' and 'the mom!'

This is my twelve most influencial women of the noughties, I'm sure I've missed out hundreds but these are the ones I have noticed. I don't like them all, some of them I have a strong dislike for but I feel these are the women others and myself notice if they wear something totally outragous or something totally amazing!

Tell me if you feel I have left anything out on any of the collages or if you feel I should have included another collage on another topic!

Bye Bye Noughties! The first complete decade I have lived in!

I hope you all have big partys and have lots of champagne!

Enjoy and a happy new year to all bloggers and humans alike!

Tomorrow x

Fairy Tale of New York....

2009-12-29T13:56:00.000-08:00

Winsors Boots, H&M skirt and belt, Christmas present Arm Warmers, present I <3 NY t-shirt, Hood from Ludlow Medieval Market.

Me at my crazy antics again! Having never been to New York (the t-shirt was a present from a friend who went) I always dream of thick crunchy snow at Christmas and whether where a everybody has to dress up in thick coats with fur ruffs and little gloves with ruched cuffs embelished with gold studs and chunky boots and thick tights all set off by bright lights and towering Christmas trees adorned with lights and beautiful decorations and exciting shops enticing you in with their Christmas window displays...so beautiful.

This outfit was inspired partly by (obviously) the fairy story little red riding hood and partly by Christmas time in New York. And I did not realise what a brilliant play on words I'd be able to create by mixing these two inspirations! So there we go!

Above is a beautiful photo I discovered of New York at Christmas time that helped to inspire my outfit!

The hood my Grandma bought for me at Ludlow Medieval Market when I went to buy my Christmas presents; I was so delighted! It is such a beautiful hood and it is such soft felt, and lined too! I love it so much, I wanted to take it to bed with me the night I got it and cradle it in my undeserving arms!

Tomorrow x

Christmas is over but I am still here...

2009-12-28T13:17:00.000-08:00

oh bloggeees, I just want to put my arms around all who commented so kindly on my last post! I feel like I've finally managed to get accross me as a person, exploding my personality onto the blog-o-sphere, I really feel like I am me and no-one else now and one of my 2010 resolutions is to keep that up!

So I thought for you my beautiful blogging friendlies I would go through my lovely extensive list of utterly gorgeous presents I recieved this Christmas!

Okay well here goes: From top left.... only joking! We'd be here all day! Here are all the Jubbly Christmas presents I recieved from the various relations and friends who kindly decided to give a little smile to a smiling blogger with a defunct ability to think like a normal human being... AKA...me!

A favourite present recieved from my darling Grandmama! An A2 portfolio bag for my art portfolio! how cool is this? It is made from grey felt and it is from paperchase! I am in love with paperchase. It makes my heart want to melt when I see their moleskine stand!

Another successful present! This is a pencil cas made from a zip------- that can be unzipped! On the left is it when its not zipped up and on the right is when it is! That is so cool and incredible! I totally love it! I was so confused when I recieved a 3m zip in the post but then my sister said 'I know its a pencil case' and I was very confused and replied 'doesn't look like a very good pencil case!' and then being the darling she is she explained how it worked and I was very impressed!

Very cool present! iPod touch! doesn't get much better than this! And I can now email my friends, comment on blogs and check my own blog comments all from this little jubbly! I am very excited about this concept! I love it!

Another very nice present was my lovely pointy toed Dr Martens! So nice and cool! I wanted to create a dead atmouspheric 'winter wonderland-eque' photograph of me in my new boots when we took this but the light was all wrong and there was virtually no snow so I decided to take it anyway, I know you may not gaze in wonder at the beauty of this photograph but you may at the beauty of my boots!

Yes, I know they are gorgeous aren't they!

Well I have nothing left to say apart from, I have been a very lucky girly this Christmas!

Tomorrow x

2009-12-23T08:39:00.000-08:00

My mums tank top, Old dressing up dress from when I was tiny, Next Shirt, Office pumps

Well I had such fun playing dress up in my daddys clothes yesterday that I thought I'd do it aagin but this time inspired by this months 'More Dash than Cash' shoot. Its all lacey stuff done in quite a quirkey way and I thought it would be fun to give it a go, so I did and this is the result. I think they're really cute!

Old dressing up dress, My mums scarf (in hair), Office pumps

My mums Cami, Accesorise lace socks, My old ballet pumps, Dress I got at the clothes show, My old dressing up dress, My old ballet skirt, TopShop blazer.

haha this is crazy this is like all my clothes in one outfit!

Dress I bought at the clothes show, My old dance tights, My old ballet pumps

Vintage dress, My old ballet pumps, River Island tights, H&M bag, River Island t-shirt (you can't really see it!)

Okay so let me know what you think! I am completely insane, I know, I do not have a life! I am only interested in clothes and seeing as it is Christmas Eve tomorrow I will probably dragged off to see some unknown relative and then ofcourse Christmas day and then Boxing day will probably be the same so I probably will not be able to see you guys for three days! ah how will I cope!? So I hope this is a good enough Christmas present for you!

I am not moving until I get my presents!

haha not really!

I love Christmas!

Merry Christmas to bloggers and humans alike!

Tomorrow xxxxxxxxxxx

(I have never put more than one kiss in all the time I have been blogging so count yourselves lucky!)

All Dressed Up In Her Daddy's Clothesssss....

2009-12-23T02:42:00.000-08:00

my dads Jaeger shirt, Primark dress, My dads work shoes, River Island tights,

I was bored babysitting my younger gremlins that I am forced to share an inhabitance with last night so I wondered into my parents room and had a little go at creating some outfits from my dads closet! They are all completely mad but it was good fun!

I was going for a kindof menswear meets circus act kind of look, as you can see having a creative head can cause some rather bizaar ideas to occur inside my tiny brain.

H&M trousers, Marks & Spensers jacket (I just got given an interview suit and this is the blazer!) New Look belt.

Excuse my soaking wet hair, yes I know I could have blow dried it but I am trying to be good and only blow dry when absolutely nessesary because I will probably be going to partys and stuff because of Christmas and New Year so I will need to blow dry, curl etc then.

My dads work shoes, River Island tights, My dads sweater, My dads belt, Two of my dads ties (worn as scarfs)

I must be going mad! Every time I look at my blog I just think 'what the heck, you crazy little girl!' and then I go and publish it anyway! Well I hope readers like insane fifteen year olds in their fathers shoes sitting on a sort of circus cube thing because if they don't then they won't be coming back!

Tomorrow x

Creativeness and Cosyness...

2009-12-22T11:14:00.000-08:00

Yay! I have finally got round to making my own mask after all that raving about Jenden and Lawes and goodnes knows who else, here is my rather pathetic attempt at a crazy mask!

It was inspired by Stephen Mackey an artist whos work I really like but after a while I just got a bit carried away and the inspiration kind of got a bit lost but heres a Stephen Mackey print just so you get the idea of what his work is about (he uses alot of these tirquoise colours!)

I think his work is so lovely and I am so envious of his talented way of using shading to create a 3D effect. arrrrggggghhh no fair, I want to be able to paint like that!

Me wearing my mask, don't worry I won't wear it outside!!! I think some people would be seriously freaked if I did!

Primark scarf, TopShop coat, River Island tights, Office pumps

Look at me, all cosy and warm for Christmas! I am going to burn (yes burn not toast, I like them that way!) some marshmallows on my REAL coal fire in a minute (when I move I am going to miss my coal fire!) and then have some noodles for dinner!

I so can't wait for christmas, I am like a small child all excited for santa to come! arrrgghhhh! and Christmas means new clothes! Yay!

Tomorrow x

In Love with Liberty...

2009-12-20T02:37:00.000-08:00

Most people will have done their Christmas shopping by now but I thought that this would be a nice oppurtunity to share with people what you could of bought if you were stinking rich and had a thousand times more class than me!

I was on the Liberty site the other day, Liberty is my favourite department store ever and every time I looked at something new I was enamoured by its quirkeyness, or gogeousness, or loveliness, whatever it was that made me love it, I did! So I got onto MS Word and had some fun collaging some of my favourite liberty gifts!

And then I stumbled across the Ronnie Wood for Liberty of London collection and I had never gazed at a screen with such love and devotion before that day when I discovered this collection. All completely, completely out of my financial reach but all completely, completely within my idea of an amazing collection!

The bag with the swirly painted print on in the above collage is from this collection.

The dress below is my favourite piece from the collection! look at it! look at it! ooooowwww I want it so bad. It sums me up, Painting and fashion in one dress, and its a nice dress, infact a beautiful dress! What more could you ask for! The only problem is that its £495 worth of loveliness! mmmm! no fair!

Tomorrow x

Part of the Past...

2009-12-14T11:52:00.000-08:00

My little sisters belt, Primark dress, Octopus bag, TopShop Blazer, New Look wetlooks, Bow bought at Clothes show

Sorry this was a part of yesterdays post I missed out, its basically the outfit I wore on my photo taking venture but I really like the light in this photograph so I decided to still post it.

I imagined I was Lucy from the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe just after she had returned from her first visit to Narnia and that I was trying to keep Narnia from leaking into the real world by leaning against the wardrobe door to shut it in! Okay I am really weird I know but It made a good photograph!

Tomorrow x

Inspire Me...

2009-12-13T10:24:00.000-08:00

Today I went out with my wonderful friends and we walked to the cinema (we went to see Nativity -ignore the reviews- it is hilarious and makes you feel fuzzy inside!) and on the way I found lots of interesting things to take photographs of.

Above is the most amazing grafiti I have ever scene, wow! It almost looks like Banksy which unfortunately I have never actually scene despite my love of street art.

Masks! Okay any long tern reader of my blog will know that masks and me are like Tavi and Rei Kawakubo or Kate Moss and vintage or whatever you want to make the comparison to, It is a passion of mine but I have yet to discover one that inspires me as much as the concept of an inspirring mask does! anyway heres some photos I took of masks in a costume shop window.

Look at this carving I came accross beside the Canal, It's supposed to be dinner plates and jugs all stacked up, it ispires me that someone took the time to do that and that is why I find street art so inspiring (and I suppose this is a kind of street art) aswell. No-one is going to buy it, no-one will appreciate it infact it will probably get scrubbed off, but it is beautiful and intricate and colourful and it must take such skill and time to achieve!

I came accross this bordered up old soliciters covered in this crazy rambling dead plant and I found that inspiring aswell! I am inspired by everything!

Tomorrow x

2009-12-08T13:07:00.000-08:00

My Christmas Tree is up! Hurray!

Tomorrow x

Organic and Gorgeous...

2009-12-04T14:15:00.000-08:00

I was really hoping this might come out a bit bigger than this so you could actually read it! I hope you will be able to make the effort to click on it to see and enjoy it that way. It makes me feel like giving up altogether when posts don't go exactly how I want them to but it took such a long time to put together I decided to post anyway, I hope you like!

Tomorrow x

Homemade nonsense...

2009-12-02T12:16:00.000-08:00

A collection of self made craziness I shot when I got an incy bit bored last week and decided to collect all my homemade stuff from my wardrobe and put it on, all at once! This was the resut

selfmade skirt, selfmade shirt, selfmade doll, Accesorize socks, old ballet pumps.

Do you like my shirt? it is the latest edition to the self made wonderness in my wardrobe! I am quite pleased with it!

I am thinking of putting together a micro collection for charity, obviously I'm not a major label so it would take alot longer than six months to piece together the hole thing, probably a good couple of years if I'm to be realistic but I think St Martins might give me a second glance when I hand in my application if I'd achieved something like that by the time I was 16/ 17. What do you guys say?

Tomorrow x

In Ye Olde Days...

2009-12-01T13:58:00.000-08:00

In days gone by people wore clothes,

and jewelery,

and made crafts,

similar to today,

but these crafts were made in a more traditional way,

and some people,

some crazy,

wonderful people,

carry on those traditions,

and where do they sell their historical crafts?

At Ludlow Medieval Christmas Fayre Ofcourse.

And who goes to Ludlow Medieval Christmas Fayre?

Well all those people in that queue of course,

and me and my grandma!

This was the setting for the fayre, Ludlow Castle, could you get anywhwere more atmouspheric for a historical market? I think not!

The first thing I saw when I went into the first tent was this guy selling all these hand crafted digeridoos and playing them! He was superb and the sound was really atmouspheric in a tent that smelt strongly of spices and herbs being sold on nearby stalls. It was an amazing feeling!

Can you believe it? Masks? At a medieval fayre I went to to buy unusual gifts not to feed obsession, yep well I got so over excited when I saw them, I'm afraid it was a bit of a wet squib because when I came closser they turned out to be the kind of average homemade feather mask you can get from anywhere, nothing exceptional or unique about them though they were pretty enough for me to post about.

And then after the dissapointment with the above masks I was delighted to see another stall showcasing some more promising looking masks, the stall owner looked at me very angrily for haven had the cheak to have taken pictures of his artistry, but maybe he will be pleased to know that my photo went to some use by forcing them upon the world (the few people who read my blog) and insisting that they are the most amazing works of inticacy!

look at them, they are not quite of a Natasha Lawes or Nathan Jenden standard but I have to admit I am very much in love!

I would love to take photos of all my purchases and brag about what exciting and unusual Christmas presents my little friendly familiar will be getting this 25th of December but unfortunately for that reason I cannot, all my purchases were gifts and my school possy all read my blog and I'm sure if I posted what Christmas presents I had got them on here it might ruin the surprise a little, so here, o little friendy friends is a clue, some of your presents were from the above stall that sells these amazing handmade and fairtrade felt slippers with bobbles on, it is not handmade, fairtrade felt slippers with bobbles on but I hope you will think it as equally quirky and unique!

And for the rest of you, I am sorry I can not post the final delights of my jubbly day at Ludlow Medieval Christmas Fayre!

Farewell Ye Prettys untill the Next time I shall Post for Thee!

Tomorrow x

My Favourite Cover Art...

2009-11-28T09:38:00.000-08:00

Riot Paramore

Revolver The Beatles

X&Y Coldplay

Absolution Muse

Lone Rhino Adrian Belew

Tomorrow x

Little All Saints..

2009-11-27T12:39:00.000-08:00

I don't usually blog about childrenswear, probably because I know so very little about it, almost anything looks wonderful on small children, you see them in wellie boots they painted themselves that look like Picasso meets Vandalist and shiny plastic macs and a matching raincoat in flurescent purple and you think 'awww bless!', so where do you draw the line, how do you distiguish average kids clothes from trendy ones. Well I always thought that making small kids look too old for there age, slogan tees (I particularly hate the ones with slogans such as 'saw it, wanted it, stamped my feet, got it' on), gothic colour schemes and skirts that are too short are my pet hates on younger children, but children want to look grown up and trendy and having no idea how to go about it go for these terrible monstrosaties but now there is an alternative to frightening ten year olds. All Saints childrenswear.

It has this wonderful 'tough' edge whilst mainaining that childlike inocence that slogan t-shirt stips from even the most adorable of little children, It's not pretentious, which I often find the case with designer childrenswear, but high street childrenswear is never vey exciting either or in the case of some, is frighteningly damaging to the playful inocence that evey child must hang on to for as long as possible! (I'm still hanging on to mine at fifteen!)

I love that its casual and truly displays what All Saints are about as a brand but they are not overly grown up and the styles have been beautifully adapted for the smaller person!

The boots displayed in every photo make me want to weep that I never had them when I was small enough! They are so beautiful!

Boyswear is a nightmare, even more than ugly punky-wierd girlswear because boys don't care, it is rare to find a guy younger than twenty that has taken enough care over his appearance to have actually thought about what he was going to put on in the morning but for little boys all they want to do is run around and play football, they don't want to fuss around with top buttons and boot laces, but with all saints childrenswear they look trendy without doing up the top button or tying their boot laces (although they are highly likely to be tripping over!!!) and it's casual so other small boys wont laugh or poke fun at them for having 'posh' clothing! On the website, it is not just shirts for boys but it is also t-shirts with some fabulous prints and some gorgeous grey sweatshirts that somehow sing All Saints signiture style but do not over power a small child by portraying the 'my mummy made me wear this' message.

Tomorrow x

More than just PomPoms and Bows...

2009-11-26T09:24:00.000-08:00

I love headpieces, All the best bloggers wear beautiful headpieces including Tavi and Susie but it is rare to find a blogger, or indeed a person who has got there hands on a more unique headpiece, it is mostly just mono-coloured bows and perhaps the odd woollen pompom.

Well maybe I want more than that! Perhaps I want something more unique, more creative, more unusual, well I will let Benoit Missolin give me the answer with his wonderful headpieces of wool, felt, wire and more!

Benoit Missolin is a Paris based designer, he specialises in these jubblyjubbly (and not many people get two jubblies!) headpieces but he also creates some stunning little felt clutch bags (using similar detailing to the headpiece above!)

Along with these headpieces are a few full felt hats and he also has a bridal collection (if your getting maried, check these beauties out, you will die!) and a couture collection.

I love this, I am getting bored of lace rabbit ears but my love of the furry species has never ceased to exist (probably down to my enamouration with the work of Peter Jensen) so this has excited me because it doesn't have that weird 'black lace and orange-red lip' look about it that I am tirring of but it is still quiky, original, cute and overall, it is still rabbit ears!

When checking out his website, I was amazed by reading his boigraphy of how he came to be a designer: When the designer was a young boy he made outfits for his snoopy and drew his designs in the corners of his work while his was supposed to be working at school, as a teenager he sent sketches to many major fashion houses and recieved a reply from Christian Lacroix who acted as his mentor throughout his teenage years, some few years later he offs to Paris to take courses at the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture and then to begin an apprentiship at Christian Lacroix and then later also at Jean Colonna, Thierry Mugler and Fred Sathal (where becomes assistant) in his free time he begins work on micro-collections before launching his own accesories label which I now blog about so delightedly!

Reminds me of all those lips on the Marilyn post!

Tomorrow x

And at long last she has worked out how to centralise her images...

2009-11-25T09:24:00.000-08:00

Rocket Dog shoes, River Island leggings, Old petticoat worn inside out, Cardigan (worn backwards) H&M, New look beads, H&M belt, Vintage hat (from Russia)

Fear not, she is back, she says speaking about herself in the third person as though she has not actually arrived yet and she is about to introduce herself!, Ok, confused? so am I!, move on! I am back, sorry about all the higgledyness of the last week and last several weeks worth of posts!

So I am finally back and ready to carry on with my treasured blog of fashion gorgeousness!

This outfit was put together last night especially for you guys so I'm really hoping you like it!

I hope you've not lost interest in my craziness over the past week!

Tomorrow x

Pleats Please!

2009-11-19T08:37:00.000-08:00

Bubble was posting the other day about her love of pleats and it reminded me of the wonderful 'pleats please' by Issey Miyake. I am affraid this is going to have to be an extremely short possed because I am imensley annoyed with blogger. so much so I may have to move to wordpress or restart my blog! a shame I know but at the moment It doesn't look like I have much choice, blogger is destroying even very high resolution images and not letting me centralise anything!

So annoyed!

Anyway must get my hands on some gorgeous vintage pleats as obviously Miyake is out of my reach!

Tomorrow x

Do Something Spontaneous and Creative like a Four Year Old - Just Once!

2009-11-17T08:21:00.000-08:00

My beautiful and precious best friend popped round to my house at the weekend, partly to join me in slatering the comments of the Xfactor judges and watch endless cycles of AMNTM and partly to just lark around and be best friends as if we were young and childish again!

We decided to have a bit of a sewing competition (don't ask!) but I think the results are almost etsy worthy if given a little more time and sewn to a better quality!

This is the two together, the rabbit is my bezzies work of loveliness and the mini purse is mine, it is made from a sample of Cath Kidston fabric.

This is my bezzies work again, its lovely don't you think!

My hair ala my bff! I think it looks really crazy and it took alot of gel, which I was not grateful for when I got in the shower but it was good fun!

I made these cupcakes with lips on yesterday just to continue on my childish spree of craziness. I thought they looked quite trendy but I never got to taste them because the dog nicked them (yes all of them!)
- Inspired by Marilyn Monroe

Sparkly lips!!!

emo monroe!

hahahaha! this one makes me laugh!

I am quite pleased with this, it is my mood board I was talking about on the Peter Jensen/ Banksy post when we all got given a celebrity in textiles and we had to create a (textile) cup cake based on their style! This is Marilyn Monroe's face made from Marilyn Monroe's face! The lips are made out of red sequins (yes guys it took me ages and was loads of effort!!! ahem!)

Tomorrow x

Wild Thing!

2009-11-14T03:13:00.000-08:00

Enjoying reliving all my old Vogues at the moment and When I opened May 2009 Vogue I was delighted at what I found! On the 'More Dash Than Cash' shoot there was a shirt very similar to one that I am making! In the 'who wore what' - type page there were two pictures of somebody very exciting at a catwalk show - Susie Bubble (!) so as you all know I am a fan of both so this immediately puts May 2009 Vogue at an advantage but as well as Susie and my shirt, there was a gorgeous shoot of haute couture gowns and a lovely feature called 'the road to Damascus' featuring some fantastic photography and the article was extremely well written! I loved it, and to top itoff there was the above shoot which inspired my look today!

I did my hair with raffia like one of the photos in the shoot! I had a purple headband underneath the raffia to hold in it place and I gripped a bag charm into place.

jewelery: most bracelets are cheep tat from Camden and self made, the top one is from a quirky gift shop in Ludlow!

Primark dress, Dorothy Perkins Tights, New look silver belt, My mums

black belt, Next shirt, Warehouse Tank.

Tip: If you still have May 2009 Vogue; check it out!

Tomorrow x

All those Antonios!

2009-11-12T13:22:00.000-08:00

Discovered This entirely accidentally when searching to look at Antonio Beradis collections which I hadn't seen yet, of whom I'm a massive fan, anyway, on google when you type in a name, lots of other little suggestions come up don't they? Well, I accidentally clicked on Antonio Bernardo instead of Antonio Beradi and look what I discovered. Amazing jewelery!!! I am oh so in love!

I love the way these rings have been presented on the website. I really wanted to copy an animation that is on the site of a ring that is built up with tiny pieces of precious metal jigsaw pieces to put on here, but it didn't work. Obviously I could have print screened but I think you need to go over to the site and check it out for yourself, when you see it you will see why the animation element is so lovely!

This must be one of my favourite pieces on his site, It is so intricate and not brassy as it is so easy for yellow gold jewelery to have this effect. Obviously the painted hand and the light in this photograph really sets it off and having not seen the ring in real life I cannot describe its loveliness in reality but I think this is just a simply stunning ring. I always rant about how much I long for a snaking diamond Van Cleef and Arpels ring (which I shall never have because they would still not seem affordable if you were Bill Gates!) but one can dream. But Van Cleef better watch out because Antonio Bernardo and his stunning little pieces of quirky simplicity are not far behind. Less fussy, but equally as beautiful and unique, certainly a contender for Tomorrow's dream ring!
Tomorrow x

How Many Hats!?

2009-11-11T09:20:00.000-08:00

Blogger hates me at the moment! It's doing all these crazy things and wont let me centralify the things I want to say! Anyway! Oh I'm centralised now! Okay maybe not! I just wanted to share with you some magnificent head wear from talented french designer Jacques le Corre. I have a notebook of designers and things whos work I've liked in a magazine and then I type them into google and usually it's a waste of time but this name was a success.
These spaceagey designs look as though they belong in a design museum rather than on somebody's head but I know there are

some wonderful people on this planet who care less about what others think than me! And these are the people I admire (ahem Susie!)

I hope you agree these are spectacular pieces!

Another thing, go on the Jacques le Corre website and the picture quality will not be like this but the minute I upload a picture from my computer, blogger destroys it. I am definitely in bloggers bad books!

Anyway I shall give up personifying blogger because I am sure I am annoying you.

Back to Jacques le Corre, well basically all I had to say was how fabulous and inspiring these headpieces are and how when I'm a fashion designer (when not if) I shall be sending models down the runway in something halfway between this and the Natasha Lawes masks!

What do you think?

Tomorrow x

'Armless fun...

2009-11-10T10:29:00.000-08:00

Must be the oldest joke in the joke book but when it comes to a situation such as this, you simply cannot resist!

Flicking through Vogue (yes I know all my inspiration for posts comes from Susie and Vogue but, hey who cares!), I hated (as usual) the more dash than cash shoot, mainly because the shoot was not 'more dash than cash'. I'm sure I've ranted to you about this before but it really gets on my nerves! so anyway came across the shoot, hated it, hated the clothes, then on the last page of the feature there was a tiny section on Armlets, I didn't particularly like the way they were displayed and not a fan of the model used in this shoot either but the only tip I think I've ever seen in a more dash than cash shoot that I've ever taken any notice of (apart from of course the destroyed jeans, but they don't count because they were a tremendous amount of effort!) was the idea to make armlets from cut out tights. I have to say, I didn't quite achieve the look I was hoping for but I hope you get the idea!

If you can see in the top left hand corner of the Vogue page there are some gold armlets that look as if they're made from several gold straps (well basically they are!) anyway these are from a lingerie brand called Bordelle. I have avoided posting about Bordelle befor because alot of their designs are very provocative and this could be perceived as tarty, however, I do not think that this is the effect they are trying to achieve. Today I am posting about them because of their appearance in Vogue and I wanted to show you some pictures from their collection with the armlets in. unfortunately the ones that are shown in the shoot are not there but I found these couple of pairs and I think they would be quite exciting pieces to own, twinning with an evening dress or even for a gorgeous day look, with some fantastic bubble-esque layering!

Tomorrow x

Susie Challenge

2009-11-08T10:44:00.001-08:00

Not a challenge fan, but there's an exception to every rule. I want to concentrate on having a USP and writing with personality rather than letting others intrude on my style or encouraging me to do something their way rather than my own. Though to be honest Susie inspires me enough as it is that there was no way I was not going to participate, so sad that everything Susie (I'm even considering a fringe [?]) does influences me so much but then she is wonderful!

I hope this looks a little a little Susie-esque as well as colour-crammed! I'll make a list of clothes so you can see how many colours I'm actually wearing, Susie originally suggested 10 but then on her second post she said to get at least five and I'm sure I've done that!!!!

1. head band; pale green; ribbon from Abakhan, 2.T-shirt; bright blue; Mark's and Spencer's, 3.Vest Top, bright purple, Zara 4.Tights, pinky-purple; New Look, 5.Fitted skirt; Black; Pull and Bear, 6.Shear skirt; My old ballet skirt from when I was very tiny!, 7.watch; bright blue, New Look, 8. Shoes, Yellow, Rocket Dog, 9. Cardigan, Pink, H&M.

The rules on bubble says patterns but I couldn't resist the spotty purse as a clutch bag. Its a Primark nasty PVC thing but it looks great dotted around the place so I keep it! The Lipstick is from Boots 17! I'm wearing it as welll as holding it!

Almost 10!

What do you think about me having a fringe cut?

No quite susie standard but quite good fun all the same!

Tomorrow x

Hannah Zakari is in Vogue!

2009-11-05T12:43:00.000-08:00

It's been ages since I posted on Hannah Zakar i all those months ago and in a matter of months my blog has changed so drastically but since then Hannah Zakari has become a must-have. Her etsy-like handmade jewellery and other creations including adorable homewares which I have been a fan of for quite some time, there was a period when I was an active, creative member of the fashion scrapbooking haven; polyvore where I was conversing with the Zakari herself over how much I liked her website. When I first posted about her works of handmade genius I was praising a pair of earings made from a pair of barbie ears! Hear I am praising above charm watch (in the left hand corner of Vogue page) that excited me out of my skin when it appeared in the November 09 'More Dash Than Cash' edition of Vogue!

Although handmade jewelery sites are popular and there are countless etsy-hoggers doing a similar thing (and I wont say there not quirky like Zakari) but they just don't match up to the affordability or the disirability of the contempory, quirky designs that I love over at the godforsaken hannahzakari.co.uk.

Tomorrow x

Over the weekend...

2009-11-03T12:09:00.000-08:00

Over The weekend I was enjoying a lovely trip to London which started with the joys of being stuck in a vauxhall on the motorway with my sisters! once this was over (!) I enjoyed an being put under more pressure to get ready to enjoy my evening at the musicals than Cinderella doing a quick change in order to become ballgown-ified! So no time to back comb and tuck under my tresses and fix in place with diamante grips as planned instead I tied it in a scruffy bun and plonked my sequin beret in its place and hoped no-one would notice!

Primark hat, H&M bag, jazz shoes, Primark blazer, River Island dress

This is a photo taken by moi outside of the Apollo before we went in to see Wicked, I love the movement on it, it really sums up the busy city atmosphere and the flashing lights of the Westend while the red double-decker has London written all over it!

This is the stage set, I know the quality of this picture is poor, and sure I could have got a better one off of flikr but as my art teacher says ' you may not be Patrick Demachelier, but it's always better to have taken it yourself than to have copied and pasted!'

The second day I was kerplonked into central London to visit a geology exhibition (no, no TopShop, no exciting back street vintage, nope just rocks!) to visit my mums friends from uni so I got a free meal in a very nice Italian place so it was sort of worth it though I'd rather of had some clothes and a McDonald's than expensive restaurant food and no shopping at all!

Don't you just love family photographs!

This is my lovely little cousin who was very Proud of his smart jacket and shirt!

Me and my cousin at Wicked with our matching sparkling berets! I am a big fan! she is only nine but she carries herself like an exaggerated Audrey Hepburn. perhaps the reason for her excellent posture is her ballet dancing, a talent I never managed to acquire as a small girl and perhaps a reason for having the posture of a squashed dandelion today!

Tomorrow x

Tesco Bags are Officially OK!

2009-11-03T08:20:00.000-08:00

There is an amazing student teacher that has come to teach art and DT textiles at my school (both subjects I am taking) who is doing a project with us about cupcakes and we must produce our cupcake for a celebrity client.

We got given our clients today and I was really pleased because I got 'Marylin Monroe' who is an obvious icon and you can't really misinterpret her style!

Also I was pleased because other people got Sharron Osbourne and 'Jack Sparrow' which I think are not the best people to design a cupcake on and others were too obvious like Bree Van de Kamp and Paris Hilton so it's good I didn't get them either!

But anyway the reason I am talking about my amazing new textiles teacher (by whom I am totally inspired in all aspects of life [well art, personality and fashion!]!) is that while he was observing we were doing a project on our favourite designers and I did Peter Jensen and I looked a little into his menswear as part of the project and we got talking about one of the images and he came over to look at my work and he pointed at some shoes and said 'I'm a fan of Peter Jensen, I have those shoes' I nearly died of jealousy but I was pleased because nobody else in my class had even heard of Peter Jensen (let alone owns any!) before (I know that's not that rare but one girl today hadn't heard of Twiggy!) and it made a change from the endless Gallianos and Louis Vuittons flying around the room!

And here is the punchline (!) : when he said 'I have those shoes, everybody else said, 'I have that bag' and look at the picture and you will see why that is funny!

But I have to say I love it! It may be only a Tesco bag but in this photo it looks gorgeously quirky! I have scoured the web for another trendy use of a Tescos bag and the only other image I could find was some graffiti done by undercover graffiti artist famously known as 'Banksy' so pleased to have found this I am delighted to be finally uploading;

a. some Peter Jensen

and

b. some Banksy!

So I hope you like it!
Tomorrow x

muffle muffle!

2009-11-02T08:52:00.000-08:00

I'm back from London! Hurray! These were actually taken at home just before I went! They were done on self-timer so they are not brilliant but I quite like them!

New Look tights, Jazz shoes, Pull and Bear skirt, Zara shirt, I heart London T-shirt, Primark Earmuffs, Headbamds- old purple dress straps!

Let me know your jubbly words of wisdom and praise!

Tomorrow x

Double Denim.

2009-10-30T03:42:00.000-07:00

Susie Bubble did double denim a while back (I know I need to give up on the Bubble inspired posts, but I love her!) and I was inspired! I hardly ever actually wear denim although I do seem to have so much of the stuff (and as you can see it's hardly Balmain) so I decided to do something with it and do a post with a selection of crazy double-denim or tripple-denim as the case may be (!) and see what your response is!

Jeans - TKMAXX, Dress - Miss Srlfridge, Denim shirt dress - H&M, Denim belt - had since I was eight! Jeans - Lee, Denim shirt - my mums, Denim belt (worn in hair) as before!

Denim shirt - my mums, jeans - Lee, all other clothes - as before

Sorry guys but I'm off today to London. I am going to see Wicked tonight at the theatre which is really exciting! I am wearing a new dress I shall have to post pics on my return!

There is a slight chance that I will be able to post over the weekend because my uncle does have a laptop but if I dont, you know why!

Tomorrow x

Jumping for joy...

2009-10-29T08:39:00.000-07:00

I'm afraid it looks as if all my blog posts are becoming a bit samey! me jumping to the self timer on the camera! I shall have to get my little sister to come up with some more creative ideas for mini blog-shoots like this one. I thought that worked quite well! Although I do actually quite like the above picture, it looks as if I am floating on air! I am quite pleased with it!

Primark blazer, H&M belt, Primark dess, River Island headband, old sunglasses from Primark that I have taken the lenses out of!

This one didn't turn out quite right it sort of got me pre-jump!

Here I look like a bird flapping its wings!

And this one caught me just as I was landing!

let me know what you think of my outfit, ignore the pictures, I will try to sort out some better ones for the future that are a little more creative!

Tomorrow x

Red Lips and Quirky Tights!

2009-10-28T05:42:00.001-07:00

Another fun little insight into the wonderful world of what I'm wearing (aaarrggghhh! 'w' overload!) Usually when i do these posts I don't write very much because I don't really want to be seen to be blowing my own trumpet but I suppose I could write more than I actually do because I need to practice my blogging skills and just uploading images of my self in insane ensemblages is not going to do that!

This blazer I got yesterday from Primark when I went shopping with my girly-friend! I think it's quite nice because it's not just the usual boyfriend fit blazer that everyone from top-bloggers to chavs and from fashion editors to me (!) seem to be wearing, it's not drastically different (and I have to admit I did go out with the intention of buying a traditional one!) but it just has a bit of a quirkey twist!

My jeans were inspired by this months Vogue which suggested hundreds of ideas of how to update your wardrobe for less, as I expected, from reading the cover lines, it was mostly obscure things which one would never actually do like cutting holes in a designer catsuit and sewing over them with a knitting machiene (I mean 'what?') or making a blazer from hundreds of tiny paper pink-and-white striped sweet bags (the kind that these days you only get in crazy-expensive retro sweet stores!) but the idea for these jeans was actually do-able (!) so I destroyed an old pair with a knife, melted candle wax, some bleach and a silver permanant marker! The Magazine suggested that I adorned holes with coloured threads and attacked them emulsion paint but I wanted to keep it blue and white so I didn't do those two steps but I think the result is pretty cool! well done Vogue for managing to scrape one 'more dash than cash idea' that actually is 'more dash than cash'!!!!!!

My lovely shoes that are hand-me-downs from my Grandma which makes them vintage(!) I love getting clothes from my Grandma, in her day, she must have been really stylish!

The reason I'm carrying my school bag, for those of you who go to my school and recognise it (!) is that I am going to my mums school (she is a teacher!) to do some revision (aaarrrghhhh) because her internet is alot faster than mine at home. I am writing my blog from there now because I have finished my revision!

Jeans - customised by me; from New Look, T-shirt - Zara, Blazer - Primark, Tights (worn under jeans) - River Island, Bag - Pauls Boutique.

Tomorrow x

What a Delightful Coincidence...

2009-10-27T02:45:00.000-07:00

Continuing with my 'mask' research online this morning I stumbled accross this photo on google images of the super-blogger Susie Bubble in what what I think is a stunning half-face mask! I couldn't believe my luck; two of my biggest passions (style bubble and masks!) rolled into one. I clicked on the link and it followed me through to September 08 post on Style Bubble, I hadn't seen this post seeing as I only started reading Bubble's musings about seven or eight months ago (the first introduction I had to the blog-o-sphere!) so I was delighted to come accross it! I was even more surprised to read that this post was actually paying tribute to a Teen Vogue shoot (a magazine I regularly read) and scrolling down I immediately recognised the shoot from my own collection!

I kept reading and discovered that these art-like masks were created by an amazing all-round-designer (makeup, hair, fashion, costume, all types of design!) Natasha Lawes. I clicked the link to her website and was surprised by how much I loved her work and how little I had previously known of her work and I decided that it was definitely worthy of an extended blog post!

This is the mask worn by Susie in the first picture. I really like the way the models red hair offsets the mask, her pale skin also makes a really interesting contrast!

The way she has tilted her head and has managed to look puzzled at the same time as beautiful and indifferent is simply stunning! I love the mask aswell!

The detail in that birds wings are amazing! This is so classically gothic but has a sence of beauty about it despite the dark eariness of it!

Beautiful! I love the fact that the dress matches her mask! wow!

Although the chances of me owning a Natasha Lawes mask in the future are extremely slim I can look at them and not feel envious of the likes of Susie Bubble because to me they are like works of art, I would pay to look at them not just to own one!

Soon I will get about making my own mask but I want to do some more research and get some more ideas of how to go about it before I start!

Tomorrow x

Masked!

2009-10-26T10:21:00.001-07:00

Sorry about the poor picture quality, but continuing with my obsession with masks here is a pencil drawing of a girl with a mask I did the other evening! let me know your thoughts.
Tomorrow x

Exploring In The Attic!

2009-10-24T09:45:00.000-07:00

Zara shirt, Tights from Boots, Zara boots, H&M shorts.

Me playing around with a camera in a deserted room of my enormous old house, Its full of my old toys (dolls houses, playmobil, dressing up costumes!etc.) There's even a telescope up there! -(What will I discover next?)- It should really be dumped or given to charity because I never use it but I don't want to part with it!)

The first picture is my favourite, I like the light!

Tomorrow x

Emma Cook

2009-10-20T11:56:00.000-07:00

Yummy clothes from Emma's resort 2010 collection, I love the prints, the fabrics.It has such an elegant feel. It's not harsh or intimidating, I love the fact that it is evidently unique or individual but also very minimalistic and simple.

Here are a few of my favourite pieces from the collection!

I want this dress. I love the way it has such a childish nature (it reminds me of Lauren Child's Charlie and Lola books!) but is still sophisticated and chic and very, very wearable. beautiful!

This is probably my favourite piece. I'm a big sucker for frills! Perhaps a little over the top but i love this! I love the shoes as well!

Emma has the usual St Martins graduate story! I have yet to find a new(ish) designer who didn't graduate from there with an MA in womenswear! It's still my dream to go there and if they're graduates can produce work like this then wheres the competition!

The shoes are just so perfect they blend the different aspects of the collection together fantastically. I could sing praises for it all day!

Finish with something adorable!

Tomorrow x

Tomorrow x

2009-10-19T08:33:00.000-07:00

Me trying to be a tomboy! let me know your thoughts! This was good fun!

Tomorrow x

Little Pixie!

2009-10-18T11:38:00.000-07:00

My little sister Anna took these pictures of me. She wants to be a fashion photographer (the whole pixie thing was her idea) she takes a lot of persuading into taking pictures but when she does she's a real star!

Primark dress, Zara boots, Dorothy Perkins tights, Zara shirt, New Look belt

Let me know what you think of my sisters photos! She's only 10!

I'm quite proud of her!

Tomorrow x

What I Wore in Barcelona!

2009-10-14T09:43:00.000-07:00

I thought I'd get this one over and done with quickly so it didn't become a gruelling process of sunny outfit posts! here they are:

My sisters top, Juicy Couture bag, TopShop glasses

New Look dress, Primark sunglasses (lenses removed!), H&M bag

Outside the sagrada familia ; Juicy couture bag, River Island dress, Barcelona school cap, primark sunglasses, New Look belt

As above (zara shoes!)

H&M cardi, scarf from street seller.

Tomorrow x

Barcelonaness! - Fashioness and Friendinesss! - Day One!

2009-10-12T08:22:00.000-07:00

Fashionness!

So I'm in the Miro gallery in Barcelona (more about that when I do a 'Barcelonaness! - Artyness' post!) and I discover this roof terrace. It has 'outfit post' written all over it. Luckily enough my outfit was blog worthy so I got some friends who are nifty with a camera to take my picture! This was the result! (I also took some pictures of them - see below!)

Fatface shorts, Falke socks, Juicy Couture bag, V&A t-shirt, TopShop glasses, Barcelona cap
Friendiness!

These are the 'Barcelona gorras' (Gorra in Spanish for cap!) we all had to wear although as soon as the teachers left us we took them off but here we were sitting outside the Miro and the teachers were making sure we had them on (though not everyone paid attention!)

Me and a mate outside the Miro. This is my favourite picture of the trip!

This picture should really be under fashionness but I suppose its a bit of both! I have to say I am quite proud of this photo for a 15 year old with no photographic experience what-so-ever and a crappy camera I think it's okay!

Tomorrow x

Vogueness

2009-10-11T12:13:00.000-07:00

The next few posts, I'm afraid, are going to be filled with Barcelona photos and artwork! I need to have the time to talk about the beauty and the speed of this city in more detail and since I have spent every night for the last four days (after a disco) doing art until four (yes four o'clock in the morning! -I know!) I really think that tonight I ought to get a good nights sleep!
This post is due to the fact that I seem to be burdened with three copies of vogue that I have yet to read the hole of! - Oh dear!!!!!!!!
Explanation: for each copy;
1. American Vogue- bought at airport (on departure) because I already had the 'October' edition of UK Vogue and I needed something that I could read on the plane!
2. Vogue España - bought in Spain for two reasons; one is that I was curious to find out what it was like and two it is a souvenir. I had this inspirational idea to buy a copy of vogue of whatever country I am in whenever I go abroad! (gasp!)
3. British Vogue - 'November' had arrived when I got home and I was ladened with three unread copies!!!!!!

OMG! this cover, my favourite cover for years! love, love love, feel free to share on your blog (please give credit if you use my photos!). All you non-Brits need to see this (and the Brits that don't read Vogue as well!)

American Vogue, have to admit least impressive of the three; although I usually enjoy this magazine this edition is not my favourite!

Wow wow wow. I am going to write to Yolanda Sacristan (editor in chief of Spanish vogue check her out on altamira and Jack and Jill [I particularly like her look here]) and say how much her amazing magazine rocks. If your a Spain inhibitor or holidayer then buy this!

Supplement #1

Supplement # 2

btw the model came out orange on my scanner not sure why (?) Looks cool though.

But the first cover, however, is meant to be orange the above isn't!

Buy Spanish Vogue!

Tomorrow x

Oh well, as they say, A girl can never have too many magazines!

Randomness!

2009-10-06T08:42:00.000-07:00

Off to Barcelona arrrrrgggghhhhh! so excited!

five days of no blog though! not so excited!

Oh well, I'll live and I hope you guys will too!

I will get my mates to take some pictures of my bonkers outfits outside of the Segrada Familia!

Okay so this is a quick post because I'm going to yoga and I will not be able to post after because I need to go to bed so I can get up at two thirty for the flight tomorrow. urrggghhh!

So thought I'd show you a piece of artwork/ fashion illustration I did!

Hope you like it!

Hope the blogging world has fun without me!

I will miss you!

Be blogging again on Monday.

Bye!

Tomorrow x

Crazyness!

2009-10-05T08:19:00.000-07:00

Zara shoes, Zara trousers, Warhouse tank, H&M cardigan, Juicy Couture bag.

Outfit posts like this are being phased out but it just seems too simple to resist!
I am off to drama so I needed to be comfy and I feel pretty cosy in these pants!
Hope you like!
Tomorrow x

Olivia Rubin Video

2009-10-05T08:15:00.000-07:00

Wish I Was There ; Olivia Rubin

2009-10-04T08:19:00.000-07:00

These pictures are taken from the autumn/ winter 09 collection on Olivia Rubins website. Making her LFW debut earlier this year, I knew there would be people unaware of her and although I wasn't at London Fashion Week I think I still have a right to experiment with a little catwalk reviewing!

At Olivia Rubin it was all about print; concentric squares and intersecting lines were all on the agenda! Most models strutted in pale-tone tights which made a great contrast from the vibrancy of the prints!

The collection had quite a retro feel to it although it also exudes modern femininity. Eighties mini dresses and jumpsuits were among my favourites.

The Luella style ruffles that Rubins' autumn/ winter 08 collection displayed so beautifully were recreated for this season, so Rubins style was obviously there but it was different from the previous collection which gave it a fresh and exciting feel.

I know that since the collection was launched about six months ago a lot of fashionistas (bloggers included) have become a fan of these Olivia Rubin mini dresses (which are actually available to purchase at shop.oliviarubinlondon.com for prices around £200). I personally think their pretty stunning as well. They are very individual but not down-right ridiculous like some things people consider to be 'individual!'

I love the print work on this dress and if I could have any piece from this collection it would be this dress! If I could have two pieces I would have this dress and this scarf so I think I can definitely say this is my favourite look of the collection!

I feel so jealous of the bloggers who can blog from first hand experience in Paris at the moment but as that cannot be me I shall tell you all about one of my favourite designers; Olivia Rubin and pretend that I was at the runway show and that I loved it!

Everyone deserves their moment of make believe!

So this is more of an experiment than an actual post!
I'd love to know your opinions though!

hope you enjoyed!
Tomorrow x

2009-10-03T08:31:00.000-07:00

I am back.
No longer am I participating in a torturous trek through the English country side carrying ten kilograms of backpack looking as unstylish as a wheelie bin in a trendy courtyard garden, no, no, no, I am home and in a lovely nice comfy cardigan and a pair of jubbly jeans.

Wait!

That's not cool!

No-one wants to see you in a cardi and jeans!

So here's What I Wore on Thursday because what I'm wearing now puts comfort before style! And believe me this is very rare but after a couple of days hiking I feel I deserve a little comfort!

I've had the longest of long hot baths and I had a fizzy bath bomb! I feel so relaxed and cosy!

Anyway this outfit was inspired to the lovely girl over at That teen.

She's practically new born on the blogging scene but she's already made an impact on the way I dress! so if your reading this, jubbly, then you should be very proud of yourself!

Click here to see the look that inspired this one.

Obviously her dress makes mine look a bit pathetic really, I mean the print the shape everything about it is stunning but I'm quite pleased with my tiny attempt.

The main idea that inspired me was to put the shirt under the dress and to wear socks that contrasted so drastically!

I don't think you can see in the picture but all I've actually done is rolled down a pair of turquoise socks and pulled the end over my toes so that they look like ankle socks!

once I put shoes on no-one ever notices!

Tomorrow x

Freebies and Newbies

2009-10-01T11:00:00.000-07:00

Okay this is going to be a super long post because I have loads to say before I disapear off to do my Duke of Edinburgh expedition tomorrow. (I will be able to blog on saturday though!)

I wanted to post all about all my new things I got when i was in London and other times recently (see post before last!) basically things I haven't worn before.

What I'm wearing

Coat - TopShop

Wellies - Office

Bag -V&A

Glasses - TopShop

leggings - New Look

T-shirt - V&A

Socks - Falke

Hat - Mini Boden

I got this bag free at the V&A day. I think It's really cool!

My quilted Office wellies my Grandma had to trek the country to buy me!

New V&A t-shirt!

Pigeons and Peacocks - an amazing magazine (Issue 2) that is produced by London College of fashion to show off students work who are doing different fashion-related courses there.

an article I enjoyed reading!

love this photo!

newbies!!!!!

My beautiful new Falke socks, go back through the archives and you can see the photo of them on the model!

I got this bag free aswell!

the back!

Tomorrow x

New York Dans L'Anglaterre

2009-09-30T08:21:00.000-07:00

Did I not say that I would not do any more bedroom photos for my outfit posts. well here we are again! I shall try in the future to stick to the things I say and I think I'll just have to phase these posts out gradually!

love my TopShop glasses! I think everyone should have a pair! Wouldn't it be so cool if everyone just wondered round wearing a pair of these lovelies!

A friend bought this T-shirt home from America for me so no. in case you were wondering, I have never actually been to New York -sigh!- Some day!

What I'm Wearing
Top - New York
Jeggings - River Island
Socks - They're my walking socks!
Shoes - Jazz pumps
Bag - Juicy couture
Glasses - TopShop
Charity Band - To support the British Museum
Pot of gel in my hand in the first picture - V05 gel wax
Tomorrow x

You Lazy Oaf!

2009-09-29T07:13:00.000-07:00

So in love with Lazy Oaf. So so wonderful. This has got to be a quick post because I've got Yoga!! so I just wanted to share it with you. Here is a selection of they're Look Book photos.

I love this photo. I think all the stuffed monsters and the monsters on the jumper look really good together! The jeans the girl is wearing are also amazing!!!

Love the expression on this boys face. I also think that this suitcase is stunning! I really want it for when I go to Barcelona!

Sexy socks! I want, I want, I want!!! also want the top the girl on the far left is wearing! so cute!
Also Lazy Oaf has an amazing website. check it out!
Tomorrow x

Trippen Over!

2009-09-28T12:46:00.000-07:00

I'm so in love with Trippen shoes at the moment! They are so so beautiful! Above is a copy of the Trippen book. The hardback catalogue with the stunningly soft pages! It might be forty euro but if you've got enough money to buy a pair of these lovelies then this book is rather scrummy!

Inside the Trippen store. Looks exciting!

Lovely Trippen Kids Booties!

A lovely pair of wooden shoes from Trippen!

Like elf shoes!!!!

I love these zips this is my favourite pair so beautiful! wow wow wow!
To buy a pair visit the website.
Tomorrow x