Friday 29 June 2012

OOTD - Floral Dress to Brighten my Summers' Day

I wore this little number a few weeks. I was running into town to pick up a Father's Day pressie for my Dad!

This floral dress has slightly padded shoulders and an A line skirt. I love this dress and this was the first time I had worn it. I felt a bit dressed up just for the small town that I live in, so I throw a boyfriend blazer over it to make it more of a casual look.. This blazer picks up the pink and blue in the dress and brightens the whole outfit.

This dress is soo versatile and I will do a three ways to style this dress I think later in the month of July.

What I'm wearing;
Dress - Charity Shop find -€7 [originally Marks and Spencers about 20 years ago I'd say ]
Blazer- Pennys/Primark -€5-ish I bought it years and years ago!!
Belt- Pennys/Primark -€1
Necklace - A/wear - €5
Bracelet - Claire's Accessories- €??, this belongs to my sister. Fun Fact it is a replica of the bracelet Bella wore in New Moon, it's iconography is St. Jude.
Shoes- You can't see them or I had taken them off but they were green pumps by Clarks!

Wednesday 27 June 2012

7 Things for 7 Days



 I have been quite blue and introverted for the past month or two. I was under a lot of stress at the end of April and I have suffered from some disappoints this month. I’m usually one who finds the joy in little things but I have been finding it harder these days to do that to see the little things never mind find the joy in them.
I read a blog post by Sprinkle of Glitter, that is her lovely face up there. She wrote about 7 things she was going to do in 7 days to motivate herself and to make herself happier. Which is exactly what I needed so I am hopping on the glitter covered wagon too.
I’m gonna start with seven small goals or less I will stress about them and procrastinate..my favourite past time it would seem.
1)     Apron Up – I bought a sewing machine two weeks ago. I’m in the process of transforming an old dress into a 1950s style half –apron! I want to finish this little craft project by the end of the week / seven days.
2)     Thank You – I feel as if I don’t say thank you enough to my family. Sometimes if you see people every day, day in day out you forget to thank them. So even it is for making me a nice cuppa tea or passing the TV remote I am going to say the T word. 7 thank you(s)for 7 seven days !
3)     Bake – I love baking and I haven’t done it in an AGE and I don’t have an excuse to me honest. So one scrumptious cake, puh-lease. [This is kind of cheating because it is my sisters birthday on Friday so I will baking her cake.]
4)     Apply Apply Apply – Lets face facts. I’m a recent graduate with a strange degree in a world which isn’t that dissimilar to web series Job Hunters, literally a fight till death to find a job. I have been too scared and apprehensive about applying for jobs but this week I will apply for one job!
5)     Get out! – Simples get out and be activate at least four times this week!
6)     Phew it is getting hard to think of things. Finish and post one blog- this one not included!
7)     Fix it- My lappie is on the blink, not enough memory so by the end of week I want to have deleted all those really old and useless files and uninstall the random programs I put on it and never use. If my files on laptop were not virtual and were actual physical things my house would look like one of those weird hoarder reality programs.
I'm gonna try really hard to get these seven things done. I hope I can do it!

Friday 15 June 2012

OOTD- Midi Length Summer Dress

I love this dress, I recently bought it and I couldn't wait to style.I picked this dress up in a local second hand shop. This particular second hand shop is a bit pricey for second hand but it is the best in town.

The dress, I'm wearing is a very light cream dress midi length with little rose detailing. It has lovely brass buttons that button up all the way up to create a Victorian style collar, however I don't think the high collar suits me so I left the collar unbuttoned. I love the length of this dress, I feel more comfortable during the summer in dress that come pass the knee  as there is no need to wear tights or leggings to hide my ghastly thighs.
I put a belt with this dress because there were belt loops in the dress for a belt but also because I thought it might break up the busy pattern and clinch in my waist.[The smallest part of my body].

For a relaxed summery look, I paired this with a straw hat, sunglasses and a pair of sandals.
This style is just one of many ways that this dress could be styled, it is quite versatile! And I can't wait to try some looks with this dress!!

This is a bit of lie because I didn't actually wear this today as the weather is shocking for mid-June...[shh don't tell anyone. It's a secret]. But I'm like a kid and I just couldn't wait for the sun.


Dress- I bought in a second hand shop but it's orginally from River Island €9
Belt - Pennys €2
Hat- Penneys [last season] €4
Shoes- New Look [last season] €10
Ring - New Look €3
Bag- A Christmas gift.
Sunglasses - Pennys €1.50
[Just realised looking at the prices that is outfit all in all came under €30- well just about, I'm so proud of myself]

-Smell ya later!