Winter Warmer

Dress - Topshop

Top - H&m

Socks - Primark

Shoes - La Moda

Scarfs - Market

Earrings - Brussels Market, Paris

Lipliner - "Mac Spice" cheeky replica from Superdrug (£1!!!!!!!!!!)

'ellie' Necklace - Prague Markets


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Hola,

Seeing as we're coming into the winter months, I thought I would do an inbetween-y outfit, one that is a perfect transitional from autumn to winter. Obviously I would this teamed with a massive coat and probably 5 pairs of tights, but for blog benefit I froze my butt off and went without. So the past two weeks have been pretty busy (hence the lack of posts) but now I have finished uni for the term and sent off my UCAS, so hopefully (fingers, toes, arms and legs crossed) I will get into one of my 5 choices!! If you have been wondering what I've been doing, simply click on this link - Fashion and Textiles blog to see, it is the analytical side of my course, so if you want to see pictures just check my instagram (link at the side of the page) The course has been pretty full on and I would be lying if I said I wasn't glad it's done for the term! If you are considering an art based degree, I really recommend doing some sort of art foundation first. It will 100% show you if it is the right course for you to continue onto at degree level!! So many people I know have dropped out after picking the wrong course, and honestly this foundation diploma has been one of the best things I've ever decided to do.

Anyway, life lesson over. If you have read my blog before you will probably have noticed I'm a bit of a fan of jewelry, and jewelry in particular that I have bought, or been bought from markets around the world. I think there is something so awesome about going to a place, having a million memories and being able to wear that anytime, anywhere. It's always subtle because you can never tell where they're from, but I love it. So, xmas is coming up................................................................................ hint x

I am THO excited for Christmas, I get to go to Cambridge to see my fam and eat enough food for 3 people and get pressies and give pressies, probably my favourite time of year. Even these earrings look like little Christmas trees, the excitement is real.

But yeah, sidetracking. 

I will hopefully be uploading LOTZ this holiday as long as I'm not working too much.

Oh and also, I am selling lots of bits (most of it gross) on my ebay, so have a little lookie - elsmis2010 some of it is nice lol

TA FOR RETURNING

Big love

(come back soon)

I repeat-

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Birkenstocks Are Back, And They're Flatforms

Dungarees - River Island

Croptop - BDG

Choker - eBay 

Other Necklace - Birth present... (In other words, I don't know)

Scrunchie - DIY OBVIOUSLY - here's how I made it CLICK THIS

Platform Birks - Truffles

HOLA EVERYBADY I AM OFFICIALLY BACK! But sadly not black. 

(white girl problems of slow tanning)

Oh, how much I have missed you all! 

This is pretty much the exact outfit I wore on the plane to Amsterdam to start off my UNBELIEVABLE month travelling, which I shall post about very soon. I had been searching for dungaree's for absolutely bloody ages, ebay, topshop, asos etc but I didn't want rip-off Levi's so I thought I would wait to visit Bricklane/Camden/Shoreditch etc to go buy a second hand pair and in the meantime I bought these.  They're sort of silky, so actually really light to wear in summer, but teamed with a thick knitted jumper I can definitely carry these through to Autumn Winter, oh the variety. Very good purchase.

Flares r fab.

I am aware of the hypocritical nature of me buying these shoes following on from my early post called 'Ugly Shoe Obsession'  BUT I am retracting my earlier statement of hate towards birkenstocks, cos I love them.

These were a fab £18.99 including postage, unlike the exact replica that Jeffrey Campbell do for about £1000, the platform works in my favour as I have little legs, and well... white is great.

SO I know the above OOTD formerly introduced you to these new babies, but here they are. Up close and personal. Teamed with my favourite skort from Primark (I KNOW) and a present from my babes Sarah, from some random company, the label says BDG but I don't know what that means, or where that's from.

So there you go, 2 OOTD's in 1, you lucky people.

Because I have so many un-written posts, I will probably be blogging most days for the next few weeks, including posts about my trip and a few OOTD's from when I was away, so don't worry. You will be seeing much more of me very soon 

PEACE

C U SOON

LUV N HUGS XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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Motel Rocks OOTD

Jacket - Levi, Vintage Pop-up Shop, Motel Rocks

Top - Ski gear, thermal.. Sexy

Tights - Primark

Hoops - Spanish Market

Necklace - Israel, the Country not a shop

Shoes - Reebok Classics

Leather Rucksack - Radley

Dog - Archie 

The Sample Sale-

So Danie and I made our way up to Great Portland Street at 10am yesterday morning, which by the way wasn't early enough and we ended up queuing for an hour and a half. But finally we got in, and among the other jumble of 16-18 year old girls, we started to fling through what looked like my room, a floordrobe. Due to the lack of changing rooms, it was a complete madness, but we searched and eventually found a few items we wanted. I did mean to take pictures when I was there but it was too busy and small, and taking pictures of semi naked girls wasn't really what I set out to do. So alas, no pictures of the actual sale, but take my word for it, if you've been to a Kilo Sale before, that's what it looked like.

Anyway, another faux-pas I made was wearing this above outfit... When there aren't any fitting rooms, and only one mirror, wearing an oversized tee with tights was extremely inconvenient. If I had any sense, I would have worn jeans/leggins with a vest, easy changing, no nudity. Alas, no. But anyway, re-discovering this tee was the best moment of my winter, I am aware it's technically summer, but I was cold. And ye, it is lined with fleece, so basically it is perfect. Trainers, standard. Plaits, obviously and hoops, well I didn't want to let Vicky Pollard down. My dog, Archie, decided to get in loads of these pictures... so I decided to dress him up, but he slyly loved it anyway.

The Jacket-
SO
As well as the Motel Rocks Sample Sale, they had a 'Pop-Up' Vintage Shop going on too. This is where I found this jacket, and it was dirt cheap. They had some gorgeous playsuits in reds and purples, but I'm not really the playsuit type so just stuck with the jacket. Denim Jackets are one of those things that never seem to go out of fashion, whether they're tight and small or over-sized like this one. So I basically decided 'why not' and got it. As a girl notorious for 'borrowing' people's clothes, I can't mind when people borrow mine back, however after showing this "unisex" jacket to my Dad, he's decided he likes it and will borrow it... so he will continue to rock the double denim combinations that he is so fond of, good.

But hey! Good news, the sale does actually continue today so if you didn't get a chance to go today and decide that revision just isn't worth the hassle, pop down it's open till 7pm.




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Ta for reading

xo

Skort Loving

Skort - Primark

Shoes - Primark

Grey Crop Top - Topshop

Black Cropped Off Shoulder Top - Boohoo

Necklace- eBay, you can get it here

White Scrunchie - DIY

Nail Polish - Chanel, don't know the number sorry

Lipstick - Mac 'Russian Red' in matte, I think its number 73

Coat - Vintage, was Dads years ago but I found it and told him I'm keeping it

Primark is seriously good right now! Minus they're overly tacky neon clothing and leather copies, but shoes wise and skirts / matching sets are pretty cool. worth having a look. Feel like I'm always apologising on this, but sorry for the boobage, bra's ain't ma thing.

So this is another outfit selection, it's definitely smart enough for dinner and with the right make up and hair actually done, possibly party. Seeing as I have an 18th tonight, I shall style it up and repost the results. The cut on this skort is much more suited to someone with (short and stubby) legs like mine as opposed to the geometric shaped one which suits long (lucky) legged girls, I think (hope) its flattering, and I love the pattern and colour, makes a change from wearing black bottoms. Also gives me an excuse to whip out the St. Moriz and look especially bronzed. I'm feeling these shorts could also be easily made casual with a long shirt or a baggy crop top and trainers, versatile, lovely.

I may start wearing these shoes all the time.. that's how much I love them, so expect many more blog posts including these, even if the post isn't relevant.

Never know how to end blog posts, I think I need a signature thing?

............................................... Ellie over and out

x

Ripped Jeans- 'Inspired'

So I was reading ma gurls blog (Ella) and I came across a ripped jeans tutorial

The 'how to' link is here:

The Original Post on Ripped Jeans
Her Blog is called 'ella violetta' and the link is here- ELLA'S BLOG

The tutorial shows you how to make rips into jeans, and I also added in my own homemade ripped jeans at the end, as a sort of 'response thing' to her blog.. there is no stealing here, simply reblogging.
blogga 2 blogga love only.

Anyway, this is her tutorial
AND IT HAS PICTURES, so even less work for me.

DIY | Ripped Distressed Jeans

1) Use a light coloured pencil/tailor's chalk to mark out the lines you'll cut for your rips. Make the lines about 1-1.5cm apart. 

2) Using your fabric scissors cut horizontally across the lines you made. You can make the lines different lengths to make the distress-ness more interesting and stuff. 

3) Ok so now is the tricky bit, start pulling at the fabric. You need to go to one side of the cut and start pulling out the vertical threads, as shown in the picture. Removing these threads will leave you with just the horizontal threads! Make sure you go along the whole strip, removing all the vertical threads. Trust me, it gets easier as you go along.

5) The more you do it, the more it should look like this. See how the vertical threads have been removed? Beauts.

6) Continue to cut in different places where you want your distress-ness to be. If you have any straight cut edges, make sure you fray them to make them look even more distressed! Get a pair of small scissors (found these tiny ones in a sewing kit). Open them up and start rubbing the blade up and down along the straight-cut edge. Do this until you develop the fray you want.

- If you want the distress-ness and fraying to be enhanced even more, throw the finished jeans into the wash with one old trainer. The trainer will bash against the jeans in the washer, making the denim softer, adding to the frays as well!

AND THIS IS MY RESPONSE................................................................

I know this wasnt a real blog post because I stole someone else's, but all I actually wanted to do was show the jeans I did myself

Here is my final product:
I'm pretty happy.. it was actually relatively easy, so everyone go ruin your perfectly good clothes!