Merry Christmas Everyone!!

I finally have some downtime between going out and eating leftovers to bring you a couple of photos I snapped on Christmas Day :) 


Unfortunately for me, but fortunate for my liver, my Christmas has been a stone cold sober one. 5 days before christmas I got tonsillitis :( Anyone who's had it will know how really feckin' horrible it is... aches, pains, the sorest throat you can imagine, headaches, sick stomach and general feelings of bleugh.. waaahhh... blaaah. 


Now, as my friends know well, my new thing is being overly dramatic in situations that don't warrant it (proclaiming FML when I can't plug in my charger in the socket.. or shouting BEST.DAY.EVER. when I find a penny) so when I told people how sick I was they reckoned it was a boy who cried wolf situation.. but I actually was really sick. I swear! I did bounce back fast though so by the time anyone saw me I was fine again.. which really didn't help my case.. hmm need.to.work.on.story.


This Christmas I got two terribly exciting gifts:


1. The first was a pink mini sewing machine from John Lewis (which I must admit, isn't all that mini.. but it's pink and it's beautiful and it's mine). I'm genuinely an advertisers dream. Make something pink and I'll instantly buy it. Had my sewing machine been white... meh.. I could have taken it or left it.

2. A Diana Mini camera. I'm obsessed with lomography at the moment... call me a hipster if you will :) but it just gives such a cool quality to photos. I was originally gonna get the Diana f+ but it takes an unusual film format and i just didn't want the hassle for my first camera of this type.

I hope everyone had an amazing family and food filled Christmas :) New Years is so so close... It's time to seriously start thinking about my New Years Resolutions. I'm calling 2011 the year of 'change'; moving house, moving away, possibly choosing a masters, working abroad, travelling... you name it i'm gonna give it a go!

So Happy New Year everyone! See ye in 2011

yum yum yuuuuuummmm

Love up

El :)xx

Can you hear me now....?

Hello!!


Finally, an outfit post! I spent all day Saturday morning reshooting dark and awful outfit photos from the last few weeks. Unfortunately I had to change rooms to the spare room so excuse the naff wardrobes in the background... check out the door handles! How retro!? I still had to spend a good bit of time editing but at least I have photos!


I have so many pretty floral summer dresses that I ignored most of Autumn but I got bored of the jeans, boots and thousands of layers look, so I've started wearing black long sleeved tops under all my dresses.

(Dress - Local Waterford Shop "Swamp", Black long-sleeved top - Penneys/Primark, Grey cardigan - Penneys/Primark, Leggings - NEXT, Black snood - John Rocha at Debenhams, Clock necklace - H&M, Boots - OFFICE)

Ok.... I NEED to dedicate a paragraph to my boots. I bought these in January last year in Kingston-upon-Thames while I was over for my brothers graduation. I had been on the search for a pair that were the right height on my calf, not too shiney and nicely rounded at the front... and then I found these babies in Office... and fell in love. My mum paid for them on her credit card so it wasn't exactly aware of the price until after... but I'm glad I didn't see the tag or I may have been a bit weary of spending over 100 euro on them. Now, i'm so glad I did because I literally wear them around 5 times a week if not more. They're so versatile and because they're not black they go with navy (which I like to wear quite a bit.. exhibit A above). The good news is they're still available on the OFFICE website :)

Do you have a pair of shoes you can't get out of?? Or a nevertakenoff item of clothing?? Or do you have an inventive way of restyling summer dresses you could share? Most important question though, can someone PLEASE tell me where I can get decent black leggings that don't sag at the knees and lose shape after one wear? 


Let me know your thoughts :)

Before I go (need to finish Christmas shopping) I must point out that my post title is a lyric from a Villagers song called That Day. Now I know this isn't a music blog, but I'm just really in love with this band AND I'm going to see them live tonight, so I have to tell ye about them :D I'm far too excited about this gig... aaaahhh1h11!!! EXCITEMENT!! They're Irish and they have a beautiful album out called Becoming A Jackal. I can't choose just one favourite song to recommend but because I stole my title from these lyrics, have a listen to 'That Day': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-HDkpgWZDM

(If someone could tell me how to embed a video into my blog that would be great)

Love,

El :)xx