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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

Co-ownership! The recessionista way!

So...both my mum and I have been pining after leopard print coats all of autumn. We both already have our own creamy coloured plain fur coats and she also has a black one but these beautiful leopard prints appearing all over shops were just too tempting to ignore. While watching Xpose on tv3 during the week this Warehouse gem appeared: 

Everybody say "ooooooo".... "aaaahhhh"

So, after the initial lust subsided I came up with this amazing idea........... wait for it:

Lets buy the fur coat together! 

(cue alarm bells, flashing lights, sirens!)

Due to work and other stuff me and my mum will be living in the same vicinity for atleast 2 years so we don't have to worry about who gets custody of the coat till at least then. Plus it worked out around 62 euro each, that's so cheap! What I like about it most (besides the insane softness) is the colour. Because I have red hair, I've found that orange leopard print can make me look a bit tacky and my mum feels the same. 

I'll be featuring this baby in an outfit post soon enough but until then here's the pretty model showing it off:

Love,

El :)xx