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

Let it Snow....

Ok, so I've been a crap blogger as of late. You may all give out to me.. it's ok.. I can take it! Due to reasons beyond my control and reasons that were fully in my control I just haven't had time to take outfit posts. 


Firstly I'd like to blame it on the weather. No matter how many photographers and websites and manuals I've consulted I just can't get my camera to do what i want it to... and considering I go to work in dull light and come home in darkness my days off are my only chance for photos. Now... In theory this should still give me at least 2 to 3 photos a week... but.. I've been busy on my days off. I'd like to be able to say that I've been doing REALLY important, life changing things... but I haven't.... I've been on exciting adventures to other cities and abroad and generally just having fun :) 


So..... sorry blog land, I hang my head in shame... but I intend to get back to it in the run up to Christmas. I have super exciting things planned for my future and this blog will play a big part in it, so I'm gonna start taking it seriously.


In the meantime....


SNOW!!! IT'S SNOWING IN IRELAND!!! I love it :) Check out the view from my mum's room this afternoon:

I would now like to reveal a little bit about my personality that came to light today. Basically, if you want to have light hearted snowman making fun, don't invite me. I am the dictator of snow construction.. If we're going to make a snowman, we're going to make a snowman and it's going to be brilliant! Having said that... despite my leadership skills this is what we ended up with, not the best... but hey.. I tried (I hope one of my snowman companions reads this..teeeehee):

Given the fact I've been stuck inside most of the day, I've been catching up on tv on the RTE Player (what a great invention). I feel compelled to declare to you all my LOVE for Fade Street... (this is Ireland's answer to the Hills for those of you who aren't familiar). While the acting is awful, it's obviously staged and in real life the two main girls would never be friends... it's just brilliant. I find myself completely bewildered and shocked by each episode.. it's a kind of "is this really happening?? is this REALLY on tv?? WHO ARE THEY KIDDING??" feeling. I urge you all to check it out, it doesn't take much commitment either, the episodes are 20 mins long. In this weeks episode look out for Paul and Dani's fight.... it's all very amusing... Paul does some pushing, everyone is shocked.. and he storms off. It's a gem.


Ok Blog... I must be off, but never fear.. I will be back with proper fashion posts

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