Sunday's Pretty Icons

On Sunday Sam and I went on a little trip into town, to see galleries and more importantly the Natural History Museum (again). I saw the Man Ray exhibit which was great but I don't really want to write about as I already do enough of that sort of thing for my degree!! We just love dinosaurs though. And Science. Oh, museums... Anyway I was happy to wear my Cambridge Satchel Company engraved (with initials - M G) pink satchel which was last years birthday present - which for some reason I have only used twice! I'm not too sure why because I'm pretty much in love with it, but will definitely be using it more when its time for Spring pastels. Pastels eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. Wearing my new topshop dress in the picture, its a shame my coat is covering up the rest of it but I absolutely love it too, I'll hopefully get a picture up of it soon. I'm starting to really like all these new prints that are coming out for Spring, I'm not a huge fan of the 'comic' flourescent spots and commanding statement stripes, but the floral (obviously) prints and more delicate patterns and colours really create more of a unique look for Spring when we're used to just seeing pastels and lace. (Not that I'm complaining about that). I actually think the whole 'Arthaus' thing looks quite good when coupled with some more delicate, simple pieces.

A few Spring wishes:

All by Topshop except Polka dot shirt, Miss Selfridge.

Floral Fancies

Although the weather may appear to be getting better, I haven't been duped and have still been in thick knits, heavy coats, and LAYERS upon layers. Last Saturday was an exception when I donned a slightly more Summery style, playing with Autumnal maroons and golds. It meant I was able to finally give my red roses hand made headband an outing, and I found it matched beautifully with the colours and prints. I love anything floral but am trying to wait till the weather gets a bit more Spring-time-ier to bust 'em out, but till then darker  florals will do.

My lookbook and blog photos have never been particularly wonderful as I don't know too much about photography or editing myself, but my boyfriend offered to be my two-day lookbook fashion photographer - you can find his wonderful portfolio here. We were just messing around in his room looking for props to play with for the photographs and things for me to wear with my outfit - there were a few images of me layering Aztec shirts and beanie hats, which will not be making an appearance on this blog!

For now, enjoy the few that made the cut...

Hope you like them, I'll hopefully be getting creative again soon and will have some more DIY things to share with you beautiful people.

Winter Winds

Today's outfit is a little different... After spending hours last night browsing the internet, in particular fashion blogs, I came across some images that inspired me. I was amazed by Megan McMinn's (TheBriarRoseBlog) hairstyle shoot in Company magazine - having only seen her personal lookbook images, although I had no doubt she was a beautiful girl, I didn't quite realise the extent of her model potential. The striking colours and combinations of patterns in particular grabbed me, and has made me desperate to start wearing colourful summer clothes and being a little more outrageous with my wardrobe. Although her gorgeous hair colour definitely adds to this, I felt I'd give it a go and one image in particular (left) made me want to style something slightly different this morning. Noticing that I infact had the same cream lace top in the picture, from Kimchi & Blue at Urban Outfitters (at least I think it is), I decided to style something similar and experiment with overlaying different patterns and colours to create a slightly more unusual look.

Unfortunately I have no short sleeved collared tops (a fact which I plan to change soon!) but wore it over a simple polka dot dress that complimented the shape of the tshirt. The bright blue colour shone nicely through the lace and the polka dots were not lost, despite being a similar cream colour. Being inspired by the picture I decided to also accessorize with some bright, chunky costume jewelerry - however, I had to improvise. I don't own any hugely extravagant pieces of jewelerry but paired two very colourful necklaces together to make an illusion of sorts!

It's hard being an art student because everything I wear into uni gets covered in paint, so weekends tend to be my time to play and have some fun with what I'm wearing. Although SS13 will no doubt be full of pastel shades and lace (I love this time of year), I'm hoping to brighten things up a bit when I get the money...

That's all for now xo

Today

Outfit of the day, was feeling Summery despite it being the beginning of February. Here's to wishful thinking...

Wearing handmade floral headband (see two previous posts), and a staggering amount of Topshop bits (feeling slightly shameful).

xo

History Book

 Too tired for words, weekend project xo
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