And at long last she has worked out how to centralise her images...

Rocket Dog shoes, River Island leggings, Old petticoat worn inside out, Cardigan (worn backwards) H&M, New look beads, H&M belt, Vintage hat (from Russia)

Fear not, she is back, she says speaking about herself in the third person as though she has not actually arrived yet and she is about to introduce herself!, Ok, confused? so am I!, move on! I am back, sorry about all the higgledyness of the last week and last several weeks worth of posts!

So I am finally back and ready to carry on with my treasured blog of fashion gorgeousness!

This outfit was put together last night especially for you guys so I'm really hoping you like it!

I hope you've not lost interest in my craziness over the past week!

Tomorrow x

Pleats Please!

Bubble was posting the other day about her love of pleats and it reminded me of the wonderful 'pleats please' by Issey Miyake. I am affraid this is going to have to be an extremely short possed because I am imensley annoyed with blogger. so much so I may have to move to wordpress or restart my blog! a shame I know but at the moment It doesn't look like I have much choice, blogger is destroying even very high resolution images and not letting me centralise anything!

So annoyed!

Anyway must get my hands on some gorgeous vintage pleats as obviously Miyake is out of my reach!

Tomorrow x

Do Something Spontaneous and Creative like a Four Year Old - Just Once!

My beautiful and precious best friend popped round to my house at the weekend, partly to join me in slatering the comments of the Xfactor judges and watch endless cycles of AMNTM and partly to just lark around and be best friends as if we were young and childish again!

We decided to have a bit of a sewing competition (don't ask!) but I think the results are almost etsy worthy if given a little more time and sewn to a better quality!

This is the two together, the rabbit is my bezzies work of loveliness and the mini purse is mine, it is made from a sample of Cath Kidston fabric.

This is my bezzies work again, its lovely don't you think!

My hair ala my bff! I think it looks really crazy and it took alot of gel, which I was not grateful for when I got in the shower but it was good fun!

I made these cupcakes with lips on yesterday just to continue on my childish spree of craziness. I thought they looked quite trendy but I never got to taste them because the dog nicked them (yes all of them!)
- Inspired by Marilyn Monroe

Sparkly lips!!!

emo monroe!

hahahaha! this one makes me laugh!

I am quite pleased with this, it is my mood board I was talking about on the Peter Jensen/ Banksy post when we all got given a celebrity in textiles and we had to create a (textile) cup cake based on their style! This is Marilyn Monroe's face made from Marilyn Monroe's face! The lips are made out of red sequins (yes guys it took me ages and was loads of effort!!! ahem!)

Tomorrow x

Wild Thing!

Enjoying reliving all my old Vogues at the moment and When I opened May 2009 Vogue I was delighted at what I found! On the 'More Dash Than Cash' shoot there was a shirt very similar to one that I am making! In the 'who wore what' - type page there were two pictures of somebody very exciting at a catwalk show - Susie Bubble (!) so as you all know I am a fan of both so this immediately puts May 2009 Vogue at an advantage but as well as Susie and my shirt, there was a gorgeous shoot of haute couture gowns and a lovely feature called 'the road to Damascus' featuring some fantastic photography and the article was extremely well written! I loved it, and to top itoff there was the above shoot which inspired my look today!

I did my hair with raffia like one of the photos in the shoot! I had a purple headband underneath the raffia to hold in it place and I gripped a bag charm into place.

jewelery: most bracelets are cheep tat from Camden and self made, the top one is from a quirky gift shop in Ludlow!

Primark dress, Dorothy Perkins Tights, New look silver belt, My mums

black belt, Next shirt, Warehouse Tank.

Tip: If you still have May 2009 Vogue; check it out!

Tomorrow x

All those Antonios!

Discovered This entirely accidentally when searching to look at Antonio Beradis collections which I hadn't seen yet, of whom I'm a massive fan, anyway, on google when you type in a name, lots of other little suggestions come up don't they? Well, I accidentally clicked on Antonio Bernardo instead of Antonio Beradi and look what I discovered. Amazing jewelery!!! I am oh so in love!

I love the way these rings have been presented on the website. I really wanted to copy an animation that is on the site of a ring that is built up with tiny pieces of precious metal jigsaw pieces to put on here, but it didn't work. Obviously I could have print screened but I think you need to go over to the site and check it out for yourself, when you see it you will see why the animation element is so lovely!

This must be one of my favourite pieces on his site, It is so intricate and not brassy as it is so easy for yellow gold jewelery to have this effect. Obviously the painted hand and the light in this photograph really sets it off and having not seen the ring in real life I cannot describe its loveliness in reality but I think this is just a simply stunning ring. I always rant about how much I long for a snaking diamond Van Cleef and Arpels ring (which I shall never have because they would still not seem affordable if you were Bill Gates!) but one can dream. But Van Cleef better watch out because Antonio Bernardo and his stunning little pieces of quirky simplicity are not far behind. Less fussy, but equally as beautiful and unique, certainly a contender for Tomorrow's dream ring!
Tomorrow x

How Many Hats!?

Blogger hates me at the moment! It's doing all these crazy things and wont let me centralify the things I want to say! Anyway! Oh I'm centralised now! Okay maybe not! I just wanted to share with you some magnificent head wear from talented french designer Jacques le Corre. I have a notebook of designers and things whos work I've liked in a magazine and then I type them into google and usually it's a waste of time but this name was a success.
These spaceagey designs look as though they belong in a design museum rather than on somebody's head but I know there are

some wonderful people on this planet who care less about what others think than me! And these are the people I admire (ahem Susie!)

I hope you agree these are spectacular pieces!

Another thing, go on the Jacques le Corre website and the picture quality will not be like this but the minute I upload a picture from my computer, blogger destroys it. I am definitely in bloggers bad books!

Anyway I shall give up personifying blogger because I am sure I am annoying you.

Back to Jacques le Corre, well basically all I had to say was how fabulous and inspiring these headpieces are and how when I'm a fashion designer (when not if) I shall be sending models down the runway in something halfway between this and the Natasha Lawes masks!

What do you think?

Tomorrow x

'Armless fun...

Must be the oldest joke in the joke book but when it comes to a situation such as this, you simply cannot resist!

Flicking through Vogue (yes I know all my inspiration for posts comes from Susie and Vogue but, hey who cares!), I hated (as usual) the more dash than cash shoot, mainly because the shoot was not 'more dash than cash'. I'm sure I've ranted to you about this before but it really gets on my nerves! so anyway came across the shoot, hated it, hated the clothes, then on the last page of the feature there was a tiny section on Armlets, I didn't particularly like the way they were displayed and not a fan of the model used in this shoot either but the only tip I think I've ever seen in a more dash than cash shoot that I've ever taken any notice of (apart from of course the destroyed jeans, but they don't count because they were a tremendous amount of effort!) was the idea to make armlets from cut out tights. I have to say, I didn't quite achieve the look I was hoping for but I hope you get the idea!

If you can see in the top left hand corner of the Vogue page there are some gold armlets that look as if they're made from several gold straps (well basically they are!) anyway these are from a lingerie brand called Bordelle. I have avoided posting about Bordelle befor because alot of their designs are very provocative and this could be perceived as tarty, however, I do not think that this is the effect they are trying to achieve. Today I am posting about them because of their appearance in Vogue and I wanted to show you some pictures from their collection with the armlets in. unfortunately the ones that are shown in the shoot are not there but I found these couple of pairs and I think they would be quite exciting pieces to own, twinning with an evening dress or even for a gorgeous day look, with some fantastic bubble-esque layering!


Tomorrow x

Susie Challenge

Not a challenge fan, but there's an exception to every rule. I want to concentrate on having a USP and writing with personality rather than letting others intrude on my style or encouraging me to do something their way rather than my own. Though to be honest Susie inspires me enough as it is that there was no way I was not going to participate, so sad that everything Susie (I'm even considering a fringe [?]) does influences me so much but then she is wonderful!

I hope this looks a little a little Susie-esque as well as colour-crammed! I'll make a list of clothes so you can see how many colours I'm actually wearing, Susie originally suggested 10 but then on her second post she said to get at least five and I'm sure I've done that!!!!

1. head band; pale green; ribbon from Abakhan, 2.T-shirt; bright blue; Mark's and Spencer's, 3.Vest Top, bright purple, Zara 4.Tights, pinky-purple; New Look, 5.Fitted skirt; Black; Pull and Bear, 6.Shear skirt; My old ballet skirt from when I was very tiny!, 7.watch; bright blue, New Look, 8. Shoes, Yellow, Rocket Dog, 9. Cardigan, Pink, H&M.

The rules on bubble says patterns but I couldn't resist the spotty purse as a clutch bag. Its a Primark nasty PVC thing but it looks great dotted around the place so I keep it! The Lipstick is from Boots 17! I'm wearing it as welll as holding it!

Almost 10!

What do you think about me having a fringe cut?

No quite susie standard but quite good fun all the same!

Tomorrow x