CHAINED DOWN

Currently sitting in Charlotte airport waiting for my flight to board. Any airport that has free wifi automatically makes me overexcited and not totally dreading the next 24 hours of travelling.... so right now I'm a non-dreading over-excited wierdo uploading pictures of herself at the gate, nothing new...

Anyways, as always, I freak out in the last 24 hours of any holiday and/or break I'm on, and end up getting in a wierd creative fluster where I finish all the mini projects I meant to attempt earlier. So, this Christmas break, as opposed to making a shitty feather necklace that will break after one wear (exhibit A.) I fixed literally a PILE of necklaces where the chains had broken.

So with pliers in my hands and loads of left over chain, what's a girl to do? DIY IT, DUH.

It just so happened that I had this cool rock I kept from the beach this summer (I'm wierd like that, deal with it) I thought I had just the right idea what do with it, and if I may so myself, it turned out pretty magical...

I'm pretty chuffed with how it turned out. The last bit of the chain is doubled up and then doubled up again (...quadrupled?) so it hangs further of the chain. the black/silvery chain only cost me like four bucks, so I think some more of these DIY missions need to be taken on!

Here's another thing I did, not as sweet as the former, but I digress...

It was just a little rock/crystal/thing I had on a keychain from when I was little, and I found it while I was clearing out my room. Anyways, thought it would find a better home on a chain so I could wear it, the result being...

obvz, both of these necklaces look like I'm some hippy/witch/fortune-teller, but I kind of like it. If I ever need to hypnotize someone I can just grab my necklace.

FASHIONABLE AND FUNCTIONAL.... right?

BOW DOWN

Last week I had really minor surgery done on my foot, nothing too serious, but enough for me to be confined to the couch for the day at home. So being the crafty person I am I spent the whole day watching SONNY WITH A CHANCE (don't be hatin) and the remainder of the day was spent knitting this bow.

It was ridiculously easy, the simpleness of its pattern pretty much insults my skillz as a knitter (it's literally just a knitted rectangle bunched together with a smaller rectangle sewn around)

LOL JK I'm an idiot therefore simplicity means there is less of a chance of me fucking it up...

anyways, here it is, along with some stupid pictures of my sis and I before Christmas

ALL SPACED OUT

OBVZ, it's Christmas.

My two lovely sisters decided to be particularly amazing this year and treated me to a CHRISTOPHER KANE SPACE SCARF...

zomg! wtf?

brb, lol, rofl, tbh, imo etc.

When I first opened the magical purple liberty box, I was all, "eeeeeeeeeeeeee, a space scarf!", because as any self-respecting cliched hipster/fashion-blogger, I unashamedly keep a folder specifically for my cosmos pictures, the Horsehead Nebula being my personal fav, duh.

(go to www.apod.nasa.gov they show a new picture every day)

1. the Horsehead Nebula 2+3. silly ol' me.

So then my sister asked me did I know where it was from. Obvz, it reminded me of the space stuff Christopher Kane did for his resort 2011 collection (sweet, no?) and I thenceforth began to freak out. Apparently, this scarf was a special edition collaboration with Liberty. In all honesty I never knew it existed, but now wonder how I lived without it in my possesion...

Kind of joking. But not really.

To make this present-receiving an even more amazing ordeal, they got me a little set of Liberty "Knot Cards for Scarves", how insightful. As well as a reproduction of a 1930's booklet about the many uses for a Liberty scarf, which is actually quite funny really.

Anyways, it's safe to say that I haven't taken off the scarf all day, and intend to keep it on my head until it rots, quite literally. Well not literally, but sort of...

(I think the above picture expresses my excitement adequately)

So, this is my tale of a very good Christmas indeed.

So I suppose it would only be polite....

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

NO SALE IS EVER FINAL

Jeremy Scott Spring 2011.

nuff said.

Old ticket dresses, models with rollers in their hair, dresses made out of plastic bags, and hoof shoes, HOOF SHOES?! I don't think anything else could have made this collection more amazing, oh wait, it's missing...

A WEDDING DRESS THAT'S ACTUALLY A

STRAIGHT JACKET.

duh.

YOU SNOOZE YOU LOSE

Did yet another GoodWill haul before I leave, and can safely say I am satisfied (although will probably still go again before I head back to Europe). I swear that if I bought the exact same things I got today in any Dublin vintage stores it would be AT LEAST just over 70 euro, and considering that everything I got today cost a grand (not-so-grand) total of 19 dollars, I'm a pretty happy ladeeeeee. Purchases were as follows;

lace up ankle boots - three dollah y'all! Which means I won't feel guilty when I attack them with my freshly delivered order of studs...

black Levi's jeans - to be cut, durr.

blue Levi's mom shorts - to be cut, double durr.

Ralph Lauren Men's plaid shirt - just an oversized version of the one I got in the exact same GoodWill last year, basically what I wear when I'm not very enthused...

I realize how lame this picture looks now... but it was the only picture where I didn't have club feet or that the shoezzz weren't shrouded in a shadow of doom, so deal with it. Plus, OH EMMM GEEEE, look at my guitar, I'm so cool etc. etc. :)

This outfit is nothing special, my family and I just headed out for my sister's birthday, we went to see INCEPTION, which was pretty amazing, but it wasn't as crazy confusing as everyone was saying. Personally my fav. bit about it was how the fog-horn-y sounding music throughout the movie was actually Edith Piaf's "Non, je ne regrette rien" slowed down a couple hundered times, something that I enjoy geeking out about, then again, I just enjoy geeking out in general...

And speaking of that check out this. It's Justin Bieber's "U smile" slowed down 800%, personally whenever a song uses text speak in it (e.g. Avril Lavigne's GOLDEN hit, "Sk8r Boi") I generally try to avoid it, but this 36-minute form of BIEBER FEVER is just like one big epic event getting all up in your ears, jus sayin, that shit just got real...

PINK SWEAR

//as promised//

her blog is FYNDIGT.

I literally have no idea what that means, but she is Swedish, therefore amazing, therefore I don't care. Her blog's in Swedish but I just bookmarked through google translator.

WRAP IT TIGHT, WHAT DELIGHT

On account of my hair crisis at the moment (my teen angst moment where I proceeded to chop off my semi - long tresses so that they then resembled a Coco Chanel bob if in fact her hairdresser happened to be on a hallucinogens, or was maybe just was really really really bad at cutting hair ) in other words my hair looked grrrrrreat, then I cut it.

Anyways, I can literally do nothing with my hair without the support of (I'll just guesstimate...) 742 bobby pins. And whilst I was trawling the depths of lookbook as I do because I am an angsty teenager with no friends (in the same country as me at the moment, mind) at isn't that where they all go, so they can title there look with some deep/inspiring lyric, yeah?

Ok, done with my pity-party/bitterness now. I usually go on lookbook cos most of the best people on there have good blogs to go with it, so I waste my time trying to find more blogs to waste my time with... BUT I did find this one girl's blog. She was Swedish, so ozzley blonde, tan, tall and thin, and owned the entire contents of my dream wardrobe, I can't remember her blog name now but I'll post it if I find it again. So, in this particular look she was wearing this nice silk scarf but as a pretty sweet head turban.

INSPIRATIONAL RIGHT? REVOLUTIONARY, RIGHT?

um, yes, and no.

So out I pulled my 2 euro Penney's McQueen imitation scarf and decided I would boldly go where thousands have before.... the results being...

To be honest I'm just thrilled I have found something that can take attention away from my lack luster hair. And I'm pretty sure that I've found yet another thing that I can pre-plan to wear to Electric Picnic, because I'm bored and this is what I do when I'm bored, PRE - PLAN, but usually just procrastinate, or maybe it's taking vain photobooth pictures of myself... hmmmm, it depends...

Plus, it kind of makes me feel like axl rose, only even he has better hair than me... damn.

ITS A HARD-KNOCK LIFE

Like a grown up, Swedish version of Annie.

This is a good thing.

source facehunter

PLEAD FOR PLEATS

So basically, went to GoodWill last week, and got three things a dress, a skirt, and a bag, all three of which I plan on boring you with. But this post is purely dedicated to the skirt I got. Anyways, it's a pleated calf-length skirt with a polka dot print, and though mid-calf length is all the rage bla bleh bla...

it is not flattering.

Whatsoever.

At all.

So with my mind-blowing seamstress skillz I decided I would just alter it to a nice high waisted skirt, simples. It was pretty easy to sew, the only annoying bit being having to iron every single pleat back in, because the thread was quite stiff.

But that's pretty much the end of the saga, went to Target today and wore it out for the first time...

If I wasn't a WUSS, I would have worn it like this...

...but I am a WUSS, so I didn't. Perhaps next time. I srsly need to grow some balls, metaphorically, duh.

//LE FIN//

look forward to Parts 2 + 3 of this GoodWill saga...