oh christmas tree...

(1/ Bauble on the tree 2/ Christmas biscuits cooking 3/ Iced and ready to eat 4/ Tie-dyed jeans 5/ Tree lights  6/ Presents waiting to be opened tomorrow) 

It's Christmas tomorrow! Eeek. Since my birthday I've made Christmas biscuits, tie-dyed jeans- not at all Christmassy but since coming home from uni all I want to do are crafty things anyone else get whithdrawl from baking and DIYing? And we put up the Christmas tree and covered in decorations, minimal chic it isn't but I love it all the same!

For the gingerbread Christmas biscuits I used this recipe and for the jeans I used these directions but I don't know if there was something wrong with my bleach but my jeans wound up in the bleach for about 2 days and they still didn't come out white! No idea why?! Hopefully they'll look good on, finger's crossed.

Now time for Christmas Eve lunch with the family, have a lovely Christmas :)

on the first day of Christmas...

(1/ Present wrapping finished 2/ Monty's Christmas bandana 3/ Birthday candles 4/ Ear piercings (sorry for the bad quality) 5/ MK watch and bracelets 6/ Ring and jumper 7/ Iced bun b'day cakes :))

So since my last post I've finished uni, come home, wrapped a ton of Christmas presents and turned 20! The end of term was really busy and full on as we had a big presentation to a multi-national company.. eek. 

Monday was my twentieth birthday-see the rather unconventional b'day cake ;) As I seem to have broken up a week before everyone else I spent the day with mum going for lunch and round town, and I got my eyes pierced 3 times, ouch.


For my birthday I'd bought myself-is that bad?- a Michael Kors watch I've been eyeing for ages when asos did 25% student discount! Also got a homemade jumper :) some jewellery, a calendar of my holiday in Paris and a few other things. 


Now it's a week till Christmas... time to put up the tree.

so summery, so simple, so beautiful....

New York Times May 2011 Girl Overboard with Daria Werbowy


Never mind the fact that it's December and there's now been snow in England, this is one of my favourite editorials. I think they can be really overdone and try hard and this one just feels effortless. 

yet another wedding of the year...

Well I couldn't not write anything about it, could I? The third wedding of the year has officially taken place. Twilight Breaking Dawn is now in cinemas and raking in the viewers, including me. Having read all the books, I couldn't wait to see how they'd done the wedding and of course what the dress was like. 

The setting for the wedding of hanging flowers in what can only be described as a fairytale woodland. It really is beautiful and sets the scene for the story so well. But I've got to admit although I think the dress is beautiful it just isn't what I'd pictured but it's gorgeous anyway. On another note the Manolo's are to die as is the hair with the small plaits. The dress itself is made of silk crepe and French chantilly lace and is worth $35,000. Oh and you'll be able to buy it from her collection SS 2012. It's got 152 buttons down the back and 17 on each sleeve so whoever buys it will need some help getting into it.

For me the location/set dressing and costumes made the wedding scene. What did you guys think?

(All images from glamourmagazine.co.uk)

sherwood...

These are the photos I took when I went to Sherwood Forest a few weeks ago, majorly hectic time at the minute two weeks left then the Christmas Hols. Took these photographs before autumn really hit so everything was still pretty green.

I've got to admit it's a really beautiful place, and even though we went at the start of half term it felt very serene and peaceful. Always nice to wander around, although it's so big you've got to follow the arrows. 

(all of the above images are mine, please don't use without permission or crediting me)

hometime...

Love coming home from uni to fashion magazines...

costume heaven...

Snow White and the Huntsman(2012)

Mirror, Mirror (2012)

It's not even Christmas yet and I'm already looking forward to next year. When I found out there were going to be two interpretations of the classic Snow White I was a bit puzzled, I know films get re-made but two re-makes in one year seems a tad ridiculous. But they look so different, Snow White and the Hutsman (starring Kristen Stewart & Charlize Theron) looks dark and gothic while Mirror, Mirror (starring Lily Collins & Julia Roberts) is more rom-com. I'll definitely be watching both for the story and the costume- Kristen Stewarts and Julia Roberts both look amazing.

christmas time mistletoe and john lewis...

The one ad I really look forward to every Christmas, and this years didn't disappoint.

Serious aawwww at the end :)

go forth...

It's every person's legacy to make the world more to their liking. Now is our time. Go Forth!


In love with this Levi's advert/campaign from July this year. 
Loving the way ads are changing to be more about the consumer and less about the product.

Spot the Supermodel...

Music video for Duran Duran's new song Girl Panic!

The Supers reunited once again (well almost). Styled by Dolce & Gabbana (who make a cameo appearance) and shot at London's Savoy Hotel. They also appeared on Harper's Bazaar's December cover and inside... now all I need is to get home so I can actually read it!