sequinned

the other night to celebrate my birthday, i went out to a burlesque-meets-broadway drag bar with a few friends for the evening show. it was so amazing, the acts were so good and there were so many numbers - including a little mermaid & rock horror number! i love drag queens so much, i just think they are so amazing. i love the whole over the top, glitzy look (surprise surprise!). in fact, if i had been born a man i would love to be a drag queen! seriously. it's scary how many things in my wardrobe would be perfectly at home on a drag queen's shoulders.

anyway, this is what i wore for the show. as you can see, i kind of adapted my outfit to suit the drag bar aesthetic! hence the sequinned jacket. and the dame edna everage hair (which has already faded loads, waah!) i really love themed outfits! they just make me happy, haha. lame, i know. but then, isn't that what clothing is all about? fashion to me just isn't any fun if you can't have a bit of a laugh & enjoy yourself, instead of being too busy caring what other people think.

jacket - dorothy perkins, top - ebay, skirt/petticoat - charity shop, tights - topshop, shoes - peacocks (ribbon added by me)

this is kind of a blurry shot of the full outfit. i was a bit rushed for time & didn't really have enough patience to set up my tripod, but i wanted to get a picture with my shoes in (for once). also working a little bit of underwear-as-outerwear with this peachy pink petticoat.

and finally a shot of my feminist necklace! this is the biggest seller in my shop, and i am so pleased. i really love making these so it's lovely to know that other people appreciate them and the idea as much as i do.

utopia

hello guys! it's my 19th birthday today, waah i'm getting old. i opened some presents from my mum's side of the family & i thought i'd show you what i got! i didn't really ask for anything big, just bits & bobs which i kind of prefer because it's just nicer having lots of little things to coo over.

some paperchase stickers & a silly sausage dog pen from my mum. i love stickers so much, seriously they are just so cute & i don't think you can ever have enough. the dachshund pen is because mother & i love them, and the pen is hilarious.

i also got this little brogue necklace from my mum, which i asked for from jewellery by jaymie. it is so dinky & cute! beautifully drawn too, and the chain is a perfect length and so delicate.

my aunt, uncle & cousin bought me an eyelash curler and some model's own nail varnish in mystic mauve & utopia and the nail art pen in black. i love model's own nail varnish, i'm generally not that into ~brand names but i really love their polishes. they have so many different colours, and i adore the names!

here are my nails in mystic mauve! unfortunately just after taking this i ruined my manicure because i didn't wait a long enough time before washing my hair (which has faded loaaads by the way!) so i had to redo them! it's a gorgeous colour though, a lovely shimmery metallic purple with a slightly greeny blue sheen.

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i'm going out tonight with a few friends to a burlesque/drag bar which I CANNOT WAIT FOR! if i had been born a man, i think i would have to be a drag queen. seriously, i think they are so amazing. if i'm allowed to take photos i will do! also hopefully i will have a few more things to blog about over the next few weeks as i won't have that much textiles work to do.

please mister postman

today, the fourth of february, is my 18th birthday. well, gosh. i'm not quite sure what to think about this, in a way it is nice to be considered an adult, but at the same time i'd quite like to do a peter pan & not grow up. having said that, i've had a rather lovely day & been given some wonderful presents!

i was given a cute ring by my cousin & a treasure chest necklace by my sister (with a happy birthday message inside!)

my mother gave me some very sweet jewellery pieces (a strawberry themed charm bracelet & a bluebird necklace), and my aunt & uncle gave me a silver-coloured branch to hang them on.

i've been on the search for a vintage-style satchel for quite some time now, so it was pretty amazing that two came along at once! the first one is technically from my grandad, but i chose it from urban outfitters, & the second is from a group of my friends who clubbed together to buy it (:

my friends also bought me a vintage belt from beyond retro, which is so cute! it's quite unusual, it has a little screw thing (i have no other way to describe it) to move onto a different notch. quite spooky really as i've been sort of on the lookout for a tan waistbelt.

not a present, but this is the paper my mother wrapped my presents in, it is adorable! my mum chose it because it features a winking meringue, & meringues are my favourite things ever!

today has been pretty lovely, i got my haircut back to all its layered glory (or something like that). although i kept being pretty socially awkward throughout the day, for example when two of my friends said happy birthday to me i replied with "thanks, happy birthday to you too!", nice one charlotte.

i'm a fool to want you

on monday night, i went to the 18th birthday party of one of my best friends who i've known since i was about nine years old! she's very interested in eras gone by, much as i am, so she had a 1940s themed party. a group of us clubbed together to buy her some vintage records we thought she'd like as a present, & i've just received a text saying she's just been listening to them & she loves them!

it was such a lovely night (even though a couple of annoying, inconsiderate people ruined it for me at the end, but we'll say no more about that) & i can honestly say cathryn - that's her name, by the way - is one of the cutest people i know. unfortunately, there really aren't any pictures of me from the night, but i have a few i took before i went.

this was my attempt at pin-curling my hair, although you can't really see as my hair is so dark in photographs! i was pretty pleased with how my hair turned out, as i have next to no experience in styling hair. in fact, i may have to try it again some time!

as the 1940s aren't really a decade i know a lot about, i didn't have much in my wardrobe that i could wear for such an occasion. thankfully my mother, amazing woman that she is, has forgotten more about decades of fashion than i could ever know so she was the perfect person to guide me.

i love this dress so much, the style isn't 40s in the slightest but the print is so i think i got away with it.

forgive the disaffected youth pose, my camera has a lot of trouble focusing in low light & this was the only shot that came out alright. this is pretty much the same outfit i wore in this post, so i didn't do any full length shots as it seemed slightly gratuitous to me. the only thing i'm slightly annoyed about is that i forgot to take a picture of the tights i wore as they were the most 1940s-ish thing about the outfit!

i'm wearing pearls in these photographs, but i decided to change my necklace at the last minute to this typewriter one i got for christmas from my cousin (the very same cousin who features in the post below!). i thought it was very appropriate, & of course it meant i could spend the night pretending i was one of those wonderfully mysterious women who spent the war working as a code-breaker. or something like that, ahem.

this will be my last post of 2010 (gasp), so i shall see you all in the new year! (:

the korova milkbar

last night i went to the fancy dress 18th birthday party of two friends of mine which was a pretty amazing night. even though i'm such an old person i was freaking exhausted by about half ten!

i decided to go dressed as alex delarge from a clockwork orange, given as this was one of my many abandoned outfit ideas for hallowe'en. i'm reading the book at the minute, and it is so good! slightly confusing & a bit odd, but unbelievably brilliant.

this is pretty much the nicest i looked all night, ha. my fringe soon became an utter mess. i probably should have made the eye make-up more obvious, but this was my third attempt & my eye was serrrriously starting to sting! liquid eyeliner is most definitely not my friend.

cathryn, me, kate & alix.

half time refreshments.

myself & lucy - see what i mean about my fringe?

birk & i, not sure this pose is entirely in keeping with my character's mentality.

kiran, kate & i. i totally knew i was going to blink in this photo, oh dear.

here is my dancing face; admit it, you have one too!

i told you i could throw some shapes! paha, this is such a ludicrous shot.

our school winter ball is on monday, so i may post some pictures from that soon - hopefully some ones of me where i actually look nice. wouldn't that be something. my friend cathryn is having a birthday party two days after christmas, which is 1940s themed & i am quite excited! i think i may have become a slight social butterfly this december.

freak out in a moonage daydream

hey guys!

last night i went to a friend's 18th birthday party at the local pub which was a pretty good night! it was my brother's birthday yesterday too so we had roast chicken for dinner & then a triple layer chocolate cake which my mum made - it was so good, but far too chocolatey for me!

for the party, i wore my new lace skirt which mother & i have been making for the past week;

i really love it! and i'm also pretty proud that i managed to do quite a bit of the work for it. my mum is much more experienced than me at dressmaking and because lace is really tricky to sew she did the final stitching together of everything!

shirt - vv brown concert, skirt - homemade, tights - ebay, necklace - h&m kids, lace bow - gift.

this is such an awkward pose!

as it is a very girly skirt, i wanted to wear it quite casual. preferrably i would have liked to wear it with a smiths or a clash tshirt, but my hours of endless searching on ebay for a nice yet affordable one of each those has been pretty fruitless.

i have decided that lace is pretty much my favourite fabric ever.

most of the pictures of me from the party are blurred mugshots or of me in full dad dancing mode, so here are some feet in the snow (:

sheila goes out with her mate stella

happy april everyone! i won't say april fool's because it's after noon, & that makes me the fool i think?

so FINALLY i have a break from the relentless draining work of school (well, to revision & art work, but it's not compulsory!), & i have slightly more time to relax before the horror of exams.

i promised to post about my friend's birthday party last week, & i didn't because i have absolutely no free time whatsoever. yes, i know it's an old excuse but sadly it's becoming more and more true.

we began the night with a spontaneous wind-up spacehopper race.

yes, it was my idea. yes, i am utterly normal.

this is the nearest i could get to an outfit photo; i decided to wear my new dorothy perkins dress with lilac tights. i'm actually not sure if it really works, especially with the pink cardigan, maybe there are too many pastel shade. what do you think?

i also had my bad-ass black tartan heels on, but i took them off.

we danced, A LOT.

i believe this is me in the middle of rapping along to jamie t's if you got the money. oh yes B)

there were also many, many sweeties. right here i'm eating a coca cola flavoured colin the caterpillar. yes, you read that correctly. to my british readers out there; we also had percy pigs - hell yeah!

i think this is from when my friend kate (on the left with the bloody gorgeous skirt, it was her birthday) was trying to teach me the charleston.

which i was not good at. at all.

sorry the photos are mostly of me, but i didn't want to put photos up without my friends' permission. oh, that reminds me - these were taken on my friend joanna's camera (she's the one in the flowery dress) & she took most of them.