A couple of dresses that I have been wearing...

Today will be light on the chatter, I have been wearing some very pretty dresses and wanted to share...

The first was a borrowed one - I teamed it with a teal cardi and my most loved shoes!

I also wore similar coloured earrings that I picked up in the Accessorize sale after Christmas. My hair has been getting quite long too, so I managed to tie it up into pig-tails. I felt very cute all day! :)

The second was a birthday gift from the lovely Roisin & Nic. I forget the name of this dress - I mostly forget the names of dresses, but one day I'll know them all. 
They chose really well, and I just love the way that this dress makes me feel. I wore it out to a pub quiz last night and felt so glamorous.  (We came 3rd by the way, so not bad at all!)
So that's enough talking, here it is:

I wore it with a slightly transparent aubergine coloured cardi,my rose belt and my trusty black heels

I think this dress would benefit from some sexy black stilettos though, the shoes I was wearing really dressed it down - shoe shopping is on the cards :)

M was giving me direction, this was my favourite pic - Jazz hands!

Come Out to Play

Prof. Plum, Colonel Mustard, Miss Scarlett, Prof. Plum

So the party has come and gone and was brilliant. I had an excellent time and it really was the best birthday! :)  Everyone put so much work into their costumes, I was so touched by all of the effort made.  There were Cluedo characters, dominos, hungry hungry hippos, a jigsaw, an egg timer, Mouse Trap (one person as the mouse the other as the trap!!), a pixl, Mr. Monopolys, Operation, House of cards, Queen of Hearts, 9 of Clubs, Solitaire, Pop up Pirates, Candyland, Wally (Where's Wally) ...

There are loads of photos and I couldn't choose which ones to put on here, so here is a link to the full album. Enjoy! 

The boots that will never be mine

So the boots arrived and are as I feared too small. :(  Even the foot bit, which should have been a good size 5, is quite tight. There is also no way that those puppies were going to zip up. 
I'm quite sad as they are lovely and were a bargain too, only£26.95 including postage. So I guess I'll start the return process, unless anyone would like to buy them from me for what I paid for them. 
They are a dark blue in colour, almost a navy blue and a small size 5. If anyone local would like to try them, just let me know. :) 

Here are some pics (pics that I was hoping to be wearing them in)

Do let me know if you know anyone that is interested in buying these beautiful boots, otherwise I will send them back as returns. 

Sculpted

I've been playing around with hairstyles to go with the Miss Scarlett outfit at the weekend. 

Here's what I'm most happy with so far:

I'm not sure if sculpted curls are the way to go or not, but I think my hair is too long and wild to just leave it like it is normally. I would like the emphasis to be on the fascinator anyway, I think. 

I'll need to figure out what to do with the bit I've tied up - at the moment it's just in a clip at the back, but if I'm going to do that on Saturday, I may need to find a black clip.  

I may change my mind completely between now and Saturday though...

BOOTS!

I'm all excited, I just received an email from Brandalley saying that they have shipped my new boots! Eep! 
I really want to show you what they look like but can't find a good picture. 
They are knee high and blue! and they are just gorgeous! My only concern is that they won't fit my dancer's calves... I may cry if that happens, but keep your fingers crossed that they will fit. 

I may even be lucky enough to get them before my birthday, which would be excellent, and even more so if they fit. 

I'm soo excited! :)

(Yup, all of that excitement is about some boots!)

Purple salsa

As promised, here is the outfit I wore out to the very special dinner on Saturday. (Again, kindly lent to me by the ever-wonderful Roisin)

It's a wonderful dress, that has the most satisfactory weight to it. It was a complete joy to wear!

I took the weekend off from paperwork, which I don't normally do. I usually just continue to work no matter when it is, but recently I have been feeling like there is more of a need to seperate work time and leisure time. I have been making a more concerted effort to work in set times and then just relax. It was an absolute treat to distance myself from work at the weekend and I really felt like I could enjoy it and relax properly. I really do think it is important to have a good balance between work and time off.  
I am off out to go salsa dancing again this evening - it is my fourth week going and I am really enjoying it.  I have always loved dancing, but it's amazing how just going to this class once a week has improved my coordination and increased my love for dancing again. I hope to start ballroom dancing soon too, just need to find a night when M is free too. :)

I have a party coming up this weekend,  which I have already mentioned, so I am trying to slowly get things organised for it. I need to source a few more games and get nibbles and punch organised. It is fun though! I love parties! I'l post some pics after the weekend. 


That's  enough ramblings for today :)

Red!

So those of you that know me well, will know that I have steered clear of wearing red for most of my life, thinking that it didn't suit me because of my red hair, etc. etc. But not anymore! I think I just never chose the correct shade of red. This week I shall be wearing 2 different red dresses. One I wore today, on loan from the lovely Roisin (- we had a lovely dress-up session on Friday) and the other is one that I bought especially for my birthday party next weekend. It's a fancy dress party and I am going as Miss Scarlett, and I'm so very very excited!
With all that talk of dresses it would be unfair of me not to show you what they look like, so I am going to do something that I haven't ever done before on my blogs - an outfit shot! It was quite difficult to find a pose that suited the dress and that didn't make me look silly, so this is the best one from the bunch.

It's a very cute dress and although you can't see the lovely detail on the hearts ( - they have faces!), I am thrilled that I got to prance around in it today. Thanks Roisin! :)

With that I'm off, we're off out to dinner tonight so I will no doubt have an outfit change shortly. :)