Dressember Day 1

So Day 1 of Dressember and I chose a dress I have only worn once. It's from Purple at Dorothy Perkins and it is a summer dress, so I layered it up with a long sleeved top and leggings.
I am wearing it with handmade filagree earrings, which you probably can't see in the pic and a big blue belt. I love the skirt of this dress, it is really twirly, so dancing this evening is going to fun!
I have had a few compliments about my outfit today too, which has been great, because I would have normally discounted this dress in my wardrobe because of the high neck (I'm not fond of dresses with really high necks) and summeryness.
Score!!

Also, my wonderful M got me a Christmas pressie yesterday, which I can wear already as it's cold. It's a beautiful new coat, it also twirls and is extremely cosy!! I am one happy lady!! :)

Dressember

Hello!! It's been a long time I realise, but I am back and hope that the challenge I have set myself will help me to blog more often! 

So, this year I am participating in Dressember (I had meant to get involved, but had forgotten all about it, so thanks to Roisin for reminding me about it!) - a dress a day for the 31 days of December. The mission is: To wear a dress every day in December 2011, photograph it, upload it, and enjoy an online community to chart our journey. Spectators welcome. Maybe even raise a bit of cash for Action for Children. 
It's a great charity and I am excited to be involved. 
I pretty much wear dresses all of the time (except for when I go dancing - I have been wearing jeans more and more often for dancing and working from home), but it's usually the same few out of a huge collection, so my personal challenge will be to wear some of those that rarely see anything but the inside of my wardrobe. It'll be difficult to pack for 16 days away over Christmas, but I'm hoping I'll manage somehow! Skirts are allowed too, which is good, as I have quite a few that I haven't worn in a very long time! 
So if you see me dressed up to the nines wandering around town buying groceries, you will know why. Please support me if you can!!


I'm really excited about being involved and am looking forward to my outfit planning for the next 31 days. 


Until tomorrow!! x

A brighter afternoon

It was one of those mornings where everything gets to me and I get upset by the smallest things, but this afternoon has been much better. 
Michael took me out for a hot chocolate, a slice of carrot cake AND a cannoli!! Lucky me, eh! 
We then had a run around town to get some things that we needed, mainly washing powder and boring but essential things like that - exciting stuff! 
My day was getting significantly better by this stage, and then off I went to Aspire Style in Warwick to have a look at their sale. I have had my eye on the blue Ruby Belle Tea Blossom dress since before Christmas, and my was I disheartened when I arrived and there was no size 10 on the rack... It turned out that the size 10 was in the changing room with the lady that would be buying it a few moments later. I snapped up the 8 and the 12 and hoped that one of them would be okay. 
Luckily, this dress comes up quite big and the 8 fits like a dream, so needless to say I am a very happy little lady now! 
You will no doubt see many a photo of me in my beautiful new dress, but until then, this is what it looks like. 

Ruby Belle Tea Blossom dress

My day was also made better by bumping into 2 of my most favourite people on the way back from the train station. They made me smile and I look forward to Saturday when we are all going to Kenilworth for a saunter. 
I am now going to do a bit of knitting (I have loads to catch up on as I couldn't bring it with me to Ireland in my hand luggage), and then make dinner with my lovely man.  
Until next time folks, and sorry for my little moan at the beginning. I will make up for it with loads of photos in my next post. :)

New phone...

Well this is a bit strange, I'm really just checking if my new super phone will publish a post to my blog okay... well here goes... :)

28 minutes to go!

I have been baking and cooking up a storm today. 
I have made two loaves of soda bread, the second of which is perfect, the first is sadly in the bin as I remebered when the timer went that I had forgotten the rising agents! Oh well! 

I then, with the help of my two sous-chefs, cooked Ohn-No Khao Swe - Burmese Coconut Chicken Noodles.  Although I used turkey, and we couldn't get any rice noodles to make the crispy noodles for the top. The dinner was absolutely delicious though and was devoured!! It would work really well with tofu too. It is an excellent recipe and I thoroughly recommend giving it a go!

And now there are only 25 minutes to go before my boozy banana cake is ready. It won't be warm when we eat it, but it will be baked, ready and waiting for us for breakfast. :)

Pics to come of all of the above - maybe I'll just post the images and not blabber on again. 

Peridot & Alterations

I love green and when I spotted this dress in a charity shop last year, I just had to have it. It has a pretty pattern on it and is a lovely floaty fabric. Unfortunately, it then went into my alterations pile - I wanted to take the length up and get rid of the flouncy sleeve bits... 

As you can see, I ended up doing neither. I came across it in my alterations pile and decided to try it on to remind myself of what needed to be done. It is one of the few dresses that fits my upper body perfectly and I feel just lovely in it.  I still feel that it is a little too long (it does look better with heels however), but was assured by two others that it is the right length.
So I thought I'd ask here - Should I take it up a little? And what are your thoughts on those little sleeves??

On a side note, I got to wear my beautiful peridot necklace with it - it is one that my mother bought for me some time ago, that I keep forgetting about, so I was more than thrilled to get to display it. It is quite a hefty size, but still manages to look delicate and incredibly feminine. I hope to remember about it more and wear it often. :)

Not the clearest pic of the peridot, I will endeavour to take a closer one soon :)

I am still finding the outfit shots a little strange to do, but think I am getting better at posing. I am really enjoying it though and it is making me look at myself with a more open mind.  It is also helping me to see what really suits my shape. Mirrors can be deceiving devices sometimes! :)

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!