Here comes the sun?

This was my attempt to introduce a bit of summeryness despite it still being quite chilly and windy here in the North East.



Dress H&M, bag and tights Topshop, sandals New Look

In the picture you can also see the shutter release cable which is my new best friend! My, rather old, camera has the most infuriating timer ever. You have to select the timer from the menu, set it, and focus every time, which means lots of running back and forwards to get a shot I'm happy with. With my squeezy bulb and tube, I can do 20 shots in a minute or two and then pick the best one afterwards. From using this, I have learnt two things:

1) I can look good in photos. Generally I hate all photos, particularly those that I don't have control over, because I look bad in them, so this has been a revelation.

2) This is only true if I DO NOT SMILE! If I smile, I look like Cleetus the slack-jawed yokel at best, an escaped loony at worst!

Oh denim doo-be-do...

When I saw this picture of a Gap denim dress in Grazia (excuse picture quality, the one in the magazine was very dark and hard to get a good scan of), a little lightbulb over my head went ping.



My lightbulb told me that I had a long denim dress from about 10 years ago stored in the attic. 2 hours (including about 45 minutes to find the flippin' thing) and some cutting and sewing later, voila:



No outfit post for yesterday or today as I have mostly been gardening which involves wearing very old jeans and a green duffle coat I have had since I was 14, not pretty :-)

Shameless advertising

If anyone is interested, I'm re-selling a few of my unsuccessful Ebay purchases here. Including this rather nice jacket:



I always blur my face in Ebay pictures in case of scary stalkers!

Ooh look, light!

And this is what the dress from this post looks like in real life. I tried it with a belt but I didn't have one the right colour (both black and brown looked wrong) and it just went bunchy. Anyhow, I think it works as it is, although it's basically a tube, it's not a very wide tube and it's thin fabric so it drapes nicely over curves.


Dress Mina from ebay, wedge sandals New Look, tights no idea.

This is an outfit from a day or two ago, which I didn't get round to photographing at the time but which I then reused to style a blazer I'll be selling on ebay (this is me if anyone's interested).


Jacket & top H&M, skirt Topshop, tights BHS, boots Dorothy Perkins.

Adri does brights

Todays outfit, with scary-bright tights:


Jumper and skirt H&M, tights Topshop, shoes New Look.

I'm not sure the shoes go, but I couldn't resist the idea of coral-red toes. The skirt has beautiful pockets which I have tried to show here:





In other news, I have now bodged a 'tripod' by attaching the camera to a stepladder, so future pictures can be taken outside with actual daylight :-)

Excuse the terrible picture, the light was bad so they all came out blurry. This dress was one of the things I bought on my shopping trip. £10 in the sale, yay! Believing the 'hot iron' instruction on the label was a mistake though, the denim fabric was fine but they've used synthetic thread which melted all over my iron >:-[


Dress and tights H&M.

Ooh look, a bandwagon *leaps*

Today's outfit (except that at the last minute I switched to black jeans as I thought the grey made my thighs look fat!):


Jeans New Look, top & scarf H&M, blazer Ebay with badges & shiny buttons added by me.

Today I went shopping and bought pretty things. Pics in next post.

And this is what I look like

Today's outfit:

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This is all from H&M, but not intentionally.

A search for the impossible?

Since reading an article about the resurging tunic/smock trend in Look (I know, all the other bloggers are reading Vogue and Lula, I'm such a chav!), I have been looking for one. This has proved harder than I thought, probably because I had quite a long list of requirements. It had to be colourful and patterned but not loud, long sleeves (because it's still pretty cold in the UK, and because I wanted to wear it under my blazer and elbow length balloon sleeves, which were everywhere, are a nightmare under jackets), have a wide round neck or V neck, and be long enough to actually be a dress rather than what Mina and the like tend to try to convince you is a dress (I'm looking at you 30 inch long "Fairytale Fantasy dress as seen on Sienna Miller"). A search of the highstreet produced nothing, or nothing that I could afford, so I turned to Ebay. I have now bought this:



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But I'm interested/worried about what it will really look like since the images all look quite different (presumably due to lighting). Wait and see I guess...

An expedition to the south

So I went to London yesterday. Which involved getting up at 6.30am to get to the station and do the 3 hour train journey in time for lunch. I met my friend from Australia (yay!), ate tuna salad (yummy, and without olives), went to Topshop (oh the colours), and New Look (disappointing for what is apparently a flagship store), and then flopped on a sofa in Vauxhall before the 3 hour journey back. People-watching in the bright lights big city would suggest that skinny jeans are not over, black is the new black, and you can wear anything in Topshop and no one, apart from us gawping out-of-towners, will bat an eyelid. Black boots, gold leggings/tights, tangerine coat, yellow hair in many-plaits construction, cool but mad.

I also saw this ruffled vest in Topshop:




Very Stella, non?