february blue

jumper- primark, skirt- h&m

today i was down in london helping to do up our old house- i managed to keep my outfit clean while cleaning  ironwork, go me! i love this jumper- it's yellow green and gradates out into a sugar pastel blue that reminds me of cheap sweets you used to be able to buy at the newsagents. looks good with other bright colours :)

love me love me love me

so you've probably noticed already that today is valentines day! usually  i would approach today with a whole lot of cynicism and a dash of wistfulness, but my classmates decided to treat me and send me not one but SIX valentines rose! good grief!

i'm going to press them later and put them on my wall <3

if you're spending valentines day alone, don't grump about it. spend time with the people you love, and go out looking fierce and confident! be an upwardly mobile singleton who don't need no man/woman/boyfriend/girlfriend/goldfish with a streak of lacy sweetness.

lanvin rtw s2011

valentino couture s/s 2013

moominmamma

elle fanning with cupcakes on her head. stay cool, elle, stay cool.

i also enjoyed putting together an outfit i might wear on a platonic valentines date with one of my cool fashion friends on the roof of a cinema in l.a.

1.SCALLOPED CHIFFON  VEST, SHEINSIDE.COM
2.STUDDED ANKLE BOOTS, TOPSHOP
3.ROUND SUNGLASSES, TOPSHOP
4.LACE BRA, TOPSHOP
5.FLOWERY TROUSERS, ROMWE.COM

keep trucking, people!

becks

fame

so it was the baftas last sunday! i am a blogger interested in clothes!
therefore i am obligated to choose my favourite outfits of the night!

jessica chastain wore bright blue roland mouret. she looked like a gorgeous ginger mermaid.

paloma faith's eyebrows were slightly terrifying as she wore this silver nicholas oakwell gown. BUT IN A GOOD WAY

damian lewis and helen mcrory both wore william vintage. they're a really hot couple. they're stupidly in love. they're  perfect.

i know a lot of people really don't like jennifer lawrence, but i think she's super talented and really funny.  this white dior couture gown was slick and elegant without making her look too old.

helen mirren also wore nicholas oakwell and also had pink hair. it was a good look for her and she's one of the classiest women in the business.

paloma faith also performed at the ceremony. the best thing about the performance was less her singing, more the really awkward expressions of everyone sitting on the end of the rows as the back up singers came shimmying up the aisles.

wham bam thank you ma'am

jumper from primark, bandeau skirt from h&m, tights from mindthemustard (it looks like my teddy bear's had a heart attack behind me)

ring from market in rome

so uh hey

i got the tights from mindthemustard two days ago and i was waiting for the weekend to make an outfit, so...

they're pretty bright, so it's a given that i wear them with dark colours to even it out. i also did my nails in that crackly stuff. i have about 0% talent at putting on nail varnish, so the fact the stuff's supposed to look messy is a bonus for me.

in all i found this outfit a load of fun to wear, and now that i've lost a bit of weight i feel more comfortable wearing looser styles, like this jumper.

also my birthday is in a month! which means that i might be getting a camera, and won't have to resort to shitty webcam pics anymore! hallelujah!

i also made some little jammy thumbprint biscuits this afternoon, and they came out rather well.

*cue porno music*
i've been eating them for like two hours now and it's probably going to put all my working out to waste TnT

unexpected style icon #1: the queen

i'm no royalist, and i definitely think the royal family has way too much money and land in britain (i think they also own all the swans??? i don't know, you should probably google that), but those posh crown-wearing peeps do also have a good sense of style. and i'm not talking about kate, or pippa, or beatrice, or any of the others. i'm talking about the queen. she's 86 years old and as formidable as ever. her dress sense is no less impressive. 

today i'm going to take you through a few of my favourite outfits that dear old liz has been spotted wearing.

with her majesty, if you're going to wear a colour, it's better to go head to toe. don't add pops of colour to your outfit. you are THE pop of colour. liz models this here in a light blue, which might be intentional in order for her to camouflage into the sky, or the ocean. as usual with the queen, diamond and pearls are essential.

this is an old photo and i'm not a big fan of the crispy looking jacket, but the hat! the hat is so freaking cute! she looks adorable! and like a flower! it reminds me of the rookiemag 'P.S. I Love You' shoot done a while back which featured two dandelion girls in lurveeee

going to a big event? wondering how to make heads turn?

why not take a leaf from the queen's book and match your outfit to your priestly bff's???

when you said queen, did you mean ICE QUEEN? 

i'm ending with this because it represents everything i want in life; to be an old woman with a bit of cash, and a pair of 3-D glasses with my initial marked out in diamantes on the side. flawless.

her majesty by the beatles isn't very relevant, but it's named after her so i suppose i'm sort of obliged to put it here.

becky out~

and now there is only waiting

quick post:
i just ordered these!

from ebay, for £5.79 including packaging, and then i ordered these-

for  £14.25 (including p&p), from mindthemustard.com, which stocks some pretty rad stuff.
my mother made a face at me because i spent 2/3 of my monthly allowance with these, and i still have to buy two presents for my brother for various reasons...

your majesty

lace dress and button down shirt - h&m, tights- big brand supermarket like tesco idk

queen elizabeth II brooch, vintage

again, my outfit today was pretty damn sloppy, but i was changing in a hurry from my school uniform so i have some sort of excuse??????
i got this brooch in the swarthy freezing north aka newcastle, from this super cool emporium inside an old church called The Land of Green Ginger. it's full of little boutiques and i found this is in a vintage jewellery shop among a lot of super sparkly costume jewellery. i love it so much ugh
in other news, i got to see les miserables last weekend!...and... i cried for most of it...
the thing was that i was sitting next to someone i didn't know in the cinema, and so didn't want to full on sob out loud and cover them in tears and snot, so i ended up whimpering into my scarf and trying to dab away the mascara trails on my face.
anna hathaway was definitely my favourite (closely followed by eddie redmayne as marius. dAMN that boy can sing). i felt like that the translation from stage to screen had been done rather well, and the intimate close-ups of the actors  helped to heighten the emotion. but the best thing about it was the fact that it managed to make a movie of the musical without making it just a film of a production.
that was really badly worded. i hope you understand my second-rate english.
so i rate this film very highly and you should go and watch it. if you can't watch it right now, here's 'i dreamed a dream' sung by anne hathaway. kleenex at the ready, folks.