Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Malt and Truffle with a splash of Cranberry








Top - Target
Jeans - Portmans
Cardigan - Jacqui-E Luella Layer Wrap
Shoes - Keds
Necklace - Mimco Messenger Bird Charm

This morning started out SO cold, that I slept in and so it became a nightmare to get everyone out the door on time.  After racing to school (and magically getting a carpark!)  I even managed to grab a takeaway coffee and make it up 7 flights of stairs (there was a HUGE lineup for the only elevator) to my class .... to be met by a shut door.  

Now I have to tell you, I was a little peeved, I nearly killed myself (stopping for coffee excluded) to get there on time - and then nothing, nada, zip.  After milling around for 15mins, and pretending that I wasn't a lone person waiting in an empty floor, I went back down the stairs (can you believe my luck - the one elevator had died while I was hanging around outside my class) and over to student services only to be told that class had been cancelled, yet again.  Long story short, due to someone's data entry mistake, I killed myself to turn around and drive on home. 
 
But it's amazing how sometimes you can have a fantastic day, when everything goes wrong.  Once I was home, I took my little (nearly) 2 year-old boy P outside to have a run around in the bright blue skies, and I sat down, brought my study books outside and DH brought me a freshly brewed coffee .... honestly, one of the best ways to while away the morning whilst  in the middle of exam block :)





















         

Thursday, June 3, 2010

I'm back ... better and shorter than ever!

After a very long absence from blogging (only posting though, I've still spent my early-morning coffee time religiously flicking through everyone's blogs and feeds, practically inhaling my fashion fix for the day), I've decided to start actively posting again.  I stopped blogging for a while, realising that while I enjoyed the idea of daily outfit blogging, actually doing it was a whole different ballgame.  After all, I was having trouble with my own perception  and image of myself, let alone trying to define and throw it out into the blogosphere :)  Now fiinally, I'm starting to find my own style - one that is starting to feel a bit like me.  And while it may not be to everyone's taste, and downright conservative to some, I now enjoy (and sometimes even dream about!) the daily ritual of ... getting dressed.

Anyway onto the outfit photo's from today that DH took at 10:30pm tonight, which means my face may have eaten my makeup and I'm starting to wilt just a little  ....

  
Top - Tokito
Skirt - Laura Ashley
Obi Belt - gifted from the Eumundi Markets
Shoes - Nine West 
Headband - Sportsgirl
Earrings - Sportsgirl

And for eagle-eyes (I'm talking to you, mum!)  this is a skirt that has been on here previously.  
I've seen the blogs and watched the runways and I am aware that new length is all about the calf,  but I'm swimming against the tide and I hemmed the skirt a good eight inches or so .... 

 
See the difference - I have normal legs people! Nope, I'm not a dumpling and the midget legs that I was sporting on the left photo have magically lengthened.

Oh, and by the way, the title is referring to my skirt ... not my legs :)