January 31, 2014

This month has been good to me. I started a new job at my old Students Union, moved into a beautiful new house (after lots of stressful phone calls) with James and became vegan! I'm planning to write about becoming vegan in a bit more depth, but for now I can say that I've really enjoyed it and have been pleasantly surprised by the wide variety of food I've been eating. Being in York, I've spent my
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Posted in Monthly Recap | Tagged Crochet, embroidery, january, monthly recap, monthly review, outfit of the day, reflections, review, what i wore, York |
January 29, 2014

This is the first post in my blogger favourites series featuring just one blogger. I thought it would be fun to get to know the best of the blogging world by conducting interviews! This month I'm chatting to Helena from Bell's Fashion. I've featured her on my blog before, and I still can't get enough of her style! It's colourful, retro and she has the most incredible faux fur collection.
J: I really
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Posted in Blogger Favourites | Tagged bells fashion, blgger favourites, blog favourites, fashion, fashion bloggers, helena lester card, personal style |
January 25, 2014

Even though I've had these trousers for while, it's taken me a while to photograph them because they go from "comfy trousers" to "why have you gone shopping in your pyjamas?" very quickly. I think this coat and trouser combination makes the outfit sufficiently smart though. Problem solved! The trousers are from my favourite Parisian vintage shop, Hippy Market. Next time I'm in Paris I'm going to
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Posted in What I wore | Tagged clothes, fashion, H&M, high waisted, hippy market, new look, outfit of the day, paris, personal style, stripey, style, trousers, vintage, vintage style, what i wore |
January 23, 2014

If you've been following my blog for a little while you'll know that I've been working on my embroidery for the autumn stitching club for a long time. As you can tell, since autumn and christmas have been and gone! I can gladly say that this is my last embroidered pattern for the autumn stitching club. The next time you hear me talking about it I should have sew all my patterns together as a pillow!
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Posted in Autumn Stitching Club, DIY | Tagged autumn, autumn stitching club, embroidering, embroidery, pumpkin, stitching, wild olive |
January 21, 2014

I am so excited to have finished this project! Sometime in summer I read this post by love elycia about her Mario Mushroom blanket. My little brother is seriously obsessed with everything Nintendo so I knew I wanted to make one for him. It started out as a birthday gift but it had to become a Christmas gift because it was taking me such a long time. Three months later and it's ready! When planning
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Posted in Crochet, DIY | Tagged blanket, craft, Crochet, DIY, gift, granny squares, handmade, homemade, love elycia, mario, mario mushroom, nintendo, present, rug, super mario |