January 2011
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it's not a dream anymore.
Cooked up a batch of this weeks inspiration. Hope you find what I did in those photos.
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laville inconnue
Laville Inconnue is one of my favourite vintage blogs. The reason why? Because she doesn’t dress in striped tights and wedges and call herself ‘vintage’. She’s the real deal. Everything about her is vintage, even her face is vintage-looking! It’s such a stunning blog and if you’re a vintage lover- which I know a lot of my readers are- then you’re going...
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frenchman's creek
Some questions that I have:
Is better to be good at lots of things, or great at one thing?
Is it better to let things happen or make things happen?
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This outfit was inspired by a book called Frenchman’s Creek, written by Daphne Du Maurier. It’s so strange how her books change the way I feel about myself- her writing engages and excites me. She’s the first novelist I’ve encountered...
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Thoughtful Thursday has been featured in a...
One of my Thoughtful Thursday articles- Will losing half a stone really make you happier?- has been featured in The Printed Blog! This is a picture of the draft but the it’ll be in print soon. It’s such an amazing magazine! I was in awe as I flicked through the photography section.
I crashed my mum’s car today. Just thought I’d let you know. It was my third driving...
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what you're wearing!
And here you have it: this Friday’s batch of What You’e Wearing! I have to say, i’m pretty proud of the way my readers dress.
This is the last What You’re Wearing post unfortunately- it’s not a permanent feature. But if you still want to send me an outfit of yours then feel free too. If I love, love, love it i’ll be sure to feature it in a post...
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thoughtful thursday: perfection
I will guiltily admit that I am one of those people who has to get things perfect, or else it’s a complete failure. I’m an organizational, make-a-pros-and-cons-list-before-dumping-him kinda girl. I’m the girl who has to be great at something the first time I try it. I’m a perfectionsit, basically.
But I found these tips helped me a lot, so maybe they’ll help you too:
Success...
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so loves vintage 2
So, for Spring/Summer 2011 at The Street Savvy magazine, the editor has bagged Christopher Kane’s fluoro fantasist and my best writer friend has decided she’s the Burberry biker chick, which leaves me with Dolce’s ‘romantic’. Not too bad considering I dress like a princess almost every day of my life. What can I say; I like floaty dresses and flowers in my hair. Not sure...
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an interview with Fashion Chalet
Blogging is the new black. It’s clawed its way into all of our schedules and conquered planet earth. The only problem is, with blogging now so popular, is there any room for newbies? Have the fame stools already been handed to blogs who’ve been there from the beginning?
Over the next few months I’ll be interviewing top bloggers suchas Susie Bubble, Wish Wish Wish and The Blond Salad. All the...
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Thoughtful Thursday: materialism
The dictionary defines materialism as a ‘devotion to material wealth and possessions at the expense of spiritual or intellectual values.’ The thesaurus describes it as greediness.
We’ve all heard plenty of times that money cannot bring you happiness. You’d think that if you became rich tomorrow, you’d quit your job and spend more time with your family, or pay off all your debt… But ones...
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olympia le tan
Who would have thought such good looking hardbacks would turn out to be purses? Purses, I tell you! Oh how I’d kill to whip open one of those little pretties at Fashion Week. Eat your heart out, Tavi Gevinson. New level of weird-and-insanely-awesome? I do think so.
The purses are designed by Olympia Le-Tan, a woman who worked alongside Karl Lagerfeld, a woman who decided to switch up...
I feel a giveaway coming up...
Everybody loves a freebie. Especially a freebie in the form of a bag (god’s gift to womankind, I hear you say?) That’s why Siren are giving away not one, not two, but THREE bags!!
To be in with the chance of winning, simply:
1. Follow Siren on Twitter or Facebook
2. Tweet this post and leave a comment with the link to your twitter, plus your email address.
The deadline for...
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so loves vintage
So Loves Vintage leant me this adorable little velvet bag, carefully embellished across it’s front and top, with tassels hanging down its back. Words cannot describe how astonished I was when I unwrapped it yesterday. I’d seen pictures of it online but never did I dream it would...
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what you're wearing!
Erin.
Samara.
Shope.
Shreya.
Here are this weeks What You’re Wearing features. Big thank you to Erin, Shreya, Samara and Shope for emailing your outfits to me! There’s a lot of girl power in these photos. I’m loving it.
If I haven’t featured your outfit yet and you’ve emailed it to me, don’t worry, it’ll be published...
becoming thebuttonowl.co.uk
I am FINALLY buying a custom domain name *applause*. I’m becoming thebuttonowl.co.uk !
Thought I’d let everyone know before it happens. RSS feeds will be the same (I think). Bloglovin will be the same. I just hope I don’t lose readers.
Have a good night!
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good girl vs. bad girl
She parades down the street in a tutu and tiara, six inch heels clicking excitedly along the pathway. She grins, a smile shaded in glory, as she moves her lips towards the side of a man’s face. Her cool voice falls into his ear.
This is the girl who dominates the dance floor, who wins the heart of the man you kinda-liked-but-were-too-shy-to-say-so. She’s the girl who snuck out of her...
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army chic
I’m not sure what condition my brain was in this afternoon as I slung on a pair of five inch heels to trek over the meadow behind my house in (never again). Someone must have crept into my room at night, stolen the ‘common sense’ part of my mind and replaced it with a fixation for all things bling. Have you ever seen me wear so much gold, so many rings? Neither have I! I’m...
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visit my picture blog!
As well as posting a selection of inspiring pictures on this blog once a week, I’ve created a picture blog which will be updated with new- and sometimes strange- pictures every day, so please follow! It’s addictive posting picture after picture…
The above pictures are little teasers of some of the pictures on there now, and what kind of photography is to come. I...
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london, china, bulgaria
For those of you who haven’t seen London at night, it looks like this, full of orange light on cobbled stone and fashionable bodies bustling about each other. It’s devastatingly, inhumanly beautiful. On a whim, my friends and I decided to take our flu-ridden bodies out into the cold night and treat ourselves to a Chinese in Chinatown. So we had...
December 2010
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what you're wearing!
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Charmaine Pioquinto
simple subtle style
I’m really happy how many submissions I’ve received for the Friday What You’re Wearing feature, all you’re outfits are awesome. All outfits will be featured, but only four at a time. So don’t get worrying. I got your mail. It brightened my...