Monday's Enchantments.

Images via Elkin's S/S '12 lookbook, Girl In London, Roseaux Joues

Wearing ribbon as jewellery, mirrors on an easel and simple bed lining. 

Au revoir Autumn.

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Autumn is about being able to get excited and prepared for December festivities, seeing all the Christmas delights in the shop and tasty home-made baking with the warm scent of cinnamon permeating the air.  The yellows, coppers and golden colours on the trees, leaves gently floating to the ground leaving the trees bare and skeletal, reaching out into the foggy sky. A blanket of frond concealing the earth, pretty evening skies and damp, misty mornings. 

This weekend was spent rather lazily, with my boyfriend and the xbox, Hitchcock films, takeaway pizza and then stargazing from his bedroom window for me, Sunday evening whilst he was at work.

When Christmas approaches I think up lots of crafts I wish to create for the festive season and really never get round to making any but this year will be different. I know this, as just this morning I created this wreath with my own bare hands.

Besides from everything else I chat about and love via my blog, I am indeed quite the crafty person, something I haven't really shown or discussed on here before. 

(If anybody is interested in knowing how I created my wreath, just let me know and I will post a step by step guide on here)

Lap it up

Images via Dress Design Decor, Sweet Home Style & somewhere unknown in the Tumblr cosmos

Wouldn't we all want a guidebook on how to be impossibly French? Firstly, if it was impossible, surely no amount of information given in a book would make it happen? Secondly, I was born in England so yeah, it pretty much is impossible and finally, French style is so effortless, a guide would equal you trying too hard and therefore putting too much effort into being effortless. Confusing, huh? 

Just face it, you don't need a book to tell you, it is impossible, unless you are in fact French but for those us who aren't, we can always dream.

In other news, I have pieced together a collage. Surprising, I know, coming from me, of items that have inspired me. Inspiration is a delight because you can draw out from under every rock, admittedly this blog is very fashion focused but with me in charge of the reins I can delve where ever I please. In this case, I have chosen to delve into the realms of interior design, it is a huge source of inspiration for me and endlessly fills me with an eagerness to own my own chateau one day and fix it up just how I please.

A little girl pretending to be a cat, lapping up milk from a saucer (an activity I partook in many times as a child alongside my feline friends; nostalgia), a charming and ever so ladylike Ashley Olsen and natural blossom and verdure fill other corners of my cranium cavern.

Feminine fancies.

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Both handbags Zara, Underwear Anthropologie, Boucle Capri Pants J. Crew,  Virginia Woolf collection Amazon,
Green Velvet Slipper ASOS, Fox Jumper Auben & Wills, Feathered skirt Mango

Winter time for me, is the time to embrace luxury and all finer things in life. With both a birthday and Christmas scheduled for December it is necessary for me to embody all things sumptuous and magnificent. Even if it falls upon me to purchase said things with my own pocket change. In the aftermath of my enlightenment, where I've been left with an urge to subsume my long forgotten girlish, ladylike and genteel ways I have been carefully collating a few luxe items to dote on in the meantime. 

Pretty, floaty lingerie, the perfect origin to becoming more feminine. Childlike pictured knitwear which always reminds me of my Nan and jumpers she would knit for my brother and I, handbags ideal for a lady, deep green velvet slippers and feathered skirts, boucle capri pants, Penguin's new Virginia Woolf hardback collection and lastly a silk night shirt. Having sat and watched the first two episodes of 'Pan Am' last night on BBC Two, I, along with everybody else who has probably watched it, fell in love the show's styling. I especially fell in love with Colette's pyjamas and proceeded to search across the internet for something similar. 

Star spangled

Images via Au Revoir Mandiy

Christmas make-up inspiration

...and the rest is rust and stardust

Images via Roseaux Joues, Dress via Topshop, Lingerie via Cos

I've rediscovered the girlish tendencies hidden beneath my bones.

Inspired by a gentle Parisian elegance of delicate lace, lustrous silken fabrics, faded subtle pastels & romantic verse.

I began watching Melancholia the other night, it is such a winsome film. Even more beautiful for the fact it is a science fiction film about an apocalypse yet it's so different to ways the subject has been dealt with through cinema before. 

Curtain confidential

Dogtooth slim trousers that make me feel like Audrey Hepburn, sequinned t-shirts make for festive casual, cosy jumpers and new jeans.