Spoilt for choice.

So a while back I wrote a post about wanting to make my own clothes. I got a lot of responses that agreed with me on how hard it was and how everybody wishes they could do the same. Still wanting to give it a go though, I plan on sewing myself a shift dress and have therefore been searching around for a nice bit of material to use. 

I am very much into patterns at the moment and I always like something a bit whimsical. I spent Sunday morning searching through Spoon Flower, an excellent site which allows people to put their own patterns, art, prints up to allow them to be sold as fabric.

I came across beautiful ikat prints, little foxes, sketched knickers and green chevron's. 

There were so many to choose from, I don't know where to start. I am thinking that I should initially buy a cheap piece of cotton to test I am able to do it before I invest in some of this lovely fabric and ruin it. 

There's more below to show you just how much wonderful choice I have found myself facing.

Little tomatoes, harlequin diamonds, paintbrush strokes and watercolour eyes. 

Do it yourself.

Am I the only person who wishes they could make clothes? There's a sewing machine just sitting in our spare room and I look online and get so inspired by clothing which I have no access to or I can't afford and I just want to create it myself. 

I go through creative phases where I want to make or create things for myself, as a hobby or perhaps if they turned out well, to create a little shop to sell them in. I have all these ideas stored up inside my head (and on my external brain which also goes by the name, Tumblr) and everyday I wake up just looking forward to the day I have the finances to get going. Does anybody else have these feelings or the enthusiasm to do such things?

Sometimes I think I could implode with the amount of creative ideas that fly around in my mind.

On a side note, I think I've gone print crazy as of late and wild on socks with shoes. Socks and shoes isn't anything new but for me, it's kind of a big deal. Ever since I can remember, I have never been able to wear socks because I have a strange thing about how it makes my feet feel trapped. Now I am of a mature age I have decided to embrace this collaboration of S's and get my feet looking cute.

Ombre.

After watching LLYMLRS video on getting ombre hair, I am going to give it a go tonight. I have wanted it for ages and the last time I had my hair done I asked for it but I don't think my hairdresser understood so it didn't come out anything like this. I have been tempted to have some blonde back in my hair for ages to brighten it up but I have a slight phobia of the hairdressers so if doing it myself works out then I will be all smiles.

Images via tumblr search 'ombre hair' (Rosie Huntington-Whitely, Rumi Neely,
Lauren Conrad, Alexa Chung, Ruby Aldrige, unknown)

Life in the fast lane

So, it's been a while since I posted last but I have been caught up in a whirlwind of busy bodying around. My boyfriend moved house last week and their internet is yet to be set up so whilst I have been over there, I haven't been able to blog and then on Thursday until Sunday we were away at the Hop Farm Festival which was amazing. I had a super duper time with my boyfriend and his sister and saw lots of great music. 

I survived the weekend washing with wet wipes, eating 'just add water' pasta from a pot and burning my forehead to the point it got a teeny bit swollen. 
It was scorching hot so I kept my hair up, out of my face the whole time, living in shorts, vests and dresses. 

My feet did too much rubbing on the Thursday from my 'Marc Bolan' boots, as my boyfriend calls them, which resulted in having a limp for the rest of the weekend. I ended up living in my old converse and the same red socks wishing with every step,  that I had thrown a pair of flip flops in my bag when packing. 

I went crazy with friendship bracelet making during the week leading up to the festival, after following the Honestly...WTF tutorial as I wanted to add some colour to my wrists without paying ridiculous prices . It is also an excellent way to leave you with a gentle feeling of self gratification. 

I also found myself constantly eyeing up other people's outfits and getting lots of ideas to work with. I fell in love with these boots as well as the rest of the outfit as my eyes slowly followed upwards in admiration as I sat on the floor melting in the sunshine. It was just perfect from the rings on her fingers to the hair on her head. 

Her suede vest left me drooling and pinning for one of my own, sadly it looked vintage so I will just have to continue searching far and wide for something similar.

Dream boats.

Images via Studded Hearts, Labyrinthine, Summer Teeth, Convoy & tumblr. 

A smorgasbord of images that have inspired me this dismal day in June, collated via my tumblr.

[1] My all time favourite model, Daria Werbowy, pictured here [top left] travelling across the ocean. The gentle, rippling azure waves are balanced perfectly with the fluorescent lifebuoy, 
the pure colourless sails and Daria's oh so nautical attire, looking so tranquil and serene.

[2] Still longing for blonde back in my hair.

[3] Peaceful images of the sea make me wish I owned a boat so I could set sail, away from this hectic life on land.

[4] The quintessential rebel and supreme immortal, in my eyes. 
I came across this photo the other day, one of which I hadn't seen before, shocking considering my obsession, but instantly fell in love.

[5] This image, although a simple image of a beautiful car, makes me dream of Europe and in turn of my holiday. I see you creeping up on me and you see me trying to hold back my toothy grin.

[6]&[7] More colour, I'm not bored with it yet. 
These bracelets are DIY's from Honestly WTF and something I definitely plan to try this week, ready to pile on for the Hop Farm festival.

And to end, a fine quote taken from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby
'So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.'

A piece of cake.

The perfect recipe, suitable for a stylish garden party (just as soon as summer arrives) I came across online, baked by Apollinas

A refreshing twist and something I may need to have a go at!