Make your own collar.

As you may have seen in previous posts I really like detachable collars.  So after seeing this idea on Rookie I decided it would definitely be worth a try. 

You'll need:

-an old collared shirt

-scissors

Lay the shirt out on a flat surface and cut along the dotted line as shown in the picture below.

You should be left with this.

Taadaa!

I also made this one.

They're super easy to make so why not give it a try yourself?

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Pastels.

If you follow me on Pinterest you may have noticed that I have an slight obsession with all things pastel at the moment.  So I thought why not put them all into one blog post to drool over?

Sigh. So pretty.

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Bubblegum princess.

Last weekend whilst looking through our dress up box in search of old bits of fabric to use as head scarves I found myself looking at old fairy and princess outfits that last fitted me around 2003.  In particular I found a pale bubblegum blue chiffon number that I can remember often strut tin aground the house in when I was five.

Here it is.

Anyway I decided that I quite liked the fabric that the bottom part of the dress was made out of, so I gave it to my gran and viola! Now it's a skirt.

Attempting to recreate the pose.

The material is super floaty and as there is lot of it when I wore it I felt like a cross between a Disney Princess and one of the girls from the movie Grease all at once

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This top belonged to my gran but recently found a new home in my cupboard.

These are some of my mom's old rings from her varsity days.

My sister helped me take these photos and, like in most things we do, we soon got distracted by the daisies in the garden and so these happened.....

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Happy Weekend.

This picture really makes me want an underwater camera-so pretty.

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Explosion of colour.

This looks like so much fun, going to one of these festivals is definitely on my bucket list.

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Collar.

A while ago my friend, Laura, gave me this necklace for my birthday.  It's from Lovisa and I really love it.  It can totally change an outfit to be much more formal or fun and because it's white it works with almost all tops.

Hello again Monday.

Back to school I go... :(

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Denim get in my face.

So I know it's a little late to be saying this, seeing as though we have now left winter and are chugging straight towards another grossly hot summer (Boohoo, she cried),  but basically I'd love me a denim shirt like one of these from Asos.  Only, one maybe a little more within my budget? :(

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September, what?

JERSEYS.♥

This is basically a jersey appreciation post.  To put it simply, I'm obsessed with them and want to cry at the thought that in a month or two it will be way too hot to wear them.  Sniff. 

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Dip Dye♥

For a while now I've found myself drooling over the dip dyed hair of girls in dreamy artsy pictures like this one: (All images from http://weheartit.com/)

I wish I was her.

First of all deciding how to do it took me a while.  There are a couple options but obviously I wanted something non- permanent which ruled out real hair dye and some stuff involving bleach.  The next option I found was food colouring.  It sounds a little dodgy but after watching a few YouTube video's it looks as though it works.  

Anyway I thought that seeing as though it is the holidays now it should be relatively safe to give it a try so that I have a couple weeks to get it out of my hair if it does turn out to be more than temporary.  I decided that I wanted to have blue tips, like in the pictures below.

Seeing as though I'm a bit of a wuss I just did one small piece of hair as a test to see how long it would take to come out.  I used this video to get the hang of how to do it:

Things you will need:

water
food coloring
hair ties
towels
hair dryer
conditioner


1. Braid hair into plaits, tying off where you want the dye to go up to.
2. Add 5+ drops of food coloring to a cup of water.
3. Dip the plaited hair ends into the cup and leave in coloring for about 2 minutes.
4.Take out of cup and towel dry.
5. Add a few drops of food coloring straight to the hair.
6. Put a small amount of conditioner on the colored hair and lather.
7. Leave conditioner in for about 2 minutes.
8. Dip back into coloring and water in cup for about 30 seconds.
9. Towel dry and blow dry the hair.

Because my hair is fairly dark it came out quite quite a lot lighter than in most of these pictures but I still quite liked it.  Also, much to my mom's delight it did come out the next time I washed it.  I would have liked for it to stay in a little longer but I guess it's not that complicated to do even if it's only for a couple days. 

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