Labels: Alice Takes A Trip, Ear Cuff, eBay, Giveaway, Topshop
All pictures above from Tumblr - follow my inspiration blog HERE.I love ear cuffs, and saw some beautiful ones in Camden when I visited last year, but never got the chance to buy one. Looking in Topshop, I also found some beauties. The tarnished gold ones below, were a Christmas present from my friend Amy - and the other is from eBay. I wanted something a bit plained, something nice and small, and saw the two cross detail ones (with the blue background below) on eBay and thought it would be a great opportunity to buy the set, and give one away on here! I know it's not the best giveaway, or the most exciting, but I wear mine literally every day, and the postage from Hong-Kong is 28 days... so will also save you LOTS of time! Also a great alternative to a new piercing.
To enter...EACH OF BELOW GAINS 1 ENTRY, SO A POSSIBLE 3 ENTRIES! XAll entrants must be a follower via blogspot 1. comment on this post 2. tweet this giveaway to me (@xruthloves) with the link of the this post3. post the link on your latest blog postEach of the above will gain one entry (so you have upto 3 chances per person). Winner will be selected at random by an online generator.Giveaway runs from Friday 10th Feb - Monday 20th Feb 2012The cuff you will receive will be completely unworn and new, the one featured in the photos is my personal own and the other is untouchedPlease leave your email address when commenting so I can get in touch with you if you win! Won't be posting until the 20th with the announcement of the winner, because guess where I'm off to on Monday? NEW YORK BABY. And yes, It's NY Fashion Week when I'm there. Excited! Follow the journey on Twitter. See you soon! XXX
Labels: Bag, Charity Shop Finds, Dress, Floral, haul, Meadham Kirchoff, Vintage
Before all of the pretty (yet horrible) snow thats covered the UK this weekend, I managed to get my first proper charity shop haul done. It wasn't intentional, I was on the bus home and spotted this beauty from the bus, & luckily got off at the right time! It's by a brand I've never heard of (and can't properly read either), but it's from New York. It has a strong black leather strap with an adjustable buckle, and some amazing pocket space on the inside! And it cost me just £1. Yep. And look at the very, very similar ones above! I'm not entirely certain but i'm 99% sure this is vintage, and great quality vintage at that.
The perfect size bag for college, enough to fit a good book or two in! I also managed to pick up this beauty:
Now, I'm not a massive fan of using photos of myself on my blog, but the photos just didn't do the dress justice on a hanger. Also, I apologise for the awful lighting, I had to edit the photos lots to get them to remotely look okay, which has resulted in the dress looking blue, and me with a slight alien-like glow... It's not, it's black velvet, and I'm not an alien. It has a gorgeous, gold polka-dot silk bottom and bust trim, with matching buttons. Really comfy too, with the zip back and elasticated waist. The halter neck is detachable, but I thought it looked better up. It was really lovely actually, the woman who was on the tills & runs the shop explained that the lady who brought it in (that same day), explained that it was hers a good 30 or 40 years ago. I love it when amazing little finds have a nice story behind them. The dress, vintage, £3.Got lots of other bargains to update you all with - car boots & primark goodies! x
Labels: Alexander McQueen, Gold, haul, Jewellery, Sales, Skull, Topshop
Got some amazing bargains from Topshop today! I have most of Friday off, so finally went and got my hair cut, and my eyebrows threaded, I'll post a picture of what they look like soon! Definitely recommend it though. I've been lusting after a lot of things on the Topshop final cut sale online, but couldn't justify buying any of it. I usually just shop in the regular Topshop, but I walked past Debhanams today and completely forgot there was a Topshop concession in there! The sale was a-mazing. 10x better than what was online, and 1000x better than what's in the regular shop. I think most people forget about it.. and all the die-hard Topshoppers just shop in the normal shop... £75.50 of jewellery for £10.50. Not bad, I guess ;)
It REALLY makes you wonder why anyone pays full price for anything, doesn't it? I know I'm never buying any jewellery from Topshop again full price. Plus, if you take your student card (sixth form/college bus passes work too!) you get an extra 10% off sale items aswell as regular priced items too! Hurrah! All rather McQueen inspired. Even better.Hope your all well and not too cold (it was -5 today, jeez) x
Labels: Dress, Heels, Polka Dot, Primark, Quick one, SS12, Wedges
Just a very quick one! Sorry for the lack of posts recently, doing art graphics AND photography at A2 is absolutely killer. Deadlines are tomorrow! Got a lot to get doing tonight, which is probably why I should stop looking around on look.co.uk on my '5 minute break' (it's turned into at least an hour and half), but I just saw this and it's too good not to share. Guess which S/S12 collection this is from? Primark. Seriously. LOOK AT THOSE WEDGES. Primark. PRIMARK?! Can't wait to get back shopping again.Check out the full collection HERE.I'll update with you with some of the new illustration i've done recently for my final piece (it's floor to ceiling... bit of a joke to carry around) and I've got some treats to share with you all, plus a little giveaway! As soon as these horrible deadlines are gone, I'll get back on it I promise. x
Labels: Art, Decor, Groupon, Moskys, Personal, Room, Sticker
Sorry for the very random post, but I've got a feeling some of you arty people may like this! I'm not sure if you anybody has heard of voucher sharing website Groupon (you should definitely subscribe to them, you get cool deals from businesses in your area, like hairdressing, beauty treatments etc). I've ordered one for a spray tan before but never actually used it because I chickened out, but I saw this one for these amazing wall stickers. They're from Moskys, and it cost me £9 (as I got the voucher), but full price is £23.99. When it arrived, it came in about 50 pieces, and I was terrified about how to put it together... but I was really pleased with the results! 
It's quite cool because you can completely arrange it how you'd like, but I tried to copy the picture online as closely as I could. I also nicely got this shelf from IKEA for Christmas, fits perfectly in with the design. And with them being stickers, you can take it off whenever you feel like it, and it leaves your wall completely clean (I rearranged mine quite a few times haha)!Just a little idea for anyone wanting a change of room for 2012! x
Labels: 2012, boxing day, Jager, Marc Jacobs, New Year, River Island, Sales
Just to warn you, picture heavy post! Also.. Happy new year! Hope you all had a good one. I realised the other day, I was so excited for the boxing day sales, but never told you all what I got! I had to be really good this year, I'm going to New York in February (which is so much sooner than I thought) so I've got save all my pennies to pay off the rest of the trip... and of course, to take as much money as I can!The bag above is actually full price in River Island - but saw it and loved it. It's £50, but I looked around frantically instore (it was literally crazy), and found this baby for £12.50! The strap was broken, so it was massively reduced. To see the bag online full-price click here.... At first I was a bit unsure if I could fix it, I superglued it but it didn't work, but then just clicked the strap onto the front instead of the back and it's perfect! It's huge too, can fit so much of my crap inside. 
And also luckily managed to grab the Marc Jacobs Eau So Fresh - Daisy gift box set for only £34.99 (its about £65 full price). Contains the 75ml bottle, which to buy individually costs around £50. The lady said she'd sold around 20 of the boxes in the past hour, so I'm glad I got there in time!
And finally, the best and cheapest buy of the day. Vintage Jager blazer, £1.50. I got this from Age UK charity shop, and the label says it was reduced from £19.99. I absolutely love it, it fits perfectly and it has shoulder pads too (new obsession). Love the purple and green hues.
Did anyone else brave the manic sales? Not going to lie, it was horrible - but definitely worth it in the end.
Labels: Books, Christmas 11, Fancie, Illustration
Hope you've all had an absolutely amazing Christmas, and time for a nice break! I personally love having a nosy at what Father Christmas got everyone his year, so here's the usual post of a few things which I luckily got!This year I wisely asked for a few smaller things, and was so happy to receive them. I'll be the first to say that my mum isn't the best at buying some presents, so I was thrilled to see that she'd managed to find a few of the things I'd hoped for. Above, basically, is a big girls colouring book! It's the second book in the series by Nina Chakrabarti, and is described as "Another book for drawing, creating and dreaming". It has gorgeous illustrations over the pages, where you can finish and complete the designs, like on the third picture, I finished off the hair and makeup on the portrait. So much fun to just doodle in! I'd heard a lot about "Wreck This Journal", and wanted to buy it for so long, but always decided that I didn't need it. When it comes to creating things, I'm a little bit too OCD about it being perfect... so this, basically tells you to lick the pages and (a personal favourite page, one where you can stick all of the stickers found on fruit!) Love it. - By Keri Smith
(More books... Just love them). The Yves Saint Laurent colouring book! Small, pocket sized handbook and little place to create. Very cute. 'Style Me Vintage' book by Katie Reynolds should hopefully allow me to create some pretty looks for photoshoots for my photography projects, and again, is just an all around gorgeous hardback. 
One of the most beautiful things I received.. is my first fashion illustration artist reference book. Been dying for one, just to help me with all of my projects. It's by Marin Dawber, and has lots of fashion & graphics based work. Can feel that this will be VERY helpful in the next few months! Then a few surprises were.. some vintage looking heart shaped boxes (going to store nail polish in I think!) and a lovely jewellery tree from my friend Sanah, and of course, GORMET JELLY BEANS! Mmm, hello kitty edition too. I got far too much chocolate.. if anybody wants any.. please, do tell me, you can quite happily have it! And finally... Christmas dinner can't be forgotten.
Cupcakes from Fancie Cupcakes in Sheffield. Hope you've all had an amazing few days,x
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November 2009