pink and green

once upon a time, after a long time overseas, lydia finally returned, and lydia and nicole could once again become lydia and nicole and not lydia far far far away from nicole.
and they could take fantastic outfit photos of each other, together, even if they did dress in contrasting colours.

nicole also found this the perfect time to steal lydia's skirt for a day, which lydia let her do, so it wasn't really stealing at all. but she had made it specially for herself from a big petticoat of vintage lace she found one day in the secret land of lewes.
the skirt went perfectly with nicole's new socks she made her mom buy her from target, and her new cosy pink cardigan.
lydia tried to make nicole alice-in-wonderland-esque, but her silly cat did not like it and got very afraid of the flashing camera so we had to let her go.















on the other side of the colour spectrum, lydia wore her fantastic new watercolour green h&m dress she found in the sales with the cardigan from last christmas she may or may not have worn only once since then.
her vintage hat also made a cameo, on a day where she did not even venture outside (which also explains her bare legs under those old lady socks)
nicole did not try any crazy alice in wonderland stunts, and instead got some lovely pictures of her.







after this day of reunion and fun (in which lydia also started taking fashiony photos for her photo journalism class which will be posted SOON!), the two girls went to a party in a magical attic lit with christmas lights and in the theme of surf, and both had a marvelous time dancing to the beach boys and the drums in their cute little surfer outfits










~ lydia and nicole

Art

So I'm in New York visiting family etc etc and my camera ran out of batteries.  :(  Thus, no outfits.  But inspiration abounds!  It's just snowed out on the island and everything looked like Where the Wild Things Are before that so I figured I'd post some art that gives the same feeling of both the before and after:

This is Kyu, who are you?

Lindsey Carr

lilsean

Kareena Zerefos

irina troitskaya

And this is archived stuff from 2008.  Whoamazing.

Nicole

birthday post =D

i reverted back to having the joy of a six-year-old today when i woke up and remembered it was my birthday, despite it being my twenty-second, and (even though it is technically over here in the uk, it is still going in the us of a, which totally counts as still being my birthday, which totally excuses me from posting this on christmas day even though i would never do such a horrid thing in real life...)

unfortunately, there was still snow everywhere from about a week ago, which has since turned into the most lethal ice you can imagine and 'they' decided not to do anything about it, meaning i stayed inside the whole day, haha. i did have visitors, however, but since the sun sets at around 4, it was a little short-lived.

so today i wore:

dress: new york & company
tights: modcloth
shoes: plato's closet, i have no idea where originally
earrings: self-made
rings: one etsy, one self-made during the day


and i feel now is also the time to admit my possibly unnatural obsession with edie sedgwick and the 60s in general. admit but not expand upon. i shall save that for another day ;p





when i got downstairs i found waiting for me a small pile of presents and my friend mairead [muh - rade] and we swiftly put some indian snack bites in the oven while i opened everything up.













later my brother showed up (he moved to london over the summer), and my family opened our christmas gifts too because we are leaving early tomorrow morning to go visit extended family for a couple days and by the end of the day i looked like this, wearing a sweater from topshop, suitably edie ;) :

and here is a closeup of the ring i made (from mere rick-rack!) after being given a "vintage accessories" book from my mum =)

all in all, a fabulous day

merry christmas for tomorrow!


~lydia

wilderness

whew! i flew home the other day (i don't even remember when, just that it is in the past haha)
buttttt before i left, nicole and i went on an adventure into the wilderness for a ~photo shoot~ baha

was kind of scary since we hopped a fence and some guy drove past us -twice!- staring the whole time and then i found the cows who were the ones supposed to be kept in by the fence... but it was a lot of fun =)

nicole:

dress: f21

cardigan: gap clearance center

necklace: a combination of a chain from plato's closet and a ring from pier 1

boots: gap clearance center

gloves: meijer (grocery etc. store)

lydia:

dress: h&m (found in a charity shop!)

sequin top: Street Scene vintage store

cardigan: the limited

sweater vest: salvation army

hat: h&m

legwarmers: h&m?
shoes: dorothy perkins

Night of the undead

So, it's dead week.  And instead of being dead, I decided it was high time to do some blogposting.  Sure, sure, I could have been writing up my studyguide and so on but, this is, as you all well know, infinitely more interesting.

So, uh, here we go.  CLOSET TIME!

This is really quite appropriate for the cold outside--
purple UO sweater of love.  (Of love is mine.)
plum Gap v-neck t-Shirt
blue Express skinny jeans
purple Gap Clearance Center boots
tortoise not designer glasses (:

Outfit one:

red H&M knit hat

yellow F21 sunglasses

blue Target necklace

green Gap shirt

floral F21 shorts

black Walmart leggings

purple F21 knee socks

red Old Navy flats

Outfit two:

sable Gap sweater

floral F21 dress

black Walmart tights

gray Target over the knee socks

light tan F21 boots

Yeah, my camera is kind of crap.  I can't wait to get together with Lydia so we can take some high class photos together!  ie I wanna play with her camera.  And I miss her like whoa.  More so the latter.  But still the former.

And yeah!  I'll hopefully post again soon.  And won't be so ghostlike in nature.  In regards to posts.

I'm also obsessed with this song:

Nicole

oh my god, shoes!

so, i was going do some fancy shmancy art post (inspired by Rebecca's post here) where i created some masterpiece of my own brilliant ingenuity.

instead i ended up just drawing shoes. but not just any shoes. oh no! modcloth shoes =)

so here we have (shoes left to right, top to bottom):

academia flats

break in the clouds flats

greatest love of all wedges

last dance with mary janes

foxtrot flats in ragtime

sundae shoes in caramel

and (socks/tights left to right, top to bottom):

hearthside tights

rose toes socks in sky

rainbow tights

so basically, just a few of my favourite modcloth shoes and hosiery ;)

~lydia

the most outrageous dress i own

outrageous dress + rainy yucky day + growing obsession with yellow =


i rarely wear this dress, even though it makes me so happy, because it's so ridiculous and noticeable that if i wore it once a week like i want to, people would think i was a freak. also, people appreciate it more when they don't see it all the time. right? right?!

oh and also it has fantastic pockets

since i couldn't really wear any jewelery with this dress, i made a little hair clip thing instead, from an earring i found in a thrift store back home

dress: vintage (could it be anything else?)

cardigan: ebay

leggings: new look

socks: target

boots: peddler's mall

'hairclip': thrifted

and just for fun because it's amazingly adorable:

~lydia