List Mondays- Top 10 Christmas Gifts

So I am going to start a series where every Monday I list my "top 10" something, basically because I love lists and it will hopefully guarantee I post something on here at least once a week (I am sure that my Blog Lovin' stats are going way downhill haha)

Starting us off here is "Top 10 Christmas Gifts"-I love the gift guides which pop up in magazines and online at this time of year- which will suit every friend that you have ;)

Which one are you?
I think I am the "Schizophrenic One" who wants them all:

1. The Creative One- Lomography Diana camera

2. The Fashionable One- Danny Roberts “Girls in Glasses” T-shirt

3. The Cool One- The Sartorialist by Scott Schuman

4. The Romantic One- Giles and Brother heart chained necklace from net a porter

5. The Organised One- Erdem and Smythson diary and notepads
6. The Quirky One- Lulu Guinness special Christmas edition iconic lips clutch
7. The Cute One- Fifi Lapin and Topshop charity birthday cards

8. The Funny One- Ugly Dolls
9. The Musical One- Tiny violin necklace from modcloth.com

10. The Special One- Bestie necklaces also from fredflare.com

Hope you all have a great week!
Beth xx

DRESS IT UP, DRESS IT DOWN

I started something of a project this fall as I noticed that I own many summer dresses, party dresses, fancy dresses...All in all: I own a lot of dresses. But I also realized I actually have quite few day dresses for colder seasons; the project being to rationalize my wardrobe. (well slightly at least, you can't be too rational when it comes to dresses).

First of all - get rid of things I never use (hence my other blog - a very slow project), second - collect a set of practical, pretty and versatile dresses, suitable for everyday wear; dresses that's easy to dress up as well as dress down. Basically you of course could dress any gown down but it is also a question of weather one want's to wear (as in wear out) that silk dress on a basic Tuesday or not.

Now I know for some ladies such a thing as a day dress does not exist as any dress will feel and appear fancy enough, if one is not used to wearing them, but for me (as well as most of you know I guess) that's not the case.

So far only half of my project has been successful as it seems to take a some time to reduce my wardrobe (it's moving forward though, I will put up some more things for auctioning soon), but I have managed (surprise surprise) to collect some dresses that will go for almost whenever, wherever; the cherry dress being one of them for example, the brown one another.

And here's a third!

Easily dressed up by wearing thinner stockings, matching the shoes, adding only a few but fancy accessories, making a nice do.


The outfit dressed down - thicker stockings, basic cardigan, less fancy accessories, less fancy hair.

(The dress is ModCloth and it's the smallest Large I've ever worn. Must have been designed by real tiny people.)

FRIDAY RAINBOW IN THE HARBOR

It has been raining here so mcuch lately that it apparently has to rain even when the sun is shining. But at least you get pretty rainbows that way. (And apparently the divers who are fixing the dock from underneath should've found a big bunch of gold.)

LIMITED EDITION

of aleksandra wisniewska i love fashion week t-shirt.



i already have one...



and 4 of them are still at ostblock.

Latest Obsession: Where The Wild Things Are

Along with pretty much everyone else I am feeling total Where The Wild Things Are nostalgia.
These photographs from this months Dazed and Confused just sum up my current love of all things wild. And Abbey Lee Kershaw looks stunning, her baby-like face is perfect for this shoot inspired by the original childrens book.
Photographs by Daniel Jackson:

Oh and on one of my recent Amazon online Christmas present binges I bought a copy of 'The Wild Things' by Dave Eggers. I read a preview of it in the Guardian the other week which was fantastic and if 'A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius' which I read earlier this year by him is anything to go by this too will be heatbreaking and genius as well. Can't wait for it to arrive on my doorstep!

Oh and I cannot wait to see the film with my little sister. It looks brilliant.

Beth xx

JUST BECAUSE IT'S RAINING IT DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN'T WEAR FLOWERS IN YOUR HAIR

An easy way to make a 'do is to pull your curled hair back in some sections and use decorated combs to make it all stay in place. My cherry combs are made by darling Rascal.

PRETTY THINGS

Even though I am trying to reduce the amount of stuff I consume and gather upon me around my home and even though I in the end acatually wear quite few accessories - apart from scarves and hair such - I do love those pretty things one can decorate oneself with. If not always to wear, just to look at and admire.

Last year I wrote about soft packages. This year Santa can bring me some small and slightly harder ones.


A few of the pretty thigs to be found online from some talented readers of mine:
-Lovely knitted headbands and pom pom shoe clips from Frollein von Sofa
-Delicious rose shaped ring from Morado on Etsy
-Feathered and bowed cluthces from LouLou Bontemps.
The bicycle necklace is from ModCloth.

Rate the Red Carpet

(Photo from Go Fug Yourself)

Sometimes I am not sure about Rihanna's style choices (remember her crazy Gareth Pugh choices at London Fashion Week?!)

But I love love love this monochrome laser cutout gown by Marchesa.

It just adds the right amount of interest and drama to a boring old red carpet at the American Music Awards.

And bearing in mind that it has been about a year since that horrible incident with Chris Brown it is lovely to see her smiling and looking happy and healthy! So even though she didn't pick up any awards at least she gets my vote for best dressed of the night ;)

What do you think of Rihanna's show stopper dress?

Beth xx

WHO'S NEXT!

vote for alter&kiss on who's next!!

IT'S GETTING DARKER BUT AT LEAST IT'S NOT THAT COLD.

Well hello global warming! I'm wearng my September jacket in November.

I've stumbled across warm weather in blogs lately as it seems to be especially warm for the season everywhere. But where bloggers in the norther part of the US blog about sunshine in something that almost resembles a very late indian summer and middle European girls enjoy nice warm autumn days at + 15 C, a mild November over here means +7 and rain. Sunshine or not, it gets dark a bit over 15 o'clock here already. And it will get darker for one moth still. Yey.

Everything I'm wearing is vintage except for the shoes (which btw are much comfier by now :)

SUNDAY EVENING SOFTNESS AND SUCH

“One person's crazyness is another person's reality" - Tim Burton

Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton have to be my all time favourite celebrity couple.
I think its mainly because in my head they seem to be the coolest and wackiest parents in the world. On top of having awesome parents Billy Ray and Nell (their kids) are also lucky to have Johnny Depp as their Godfather. And not many people can boast about that.
Anyway here is the photos of the lovely Helena, Tim and Johnny last night at the opening of Tim's exhibition (which starts today) at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. They are showing a retrospective of Tim Burton's fantastic work which looks absolutely brilliant. I wish I could visit!
But for now here are some photos, enjoy-I am off to have some Sunday Dinner ;)

And here are all of the photos that Tim Burton did in a collaboration with Harpers Bazaar last month in anticipation of his exhibition. The photographs just show how much art, fashion and film can merge into one. Photographs by Tim Walker:

Beth xx

CHERRY DRESS

Today I crawled out of bed to go to my father's birthday lunch and now I'm making myself ready to go and perform at Club Wanted, as well as to check out the bands and our guest star for the night; Mimi de Frou Frou.

I'm being smart and bit lazy in the same time and will wear the same dress for both occasions, only change to darker lips, lighter stockings and red heels and let the locks out for the evening. I had my hair pin curled under the beret the wole day so I'm about to open up some huge locks now. (I figured a beret works better to wear to a restaurant than the scarf I normally roll around my head to keep my curls in place. I wear a beret that's big and loose enough to fit standing pin curls on the top of the head, although they do get a bit flat of course :)

My cherry dress is as comfy as it's lovely and it's from Big Beautiful Barbara Brown.

"Do you think I’ll ever get better at this? That my heart might someday stop trying to jump out of my chest whenever you touch me?"

Because New Moon is out today-cue the cheesy quote in the title- I felt obliged to post some photos of the lovely Robert Pattinson.

Has anyone seen/is going to see the film?
I quite like Twilight and to quote the fantatic Isatou I am not a "twi-hard" fan but I do love a bit of R-Patz haha
(I wonder who came up with that name. Its as bad as "Subo" for Susan Boyle, "Madge" for Madonna or "Jedward" for the X-Factor finalists John and Edward. Or even "Brangelina-even though I secretly quite like that name hybrid. )

Anyway these are the gorgeous black and white photos taken for AnOther Man magazine earlier this year:

Hope you all have a great weekend. Thank God its Friday right?
Beth xx

AND THE SURPRISE IS...

SWEET TEETH

The mail man dropped something very nice through the mail drop this morning; my Milk Toof book I had ordered not that long ago but almost forgot about already! Which of course made me very happy since I've been in love with these small theeth a long time.
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If some of you are not familiar with My Milk Toof yet, I suggest you take your time and browse trough the whole site. You'll love it! It's the sweetest blog I know. The book is sold out by now though, but I'm happy I was there in time to get myself a copy.