Someday I'll Wish Upon A Star And Wake Up Where The Clouds Are Far Behind Me

Happy weekend everyone!

Today I had an outfit shoot planned but the weather had other plans so instead I'm going to show you some make-up I bought yesterday (because Boots was having a 3 for 2 on all make-up). I saw the nail polish and loved the colour but even better was what it was called- Emerald City which made me want it even more! (The Wizard of Oz has been one of my favourite films since I was a kid). It's also a matte polish so it has a lovely finish to it. The eye shadow palette is one I've used before and has four great colours in it that you can use lots of different ways. I also bought my trusty L'Oréal Super Liner felt tip eye liner. It's basically the easiest liquid eye liner I've ever used. I love it for every day use because I can put it on so quickly and easily. Have you found any great make up products lately?

Revlon Colorstay Matte Nail Polish shade 03- Emerald City




Revlon Colorstay Eye Shadow palette in Neutral Khaki

I recently counted all of my pairs of earrings and put some of them away because my shelves were overflowing with earrings. At last count I had 65 pairs! A little excessive perhaps, but a lot of them I have gotten in work at 75% discount. Here are some of my favourites and some photos of me wearing them over the years;

Hope you're having a great weekend so far! You'll get my planned post for today tomorrow instead (weather permitting).

I will leave you with a song that always makes me cry

Love Em xxx

I was a dreamer, staring at windows

I just had a refreshing nap. I didn't mean to sleep for so long but it was just one of those days where the early morning caught up with me. I just wanted to thank all of you readers for being so kind. I've gotten some lovely comments over the past few days and it really makes me feel humble that people take the time to read what you've written and look at your pictures and comment on them. It's also great to find new and exciting blogs through these comments, I could (and have) spend hours reading them!

The weather's been bad here this past week, with lots of rain and even thunder! It's slightly annoying because it's the kind of weather that if you're out in it for even 5 minutes you get completely soaked. On the upside though it has given me a chance to read a lot of new blogs old favourites so that's a good thing about the weather!

Today I wore some very brights colours to work to brighten myself up through the cloudy weather. I find it a bit daunting wearing such bright colours because I do love my black, but I'm always pleasantly surprised when I do feel brave enough to wear bright colours because it makes me feel brighter and happier!

A pink bangle and pink toenails




You may remember I showed you these earrings a few posts ago.
I love them! Why are buttons so cute?

My Coral and Wishbone necklace. It's my poor man's version of this one





My Bright Coral Cardigan, probably the brightest item of clothing I own





My sunflower bando. Sunflowers are my favourite flower along with daisys. They're just so happy!

I shall leave you with a beautiful song (from which some lyrics are today's post title) from a Dublin based band called Villagers. When I say band it's more the singer/songwriter Conor O'Brien and some musician friends of his playing with him. Conor used to be in the Irish band The Immediate who were great and unfortunately only released one record, but it wasn't meant to be and it's probably a good thing because Conor seems to be doing quite well for himself. He's a lovely guy and actually lives with my friend Dave (also a lovely guy). I've only seen him play once as Villagers supporting Neil young last year but I'm hoping to see him the next time he plays in Dublin. I think it's so great to see talented Irish musicians do so well! Hope you like the song!

Love Em xxx

Flowers and Power Ballads

That's right, I'm listening to power ballads. I find them comforting, I don't know why, it's a bit strange. Particularly this;



Hmm...

So today I had a frustrating day at work. It seems that my employers are doing everything in their power to make our work environment as difficult as possible to work in. I think they actually want us all to quit so that they can hire an army of robots whom they can mould into the perfect unopinionated employees. I've decided I'm not going to stand by anymore and keep my mouth shut when things need to be said, because honestly, it appears that you can do anything in there and not be fired, which is such a sad state of affairs. I really don't like complaining about work because it pays the rent and in fairness I only work 20 hours a week so I'm really hardly there at all. I love the girls I work with and if it wasn't for them I don't think I could handle it. My hope for the future is to find a job I enjoy and to work for people I respect, or work for myself, that would be even better!

Enough of that talk! Today I received a lovely pair of giant daisy earring in the mail from ebay. They are hand made by Lucy's Lockets. The quality isn't great but having said that they're very inexpensive so if they break it's not a huge loss, but I just though they were really cute and quite 60s. So in order to show them off I made myself up all 60s and took some pictures. I also used the fake eyelashes I posted about last week, they're huge!

This was my inspiration for the look, but I think my eyelashes were too big to see the eyeliner.

Photo Credit: Here





I like how the shadow of the flowers from the curtains are on my face. That was a complete accident, I'm not that clever. Heehee!





What do you think of my effort at 60s make-up? It's a different look for me, I'd never normally wear nude lipstick but I liked it a lot.

I love my daisy earrings! I must count how many pairs I have, that'll be another (long) post!
Wow, I just realised tomorrow is Friday, what a relief! My boyfriend and I are planning a picnic for Saturday but we're not sure where to go yet, I think somewhere coastal would be nice. I'll let you know how that goes, hopefully the nice sunny weather will keep.

I hope you're all having a lovely week whatever you may be doing. Until next time..

Em xoxo