Some Blogs I Love

Since the lovely Carrie of WishWishWish has written about some of her favourite blogs in her latest post I got inspired and thought I would blatantly copy her and do the same thing. I've been meaning to since I started this blog and I haven't as of yet. Since joining the blogging world as a reader at first last year I have come across hundreds of amazing people through my reading of their blogs. I try to read as many as I can every day, but I also love to leave a build up of posts and spend a while reading on rainy afternoons. Since you probably already know some of my favourites (if you've read my blog before) or from my blogroll on the right hand side, I thought I'd share with you some more favourites. Hopefully you'll find them as enjoyable as I do!

Casey

Casey's blog is the first I read when I started reading blogs last year. I discovered it through a video she posted on youtube for vintage hairstyles when I was doing some research for how to wear my hair for a wedding (that I ended up not going to). I loved her videos and then when I discovered her blog I was hooked! I love how she mixes vintage style with handmade items and cute details. She's so talented at making her own clothes (something I still want to do myself) and posts the most detailed and helpful how to guides to sewing and her vintage patterns are amazing. I suppose it's really Casey that first inspired me to start my own blog. She also seems like a really nice person! Check out her blog Casey Brown Designs here!

Maebh

Maebh, or cool Maebh as we call her is actually a friend of mine and Donnachas. Donnacha met her in our college drama society back in first year of college five years ago! I didn't even know she had a blog until she posted a link to it on her facebook page and then I discovered she has three! What I love about Maebh's blog is that she takes almost daily photographs around Dublin city and county of the most ordinary and mundane things and makes them look beautiful and interesting! Dublin Snaps is her daily photo blog, Curious Mermaid is her street art and graffiti photo blog and Beauty is in the Eye of the Clutch Holder is her style/fashion blog.

Jen (and Kev and Rowan)

I'm pretty sure I discovered Jen loves Kev through Lulu Letty. I read through her archive one day and then began following daily through her accounts of how her pregnancy was going as well as her style files. What I love about Jen is her complete honesty. She's so willing to be open with her readers and ask for advice about being a new mother. I love how she includes her beautiful family in her posts and informs us of little Rowan's developments. Jen also has the cutest style. I love how she puts things together and especially that she continued her style files through her pregnancy showing women that you can look just as stylish when you're pregnant. She really is an inspiration to mothers and bloggers everywhere!

Caroline

I think I found Cosmicaroline through a comment she left on my blog. Straight away I loved her diverse posts about style, make-up, photography, music, art and animals! She is always introducing me to new things. I'm always amazed at how beautiful and unique her outfits are, especially the little details like her nails and jewellery and gorgeous floral headpieces. She puts pieces together in such an unobvious way. She visited Ireland this summer but unfortunately I didn't get to meet her. She also sings in not one but two bands!

Jennifer

What immediately drew me to Jennifer's blog SallyJane Vintage was the amazing photographs of her. Her photos are always immaculate, taken in the most unusual and beautiful of places from fields to abandoned factories or just on a pretty street somewhere, they are always so stunning. She runs her own etsy shop full of gorgeous pieces and puts together such elegant outfits for her photos. There is something so calming and peaceful about her blog. She also has great taste in music!



Well there you have it, my pick of five blogs I love to read. I had such a hard time choosing which ones to share with you because there are so many I read and love. I couldn't include everyone but that doesn't mean I don't love you! I'll hopefully do another one of these soon so that I can share more great people with you. I also want to take this opportunity to thank you all for your lovely comments about my new hair and other things. I sincerely appreciate that you take the time to read about my little life.

Goodnight,

Love Emma xxx

My Kingdom For A Kiss Upon Her Shoulder

As promised here are the photos I wanted to take yesterday. I'm glad I got to take them today instead because the weather was really nice. The sky was blue and the air was crisp, but the sun warmed us up. I don't mind the coldness of the winter when the weather is like it was today.

My loafers are from gottabvintage on etsy, my hat is from ebay, my earrings are from Freedom at Topshop, the cardigan is my sisters and my skirt is from penneys.

I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank Donnacha for being so generous and patient in taking these photos for me. Although sometimes it's hard to get across to him what I want with the photos, he always does an excellent job with them, probably because he sees things differently to how I see them. I'm so lucky to have someone who is so willing to do this for me and never complains about it even when I'm being a perfectionist or getting antsy when there's people around staring at us. He always wants to bring out the best in me and is always encouraging me to smile (not just in photos) which I am so thankful for because those are always my favourite shots. So thank you Donnacha for everything, you're the best boyfriend a girl could hope for!

Okay, the mushyness is over! Heehee! Hope you're all having a lovely weekend and that you're getting nice weather like we are here.

Today's post title is one of my favourite song lyrics. Jeff Buckley is just one of those people who had an incredible way with words, I could listen to his voice sing those beautiful words all day! I hope you enjoy this as much as I do.

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

Do You Come Here Often?

As you may recall, I've mentioned before my love for Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry. Here is the cover of Bryan's new album Olympia graced by none other than Kate Moss, looking ravishing I might add (I'm not a huge fan of hers but I do like the cover).

Olympia

If you know Roxy Music then you know they are not only famous for their music, but also for their record covers featuring known and unknown models. My favourite has always been the first one for Roxy Music. What do you think?

Roxy Music




For Your Pleasure




Stranded




Country Life




Siren

And just for kicks, here's my favourite Bryan Ferry solo record cover;

Another Time Another Place

He's looks like a bit of alright doesn't he? But seriously, anyone who can get Kate Moss to be on their album cover must be pretty awesome! Heehee!

This is one of the reasons I love vinyl so much, because the covers can be works of art themselves so the bigger the better in my opinion. You don't get the same effect from a CD cover encased in plastic. My parents had a little vinyl collection and their love of music was passed onto me as was their vinyl collection of which I have taken the records I like. I always used to look at them when I was little and wonder what they were because we didn't have a record player in our house, only a cassette player and then a CD player. Donnacha bought me one a few years ago for my birthday (one of the best presents I have ever gotten) but it's gone a bit funny sounding so eventually I would love to get a proper old record player with proper speakers. That is my dream.

Here's the video to the first single from Olympia. I haven't really listened to it much yet so I must remedy that soon, but I am looking forward to it!

Goodnight!


Love, Emma xxx

It's Only Castles Burning

Hi Everyone!

I apologise for the lack of posts this week for those of you who missed me :) The weather here was pretty crummy so I had a lazy weekend indoors where I watched lots of Medium. I'm totally crushing on Joe DuBois and Detective Scanlon! I also had a lovely dinner on Friday night with my two oldest friends. It was so good to see them and catch up on everything that's been going on in eachother's lives. We don't do it nearly enough!
I saw Jackass 3D in the cinema yesterday and went for lunch with some friends, then hung out with more friends last night in my apartment and watched Walking Dead and Weeds.

There was a crew in work today filming for an Irish fashion show called Off the Rails and one of the presenters asked could he take a photo of my hair because he loved the colour. It was quite embarrassing in front of all the customers, but I was also flattered that someone liked my hair enough to ask to take a photo of it!

Here is what I wore to work today;

Skirt- Melissa Mesh Skirt
Lace Bolero- Liliana Lace Shrug
Brogues- Jess Brogue Shoes
Earrings- Shiny Heart Stud Earrings
Lace Camisole- from work, but it's not on the website
Headscarf- from the kids section in work last year
Belt- Dunnes
Neckalce- Accessorize

Donnacha got some new lenses at the weekend including a fish eye lens. Here are some photos of me that he took with it earlier today. They're so funny looking!

How was your weekend? Get up to anything fun?

Goodnight,

Love Em xxx

Some New Things

Here are some things I bought in work recently

Buckle Knot Band Ring




Crystal Kitty Cat Ring












Moroccan Heart Elaborate Earrings

Simple Lace Alice Band

I couldn't resist the green-eyed kitty ring and how cute is the doll's house pendant? I was so excited when I discovered that it opened up to reveal the inside of a doll's house.

Today it was raining very heavily all day so I stayed at home after work and had a lovely nap and then watched the new episode of Bored to Death and started season one of Mad Men. We also had some friends over yesterday to watch the last episode of season three of Breaking Bad which was unbelievably good and the pilot of Walking Dead. Now I'm going to have a mug of orange, mango and cinnamon tea and watch some X-Files before bed! I'm TV show crazy right now!

Hope you had a good start to the week!

Love, Em xxx