Life's Not Complete 'Til Your Heart's Missed A Beat

Here's the second set of outfit photos from last weekend...

Dress- Monsoon

Cardigan- Monsoon

Sandals- Marks and Spencers

Lipstick- Revlon 'Stormy Pink'

I'm still wrecked from being at Oxegen this weekend (I'll tell you all about it soon). I thought I would get a chance to relax at home today but instead I had lunch with my sister, went for coffee with friends, went to see Tree of Life and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in the cinema (they are screening all of the films each day before Friday). I really need to go to bed before I start or continue talking nonsense. 

How was your weekend? Did you have fun?

Here is a song by Prefab Sprout. I don't think they were that big outside of the UK. They are another of my father's influence bands. Great songs. Tell me what you think.

Emma x

Picked All The Flowers To Spite The Bees

'ello lovelies!

What a week I've had! Our Summer sale started in work this week so my shifts have been starting a lot earlier in the morning and at various different times so my head is all over the place! It makes me appreciate not having to get up so early anymore. Although it is nice to be finished work so early, especially during the Summer. I've had a pretty action packed week so far. I've drank a lot of coffee, I met my friends for a catch up and Wedding talk over dinner. On Tuesday Kate, Eric and I went to Skerries to have lunch with my mam and brother and visit my granny. Today we went to see a film called The Guard in the cinema which is an Irish production with Brendan Gleeson and the lovely Don Cheadle. It was very funny, but I'm not sure how it would be received outside of Ireland what with all the slang and Connemara accents, there was even a bit of the Irish language thrown in there. 

We took two sets of outfit photos while we were in Carlow last weekend. These are the first set of photos which we took in a run down farmyard that I spotted the last time we were down and wanted to try out this time. It was all overgrown and gross but I think it makes for interesting scenery!

Photos by Donnacha and I

Dress and Cardigan- Monsoon

Earrings- Accessorize

Sandals- Marks and Spencers

Sunglasses- Penneys

Lipstick- Revlon's 'Fire and Ice'

Nail Polish- Catrice 'Am I Blue or Green?'

After we took these photos we went to the new Eddie Rockets in Carlow for Malts and a brownie.

How has your week been so far? I have some fun news, I got asked to do a product review for the blog so I'm excited to record a video for it instead of doing a written review. This will be my first time doing anything like it so I'm looking forward to it!

Here's a song which today's post title comes from. It's a band called Vandaveer that Donnacha recorded for Cock and Bull in Texas at SXSW. They're really great, gorgeous harmonies and I really like this live version of the song. Let me know what you think!

Have a great evening,

Emma xx

Outtakes and Cake

Hello Everyone!

Donnacha and I were joined by our friend Niall while taking outfit photos on Thursday (something that I only allowed because he promised not to look, yes I'm that bad!) Afterwards we went and got lunch and then coffee and cake in Accents (which I told you about recently).

Here are some outfit outtakes, some photos of us messing around and the cakes we had after lunch.

Can you spot an certain onlooker in the background?

Donnacha told me to pet the graffiti dog

Me and Niall messing with our glasses!

Strawberry Waffle Cheesecake

Chocolate Brownie

We played Jenga and Connect 4

We spent this weekend in Carlow at Donnacha's parents house. We had take out, sunbathed, went for a long walk, took two sets of outfit photos, chatted with the in-laws, slept in and caught up with friends. It was a lovely, relaxing weekend. It's always like a mini holiday going down there!

How was your weekend? Are my US readers doing anything special for July 4th? I'm in work very early tomorrow morning for sale preparation so I'll keep this short and sweet.

Emma x

Film Style Inspiration- Enid Coleslaw (Ghost World)

I almost thought I wouldn't get to do a Film Style Inspiration post this month, but luckily we went out and took these photos today just as June comes to a close.

This is another case of me taking very loose inspiration from a film character's style, yet again I want to explain that these posts are not intended as me dressing up in a costume of the person, but more taking elements of that characters style and incorporating it into my own personal style while remaining true to my style. However it is fun to play around with it and try things I haven't before.

This time it was Enid Coleslaw from Ghost World. I first saw Ghost World and read the graphic novel at a time in my life where for better or worse I could relate to Enid's world view. I still can, however now I see her flaws more than anything else and I think how annoying she would be if she were a real person and a friend at that. Despite all this I still think she is a great character and the fact that she was written by a man makes her even better. I am also a fan of Thora Birch ( ever since I saw her in All I Want For Christmas when she was about five!) and I think she played really embodied the character and made her her own compared to the graphic novel. Also, for those of you who have seen it how great is Steve Buscemi? and how awkward are some of his scenes?

Enid's style is probably the most eclectic of the characters I have posted about so far. Her style seems to be based around that of certain girls at a certain time in their life. She wears a mixture of vintage t-shirts, blouses and dresses, bold prints, military boots, leather jackets, various hair colours, and kooky headgear like a fluffy hair band and even a leather mask she bought in an adult store. My outfit is a tame version of some of these things (I decided against the leather mask). I went for some different lipstick too because Enid wears some interesting make up colours throughout the film.

We took the photos in a graffiti covered lane behind Whelans because I wanted a more Urban feel to the shoot. It's definitely a different set of photos than you would normally see here, but I really like them and I hope you do too!

Glasses- Penneys

Necklace and Bangle- Accessorize

T-Shirt- Not sure, maybe Tower Records years ago (It's a Shins Tee)

Skirt- Marks and Spencers

Dr. Martens- TK Maxx possibly 7 or 8 years ago! (and they were super cheap too!)

Jacket- F&F at Tesco

Watch- Casio from Argos

Lipstick- Revlon 'Black Cherry'

Thank you once again for all the wonderful comments recently. I'm so blessed to have such lovely readers and I want you all to know how much I appreciate you taking the time to read about my humble life let alone write comments for me!

I'll leave you with a great song from the soundtrack;