winning...

See! So happy I'm even smiling

Well you'll never guess what happened this week... I've only just gone and won a SILVER FACTORY tshirt!!! Can you smell the excitement? I think so. I could be possibly too excited, is it possible to be too excited?

Anyway, I entered a competition awhile back on a brilliant blog known as the Licentiate and by random, marvelous luck this beautiful skull tshirt suddenly belonged to me. Sarah from the Licentiate confessed she was a little more than tempted to say it got lost in the post. I am so happy she did not.

Cheers for not keeping it to yourself though I can honestly understand why you would.

The great thing about this top (apart from the amazing print) is the sheer size of it. It's HUGE! Now I know you could get smaller ones but why would you. This tshirt demands excess. It demands to be draped over you not stuck to you. It demands to billow in the wind along with your curls (which happened to me already today). It demands to hang elegantly off your shoulders like the work of art that it is.

Plus it's dead comfy when it's big and baggy.

Thank you to the Licentiate for holding the competition, thank you Shutterbug for stocking such beautiful tshirts and thank you Silver Factory for creating them.

Top: Silver Factory (via Shutterbug)

Treggings: Dorothy Perkins

Converse: Littlewoods

Turqouise ring: Shutterbug

Stitch up my soul...

For those who haven't been following this is the fourth installment of a project I am working on, creating outfits that have been inspired by other bloggers...

The devil is in the detail... That is what I have learned from Stephen Moloney's blog Stitches, Fabric and Soul. The people he hunts down and photographs are the pick of the crop. The cool, the demented,the loved, the wild, the weird, all with devil may care attitudes. Their clothes say something about them. Souls exposed in the seams of their garments. I may not always love what the people are wearing but I am jealous of their bravery, wearing items they truly love despite the fact it might not "go" or be "on trend".

Stephen Moloney himself oozes a sort of careless coolness, a characteristic I wish I possessed. Never trying to be cool but always falling into that category. A relaxed outlook to fashion while still being heavily consumed by it... You want to be his friend, but he is too bashful. Killer coolness, a monotoned quirkiness, shocking, youthful, fresh faced and head buzzing with glitter falling from his foot steps.

Though I am nowhere near cool enough...

Biker jacket/ Sandals: Dunnes

Ballet Top: Awear

Trousers: Penneys

Belt: River Island

Bag: Vintage Fair

Shades: Ray Ban

Watch: Gift

Follow me Whisty...

The eternal groupie... You want her to be at the front of your stage, you want to write songs about her. You long for her tip her hat your way. She's not like your regular groupie, she has her own following... Once you've wooed her you know you're in the big leagues. A secret delight to behold with a not so secret accent ;)

Whisty always seems to be on trend (if not ahead of it.) She constantly has her finger on the pulse of fashion and is the blogger you want at your launch. She keeps her followers up to date on the happenings of the high street and beyond. And then goes on to shows us this underground world of hers filled with bands, long nights and tall drinks.

She follows trends but never falls victim to them. Whisty knows how to make any look her own, gives just the right amount of sex appeal and can make something formal into something casual and vice versa. It is almost like she truly is a groupie and is living out of one massive suitcase and making one wonderous outfit after another.

Necklace: Topshop

Body: Asos

Skirt: Warehouse

Heels: Dunnes

Inspiration from those...

I was taught that anything I create has been inspired by something else, even I didn't mean it to be. I think this can also be said for fashion and styling. Magazines suggest that people should look to celebrities for inspiration, other people get it from art. The majority of people are inspired by other people. A good deal of my inspiration comes from the people I know and the blogs I follow.

Blogs are an endless source of inspiration for me, and not just the outfit posts. Their "inspiration" posts, their posts on their new favourite song, photos they took, the styling and design of the blog and how the person writes are all areas where inspiration can be found. And for the next five weeks I want to celebrate this.

For the next five Saturdays I am going to create an outfit that has been inspired by my favourite Irish blogs starting tomorrow with Blaubushka and then continuing on with Whisty, Blanaid, Stitches, Fabric and Soul and, She's in Vogue (maybe not in that order though.) The outfit will depict the vibe I get from the blog and the blogger. I hope they won't mind... I just want to show how blogs have inspired my own sense of style.

If nothing else it will be terribly flattering for said blogs (and hopefully not creepy...)

Inspiration not imitation...

An overdue thank you...

I cannot believe it has taken me this long to do this... Awhile back I was awarded the Kreativ Blogger Award by not one but two other bloggers (blush). Firstly by Blau von T of Blaubushka and secondly by Maggie Carey of Magatha-May. I want to say a huge thank you to both of them for thinking of little ol' me!

I think I'm supposed to pick other bloggers to pass this on to but to be honest I think the bloggers I love would have already been given this award and then we'd just be going around in circles... Nobody wants that :)

So to all the bloggers of Ireland, you are amazeballs! Keep up the crackin' work!

Would ya look at me...

Howdy all! Busy week in college so I haven't been blogging like I ought to. I promise to do better, I really do. Until then, here I am in two different places. Just in case you miss me...

I was lucky enough to do a guest post over at Blaubushka. 

And... I was interviewed by the lovely Lady Peach.

Style @ Set...

People! ABSOLUT Style @ Set is back! (eeek!) And they say it’s bigger than last year! Following the success of the inaugral fair in 2010, this full on fashion extravaganza will now take place in both the SET Theatre and the Ballroom of Langton’s House Hotel, Kilkenny on 22/23/24 April 2011.

FILMS, TALKS, FASHION AND BEAUTY!

Organised by writer/stylist Blanaid Hennessy, ABSOLUT style at Set is no ordinary fashion event, no MCs or the usual catwalk shows, it’s simply another world in which to escape for a few days. And it is thoroughly worth it...

ABSOLUT Style @ Set will host a Friday filled with free fashion films (so one can sit back with friends and enjoy a good giggle or tear (as in the case for me and my friend last year). Saturday and Sunday will be filled to the rafters with vintage stalls, guest speakers, wine tasting, ABSOLUT Vodka cocktails, hair & beauty zones and so much more. I promise you, you WON'T get bored.

STANDS AT SET 

This year they've mixed things up with vintage fashion, furniture and vintage-style wedding stands. Favourites from last year such as Bonzie, Smoking Lily and Vintage Emporium join new and very welcome additions such as Dandelion Daydreamer, Elsa & Gogo, Lark Vintage and many more! Full lists of stands and info will be available on their facebook page and website over the next few weeks. 

SPRING BREAK!

This year also sees the return of the incredible ‘Style Nights Out’. Last Year it was the Mad Hatters Tea party which was amazeballs! This Saturday night will host the shenanigans of the ‘ABSOLUT YOU’ the brand new night from ABSOLUT featuring interacitve sets by DJs ‘Synth Eastwood’, audio and visual art designed by You and teapots of intense ABSOLUT Vodka cocktails by ABSOLUT. Sunday night will feature all kinds of old school, with renowned 80’s tribute band ‘Spring Break’ taking to the stage, followed by some 90’s hip hop and dance tunes from our DJ. Alternative/fancy/whatever you like dress is recommended!

People who have come before I need not convince you, you know it was amazing and shall be again. Newcomers, COME! Seriously, was so much fun last year and I cannot wait for this year. 

ABSOLUT style at Set 2011

Weekend Tickets for the sat/sun inclusive are €8.00 (available online www.set.ie)

Saturday’s ‘ABSOLUT You’ night out tickets are €5.00 (available on the door only)

Sunday’s Spring break tickets are €10.00

(available online www.set.ie)

Tickets available to buy on www.set.ie/style

Further info:

Blanaid Hennessy : 00353 56 7703312

Langton’s House Hotel : 00353 56 7765133

Email : blanaidhennessy@gmail.com

Website : www.set.ie

See my review of last years Style @ Set here and  photos of it here

Gettin Auld...

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, 

Happy Birthday dear Rose Tinted Uncertainty, 

Happy Birthday to you!

The little blog is one year old today...

Images via we heart it

If Santa really loved me #7

It is Christmas Eve and I have my final three bloggers who are desperate to get their extravagant gifts from Father Christmas...

First is Glamrocks Luna... These ladies want a good bit off poor auld Santa. If Santa really loved them he would give them access to the vogue wardrobe, a shopping spree in Chanel, a time machine so they can go back to the 80s and dress and dance like Romy and Michelle whenever they wanted to, a vat of zero calorie Ben and Jerry's, silky smooth fizz free hair oh... and world peace!

Santa better start sorting all that out fairly sharpish.

Vogue Wardrobe (I think!)

Who will follow that lot?

Well that would be Aisling Keenan of Think What You Like, a mad yolk with one hell of a blog! Now if Santa really loved her, he'd bring her: laser eye surgery to give her the gift of sight, a Chanel 2.55 and a Chanel filofax, YSL Tribs in every colour. Louboutin lace-up boots. A Marchesa dress for New Years Eve. A Lorraine Schwartz diamond and sapphire ring (he'd give that to her boyfriend to pass onto her maybe)... A trip to Las Vegas. An Alexander McQueen scarf, a rolex watch, an exact replica of one of Anna's dresses from The King and I.

Oh it goes on... The use of a personal trainer and chef for the year. A years supply of See's Candy Butterscotch Lollipops (GOOD GOD IN HEAVEN they're amazing...) A meeting with Beyonce (Santa is magic, he could totally organise that) aaaaand finally, a cure for this desperate materialism I'm suffering from.

I am beginning to feel sorry for Santa...

YSL Tribs

Anna's dress from the King and I

Finally.... Our last blogger is the lovely Jo Linehan of S-oh S-ew (have you had her cupcakes? - delish!). If Santa really loved her, he would give her... a ticket to the Rolling Stones Christmas Concert in Central Park (which is completely fictitious but real in her dreams!), a dinner date with Caleb Followill, shopping date with Carrie Bradsha, studio tour with Karl Lagerfeld,  job at Elleuk and a pair of Miu Miu heels to do it all in...

Caleb Followill

Miu Miu Heels

Good luck Santa!



Merry Christmas to all my lovely readers xx

If Santa really loved me #6

Ok who is gonna spill their greedy little guts today?

First up is Sarah Waldron of The Licentiate who, I feel, is being practical as well as indulgent- if that is at all possible. Well now, Santa if you really loved Sarah (and I am sure you do) will you please get her a brand spanking new Macbook Air... Thank you.

Macbook Air

Next is Jane Kenny from Noisy Shoes. And boy she is a greedy little minx... Instead of giving me one item she gave me loads! Greedy or what??? Poor Santa, he ain't made of money! 

So what does Jane want off Santa, well she wants a Hassleblad, a Leica, a Givenchy studded bag and some Balenciaga shoes... Super materialistic, just the way Christmas should be ;)

Givenchy studded bag

Hassleblad

 Balenciaga shoes 

 Leica

If Santa really loved me #5

Today I have two more bloggers that have told me what Santa should get them if he really loved them...

The first blogger is the ever so cool Cathy Lawson from The Style Strutter. She feels that if Santa really loved her he would get her an Alexander McQueen Crystal Encrusted Clutch Bag! Maybe he could bring two... one for me and one for her (it's totally doable!)

Alexander McQueen Crystal Encrusted Clutch Bag

The next blogger is one of my favourite story tellers, Catherine Carr of the brilliant A Chick Named Hermia. She feels a silk Hermes scarf would do nicely for around her neck this Christmas Day. Santa can surely that... I am sure of it!

Silk Hermes Scarf

Two more coming tomorrow...

If Santa really loved me #4

I am running out of time for all my bloggers... I've been terrible in keeping up with blogging (I even forgot Graphic Monday!) Forgive me, it is Christmas after all. So I am gonna do two in a row from now on so I fit them all in... My bloggers do not think this makes you any less special.

So our first lovely blogger today is Stephen Moloney of Stitches, Fabric and Soul (love his blog, you should love it too). Stephen feels no need to persuade Santa. Like me, he knows he's been good and is sure to get a gift off Father Christmas.

And what does he want? Well nothing less than a Mulberry Alexa... Who doesn't?!

Mulberry Alexa

And now blogger two... The gorgeous Sara Devine of Lions, Tigers and Sara, Oh My! (love her!) has told me what she wants off Santa. The items she wants are very beautiful and very sold out but sure Santa can work miracles so not to worry. 

Sara wants a pair of Acne Atacoma wedges. She wants them so badly and doesn't care if she can't walk in them. But she can always sit and admire them... A big part of me wants these too!

Acne Atacoma wedges

Holy Moly...

People, I woke up to the most unbelievable news this morning... Ok are you ready for it? I have been nominated for Ireland's Most Influential Fashion Blogger 2010!!! Holy sweet potatoes ain't that something?! At first I thought it was a joke or something... surely they can't mean me and my little blog.

But it's true! I have never been nominated for anything like this before and I have some SERIOUS competition, I am going up against the big dogs... But even to be nominated is something special. Apologies for all the gushiness! 

It would be so sweet and wonderful if you felt this blog deserved it and if you do, would you mind so much if you voted here. Only if you want to now...

Thanks to my mystery nominator, whoever you are. And thanks to you guys! My readers... without you I would just be rambling to the ever vast cyber space.

I am now off to skip around in delight :)

If Santa really loved me #1

Christmas is pretty much upon us and everyone is finishing up in college, going to their office party, panicking about gifts or getting their house all nice and festive. And as we all know Christmas is a loving time spent with friends and family.

But if we were to be honest with ourselves we would all say that Christmas means gifts (if only marginally). So I have asked my fellow bloggers what they would ask for off Santa if they allowed themselves to be completely greedy and materialistic this festive season... The one item that would melt their hearts.

For the next few days I will be revealing what these Irish bloggers really want for Christmas.
Santa better be reading this...

My first blogger is Anna O'Shea of Style Girl (gorgeous blog, go check it out). She told me she is obsessed with finding the perfect leather jacket and believed she has found it. The one she wants (shown below) is by Versus and costs a whopping 3 grand! But lucky for Anna it is now half price...

Common interest... The Blogger Bash!

Just Gorgeous!

So the big Blogger Bash was on Saturday and what a night it was! It started off with my very first drive to Dublin... It was scary but I was brave and I made it to the party.

When I arrived I was received with a warm welcome and smiling faces. I didn't recognise many of the faces but by the end of the night I even knew their fashion faux pas (thanks WWIWT!). There was loads of wine (though I had to stick to the orange juice) and teeny tiny cupcakes made by the super sweet Jo Linehan (oooh they were tasty). 

A few days before I had this thought, how odd is it that I was going to a place I have never been to meet people I have never actually met before. I was wondering would I actually get on with them or sit there like a depressed fish. But thankfully that was not the case! Those bloggers were so so lovely! I could have talked to them for hours. It was like we knew each other for years. 

And they dressed fantastically! Oh sweet lord did they dress well! I was down right jealous of their outfits! I know those last three sentences all finished with an exclamation point but I don't care! (I don't care about that one either)

I loved it! Whisty and Catherine throw another one! Soon!
Apologies for the stolen pictures...

Check out all the blogs, I am sure you'll find something you like...

Whisty from Whisty Blogs Dublin Fashion

Hermia from A Chick Named Hermia

Lorna from Loladee (Things I Fell In Love With Today)

Jo from S-oh S-ew

Sarah from The Licentiate

Karin from Kar’s World

Jeanette from Lady Peach

Alex from Alex Donald’s Multiverse

Jennie and Sarah from What Will I Wear Today

Alice from White Rabbit

Louise and Una from Glamrocks Luna

Aisling from Think What You Like

Proof that Whisty planted a big wet one on me!

Hair wish...

My hair just isn't growing fast enough for me... I wish my hair to be this length (god only knows when that will be!). This is Taghrid by the way, I also want her wardrobe but I suppose I can settle for her hair...

Grow dammit grow!

Photo shoot...

So here are most of the photos from my photo shoot at the amazing Shutterbug studio with the brilliant brother sister duo of Blanaid (blanaid.com) and Eoin Hennessy. I am delighted with the photos! They came out so well with very little help from me... These two seriously know what they are doing... If you need a photo shoot done give them a shout.

Isn't that tulle skirt just fantastic! Its by the Irish independent fashion label Bonzie. I loved it! It is so beautiful and I felt so extravagant in it... *sigh longingly* Most of the rest of the clothes were my own. I brought up a load of clothes to Blanaid and she went to town with them. Created two great outfits!

Outfit One

Gold Top/ Heels: Blanaid's own

Skirt: Bonzie

Gloves: Vintage, Ebay

Second Outfit

Beret: Haddens, Carlow

Vest/ Leather gloves: Penneys

Feather Collar: Gold

Leather Skirt: Vintage, Wild Child

Heels: Dune, my sisters (sssh!)

If you want to see the rest of that shoot and more of Shutterbug's work then why no click here.

Hope I get to do another one some day...

Me? A model!?

The wonderful Blanaid Hennessy of Blanaid was inspired by an image of Crystal Renn and has hell bent on creating a sexy, vintage style, curvy photo shoot... And I was the lucky girl who was asked to do it. You could say I was excited but that would be an understatement! So in her new (and so cool) photography studio, Shutterbug, I was pampered and plucked and backcombed and put in the most amazing skirt by Blanaid (cannot stress how nice she was and how welcomed she made me feel).

So after she dolled me up like Brigitte Bardot and made me all sexy (at this point I was telling her I can't do sexy) her brother Eoin started shooting me, I wasn't as nervous as I thought I would be. It was so fun trying to act sexy with Blanaid moving me to get the perfect shot and giving me directions and letting me know about every trick in the book about modeling. Parts were so hard: I don't think I was meant to bend like that! But they were very nice to me and understood that it hurt...

The two looks I was put in was a sexy 1960's style hollywood starlet and then a sexy russian spy! I was told think Brigitte Bardot for my first look and Angelina Jolie for the second. Now, in my head I can only do one sexy look so I have no idea how I looked and if I did a good job at all (though Blanaid told me I was great- to which I told her she was a great liar).

Dying to see the images! And would totally do it again, even though I am no model!