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Zara skirt with hip detail - the colour is called "make-up" which I though was cute!

Zara blouse with gold stud shoulder detail

Zara linen-mix tee with jewel shoulder detail

Zara drawstring leopard print trousers

Zara basic black sandal - at £29.99 these are a bargain!

Zara silk back jumper - love the little silk peter pan collar on this

Zara silky lingerie style shorts with rose-gold stud detail

I must confess, I am addicted to Zara!! Hands down, it has to be my favourite high street store.
Anytime I go into Zara, without fail, I'll see loads of things love and take the maximum amount I can into the changing room. To be fair mind you, sometimes the things I love, I don't love so much on as I thought I did seeing it on the hanger. 

Above is some of my latest Zara purchases. I'm not afraid of colour and have a closet full of brights, neons.... the whole colour spectrum, but lately I've been more attracted to buying neutral, capsule collection pieces that I can mix and match.


The only thing I don't like about Zara is that sometimes new things will sell out fast and not come back in stock, for example, I've been after a pair of high-waisted white shorts with gold zips and have been hunting for them for weeks now but can never find them! A kind store assistant, wrote the code down for me so now it's a case of a daily check on the website to see if they appear again. 


Today, I saw a beautiful lime green suede over-sized clutch bag but there was only one and it was marked. I went to order it online and they only have it in yellow or blue so this is another thing I need to keep hunting for! 


Remember these Louis Vuitton pumps with the metal covered toe detail?

Abbey Clancy wearing Louis Vuitton 2012

Check out these almost identical Zara beauties:-

These shoes are simply stunning! They are the like a pale blush pink shade and feel like soft suede and cost £49.99 but they sold out almost immediately!  Love these, perfect and classic!


 I'm looking forward to wearing all my new stuff and teaming the neutrals with pops of colour like my neon yellow Cambridge Co Satchel or my bright blue J Brand skinny jeans etc

Happy shopping xx

Missing in action

Sorry, I feel like I've recently been neglecting my blog. With working full time in an office and planning my wedding (I'm getting married in November!!!) it's sometimes hard to get the time to sit down and write!

Anyway, apart from my wedding planning ( which I'll blog about later) here's some of the things I've been up to these past few weeks.

Had a lovely trip to the seaside last weekend. It was so hot down in Lythem, St Anne's, I had to buy a maxi dress to change out of my jeans!! Or a lovely bright floral maxi dress from Oxfam that was brand new still with the tags on for a £5! I love a good bargain!! It took us just under 4 hours to drive down from Glasgow but the drive was lovely & getting to the beach with the dog was worth it! We chose to go down to St Anne's as my grandparents lives down there for a while so it always brings back fond, fun memories for us.

Honeymoon buys, we have booked to go to Cancun for our honeymoon! The longest flight I've ever been on was 7 1/2 hours from Glasgow to Boston so the 11 1/2 hours should be an experience. I figure, if we watch some in-flight films, have our meals then get a wee sleep then it will be okay :-)
I've recently had a bit of a major spree on H&M bikinis. I think I have about 9 new bikini's!!! It's not that I'm a bikini addict, the H&M bikini's are so lovely and at around £7/£8 a set it's not breaking the bank! I also got a cute kimono that will be great over my bikinis or even wearing over a tank & shorts during the day.My mum also ordered me a Mexican/Spanish phrasebook and a Cancun top 10 guide so I'll need to start doing my homework and learn the lingo :-)

Aside from my h&m buys this month, I've been hitting Zara pretty hard too!! I would say I am a bit of a Zara addict just now :-). I couldn't resist these leopard print trousers, they are honestly so comfy & I think on holiday, times when I want to cover my legs from the sun, these teamed with a cute top & sandals will be perfect. They are baggy at the top and tapered at the legs. I was concerned they light look like pj's but I've been assured they don't!! Post to follow of my Zara buys this month.

For the next 5 months, I will have less time to focus on my blog with all the wedding planning and preparation but I will try to keep posting and look forward to posting about my wedding plans too! My goal is after my honeymoon to invest in a proper camera so I can start to post daily "what I'm wearing" outfit posts so you should me and my personal style more through the blog as soon as I have the camera!

Thanks for reading my blog xx

You're looking a little shirty

Maurie and Eve Sedgwick Dress

Equipment Lucida Dress

Equipment Lucida Dress in Animal Print

Zara shirt style tunic

So the new trend in town is the shirt style dress, and I have to say I'm loving it!

I first fell in love with the Maurie and Eve Sedgwick shirt style dress. At first glance, this dress looks really cool and understated but when you give this dress the time, the frost floral faint pattern and the brassy gold collar tips make this little shirt dress something really special. 

I do need this pretty dress in my life!

The second and third shirt style dresses are by the brand Equipment and like Maurie and Eve they really are gorgeous, quality looking dresses. I love the striped collar and the contrasting button placket on the second dress and as for the leopard print..... who doesn't need a little leopard print dress in their lives?

When I saw the Zara shirt style tunic dress I thought, what a perfect cover up for over your bikini on holiday or wear it opened with the sleeves rolled up over your cut off shorts, tank top & some chunky jewels. At only £35.99 this is a good investment item too!

So ladies, give your body-con and bandage style dresses a well deserved rest and invest in a pretty little shirt style dress for this new season.

 

The Rag & Bone Galaxy jean

I'm a big believer in that you can never have too many pairs of jeans.......or shoes.....or handbags for that matter! Anyway, before christmas, I was tempted to buy a pair of maroon/purple skinny jeans from Topshop, but in the end I decided not to get a pair. Last week I spotted these "galaxy print" jeans from Rag & Bone denim and I just love them! I want them even more now that I've seen them on the fabulous "Style by Kling" site, they look even more stunning on! 

These basic sandals from Zara, would also complement these jeans nicely, and at £29.99 they are a pretty good bargain too!



Credit: Net-a-Porter, Zara, Style by Kling

My next purchase?

I had a look in Zara yesterday lunchtime and was drawn to these gorgeous canary yellow sandals. These would look great with blue skinny jeans and a floaty silk blouse in the summertime.

These sandals are pretty comfy on as they are well padded on the inside and the on trend platform nicely balances out the chunky high heel making them ok for walking in.

At £49.99 they are a good bargain so I had better get them quick before they are sold out!

Zebra Print

I have fallen for this gorgeous Zebra print blazer from Zara's new collection. This piece is great to wear with your skinny jeans or some rolled-up chino pants with a simple basic t-shirt or tank top or in the better weather ditch the jeans and get on a neutral shade of tailored shorts. 

Way back in 2008, Balmain featured the Zebra print blazer as part of their fall collection:-

Rhianna was a fan!

Credit: Zara

Christmas Shopping in London

I'm just back from a fun trip to London with my family. London was cold, well, not as cold as the Scottish weather :-), but I was prepared and well wrapped up in my gorgeous new Zara coat, my new boots and my cosy green pashmina scarf (I got the Pashmina scarf on holiday in Bulgaria in June for £10 and I love it so much, I wish I had got more of them)!


I never really took alot of pictures on my trip but did take a few snaps of the stunning winter wonderland window display's of the famous Selfridges & Co store:-

Liberty of London Store

Liberty of London store

Christian Louboutin Store

Christian Louboutin store

Christian Louboutin store

I love looking at all the shop window displays when they are dressed for christmas time - just gorgeous!

As you can see from the bags, I did not bad with my shopping purchases in London too! I always see different things in the stores in London that I see here in Glasgow so it's always nice to get some unique things when you see them!

 

Leather Look Leggings

These leather look leggings I got from Zara last week are amazing.

These are brilliant value at only £25.99! They are pull-on stretch leggings that feature an inside ankle zip. Look gorgeous this winter with either a cute, glitzy top or a cosy over-sized chunky knit jumper and some heels.
If you love these then get them quick, in the past week they have sold out online twice!!


These Zara leggings are near identical to these leather leggings from Helmut Lang, only difference is the Helmut Lang leggings are real leather and they will set you back a cool £600!!

 

Today's Buy

I did a dangerous thing today.......... on my lunch break from work I went for a look in Zara. Big mistake, as anytime I go in I always seem to buy something, which when trying hard to save for my wedding is not always a great thing!!

Anyway, I saw loads of gorgeous things in Zara's new season collection. I whittled my selection down to the maximum of 6 items for taking into the changing room and out of my options I fell for this over-sized knit. These pictures really don't do this knit justice, I myself wouldn't want to rush out and buy it from seeing these pictures of it but trust me when you see it in the flesh and try it on you can't argue that it is stunning. The knit features cute bell cuffs, a zip at the back and glistens with bronze, cream, gold and cotton candy pink tones, I love it!!

I'm planning on wearing this with my jeans, my Sass and Bide Black Rats leggings or cute shorts.

Amongst many other nice things I also saw a shorter silver chunky knit jumper with leather elbow patches which if they had had in my size, I'd have bought also.

Oh well, I suppose another lunchtime trip into Zara will not do much harm! At least I am being sensible and buying warm knits!!

Everyone's wearing, Biker Boots

Studded Biker Boots by Zara

Buckle Biker boots by Topshop

Biker boots as seen on:-

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

Kate Moss

Model

The Biker Boot is a current must have. These boots will act as the staple accessory to your collection and will work with your pretty dresses and cut-off shorts in the summer and your faithful jeans or leggings for the winter.

I like both the Topshop buckle biker and the Zara studded biker boots that are out in the high street stores now. So as not to have a repeat of last year, when I was sliding around in the ice with non-gripped boots, I have my Jimmy Choo Hunters at the ready for the snow and plan on investing in a pair of either the Topshop or Zara biker boots (both of which have great rubber gripped soles).