Portions for Foxes

(Mental leather fox skirt and grey tee: Topshop, Pink wedges: ASOS, Cat Ears: Boohoo, Necklace: River Island, Other jewels: Miscellaneous) #TeenVogue

Yeah, so I actually ventured out in public in cat ears. It was met with surprisingly few stares and double-takes so maybe I will try again soon. I know, you can't contain yourselves with excitement, right?

Anyway, lookie at this skirt! It's hard not to look at if we are being honest. It is painted leather and has foxes on it which gives me a reason to wander around with foxes on my butt while singing Portions for foxes by Rilo kiley out loud. There, listen to it here so I am not singing alone. I particularly enjoy the foxes faces and that it reminds me of this Rousseau painting (except the foxes don't appear to be suffering from apparent toilet issues like this tiger):

Gaudy. Next time I wear it I promise to be a bit more adventurous than just wearing a grey tee with it, but I just got it this morning and the foxes were giving me heart eyes so I went for the easy way out. Oh, sorry for the seemingly graininess to the pictures, the gardens I was in are quite humid so it played havoc with my lens by steaming it up! So sad. Might explain the frizzy hair that is rocking in this post too, I'd apologise for that too. 

With love from,

Emma x

P.S. Not sure if anyone noticed the change in footwear, I think I may have hidden it with expert cropping but I managed to ruin my feet by being over confident in a pair of unbroken in heels. I assume you other girls are used to pulling faces like this when your blisters make any form of footwear impossible.

Favourite Things

1. Does what it says on the tin really. Bought these babies in the Office sale under the pretense that they were nice and I liked them and they would be office appropriate. I keep finding myself buying clothes that would be okay for an office environment, my last attempt at office work clothing during last summer as an intern got a few raised eyebrows. This whole graduating thing sucks, apart from these shoes. I wore them in this post, but you couldn't really see them, so here they are in all their pointy-toe glory. There are similar ones in the Zara sale at the moment, but they are kitten heels and lots of people are mean about kitten heels, I have no problem with them.

 2. Emma Raybans. Anyone else ever bought something because they share the same name as you? I think it is quite a common thing for the female population. These sunglasses are almost cat eyes, I loved cat eyes until I tried them on and they looked ugly with my face so I missed out on that whole thing, but these are quite a subtle Cat eye shape and I actually like them. Also, tortoiseshell is a big winner with me, my actual glasses are tortoiseshell as well.

(Tortoiseshell bow bangle: Marc by Marc Jacobs, Clay flower/ pearl bracelet: Primark, Bunny watch, ASOS, Red coral bracelet: DIY, Ring: House of Harlow)

3. Speaking of tortoiseshell; presenting today's Arm party. Doing the whole "Arm Swag" thing is a challenge for me, mainly because I always think I look like one of those men on the streets who have a forearm full of watches. However, I am only wearing one watch and it has bunnies chasing a carrot, certainly not street wear. I also quote "Arm Swag" because the term is embarrassing and shame on the person who started that. Also, as a disclosure, that weight in the top left corner, I do not use, it is holding my door open actually, a much more practical use!

 Happy Sunday kittens!

With love from,

Emma x

DIY Pocket Tee, One for the boys!

So the boy got Tumblr and this then led to seeing a lot of things that the internet has to offer that he would not otherwise see, and no, I am not talking about pornography. Anyway, I found him about the pull the trigger on one of these tees, I get it, it has sloths on it, but I knew it would be easy to make so I talked him out of it. So here we are, a tee that is guaranteed to fit him and a pocket with a pattern of his choice!

So pick your fabric, fabric shopping with boys is funny, so much wide eye at this unknown and magical land, so take them if possible, even if it is just for laughs.So after a while and steering him away from the curtain and vinyl fabric he was making a go for, he picked this. Good for him, it has dinosaurs and camo. What is not to love I guess?

Ingredients:
10 cm wide strip of a fabric of your choice (or his choice)
a plain tee

Equipment:
Pins
Scissors
Sewing machine
Needle
Thread to match your fabrics
Iron and ironing board.
Pinking shears

I was going to use a pocket from one of my dads shirts to get an idea about sizing, but upstairs seemed so far so I winged it. I cut the pocket a good 2cm bigger than I wanted it to be to make room for mistakes. I used a running stitch to do the top. I then pinned a pocket like shape together and ironed the seams flat. I them folded the pocket in half to check that it was symmetrical.

I then used pinking shears to cut the fabric closer to where I would sew the seams and to prevent the fabric from fraying out. Then pin the pocket onto the tee, I put a book between the two layers of the tee to prevent me from pining the two layers together.

Then tack the pocket on with a wide and light stitch just to hold it down before using the sewing machine.

Then after sewing with the machine, cut the tacking threads out and you are done! And here is the finished product on my model!

With love from,

Emma x