OUTFIT: Pattern clashing ...

Tired my hand at a bit of pattern clashing the other week with my favourites, stripes and plaid! Gotta say I really loved the look! 

For my first attempt at pattern clashing I paired my navy paid trousers with my cream and navy stripe jumper. I wasn't quite ready to clash colours as well as patterns.

HOUSE: Jewellery table make over ...

I absolutely love jewellery and make up  and as a result I have a lot of clutter on my jewellery table so now we have settled into the new house and sorted the big things out its time to have a jewellery table make over.

This was my jewellery table when I first bought it, since then I have replaced the little plastic handles with nice silver metal ones and when we moved I painted the three draw fronts in a warm white. Now its time to step up my make over.

After having a bit of a blog trawl and Pinterest search I have decided to swap the shelves on the left with another drawer unit. I found this really cute 6 drawer Alex unit from Ikea in white that would be perfect to store all my lotions and potions in. Once I get some space on the top I am going to add this add on Alex drawer unit from the same Ikea range and then its time to make with the jewellery and trinket boxes. At the minute most of mine are ones I have acquired over the years and they are looking a bit sad so I'm going to swap them for some nice new acrylic and glass ones. Here is my current inspiration slash wish list.

The two white drawer units are from the IKEA Alex range, the acrylic drawers are MUJI and the white pots on the left are actually IKEA plant pots but I am planning on repurposing them. The two little pots at the top are examples of trinket pots I found on the Dunelm Mill website but I have seen similar in other shops so I am just going to pick them up when I see them. I also really want to get some nice glass jewellery boxes with some sort of detailling on them. BHS had some in before xmas but they appear to be sold out now so I will keep having a look about. Cant wait to show you guys the finished article. It might take me a while as I save up and buy bits but I am really looking forward to getting started. 

What do you think? What does your jewellery table look like? Do you have any good storage ideas to pass on? 

OUTFIT: Geek chic with a statement tee

My work place doesn't have a very strict dress code so I like to mix it up. One of my favourite looks of late is geek chic with a statement tee. I have slowly been building up my statement t shirt collection for the past few months, of all places Primark have had a good collection of Marvel, Disney and Harry Potter t shirts in recently. 

I like to take t shirts with a bold or unusual print on them:

NEW: New Look sale purchases

The other day I popped into New Look and checked out their ongoing sale. I didn't go in with any specific intentions of buying something or even looking for anything in particular but as always that is exactly when you find loads of cute stuff you really want. 

I picked up quite a few different pieces to try on but (luckily) not all of them looks quite right on me so I ended up only picking up a couple of pieces. 

First up is this black collar check coat, its a really nice structured coat that I can dress up or down depending on where Im going. Its also nice and thick but doesn't look too bulky due to the cut. Hopefully this will be featuring in some up coming outfit posts once I start styling it up so stay tuned.