12 Days (and more) of Christmas Outfits: Week three (and the end)

Christmas is over for another year, but I still have a few more outfits to share with you all (and technically, the 12th Day of Christmas is the 6th of January, so it's not that late).

This challenge was fun and I definitely want to do some more during the year, whether that's dressing to a theme or styling one piece ten different ways. It's hard to pinpoint what I liked the most about this last couple of weeks, but I think maybe the fact that people talked to me. They stopped to complement me, or talk about Christmas, or even just smiled more. It got easier and easier to make time everyday to take photos (not to mention, I got a lot less embarrassed about taking photos of myself in public places). 

Monday December 21

Outfit details

Dress: Kitten D'Amour Girl Crazy collar dress (past collection)

Shoes: Kmart shoes, glittered by me! 

Tuesday December 22

Outfit details

Dress: Black Milk Clothing Wrapped dress (past collection)

Hairpiece: Homemade

Shoes: Novo (they're on sale so hurry!)

Wednesday December 23

Outfit details

Dress: Black Milk Clothing gingerbread dress (past season)

Shoes: Kmart shoes, glittered by me! 

Hairpiece: Made by me

Thursday December 24

Outfit details

Skirt: Betty Le Bon Bon

Shirt: Pinup Girl Clothing Doris top in Red (with a green Kmart shirt underneath)

Shoes: Kmart shoes, glittered by me! 

This one was my Zooey Deschanel from Elf-inspired outfit. I couldn't find a plain red tunic dress, so I paired a skirt and shirt which fortunately matched really well. I always need an undershirt with my Doris tops, so the green t-shirt was an obvious choice for this one! 

Friday December 25

Outfit details

Dress: Mamar Dynamite

Shoes: Kmart shoes, glittered by me! 

This is the outfit I had been saving all Christmas long! Mamar Dynamite is a Brisbane seamstress who makes the most adorable outfits. She's saved my terrible-sewing bacon by taking this impulse-bought Santa fabric and turning it into the perfect Christmas Day dress.

I was going to wear this more than once, but the day I picked it up I knew this was destined to be my last day dress. Next year, I'll pick out some more fabric and put Santa into the general rotation.


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And that's it! I'm already thinking about outfits for next Christmas and want to make sure I invest in some in season pieces so my looks can be replicated (sorry about that - I spent all Christmas long hunting down past season Black Milk dresses and realised that you'd all have to do the same). 

I hope you enjoyed my festive blog posts this December and are enjoying a wonderful holiday season with family and friends. 

12 Days (and more) of Christmas outfits: week one

The first week of my festive outfit challenge is over and it's been fun. The best part so far has actually been scheduling in time to take photos every day. It's forced me to be creative (particularly in the start of the week where I was travelling for work), and I've wanted to take pictures of every outfit because of all the effort I've been making.

Tuesday December 1

Yes, I did pull the car over next to a field... and used my car as a tripod

Outfit details:

Dress: Jeans West (past season) | Similar

Shoes: Miss L Fire Jeannie in Green

Brooch: Homemade

 Ho ho earrings: Lovisa Christmas 2015

Wednesday December 2

Outfit details:

Dress: Thrifted

Shoes: Miss L Fire Jeannie in Green

Belt: Similar | Scarf: That Shop | Angel brooch: Antique

 Christmas tree earrings: Lovisa Christmas 2015

Thursday December 3

Outfit details:

Dress: Portmans (past season)| Similar

Shoes: Kmart Australia

Brooch: antique

Friday December 4

Outfit details:

Dress: Thrifted 

Brooch: antique

Headband: Discount store

Saturday December 5

Outfit details:

Dress: Black Milk Christmas Tree Reversible Skater (no longer available)

Bow: Chickabilly (now closed)

Sunday December 6
Outfit one

Outfit details:

Skirt: Seams Nostalgic

Brooch: antique

Belt: That Shop

Shirt: Kmart Australia

Outfit two

Outfit details:

Dress: Pinup Girl Clothing Picnic Print Jenny (past season, sorry)

Scarf: vintage

We're creepy and we're kooky...

 

It's Halloween, yay!

I'm not sure if it's because it's falling on a Saturday this year, or if my dreams have finally come true, but Halloween feels like a bigger deal than it has in years. It was never really a thing here in Australia, but it's been getting bigger and bigger. I've been out and about today and there are so many people dressed in costumes and makeup talking about trick or treating and parties, and I love it.

Tonight I'm planning on watching something scary and hopefully handing out lollies to some trick or treaters (if any come - it's not a sure thing). Halloween is weird sort of non-event for me as a cosplayer, which is weird. I think it's because inevitably, someone asks to borrow one of my costumes and I have to explain to them how much work goes into them. So, I decided to show off how easy it is to put together a closet costume without spending a penny.

It's hot here in Brisbane today, so no long sleeve sweater for me. Instead, white shirt under a black t-shirt, black skirt and Docs. For my makeup, I mixed my regular foundation with some white face paint, went heavy on the eyes and easy on the contouring (just a little along the cheek bones). I always suggest to my non-cosplay friends that they pick an iconic character who wears normal wardrobe items if you don't want to spend hours crafting.

Outfit details

T-shirt & white shirt: Kmart Australia

Skirt: Seams Nostalgic

Docs: Vintage

 

Wonder Woman & Warbirds

 

Things have been stuck in a bit of a rut here at LRW HQ. There was a pageant (I'll get to that in an upcoming post), then marking. Lots and lots of marking (I've been tutoring at a local uni this semester). But, I'm here now. Yay!

I've been dying to share these photos from the Caboolture Air Museum Wings and Wheels open day back in September. My friend, Ivy Dynamite, was competing in the pinup pageant and because her inspiration-wear theme was Wonder Woman, I decided to dress in my Wonder Woman outfit and be her cheer squad for the day. 

I love warbirds and will one day do a professional shoot with them, but for now, I think my dad did a pretty good job, don't you?! 

Outfit details

Wonder Woman Skirt & Button Brooch: Seams Nostalgic
Shirt: Pinup Girl Clothing Doris top in red 

Bag: Pan Am Mini Explorer Bag from Audrey K Boutique

Shoes: Similar

Foxy foxes

 

A couple of months ago, I was a lucky ducky and won a custom swing skirt from the queen of custom skirts, Betty Le Bon Bon. I've been obsessed with all things foxy for a long while, so I chose a gorgeous woodland animal print that really featured the foxes, but had lots of other colours and animals in the print.

In anticipation of the skirt's arrival, I ordered a fox brooch from Deer Arrow. 

With Betty Le Bon Bon skirts, you always need to wait for a little while for them to arrive (around six weeks), and what's great about that is that you order them, get excited, then forget to watch the post for a while. Every time I've ordered a skirt, its arrival has been a nice, almost unexpected surprise. 

I couldn't wait to wear this one, and this (Queensland) wintery outfit came together really easily. I matched it with a basic orange t-shirt from Uniqlo, navy tights and a navy cardigan. I felt super cute all day!

Outfit details

Skirt: Betty Le Bon Bon Cheek Boutique

Brooch: Deer Arrow

Cardigan: Banned from That Shop

T-shirt: Uniqlo

Shoes: William's (past season)

Scarf was my Nanna's :) 

Wardrobe tantrums and dresses as tops

Most days I plan what I'm going to wear before I get up in the morning because if I don't, disaster can strike (particularly on the days where I'm teaching and need to be out of the house early). Wardrobe tantrums are the result of what happens when I don't plan - I am sure lots of you ladies can relate to the way it feels when a dress doesn't look right, so you pull it off and it goes on the floor, then that skirt doesn't fit, so it goes onto the floor too, and before long you're standing in your underwear, hot, sweaty, stressed and usually late. 

But this outfit was a lucky stop to what was fast becoming a wardrobe tantrum. I'd grabbed my Black Milk bowerbird play dress off the hanger on a whim after not planning (on an early start morning too), and I decided quickly it was a winter dress, and too short to wear in the spring now I've given up on tights for the season. I grabbed a skirt off the clean laundry pile and was pulling it on at the same time I was pulling off the dress, but then realised that actually, the dress worked well with the skirt as a top. The green cardigan had been given to me a couple of days before and also easily accessible, and after that, choosing shoes to match was an easy choice! 

I was really happy with this outfit because it gave me some new inspiration and a way to wear some of my shorter Black Milk dresses in the summer. I also wore some of my new Ariel jewellery, bought from Hot Topic while I was in the US. I felt like it was a nice pairing - bowerbirds are collectors and Ariel's kind of the bowerbird of the sea! 

 

Outfit details
Top (actually a dress): Black Milk Bowerbirds white play dress

Skirt: Seams Nostalgic (custom made) 

Bow and Necklace: Hot Topic
Shoes: Crocs

 

Pastel Princess

I'm lucky to live in Queensland where we don't get much of a winter. Most of the time, I can add a pair of tights and a cardigan to a summer dress and be warm enough. On the worst days, I add a coat and sometimes a long sleeved shirt underneath.

With spring just around the corner, a few days ago I 'autumised' one of my favourite Hell Bunny dresses with white tights and a light blue cardigan. I'm still getting the hang of this OOTD photo thing and have failed to include my shoes, but let me assure you, they were just the same boring brown oxfords I always wear when I'm running errands. 

I never seem to pair any outfit the same way twice, but I'm definitely making note of this one for the next time the weather gets cold (which probably won't be until next year now). 

Outfit details:

Dress: Hellbunny 'Karen' in lavender from Ursalady Creations (sold out, you may be able to find one on ebay)

Cardigan:  Kmart Australia

White tights: We Love Colors