So..it’s Hallowe’en, and if you’re not in any way ill, I hope you’ve got big plans for lots of dementedness and fancy dressing and eh..trick or treating! Well, if I don’t wear my heels, I could pass for an average height 8 year old….worth a shot….
x Blanaid
Images via For Stars Will Rise Again, Ffffound, and We Heart It,
Here it is now, only a week late - the second part of the shoot with photographer Andrew Clancy..
All the clothes in this shoot are from the Savida collection from Dunnes Stores. I’m quite in love with the ruffled lace top and the leggings, both Savida. I picked up the cropped floral t-shirt in Dunnes for a tenner the week previous, I’m not sure if I’ll ever take it off. Maybe to wash it. For that money, I could get a few more and rotate….My next purchase shall be the skirt below, which is just €25.00…good deal!
Thanks once more to Andrew for his photograph-taking abilities. You’re a legend Clancers x
x Blanaid
*skirt below, €25.00, Savida*
A little beige and black moment…
The second part of the shoot with Andrew Clancy will be up later if you’re kicking around the intraweb!
x Blanaid
Here’s our second episode of ‘All of This’, shot on location in Oxfam in Rathmines. In this episode, we showed a black lace number, a sliiightly demented office wear look, and a host of retro dresses that they are bringing down to the shop floor for Hallowe’en..unless you don’t need that excuse and like yourself some retro…
This was SUCH a lovely shoot, with the very beautiful model Naomi Casey, the brilliant production team; Helen and Emer, and our very special assistant on the day - Zarah Casey, who you can hear at 1′59″! You can kind of tell from the out takes at the end that we spent much of the time larking about, it was a fun day at the office!
You can WIN the black lace dress - it’s very simples - all you have to do is ‘cast your guess’ (yeah, I don’t know why I said that either…) as to how much YOU think Oxfam in Rathmines were selling the black lace dress for. You can do this over on >> Style Nation<< ,on >>Twitter, <<or on>> Facebook<<!. Click on the links to join in the game! It’ll take about two seconds and you could get yourself an elegant black lace dress for nada…good deal!
x Blanaid
I had to buy these thigh black boots from Penneys, after seeing them over on Whisty’s blog…so in I toddled and… how lovely - €21.00! They also have a fairly medium sized heel for kicking about in…
Wore them out this weekend with my new haulage from H&M -
Stonewashed sweatshirt - €22.00-ish H&M
Sequinned shorts - €22.00-ish H&M
Boots - €21.00 Penneys
Tights - Cotton 60 denier, €3.00 Penneys
Bracelets and turquoise ring - Accessorize in the sale…
x Blanaid
Apologies for the bad photos - I’ll be doing a real shoot this week so may bring these along.
I’m a big fan of Anthony Burrill - his prints please me enormously, so much so, I even went and spent my hard earned monies on one for my flat >> see it here <<
So I was particularly pleased to hear, that not only witll Mr. Burrill be one of the creative talkers at Offset, he has also designed a range of exclusive menswear t-shirts (above) that will be sold in BT2 Grafton Street, from today, Monday til the 9th November. I shall be making a purchase.
In addition to the BT2 T-shirts, he’s designed a window wrap that will adorn the windows of BT2 Grafton Street for two weeks. I can’t WAIT to see that…
x Blanaid
Rosemary McCabe featured my blog in her article on bloggers who post their personal style, in the Irish Times magazine today, along with the fabulous Laura Whiston from ‘Whisty Blogs Dublin Fashion’, and Ana Kinsella from ’Ripped Knees’.
To say I got a shock when I saw the size of the photo of meself would be an understatement, but I have to say, I’m so glad it was that large as it really showed Dave from The Coffey Filter’s photography skills! (NOT because it’s of me, but for the colouring and composition etc..)
Rosemary is an incredibly accomplished writer, which is hugely evident in the fact she made sense of my hour long ramblings in the interview… Check out her blog too >>here<<, it’s a regular haunt of mine..
So a huge THANK YOU! to Rosemary and to Dave Coffey for the images.
See the article online >>here<< if you like!
x Blanaid
I wish I knew where the first image is from…sorry! The rest of the images were found on …fffound…
The image of the boy being thrown in the pool is from ‘Square America‘, an image blog about family dynamics.
Lots of children in this Fancy Friday - which is odd, as I couldn’t be described as particularly broody.
Have a lovely weekend!
x Blanaid
A very delayed post - I attended the Fashion Bloggers’ Brunch on Saturday in BT2 on Saturday, which was an incredibly pleasant way to spend a Saturday morning!
The event was organised once again by the lovely Annmarie O’Connor from ‘I Blog Fashion’, who was also giving her style master class : ‘Fashion Me Fabulous’, in Kildare Village the same weekend. (I popped down to it after the brunch, and it really is a master class in the capsule wardrobe - check out her next ones, I’ll post the dates.)
Aoife and Analeigh from BT2 made us feel very welcome, with lots of fancy pastries, treats and much needed cuppa teas…they also very kindly presented us all with a gift card for the store. I promptly used it toward the studded Lipsy jacket, featured in the shoot with Andrew Clancy. Nice.
Bloggers new and regular all attended, including:
New to the brunch - the lovely bloggers :Nicky from Nicky’s Rag Tales, Alice from White Rabbit and Kathy from Style Strutter (who has the coolest tattoo!)
The incredibly dapper gentlemen : Cillian from Male Mode, Garrett from Indigo & Cloth (LOVE the new website!) and Conor from networking site Connector.ie
The very stylish ladies : Arsheen from Fashion Filosofy, Sinead from The Savvy Shopper, Aoife from Beaut.ie and Catherine from This is an Off Shoot
*****
Lovely to see everyone again, check out their blogs if you’re a-wandering about the intraweb, and thank you to BT2!
x Blanaid
Beautiful mix of light and dark greys, and blues. My new favourite combination.
x Blanaid
Okay…so… - this is my first all set up proper-ass shoot, but thankfully Andrew Clancy, the photographer, is a bit of the pro at making the ladies feel all comfortable…aaand not allowing them to be a big chicken by not putting them on their blog. Nervous….
I bought this Lipsy jacket in BT2 on Saturday, where I was attending the Fashion Bloggers’ Brunch (more on that to follow!) so, along with some clothes from Savida (I’ll put those images up tomorrow), we toddled on down to the old dump part of the farm in Kilkenny, and took some shots.
Andrew really is fantastic, so thank you Clancers! Add him >> here << on facebook if you know someone who wants to get some shots taken in such a manner.
Outfit:
Lipsy studded jacket - €100.00 BT2 Dundrum
Lace body - Topshop
Black ribbed leggings - Savida, Dunnes Stores.
Shoes - Topshop
Belt - Vintage.
Okay…that’s it. They’re up. I’m off…
x Blanaid
Lorna from Garrenndenny Lane Interiors is one of those lovely people you happen upon, who will give you a helping hand when you most need it, even if you’re a complete stranger. AND she has a very pretty blog, online store and interior design service - so I thought that you lovely people might like to meet one another ..
Lorna is based between Carlow and Kilkenny, where she offers an interior design consultancy service and stock designer fabrics and wallpapers, including Designers Guild, Swaffer, Jab, Andrew Martin, Sanderson, GP & J Baker, Voyage, Lorient, James Brindley. Her online shop stocks fabulous little gifts and home accessories. Take a wee look-see >>here <<… Her blog is an interior design blog with a bit of farming and rural Irish life thrown in for good measure. She writes about new looks, interior design trends, things she like, and she aims to do an Interior design solution most Fridays ….
Lorna is also holding a competition on her blog and Facebook page at the moment - you could win a hamper full of really, incredibly GOOD goodies if you becomes a fan of my facebook page during the month of October - here’s the link to the facebook page >> here << and to the blog post >>here<<.
Visit Lorna and say howdy over on her blog - www.garrendennylane.ie/blog, or toddle on over to her website: www.garrendennylane.ie
x Blanaid
You could call it - ‘the place where I throw my bags of unsorted paperwork..’ or ‘the room that now acts as a wardrobe while I work on my laptop, eh..on my lap in the sitting room.’ Whichever - I think that study design works best when treated with the gravitas you think it deserves, at this stage, before you realise you may never use it…- they work particularly well when weighed down with dark parquet flooring, enhanced by industrial furniture, and topped off with ‘aren’t I so creative!’ bits of inspiring paper stuck all around the walls. Maybe if you do it like that, then it becomes an adventure in design, even if that is all that it remains.
x Blanaid
EDIT ** the wallpaper in the last image is available >>here<< **
The Sartorialist was in Dublin the week before last signing his new book. While here, he photographed three VERY different irish ladies on the street. Somoene wrote in the comments on his site, that he subconsciously captured the three Irish looks : the black haired Irish folk, descended from the Spaniards, the red heads, descended from the Normans, and the tanned blondes, descended from the Vikings. The Sartorialist, being the genius that he is, probably knew all that anyway.
Click > here < to visit the Sartorialist to see the third look.
x Blanaid
Working on a Sunday, but it’s pleasant work - working on the photos from my friend Shonagh’s wedding. Listening to ‘De La Soul’ in the background : ‘Eye Know’.
x Blanaid
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