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
A giddy/sad Fancy Friday - giddy..sad…giddy…sad…black or white…sometimes the extremes can be overwhelming, but mostly, I’m glad there’s no grey in my life, except on my walls.
Have a wonderful weekend, enjoy the ups and downs.
x Blanaid
I’ll be needing that entire outfit and hairstyle please, just send it to me in the post or whatever.
Thanks!
x Blanaid
My very first interiors feature for the Irish Independent is out today - it’s a re-style of a home for sale, featuring lots of affordable products from around Ireland and the interweb, paint colours, couch options, accessories etc. Take a look at it if it takes your fancy!
I’ll be featuring all the stuff on the blog here next week, including a piece on the very cool Irish photographer, Moselle Foley, and some lovely stores around Ireland.
Hope you like it, I’m pretty thrilled to be in it…I’m most definitely very lucky, and I’m working on the second one as I type. Well, once I get off this blog, that is.
x Blanaid…(Fancy Friday on the way!)
Image above : Photograph by Andrew Clancy. Room styled by me, in the beautiful ‘Brambles’ store in Abbeyleix, Co. Laois.
I love this. At first I had a ‘hmmmmm…’ about the jeans, but she just played it so perfectly with the t-shirt colour. The jacket, I kind of won’t rest ’til I have it.
x Blanaid
Via Facehunter
I’m very excited about the Vintage Fair that’s on in Dublin this weekend, and I have a feeeeling that some of you out there might just about love and adore this kind of thing..!
It takes place in the Ballsbridge Inn (it used to be the Jury’s Hotel there..) this Saturday and Sunday. At the fair, expect to see:
Mid-century decor and furnishings.
A full-on line-up of fashion, decor and retro inspired events.
50 stands of vintage fashion, furniture, decor and memorabilia.
Vintage fashion show.
Retro dance lessons.
A live swing band, Midnight Swing to entertain you.
A seamstress on the spot to alter that gorgeous vintage find.
A photographer who will take your photo as a memento of the weekend (charge for prints will apply)
Classic cars from the 60’s and 70’s and on Sunday two gorgeous vintage cars including a Bonny & Clyde Model A Ford.
Seriously, it’s not even a question. I’m there! Admission is €6.00 for one day, or €10.oo for the two days. Students are €4/€6.00. Fantastic pricing and congratulations to the organisers.
x Blanaid
Click the ‘read more’ button for a FULL schedule of events for the weekend !
I find that coffee tables are ridiculously over-priced and underwhelming to buy off the shelf, so why not get some handy soul to put one together for you using reclaimed wood and industrial castors? You can get huge castors from ebay or Ikea, and a handy soul from your nearest ‘handy soul’ shop…
x Blanaid
P.S I’ll be absent today as I’m off gallivanting about a charity shop for the next episode of ‘All of This’ with Style Nation, but when I get back, I have a few posts in the works - on a Vintage Fashion Fair this weekend, a Virtual Cinema Scheme and Garrendenny Lane Interiors…! x
If you ever had any fears about the all white look - then let photographer Mari Eriksson ease your mind with these amazing images from her website.
Take a moment.
Feeling relaxed? Now head on over to her website for more… >>MariFoto<<
x Blanaid
I have no intention of getting married, but if I ever do, I think I’d have to wear this. I do realise this Fendi S/S ‘10 look does not contain a whole lot of fabric.. but I’ll add a full skirt part for the church. Honest!
x Blanaid
I hope, reading this, that you’re in love at the moment. Or that you’re open to it. Or that you’ve spent some time with someone who loved you just the way you are, even if it didn’t work, you know it’s possible. That’s the only answer to the ‘love is…?’question in my mind - just that it’s possible, that you can stay hopeful, and that’s good enough for me.
Have a lovely weekend,
x Blanaid
Images from ffffound, dropular, justbears, le-love image, deviant art and the ‘you are my sunshine’ print, which I have, is from etsy.
I don’t usually post five photos of myself, but these just looked creepy all in a row. Everyone needs a creepy post on their blog. Allegedly.
My hair also changes, as I took the first before I headed over to Anton in the Hair Court in Kilkenny. He was doing a training session and needed someone who’s hair was ‘easy to work with..’ For this read ‘incredibly dry and easily backcombed’..i like what he did - very simple and elegant. All done in about 15 minutes, with hardly any pins. It’s some new way of doing it. My scalp thanks him for it.
Outfit:
Cape - Les Petites
Black tshirt - H&M
Tie Dyed leggings - Penneys
Patent boots - River Island
Fake fur - Vintage
x Blanaid
P.S this post is based on this video. I know. I need to get off the internet.
* EDIT * : See the back of the hair after the jump…!
I have a theory that bedrooms can be either the safest or loneliest places in the house. They’re either welcoming you in with the promise of good sleeps, fun times or a little safe seclusion from the madness that bustles on angrily elsewhere, or they can look incredibly empty, final and an inevitable, unwanted break from the excitement. That’s my theory anyway - bedrooms : they’re all or nothing.
When designing a bedroom, I apply the same theory : all, or nothing. If it’s a studio space, then you’re forgiven for the all, if it’s a separate bedroom, then I prefer nothing. No TV’s, no desks, no computers, no unnecessary furniture, clutter, randomness or junk. I like to keep it simple, and incredibly comfortable.
However, there has to be something that pleases the eye in this empty space. I am slowly moving away from all things normal when it comes to the bed itself- I quite like buying cheap divan bases and covering the base in a cool fabric from Ikea, and using a well varnished print on canvas as a headboard. The wooden feature wall (second photo above) also pleases me, it’s definitely something I’m going to use in one of the client’s homes I’m currently working on (I sound fancy when I type that don’t I… That’s why I typed it. I’m dead fancy, me…), combined with deep olive and grey hues on the walls to make it less ‘WOOD!’ all in your face.
Anyway enough of my ramblings. Hope you like the photos, some have appeared on the site before, but they illustrate the rambling point!
x Blanaid
Images found across the intraweb aaages ago, full credit will be given, let me know if you know to whom!
P.S The blue chair in the third photo is available here > Vitra <
I found this book via the incredibly beautiful blog >>Black Eiffel<< …This book was created from the hugely successful blog >>I Am Neurotic<< where people post their random neurotic behaviours.
I have loads of little things that are a bit bizarre. Such as bananas- I’ll eat them in a sandwich but you couldn’t make me eat one on it’s own…or when I see car regisration plates I sometimes have to add them all up ’til they make a number that’s on the plate. There are about 480 more but I won’t go on…
Have you got any random habits/food stuff/ocd type things you have to do?
xBlanaid
A flippant Fancy Friday, featuring images from ffffound, apartment therapy, and etc.com.
Most of the images are what I wish I was doing - going out dancing, having a bit of a mess, being a bit of a mess, but a full few weeks of mad, mad work renders me useless and lazy, out in my parent’s house. ..Taking over the couch, watching their telly, eating their food, and toasting myself in front of their aga. This is a good hotel! I think I’ll stay one more night.
Have a lovely weekend, wherever you are, whoever you’re doing.
x Blanaid
Seriously, I think I had a moment looking at the Balmain Spring 2010 collection.
Images via Studded Hearts, check out the rest of the collection on >>Style.com<<, feel free to pick your favourite Balmain looks and post the links in the comments! (If you want, no pressure or anything! )
Fancy Friday is on the way!
x Blanaid
I’m still working on the images from my best friend Shonagh’s wedding, but I also had my first cousin Daniel’s wedding that weekend, so here’s the outfit post from that!
I have about two ridiculously expensive things in my wardrobe, and this gold coat is one of them. Hand painted and bejoodled, I adore it, as did my overdraft.
The skirt is also by the same designer, a net skirt with underskirt of handpainted silk.
The gold top is from a second hand shop and cost about €2.50…
The incredibly high shoes are from the Gil Carvelho range for Faith from a couple of years back, I bought mine on ebay for around €50.00.
The fur collar is vintage and cost about €5.00.
A fantastic day, night and early morning was had by all at the wedding, truly great craic. A huge congratulations to Daniel and Marianna Hennessy!
x Blanaid
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