Just some more moodboard images…Collating plenty at the moment as changes are afoot in the studio. However, as much as I’d love a wigwam, that one won’t make the cut. Next time, wigwam, next time!

xBlanaid

Images via pinterest.

It seems to me that the lessons in my life are :

If you know it’s wrong even though it can feel right, it’s wrong.

If you know it’s wrong and it feels wrong, but you really want it to feel right, it’s still wrong.

If you know it’s right but sometimes it feels wrong, it’s still right.

I really must try and act accordingly.

xBlanaid

images via Pinterest

I bought these vintage Levis  in my own shop for €30 and then ripped them apart and cut them up shorter.  I want to rip these up more around the pockets though - but I fear if I rip them anymore they’ll end up as a pile of white string hanging from a waistband.

The shoes are from Topshop, I love them but they are just a little lethal - which, coming from someone who lives in mahoosive shoes, is saying something. My conclusion is thus : these shoes are for looking at and sitting around in - they are not for walking to the post office or Dunnes in…henceforth and heretofore completely impractical but SO dementedly lovely.

My hair is unusually brushed looking, and it is - though I paid someone to do it, so probably doesn’t count as actual personal grooming. Also, I actually paid them to do it the day before this shoot for a wedding, so even more minus-grooming points. I like to get at LEAST three days out of wedding hair - by then it has resorted to it’s usual knot-filled, batiste-laden self.

xBlanaid

Jacket : €9.00 Penneys

Silver sequin top : €19.99 Shutterbug

Vintage Levis : €30.00 Shutterbug

Shoes : £50.00 Topshop.com

Cuff : H&M

Photograph by the lovely Ciúin Tracey.

If the people around you don’t really want to like the you when you’re the oddest way of being yourself, don’t change anything except the people around you.

Just head on out there in that non-boring, non-safe mad, mad, mad world - you’ll find other odd people who like you all the ways you are…

That’s when the real fun starts.

xBlanaid

Just a quick outfit post - if I think about them too much I won’t do them, and I would like to to them…Mainly because I, on occassion, go through my archives to remember what I wore with what when faced with a wardrobe of random things and no time to think.  Sad but true.

Another sad but truism. Sad as in silly. I wore this jumper last night while cooking dinner and I now unfortunately smell like Shepherd’s Pie. Fingers crossed this painted H&M masterpiece washes well, as I kind of love it.

xBlanaid

Jumper : €12.95 H&M

Black maxi shirt : €9.00 Oxfam

Gold belt : Zara

Shorts : Penneys mens jeans cut up

Ring and clip on earrings : Shutterbug

Some random images filling up my inspiration folder at the moment.

I was talking to Ciúin about the kind of girl who shops in Shutterbug, the girl we buy for….We rambled and thought about her - so here it is -  she is just the kind of girl we’d want to be friends with, go for drinks and chats with - the type of person who isn’t defined by any one style, who looks for inspiration in the unlikeliest of places - from the still sea to the stars, from the desert to the archetrave of the door of a building that is passed by hundreds of people and rarely noticed. Always scouting and never afraid to feel something about everything.

Lots of changes afoot for our little store Shutterbug… a name change, new branding and packaging, an online store, a fantastic new shoe supplier, our own designs, new shoots - just so much going on. All inspired by the girl above, so if that is you, well - thank you.

xBlanaid

1. Lovecat magazine. 2. Oracle Fox 3& 4. Wildfox tumblr. 5. Spanish Moss.

It has been so long, I have been so neglectful! Work has been crazy so blogging took a bit of a back seat, but I will make more of an effort. Otherwise in a few years I’ll regret the gaps in my online journal : )

I thought I’d start back with an outfit post. It has been a while and I’ve started to take more of an interest again in what I’m throwing at myself , following a few months there in the fashion wilderness.

Photographer Ciúin Tracey and I were working on a shoot in Shutterbug when she snapped my outfit for me. She’s a doll so she is…

Anyway, I had juuuust secured this hot pink gradient vintage Levi shorts from the Silver Factory the day before and was aiming for the 3-day-in-a-row-wearing-of-new-lovely-things situation.  Love them - though they are quite a bit short so the cardi stays in the picture.

xBlanaid

Shorts : The Silver Factory

Black top : €16.99 Zara

Black shawl cardigan : €86.00 American Apparel

Tights : 40 denier, Boots

Wedges : €99.00 River Island

Belt  : €19.99  Shutterbug (my shop in Kilkenny)

Rings €7.99 Shutterbug

Cuff : €7.99 H&M

The finished poster for this Easter’s Style at Set weekend, designed by Conor Langton! Really looking forward to it all now -stockpiling all the clothes and getting everything sorted…exciting and nerve-wracking all at the same time!

We’re currently running a competition to win €100.00 to spend at the kilo sale >here<

Hope to see you there if you can make it!

xBlanaid

It is a difficult lesson to learn, but recent circumstances have led me to finally hear the words so often said and thought - be kinder to people. Who knows who is walking in a cloud of grief, weighed down by a recent devastation. Who knows if someone has nothing concrete to blame, but they are just inexplicably sad.

For those who have benefited from it at a time of great need, or if it simply helped change your mood for the day, you know that kindness is such a powerful thing. A life habit. A choice. It’s being the best you for the sake of others. It can be difficult too, of course. I’m not perfect. I’m just going to try harder now.

xBlanaid

Taylor Tomasi Hill’s outfit is perfection.

xBlanaid