Showing posts with label jewellery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jewellery. Show all posts

Sunday, 29 December 2013

So lately....

I have....

Glitterized my new shoes


The shoes are Nude shoes - style name is Mercury



The heel detail on these shoes was gold (yuk) before I took to them...

...with my new favourite nail polish...


...which I am using on everything I can find lately...


Woken up with an awesome instant mullet this morning


 

Scored some beautiful Christmas baubles from Jay





And swanned around in my new Christmas dress on Christmas day















Dress - Hell Bunny from Mod Cloth. Arrived with one waist tie 6 inches shorter than the other and one of the buttons at the back (the straps are adjustable) popped off the first time I wore it.  
Very annoying.

Now I am on holidays and for once I am not sick, do not have to move house - I have no cares. I hope everyone has had a relaxing and happy holidays.

x

Sunday, 15 September 2013

A day with Miss Fisher's 1920's costumes

Yesterday, along with Jay and Mumsie, I visited the Rippon Lea estate to see the Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries Costume Exhibition.


The exhibition features many of the beautiful and glorious costumes from the television series based on the books by Kerry Greenwood. I love, love, love the books and the series is, well, good enough I suppose! I'm the sort of person who likes books to be adapted into series and films with nothing altered. The series is light and silly and it's fun to see the characters come to life.

 First stop, tea and scones. And some photos, of course.
 



Dress - ASOS
Boots & tights - old
Cameo necklace - gift from Jay
Cameo ring - (old) Samantha Wills


Upon entering the mansion (a situation in which I find myself every day, darling) we were delighted to discover a rack of coats, capes and feather boas, accompanied by a bowlful of fascinators and headbands, available purely for the purpose of dressing up and getting into the swing of things.

 

 

How could we resist?

 
One of the actual costumes is shown behind us here.




As you can see, I was not enjoying myself at all. And is that an admirer in the background? 
One of my usuals, no doubt.




Time to get down to business and see the exhibition. Sadly, no other photography was permitted, so here are some of the costumes we saw, as shown in the souvenir booklet.
 


 

 

 

 

 

 If you are not able to visit the exhibit I can only highly recommend watching the series to see more of the costumes, as they are quite exquisite. 

The exhibition was spread out through several rooms, with headless bodies and large (fake) knives lying around in abundance. I'd never been to Rippon Lea before, and seeing the house was as much of a treat as seeing the costumes.

 After the exhibit we took a stroll around the gardens. We couldn't have picked a better day for it.



















I was very excited by everything we saw. 

"A bridge! Someone take my photo with this bridge!"

"A tree! Someone take my photo with this tree! It's huge!"

"OMG! A seat! Wait! Wait! I need a photo with this seat!"


I ended up with almost 200 photos. I was a happy little black duck.