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Just what I wore to Uni the other day. Also, I did that to my hair. I need some new shoes. Would anyone like to send me a new pair of shoes? Particularly oxfords or black heels? I pretty much only own 3 pairs of shoes, and these ones here are getting pretty battered. Send me shoes and I'll wear them in every blog post ;) (out of necessity. As I said, I've got about 3 pairs so they'd be on high rotation). Haha anyway enough of this awkward begging for clothes thing, I promise not to do it again (maybe). How are you all doing? Did anything exciting or unusual happen to you this week? Let me know! OH! And of course, what I'm wearing: Shirt - Vintage (and fixed up) Skirt - I made it Socks - Vintage Shoes - Yesstyle Hat - Wholesale-dress Annika xxx

Vintage Dress Remix with Polly Bland!

Hello lovelies! Today I bring you a collaboration between myself and the incredible Polly Bland from The Littlest Polly! We're both going to be mixing up a vintage dress for you (and having a whole lot of fun with layering, collars and bright colours) with the aim of providing inspiration and such for your own wardrobes! It's been lovely meeting fellow blogger Polly, she is super friendly plus I love her vintage flair and how unique, fun and colourful her outfits are! She stated in her version of this collaborative post that this remix arose a result of her creeping on my style - little does she know that I'd been creeping on her blog for quite a while before she asked me to do this remix. So... I guess we're both creeps. Still, you can imagine how excited I was when she asked me to do this remix with her! Anyway, without furthur ado, I introduce to you the beautiful Polly and her gorgeous vintage dress remixed x4! (full-size these photos if you can, because they're really nice) I'm in love with how colourful this outfit is! Polly says of this outfit: "I paired it with my mom's vintage hunter green knee socks and chevron wedges and a red hat. A bow tie to top it off." "I paired the vintage dress with oxfords found at Goodwill, my Great Grandmother's fur collar with a vintage pin on it from my mother, and orange gloves from Dandelion Vintage." Just in case you missed that, that's her Great Grandmother's fur collar. Pretty sure that's the best thing ever. "I wanted a bolder pop of color for this look so I added vintage blue bow heels from Salvation Army and a electric blue blazer. Green vintage pearls from my mother and my Great Grandmother's white mesh metal purse from the 1950's/1960's." "I paired the vintage dress with taupe and white flats found at Salvation Army, a lace crop top from forever 21, a green thrifted belt, and an antique sleeping cap from 1905." From 1905, in case you missed that again! It's a real life antique! And it looks stunning. Now this one you've already seen before. This is the dress I shall be remixing. To mix it up a little, wear your dress as a blouse, under a high-waisted skirt or a pinafore. Or you can layer a cropped sweater over the top of your dress, and flip the collar out on top so the sweater looks like it has a collar, and your dress turns into your skirt! This is the very sneaky Stolen Collar trick. Layer your collared dress under a simpler dress and BAM you have a new dress and you can feel real proud of yourself! We hope you liked our remixes, and that you're feeling inspired to mix things up a little in your own wardrobes! Polly's remix sure has inspired me, in particular to start accessorising my own dresses with vintage gloves, pins and fur collars. And to start wearing things that are older than 100 years, because that is just too damn cool! Much love! Annika and Polly xxx

Cotton Candy & A Little DIY Inspiration Part #2

Another ridiculously good score from my favourite secret thrift store - this candy coloured stripy dress! Although it didn't come looking this good, which is where the "DIY inspiration" part of this post title now has relevance -  it was long and boxy and unflattering, so I shortened it, brought it in, and added the little bowtie collar using the fabric I snipped off from the bottom! Wearing: Dress - Vintage & DIY Belt - Vintage Bag - Vintage Shoes - Wholesale Socks - Tutuanna & DIY Cameo Brooch - Ebay Ring - From Japan Elk Necklace - stolen off boyfriend You should also totally vote for this look on chictopia, because I've entered it in a competition! Thank you lovelies! Are you all having a nice weekend? I sure have been, as I went to see my favouritest band in the world, Ball Park Music, last night! You must go and listen!!!! I challenge anyone to find a happier, more upbeat, sweeter band then them! And if you have the time, have a look at a collaborative/guest post I was part of today in this fantastic blog! Much love! Annika xxx

The winner is...

Congratulations to Katie Lee, the winner of my Mochi Beaucoup Giveaway competition! She will be finding these two gifts from Mochi Beaucoup in her letterbox real soon: Thank you so much Mochi Beaucoup for providing these sweet gifts for my blog readers! Seriously check them out if you've got a moment, because they sell the cutest bags and accessories! And just to tempt you further... you can get yourself 20% off your whole order just for reading my blog! Just enter the code AVPNMB20 at the checkout! (Click the link below!) Apologies for the lack of posts in the last week, University has been keeping me super busy! However, I will endeavour to post something nice by the end of the day. I hope you're all enjoying the start of your weekend! Annika xxx

Spot On!

I’m so great with the puns. What a hilarious title I chose for this outfit – Spot On – get it? Because my top has spots? HAHA. SO FUNNY. Alright, I'll just let you all recover from your uncontrollable laughter for a minute... anyhoo…   So this sweet clothing company from LA called Sugarlips Apparel were lovely enough to send me this amazing cut out back polka dot top, and I love it so! It goes amazingly with high-waisted skirts with a bit of “poof”, like the circle skirt I’m wearing in these photos. Because its so brightly coloured (& golly do I love bright things!), I toned it down a bit by pairing it with all black things, because I think I would have looked too insanely colourful otherwise. Wearing Top - c/o Sugarlips Apparel Bag - c/o Oasap Skirt - Wholesale-dress Hat - Wholesale-dress Necklace - Stolen from boyfriend Tights - Forever 21 Shoes - Rubi Shoes Did you forget to enter the Mochi Beacoup giveaway? Would you like to??? There's only 3 days left! So hurry hurry hurry hurry hurry!!!!!! And thank you all so much for your feedback on my handmade/handpainted dress! I have taken into account all your wonderful ideas and am in the process of updating the dress... but that is another post for another day! I love you guys!! xxx Annika

Hand made painted dress

Okay, fellow bloggers and dear readers, I need your help. I made this navy peter-pan collar dress from this awesome vintage pattern I picked up while thrifting the other day (which only cost me 20c may I add!), and used $2 vintage fabric from the same store, and then hand painted it with little white birds. It turned out a little something like this: (The pattern I made it from, so 70s, oh yeah! I chopped the sleeves part out though.) SO that's all very well and good, but here's the problem I'm having, dear readers. It feels unfinished. And I can't figure out what to do with it so I feel like it's "finished". I would love your feedback on this - do you think it needs more birds on the front bodice? Do you think I should paint birds on the back bodice, or leave it as it is? What about a white trim around the peter pan collar? Or should I add pockets? Or buttons? What I'd also like to know is how you would style this dress! I really value your opinions and would love to know what you guys think! Super thanks! Love, Annika xxx