Hello again! & Giveaway results and another giveaway!

Well folk, I'm back! Unfortunately, you won't be able to congratulate me on finishing my exams just yet, because due to me being sick, I wasn't able to do a couple of them. Which I am more than a little annoyed about - I was planning on having a carefree sewing-and-blogging-filled month! And now I have to wait 2 whole weeks until I can do them. Still, I don't have to study anymore (I have done far too much of that lately), so I am back, and you can expect to see some more posts here again! First things first - here's an outfit post with a pretty floral skirt I made: I was trying to make my skirt look all cool and swooshy in these photos. I think I kind of failed. I posted the best attempts though, haha. Wearing: Blouse - Wholesaledress Skirt - I made it! Belt - Vintage Bag - c/o Wholesaledress Hat - c/o Wholesaledress Tights - c/o Oasap Shoes - Dr Martens And of course! The winner of the OASAP giveaway.... Miss "Naama A", I really hope you enjoy your gift voucher and pastel slip! I will be in contact with you very shortly. If you were disappointed about not winning the giveaway... OASAP is running yet another giveaway! All you need is an account to enter! Enter here. What's been happening guys? Can't wait to catch up with you all! And if you've sent me an email in the last week or so... I'm really sorry if I haven't replied. I'm going to get on top of all that today! xx Annika

Bye bye for a little while...

Hey guys! Just letting you know that this will be my last post for the next 2 weeks, as I have my end-of-semester exams coming up and figured it might be nice not to fail Uni :) So if you turn up here looking for some new posts, that's where I am! I haven't abandoned you guys! If you see me around here, please tell me to go away and study. I'm sure I'll be busting to share heaps of procrastination-creations with you all by the end of this two weeks! I will still be responding to emails, if you want to get in contact with me (annikavictoria@gmail.com) And don't forget to enter my giveaway that ends on the 21st. See you guys in 2 weeks!  And thanks again for being completely awesome. I'll leave you with a photo of what I did to my hair last night (if you follow my Pinterest, you would have seen that I was having serious hair envy, and I had a couple of tubs of blue and lilac hair dye lying around so this was inevitably going to happen...) (There's a bit of nude back for you there, leaving my blog on a totally scandalous note!) Bye bye for now! xxx Annika

Autumn Leaves and Creepers

I took these photos way back when it was still autumn, but realised I had never posted them! So, it is "autumn" themed, but really, that doesn't make sense at all because it's not autumn anywhere in the world. Ah well. These leafy tights from Wholesale-dress and awesome comfy (and warm!) sweater from OASAP are helping me to slowly accept the COLLLLD! Also, I'm still refusing to wear pants, even as the temperature drops. The way to avoid pants all winter will be to wear skirts and multiple tights, and shorts and tights when the weather is really cold. I've managed to grow out of all my high waisted shorts from last winter (yay for putting on 10kgs in 3 months!...) so I got some new ones from Wholesale-dress, and am really pleased with them; they fit much better than my now too-small version of these same shorts (in dark blue) from wholesale-dress that I wore all last year. Wearing: Sweater - c/o OASAP Shorts - c/o Wholesale-dress Hat - c/o Wholesale-dress Bag - c/o Wholesale-dress Tights - c/o Wholesale-dress Shoes - c/o OASAP (Ok, yes, I'm wearing all freebies from sponsors. Hey, I'm poor at the moment and this is my only source of new clothes, don't judge me!) Hope you're all having a lovely sunny autumny (or winter! or summer! or heck, spring, why not?) day, wherever you are! Oh and before I go, I just created a facebook page for the Pineneedle Collective! Go ahead and like it (if you like me :D) https://www.facebook.com/PineneedleCollective xxx Annika

Take you to the candy shop, I'll let you wear some colour-block

Colour-blocking sweetness! This backpack from Asos and skirt from Sugarlips Apparel just happen to go together ridiculously well. May I direct your good selves to this song by the Baseballs (much better than the 50 Cent original, they (amazingly) make the song so sweet). This is the song that I had stuck in my head whilst taking these photos, and hence the title. Wearing: Blouse - Vintage Bowtie - DIY Skirt - c/o Sugarlips Apparel Cardigan - Sydney Markets (pop-up shop) Backpack - Asos Belt - Vintage Shoes - Asos Hat - c/o Wholesaledress Much love! xxx Annika

Oh hey there, cute socks!

Aren't these just the best socks?? I am so in love. Sheer at the top, with cute little bows. The lovely Shop with Romi sent them to me and I'm sure I'll be styling them again and again, especially with anything navy! So, I tried to match my feet to my entire outfit. Navy contrasting with red/brown and light brown. My feet are like a mini version of the theme of my outfit... haha. I'm so cool. Wearing: Vest - Vintage Socks - c/o Shop with Romi Skirt - Wholesale Bag - Vintage Shoes - Vintage Hat - Wholesale xxx Annika

Handmade Blouse - More Photos, Styled Differently

Here's some more photos of my handmade blouse, styled a bit differently with high waisted black shorts and a ribbon bow attached to the blouse. I didn't talk much about making the blouse in my last post, and heaps of you asked how I made it, so I will real briefly now. I used a really simple pattern, and hence the blouse is quite an "oversized" style (ie I couldn't be bothered to add any buttons, zippers etc and I actually wanted to have to ability to get it on and off without dislocating my shoulders). This is the basic pattern I used (cut this shape out of fabric twice, sew it together right sides facing each other - except for the arm and neck holes of course - and then add interfacing on the neck, hem the arm holes and add a collar), and when I have more time (my Uni holidays will be coming up in about 3 weeks!) I will endeavour to do a full DIY on it for you all. The collar bit looks really dodgy in the above photo, I just needed to fix it by ironing it properly though. Wearing: Blouse - DIY Ribbon - DIY Shorts - ??? (Cotton On?) Tights - Forever 21 Shoes - Rubi Shoes Hat - c/o Wholesaledress Bag - c/o Wholesaledress Much love, all! xxx Annika