Becky Be Brave

top - h&m

belt - christmas present (can't be bothered to take it off right now to find the brand...)

skirt - Zara (possibly the smartest thing I own)

Where did that tiger come from??? Sooo I am home at my parent's house (hence the tiger I refuse to get rid of) for a brief holiday before I head out to the United States of America! I will be travelling from Louisiana to Oregon (along the bottom and up the West Coast). All I can say is that if I take any outfit shots out there expect shorts, because it looks hot as hell.

dress - (worn underneath) Topshop

jumper - Zara

wool skirt - Zara

blue tights - (worn underneath) Tabio

socks - Gap

necklace - Anthropologie

So after a lot of time it's become apparent i don't have a lot of time for taking photos amongst the normal lengthy amounts of time i spend on tumblr and painting and working. So i've decided just to post when I can.

hat- vintage (Camden Market)

sheer shirt- Bugis Market

necklaces- my grandmother's and found in the back of my drawer

shorts- levis (vintage via Rokit)

belt- new look

socks(you can just about see the little dots on them)- Muji

loafers- office

so these were taken more or less on the day before my life more or less turned rubbish and i could still happily get along with the less than stellar British summer this year. I will spare you the details but despite currently being in Singapore I have little drive for blogging or much else to be honest. But it will come back, with time.

Time is an interesting topic considering the items i'm wearing here.I noticed a lot of girls wearing tshirts from bands like Metallica and Iron Maiden to festivals like Glastonbury. And i know these aren't the kind of girls that really listen to bands like this. Is this a trend that has passed me by? Either way it inspired me to dig out my old tour shirt from Monsters of Rock. Which i can say with pride, back when i was about 17 i thoroughly enjoyed!

I also used to own a pair of knee high doc martens back then but they are the most incredibly solid things (not to mention being a size too big) but i bought these short ones brand new back when i first moved to uni and they are FINALLY not giving me blisters. 3 years seems to be the most appropriate breaking in time for Doc Martens.

tshirt- Monsters of Rock festival 2006

short- Pull and Bear

socks- Topshop

so here's my LAME excuse for a lack of updates. So i recently moved from London back to my parents' following my graduation (!!!). After two days of packing and finally getting it all packed into my stepdad's car i got a phone call from my boyfriend. I left my camera on the lounge table. My camera is HUGE so i really am just the most forgetful person you could ever come accross. So Rob thankfully hung onto it for me and I went down to the coast to pick it up.

But before then i was given an interview for a possibly commision. My mother pointed out i own very few smart clothing (i'm a design student..everything i own is ripped, old, battered or covered in glue) and took my out to pick up some smart clothes as a graduation present. This wonderful skirt was one of those things! (excuse the blackberry pics)

silk top- from a little shop on the high street in Woburn Sands

belt- taken from a dress from Laden Showroom

skirt- Zara

boots- topshop

headscarf- vintage (Beyond Retro)

ah sorry for the lack of updates! I was hoping to have lots of warm wooly outfits from Iceland to post, we were actually told it should be between 8-10 degrees which is totally handlable. It was more like 2 degrees and i was bundled up in my coat, leggings and jeans. I have maaaybe a couple of things but otherwise since i came back i've been bumming around. However yesterday i decided to put in a little bit more effort an i plan on keeping up the momentum for as long as i can so i feel more inclined to take photos for this little blog.

jacket - forever 21

shirt - vintage aquascutum

belt - boyfriend's

shorts- vintage Levis (Rokit)

tights- johnathon aston

desert boots - amazing ebay find!

well that's it! I'm a graduating illustration student. I can't believe it's over! It's been a stressful and incredibly fullfilling three years. Here's a couple of pictures of my little display. I restocked my business cards twice so lets hope at least one of them has gone to someone who can give me a job.

we had a creative industry view and a private view for friends and family and I decided to dress up for it (as far as i tend to dress up).

dress- zara

belt- taken from a dress from the Laden Showroom

hand clip- tatty devine

suede brogues- toast

I remember talking to a few of my friends about trawling around for a decent dress and i think i pulled out a good one here. It actually has a very low back but is made of this very stiff durable material. There also aren't a lot of occasions that call for my big sparkly Tatty Devine hand clip so it's always nice to pull it out for something fun like this.

top- pomodoro (bought from the big garden centre where i used to work)

shorts- vintage levi (Rokit covent garden)

belt- new look

socks- john lewis

i think it might finally be safe to go out without tights even if the sky is a bit grey. These shorts are just what I wanted for when the weather finally got better. They're vintage altered to have turn ups. They have a large leather levi lable on the back that says "silver tab." I decided to google this, and while i'm sure they're must be a women's division what came up was a kind of jean made for men who work out alot so they have large muscular thighs and skinny waists. It works well for my hour glass figure if they are indeed those jeans! This is just a quick one as up until last monday i was crazy busy. I graduate soon an monday was my final deadline (which goes someway to explaining why i look so tired here). So now it's nearly all over. I just have to get my show pieces reprinted an resized an rescanned. Just finishing touches really. I'm sure it'll take me longer than i plan but it's nice to not be so stressed out.

from Beyond Retro

this was one of my favourite days in Lisbon. Bairro Alto is a beautiful place. Every street is a stunning mess of historical buildings all joined together and set high up on a hill. Bairro Alto i think means "higher district". Which makes sense as the trams and tram lines in these pictures are to help people actually get up to Bairro Alto. I wish we had taken one but we trekked up instead. (also i think they were kind of expensive).

straw boater- vintage (Ampthill Antiques Emporium secured with a vintage hat pin from there)

silk an lace top- ebay (i thought it was dress as it's pretty long but it turns out the model from the ebay shop was a good foot shorter than me ..i'm only 5,3)

skirt- h&m

plimsols(which need replacing after this trip)- victoria

satchel- artisian market in Chile

Unfortunately we were only in Lisbon during the week so didn't get to experience Bairro Alto at night. Apparently the tiny streets are totally overflowing with people coming from all the stunning little bars filled with Fado and other kinds of interesting music. Portugese friends have since told me they buy these amazing pink fruity alcoholic drinks when they go out in Bairro Alto that they can't get anywhere else. I don't think i need more of an excuse to go back!

headband- Angelic Pretty (magical etoile series)

cardigan-belonged to my grandmother

lace top- bought in Bugis Market (Singapore)

shorts- vintage, cut down from jeans years ago

socks- Angelic Pretty (royal poodle series)

mocassins- accessorize

This is the second of three posts from my easter away and in one of my favourite spots i've visited in a long time. These photos were taken while wandering up the hills in the beautiful historical neighbourhood of Alfama in Lisbon, Portugal. I loved Lisbon so much, I loved hearing the Fado music echoing up through the houses and all the little side streets. It's so good to visit a city that has retained so much of its architecture and feel totally immersed in its history due to it's winding streets remaining fairly quiet. This was actually the first day. We got to our friendly couchsurfer's place in our warm clothes off the night train, had a nap an then immediately put on our summer clothes to explore.

dress- earth music ecology (a japanese morigirl brand, i picked up this dress last summer in singapore from isetan, i hope to get a few more morigirl outfits together for this blog)

shoes (that i've just realised are out of shot but are red plimsols)-victoria

belt- new look

shirt- (vintage)belonged to my grandmother

shorts- pull & bear

belt- from a market in Buenos Aires, Argentina

shorts- Pull & Bear

tights- House of Holland

suede brogues- Toast

Or rather back from Spain. I got back a few days ago from my second an last trip (as far as i know) to Salamanca. We also managed to get out to some stunning spots of Galicia and Portugal an I have a few outfits from here or there to show you, so i actually have a few good things to post! I plan to post my outfits from Spain inbetween the upto date ones so hopefully there will be two posts today (to attempt to make up for how quiet it is around here!). Well these pictures were taken on my first trip back when it was chilly. We had just hired a car with three friends an drove house to one of the tiny incredibly old fashion pueblitos (little villages), they were set in the hills an truly magical. Like little deserted film sets. We went back in stayed in one of them in the end but unfortunately it rained the whole time. Rob managed to snap this one of me attempting not to crack up hence my pained expression. We were attempting to do a serious band photo as if we were a band, we failed somewhat!

felt hat- (vintage) camden market

jumper- borrowed from Rob, in turn borrowed from his brother

cardigan (worn underneath)- h&m

jeans- uniqlo

bow(silk scarf)- tie rack (present from step grandmother)

tshirt dress- h&m

boots- doc martens

Hey I got a couple of new followers, hello and thank you! Well yesterday I started my final major project for university. It's going to be a book illustratiing a little section of London known as Camden Passage. Camden Passage has absolutely nothing to do with Camden Market. Camden Passage is a little street known for its old antique stores that got popular around the 80s. Yesterday I planned to photograph all the places I want to draw so I can sort out how I will set them out in the book as well as get talking to the shopkeepers (an coerce them into letting me take their photograph.) The plan was to dress approachable an maybe throw in some vintage in case i encountered any snooty vintage clothing shop owners, (I didn't by the way!)

hat - vintage from Camden Market, which unfortunately got SOAKED in Spain. Which is where I learnt that felt hats don't ever regain their shape after getting wet..my hat will forever me lop sided now

cardigan (which is falling apart)- belonged to my grandmother, It's possible she knitted it

necklace- wild pig tusk from a market in Buenos Aires, Argentina

shirt- vintage Aquascutum from the antique emporium in Aylesbury

shorts- jeans I cut down from jeans I got in New Jersey when I was about 13

shoes- American Eagle

This is the other picture I could remember that would be good for this little blog. This day was possibly one of my first days out in Salamanca. Bob took me out to this little vantage point to see the other little grouped chunks of Salamanca. I think the old centre where we were is almost definately one of the most beautiful places i've ever been. This outfit is pretty casual an I actually ended up singing at an open mike night that night, kinda wish i'd dressed up just a little more.

dress- h&m

cardigan- h&m

necklace- part of a shed reindeer antler from etsy

belt- new look

leggings- uniqlo (once again wooow i did not know i wore these so often)