La Fantasia

Missoni for Target skirt.  Old Navy shirt. Havianas. Fossil Watch.  Charlotte Russe bracelet.  Topshop earrings. Betsey Johnson sunglasses.

I don't know if you can see it as well as I wish you could, but the reason I'm smiling so big in the first picture is because the man on the tractor behind me is posing for the camera too.  We literally waited to take the picture until he was behind me, but Erin snapped perhaps a bit too soon.  Still a fantastic moment!

I imagined myself as sexy and gorgeous as Margherita Missoni today when i flounced about in this skirt. It's super comfy and obviously fabulous.  Erin is going to go check out what Hanover has today since I gushed about the pieces I bought yesterday, and I told her that she must text me about her finds!  Never have I been so smitten with a target collection.  I finally got online today, now that the website crash is fixed, and I seriously considered ordering a pair of the knit shorts of one of the chemises before I reminded myself that I still need money for clothes and books and alcohol (21st birthday on Saturday, huzzah!).  

Thankfully, after a week of endless rain, it's pretty here in the burg again, and I do not feel perpetually depressed.  That is, not over the weather anyway, just from mounds of thesis reading.  Which I need to go return to, so happy Wednesday loves!

Look, I wouldn't know from jolly.

Thrifted Zara blazer.  BDG jeggings (UO). New look wedges.  BCBG top.  Topshop earrings.

My flat mates and I went out for our own personal Christmas dinner last night, at an Italian restaurant in town, and it was really lovely.  Hollie and I shared a bottle of Spanish red wine that the waitress recommended that was really good, I enjoyed my canneloni, and to top it off with chocolate cake and ice cream was just perfect.  Not to mention there was a magician coming around to the tables who amused us to no end, since we all apparently turn into children when shown magic tricks.  We ended the night with a cocktail at a bar just a few doors down, and all was merry.  

I was really excited to have a reason to worry about what I was wearing, though in retrospect I should've asked Hannah to take a close up of my earrings.  Oh well.  Totally obsessed with these wedges, I wear them every chance I get. 

Can't stay and chat, I still have one more 2500 word essay to bang out before I can truly relax.  Luck to the rest of you suffering through finals week!

Witty title...I got nothing.

H&M skirt.  Top and nude tank found at TK Maxx.  Tights bought in london.  New Look wedges.  Topshop earrings.  Forever 21 and vintage rings.


Last night I went to a Christmas meal at the Dalton Rooms with the Writer's Society, the only society I seem to have been able to be loyal to while here in England.  This is kind of funny, because I joined it so I would force myself to read my work out to people and accept their criticism, two things I hate to do, so you'd expect me to hate everyone just because of my bad attitude.  However, I don't mind reading aloud so much anymore, and have nothing but respect for the help I've received (particularly on the misleadingly titled "Zombie Story" that I've been working on).  I also happen to enjoy everyone's company, what fun!

So, the Dalton Rooms is a classy looking place, and I assumed Christmas meal meant you did some sort of dressing up.  I wracked my brain all day for an outfit, and this was the result, after going into town and trying on loads of clothes because I just didn't know if what I had back in my room would work!  I had to get something from Topshop before I left the country, but I've yet to find a piece of clothing that I totally adore that isn't well out of my price range, so I picked up these lovely earrings.  According to the Who What Wear emails I get (do they annoy anyone else?  and is anyone else somehow unaware of how they were coerced into receiving said emails, but too lazy to stop them?) long, shoulder grazing earrings have returned to the forefront.  I went through a stage of huge earrings pretty much all through high school, and a hoop stage about two summers ago, but I think I dig this, as long as I keep the design pretty minimal.

Tried some fun makeup as you can see in the last picture as well, but I can't take credit for the idea, saw it in Cosmo of all magazines.  I liked it though.

All in all, successful night.  Good food, good company, good drinks (I had this amazing champagne cocktail called a "Gold Digger"), and it tuckered me out enough that I actually fell asleep before 1am.  Magic. 

And all the Boards did sink.

I adore the hot weather, and I adore the beach.  Yesterday was rather deliciously hot and sticky, and boyfriend and I headed over to Waywayanda State Park for our first beach outing of the season.  I don't know if it's really a legitimate beach, since we're talking about a lake, but most of the neighborhoods here in our town are lake communities and everyone calls the lake "the beach."  So whatever.

I wore my amazing-bought-for-less-than-ten-dollars Victoria's Secret bikini and a sassy zebra print romper as a cover up, along with my trusty Havianas.  Searching for a beach cover up has never been something I spend a lot of time on, I mean, they just come off right away anyway!  But that doesn't mean I haven't envisioned the ideal one once or ten times. 

My ideal cover up is a tunic, low cut, filmy, maybe a little sparkly.  It's a cover up by name, but really, you're not really covering up too much since you can see your bikini right through it.  I think I got this idea in my head after seeing Blake Lively in a gold one on some episode of Gossip Girl that I watched once, which must've been a million years ago, since I never watch Gossip Girl.  ANYWAY.

This Badgley Mischka version found on Bluefly is the ideal.  Perfect deep V, perfect color, perfectly see-through.  And ridiculously expensive.  

  

This Topshop version is strikingly similar, and half the price, but I'm not really digging this seaweed green color, which is the only color it comes in, apparently.

This Billabong version is cute and it has something the other two don't have: sequins!  Still, I wish the sleeves were flowy-er and the neckline deeper. 

Thus far, this is all my search has rendered, and none look like I'll be snapping them up anytime soon.  Does anyone know where I can find my perfect cover up?