Green Elephants and Passion For Fashion LINK UP

I have had my eye on this cute green smock dress with little elephants on for weeks and weeks, i cyber stalked it online hopping it would go in to the sales, i nearly bit the bullet and paid full price for it as i wanted it that much, but being stingy means sometimes having to be patient. Then last week in my saved items there it was reduced by £12! i did a little woop woop to my laptop and popped in the old payment details, and the little elephant dress was mine! 

 I apologise now for the slight blur to these photos, being impatient i wanted to photograph my new pretty dress now, now, now but it was absolutely horrendous weather. So i convinced hubby to come to this underground passage to take photos, only problem was the lighting was so so dim that the shutter speed was the slowest it could be and i had to stand as still as a statue (which i find really hard!)! So there's a slight fuzzy feeling im afraid, but needs must, this torrential rain isnt giving us much of a let up at the moment. I hear there are lots of parts of the world having heavy rain right now, how is it in your neck of the woods?

 Dress: Asos

Boots, bag, necklace &hat: New Look

So its friday so its Passion For Fashion link up time!!

 Fashion is for everyone. 

Whether you're single in the city or a stay at home mum from the country...
we all have a passion for fashion!

Every Friday Lena & I will be co-hosting a fashion free-for-all linkup!

Anything fashion goes!

Link up your outfit posts, a fashion recap, a fashion wishlist, get your kids or hubby in on the fun... if you've got a passion for fashion, this is the place to be!

Celebrate your style with us every Friday!

We'll be pinning our favourite looks to our Passion for Fashion boards on Pinterest!
You can find the board HERE 

Follow both hosts Lena and  Me so we can come visit you!
If you could link back to us via text link or button and help spread the 
Passion For Fashion word. 
The more ladies the merrier!

Then go visit, blog hop, follow and comment on all the fabulous ladies you are meeting!

{this linkup is very NEW we would love for you to help us spread the word! }

 Tweet us / instagram us with the hashtag #PassionForFashion

 with your outfits, 

Lets spread the Passion For Fashion word, the more the merrier!

get everyone involved!!

Happy Yellow Rain Coat

 I have had a huge crush on Cornish company Seasalt for a few years. Each year i treat myself to one of their lovely cosy, comfy tunics and gaze dreamily at their wonderful raincoats and jackets.  Everytime a Seasalt email pops up in my inbox i always click through and fill my virtual cart with wonderful practical yet funky clothing.
Being British, we get a heck of a lot of rain  (all year round really) so to have the pleasure of wearing one of their wonderful Seafolly Rain Jackets really puts a happy spin on rainy days.

 This bright yellow rain coat is absolutely wonderfully made. It is part of the Seasalt Rain Collection, being made of a special tin cloth making it breathable , comfortable and importantly, 100% rain proof, which for a wet weather dweller like me, is perfection in a coat!! I absolutely can not wait to wear this through winter with jeans and wellie boots and over my dresses. And, through the grey gloomy months this bright cheery coat will certainly put a smile on my face.

 Do you have a great rain coat? 

 Seafolly Jacket: c/o Seasalt

Dress: F&F

Boots: Next

Hat: Matalan

Ps first slouchy hat of the winter, woopp woop! haha!;)

October Sponsor Call

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Well its already October the 1st!! Can you believe it? No, me neither. But here it is, so lets grab October by the you know whats and have a great one shall we? 
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Over here we have a great month coming up working with Lotus shoes and Seasalt, some beauty posts, the Passion For Fashion Friday Link up and the obvious outfit posts!:-)

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Highlights of Gold

 Sometimes all my brain can compute is a a simple dress.  Life lately is so busy i barely feel one day roll in to the next, it all kind of blurs in to one and i could not even tell you which day of the week i am on. I have just picked up an extra day in my work, which is good for many reasons, but it means another day in uniform and not getting to wear my own clothes and dream up outfits. But , such is life sometimes. Plus it should mean i won't need to shop, like, at all (ha.. i can but try right?!).

I've had this dress for a couple of months, i think i bought it in hope of reaching my target weight and feeling good enough to wear it. The target weight rolled round, but i still lacked the confidence to wear it. I don't do clingy very often at all, but i really wanted to push myself to try a style i wouldn't normally have gone for.  So one day last week, i was going for a coffee with hubs and i decided to push myself to wear this tight number. I love tan/creamy colours and black together, they seem to make a great combo. I just went really simple with the gold highlights in the bag, necklace and boots an i was good to go.

 It did feel strange wearing something so, um, tight, im normally a pretty baggy or floaty dress/top kind of person, but i felt proud of myself for trying something different. Plus hubs loved it (haha, those men ay?!) I really like the idea of layering on a big thick knitted seater over it come winter or a shirt and biker jacket.

Do you ever push yourself out of your clothing comfort zone? Were you pleasantly surprised?

Dress: Dorothy Perkins

Boots & Bag & Necklace: New Look