A Shirt Dress with Mules and a Blazer (& #Passion4Fashion linkup!)

Being late May i have been craving some nice warm weather. We haven't really had it yet, but i live in hope. So i've just decided to go with it and the legs have had a bit of fresh air. I've been wearing jeans constantly lately so it was refreshing to wear a dress for a much needed change. 

And what's better than in a nice new dress and heels that didn't (technically) cost me a penny.

I was so pleased as it was that time where my Tesco Clubcard vouchers popped up into my inbox (for my foreign friends, these are a clubcard scheme where you build up points with every pound you spend and in this case points most definitely make prizes!! Or shoes and a dress in this case), plus they are doubling up all vouchers for clothes .... Aannnd voila! 

New shirt dress and mules that i have had my eye for weeks. They're bloody gorgeous and i love them. I've been trying them on every-time i'm shopping and have kept on an eye on the sizes, making sure to move the size 6 to the back of the rack whilst i decided whether to buy them or not , so when the vouchers landed i decided now was as good a time as any! 

These mules are gorgeously soft and the heel is a great sturdy block, making them surprisingly more comfy than i expected, i couldn't decide if i wanted them in the tan or the black, but ended up going for the black knowing a lot would go with them this summer. 

Two things i can see me living in this summer, shirt dresses and mules..Happy Days (as long as it warms up a bit that is)

So yes; Free shoes and a free dress equals getting the legs out and for a very happy Friday... Plus after today i am off for 12 days from the ol' day job and we are off on holibobs next week to Cornwall! 

I'm sooo excited!

Mules & Shirt Dress

Bag: Michael Kors Via Jon Ian of Cowbridge

Blazer: New Look

Jewellery: Yosa

What are you loving for summer? Have you invested yet?

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My Summer Wish Lyst

Regardless of the actual British weather, i live in hope when it comes to our Summer.
More often than not that means planning lovely summery outfits, that you never get to wear as the weather just doesn't co-operate. But after years of sufferance I've become a bit more British Summer savvy.

With the help of Lyst i have made the most wonderful capsule of pieces that i want to buy for the coming season. It includes items that would make the most versatile, wearable summer wardrobe ever, leaving my disdain for Old Blighty and mother nature a thing of the past.
I've mentioned Lyst before(here), but i just find it such a great shopping/planning tool. If, like me, your budget doesn't allow you to buy your whole summer wardrobe in one go,  you can just add it to your Lyst. In my case i am currently collating my Summer Wish Lyst, which i ahve to say i am absolutely loving right now! It has some amazing pices that i am coveting and, yep, i feel i may have made the perfect UK summer capsule wardrobe. There's still a couple of items i may add over the next few weeks, but hopefully i shall be picking off my items piece by piece to purchase.
The other thing i love is that it tells you if your items go on sale.. whats better than finding one of your coveted gems on sale.. Good right?!
So whats on my Summer Wish Lyst?
I feel i've covered off most bases and kept with a very clear colour scheme, making everything inter-changable.
Go take a look, there are some absolute beauties on there, but to give you an idea, here's a few of ma faves from my Lyst.

Denim, stripes and neutrals are all a running theme. Then theres a couple of 'Hero Items' like that bright colour pop bag, or the perfect floral dress, all to make a rather wonderful summer.

I love the New in section too, which is where i've found A LOT of my summer wish Lyst pieces, it knows what i like which is rather handy, rather than having to scour 50 gazillion items.

The other reason i love to Lyst is to hunt for particular items (Lately its been a navy blazer firstly, so handy to have and also a khaki jumpsuit that will satisfy both my love of khaki and jumpsuits!) Lyst enables me to search tons of retailers without having to pull my normal trick of having approx 128 tabs open on my browser (my husband goes mad, He thinks its ridiculous having that many tabs open, and i have to say, the man probably has a point). So verry very useful as i've actually found both!

Have you ever used Lyst to help you shop? I honestly can't recommend it enough.

Heels that steal the Show

 Sometimes simple outfits are the only way. Simple outfits jazzed up with some great heels. That's all a girls needs sometimes. That girl is me lately. I am opting more and more for ease of dressing and some hero items to take the outfit from meh to wow! The Alice Boden heels and clashing colourful Wallis clutch were my hero items in this outfit, taking it from a plain white shirt and jeans combo to funky and fun for a fabulous night out with old school friends, which was just wonderful. We sat we gossiped we reminisced. It was wonderful. We worked out that one of my particular friends and i had been friends for 26 years!! Firstly, i don't know how the heck that happened as i don't feel a day over 21 and secondly woahh how time flies. I remember us being 4 year old little girls in our frilly white socks and school dresses, in the playground haring the see-saw. Crazy.
And its official. I'm old.
I'm old and i like simple outfits.
But at least my shoes are awesome
;)

 Trench: Dorothy Perkins

Heels: Boden

Jeans: f&F

Shirt: New Look

Necklace: New from  the Simply, Yosa Range

Clutch: c/o Wallis

Do you have any heels that pack a punch and that you just love?

Shopping with Boohoo and #Passion4Fashion Linkup!

Do you ever stop shopping somewhere, whether that be online or instore, somewhere because you thought that it may have been too old or too young for you? I have. And its a rookie mistake. never rule anywhere out is my new rule, because frankly there are gems to be found everywhere, and i was blatently just cutting my own nose off ruling out places because my head did too much of that over thinking.
So what's behind this realisation? Well Boohoo is. Boohoo is an online store i shopped at many moons ago, probably when they first launched in-fact. Then as i got older i started to vere away from it. Why? who knows.. we all know i'm not quite all there, right? Because frankly they have some lots of amazing clothes and even better, it normally comes with a small price tag. Its just a case of finding the gems and what works for you, as it is in any shop.
So when they asked if i would like to order something from their website i got to looking. And now kidding, i had a basket full of great wearable pieces that i would love to have in my wardrobe.
Their maxi dresses are so comfy and reasonable (more on that next week and proof to back up my words) and nicer than some i bought for a damn site more in various stores last summer.
They also launched the fabulous #weareus empowering women to be bold, stylish, musical, whatever.. being proud of who you are! S'kind of nice no?
But today i bring you this awesome khaki (it just had to be khaki didn't it?! what can i say i'm a sucker for khaki, one may need a khaki-intervention soon though, can you help?) sleeveless jacket.
I absolutely fell head over heels for it. It's been fairly mild out lately so this worked perfectly for adding an extra barrier against the breeze and adding a little interest at the same time.

Have you ever written off a shop just to be proven wrong?

Shoes& Jacket: c/o Boohoo

Jeans: F&f

White tee: Primark

Bag: DKNY; c/o Harvey Nichols

Can we just all give Lena a warm welcome back to co-hosting Passion4Fashion with me.. I've missed my partner in crime. Be sure to swing by her amazing blog and welcome her back

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