Beautiful and Bizarre

So, we've mentioned it before, that we were on the hunt for Shoes and Dresses for Sami's Graduation, which also prompted our trip to Dublin where only my sister was successful in finding something. It took a lot of trawling round the internet for both of us to find something we liked but eventually we got there!! So here you go, us in our Graduation finery!

Dress - Asos

Shrug - New Look

Shoes - New Look

Dress - Dorothy Perkins

We both ended up wearing high heels, because it is apparently impossible to find kitten heeled blue heels, though now that I dont want them, they are everywhere. I did fall in love with those 5 inch topshop heels though and I wore them right until the end of the ceremony when my poor feet couldn't take it any longer and I stuck on my blue denim flats from Asda. And for your viewing pleasure, here is a nice close up of them!

Also, since I'm a big smarty pants, I got lots of cool presents, mainly in the form of cupcakes, chocolate or jewellery. I'm definitely jewellery-ed out. My granny alone bought me, two necklaces, a bracelet and a little butterfly charm for my charm bracelet. Jesse bought a cupcake necklace and a bracelet which had a little silver leaf on it. My mum and dad bought me an awesome Pandora bracelet which has an 'S' charm and little books which are awesome! Hopefully I'll get to wear some of it soon!

Also, I have a nickel allergy so it's quite difficult to find Jewellery that I can actually wear, so Jesse and I have decided to start making our own! We sat the night before my graduation, putting some together so we could show them off throughout the day, so far we have managed to put together a couple of things, but we are still working on it and there will definitely be a post about it when we're ready to get it all on the go. But here is my favourite item so far:

 It's a little blue notebook with some beads and a 'made with love' charm which will go on every item!

All in all, it was a successful day, though a long one but we all enjoyed it, especially our dinner at Yokos Noodle Bar! 

We have been celebrating with family dinners and tomorrow, we're having a big drunken celebration with our friends who are coming up from all over the place, which hopefully we will report on at some point!

Until tomorrow,
Sami & Jesse

Hey Guys,

Yesterday, we adventured down to Dublin via the train, we were hoping to find dresses for Sami's graduation ceremony, after not having any luck in Belfast or online. So we decided, we might as well make the most of it and see what we could find for you guys whilst we were there. 

Let's start by showing you what we both wore, we call this 'Practical but Pretty' as we needed to be sensible for the weather forecast predicted Rain and we were walking about on our feet for the entire day:

Top - Exhibit
Shorts - Asos Curve
Cardigan - New Look

  

Top Picture: Jesse's Jewellery
Homemade necklace using a Japanese Yen coin and some material. Ring is from Accessorize and Bracelet is from Newlook. That is also a Japanese Origami Crane Incense Burner.

Sami's Jewellery
Both Pearl Bracelet and Butterfly bracelet are from Internacionale.

So clothes wise, we didn't really find anything interesting. I tried on a one-sleeved Kimono like dress which was white and black, but it was completely see through and for privacy purposes I am not going to post here. Instead, we found lots of pretty interesting shoes from New Look.  Here are some pictures:

 These Denim sandals we both really liked, they were designed by a student from one of the fashion Universities in London. Jesse bought these on the day. They are also available in black. Click Here to go to the New Look website and check them out.

We both really liked these Polkadot High Heels which are also available in Grey with red polkadots. We liked the funky and summery colours of the yellow and blue though. Neither of us purchased them but Sami is still considering it. Again, available here on the New Look website.

We also found many interesting accessories, the most interesting of which was this Mohawk inspired hat, which Sami couldn't resist trying on:

While neither of us found what we were looking for (i.e. a dress for graduation), we did manage to spend some Euros on the following:

 Alongside the Japanese Crane Incense Holder, Jesse bought Cherry Blossom Incense and Matcha Green tea.

All in all, the day was pretty fun though quite exhausting as we hadn't slept the night before and we were walking everywhere. So if you are ever going to Dublin, either stay over, or sleep the night before and get yourself some decent walking shoes or an all day tram/bus ticket which will hopefully take you where you need to go.  Make sure if you're planning to shop to bring your own bags as the paper bags they give you aren't very good in the rain, as we unfortunately found out.  Running in the rain with an arm full of clothes and shoes down Grafton Street not so good.

 We had a good day, but now the hunt is on again for dresses to wear to graduation! 

We seen some Beautiful and Bizarre things yesterday and we know that fashion changes very quickly, so we'll keep our eye out for more.

Until next time,

**Title Story: We were told to keep walking until the tiles turned red and then we'd be on Grafton Street. So if you ever are looking for it, keep walking until the tiles turn red ;)