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Loafun x Hello The Mushroom giveaway

January 22, 2014

I can’t say no to any potentially interesting and creative project and that’s what I saw when I came across Loafun. The website is the brainchild of a team of enterpreneurs from New Delhi who after seeing a friend decorate and wear his Converse shoes, realized this was an idea with great potential and started working on it a year and a half ago.

The website has grown from offering only a few set designs to allowing users to upload their own artwork and have them hand painted onto the shoes. It’s been on for 6 months and is now also getting active in the retail industry in New Delhi. Currently Loafun offers canvas shoes but will be expanding the collection to leather ballerinas and pumps. Exciting!

The website is extremely easy to use and straightforward. All you have to do is upload your design following the instructions on the page and wait for approval. Once it is approved, it will be hand painted onto the shoes and should reach you in a short period of time. I was surprised at how quickly my shoes were produced, I must say. Watch this fun video, as it does explain everything very clearly.

Loafun would like the world to know about his shoes and idea and that is why they are reaching out to bloggers such as myself, to show the potential of this fantastic idea. You, my dear friends and readers,  will be the ones benefiting from this as I am giving away the Hello the Mushroom shoes to a lucky participant!

The shoes presented are one of a kind and designed by yours truly. They are a UK size 6/ EUR39 and it’s really easy to enter the giveaway, just follow the instructions on Rafflecopter – you can earn two entries entry per action, one per comment. If you perform all the actions, the more chances you will have of winning, so get clicking and good luck! This giveaway will start today the 22nd of January at 12AM and end on 29th of January, 12 AM (London time).

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PS: no payment has been received, the shoes have been provided by Loafun for giveaway purposes. 

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New Look Xmas Wishlist

December 21, 2013

Are you all set for Christmas? Have you got all your party wear and your onesies sorted? I do but there’s always nice things to look at out there. Hope you like this outfit I put together with items from New Look’s website. Christmas is the season for Love so my outfit had to reflect it. This post has been made in collaboration with New Look. Enjoy!

I’m having another office party tonight, I’ll share my festive looks next week, for sure! Have a lovely weekend, everyone!

 

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Doodles inspired by Roksanda Ilincic

December 4, 2013

Avenue 32 are currently carrying the swimwear collection by Roksanda Ilincic, which immediately caught my eye as it is so deliciously vintage inspired and romantic. As I am not getting any younger either, they also provide a good level of coverage, so you don’t get to show your sins to the rest of the world. See the whole collection here.

As I won’t be wearing them or going near a beach anytime soon, I thought I’d draw a few ladies wearing them. I did them on Paint.net, which is less than perfect and used one of my Florida beach photos as a background. Hopefully I’ll be able to get Photoshop soon and make some nicer looking ones! How do you like them?

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These boots were made for walking…

August 20, 2013

Haaaa the end of Summer. The temperature drop we had in the last few days got me thinking about Fall clothes and about wrapping up in warm and fluffy wool jumpers.I am enjoying the nice warm weather but that made me think about what to wear when it gets chilly. I tidied up my closet the past weekend and went through my shoe collection. Seeing that I now live in a country where the past few Winters have been quite harsh, I noticed that I don’t seem to have near enough boots to my liking. I had a look around here and there and although the boots in the shops are nice, I want something different. So I started doodling and thought – What if we could have the crazy boots we always dreamed of?

So I came up with some fun (and funny) designs and thought how amusing it would be to design footwear for some of my blogger friends. They may not like them in the end but they really were the inspiration behind some of these:

The Circus Boots

These would be made of red matte leather and the stars could maybe be silver or white patent leather. I thought they would be perfect for Desiree of Pull Yr Socks Up. I can see her rocking these with one of her tutus!

 

The Attitude Boots

Black leather, of course, with silver buckles and silver spikes. A bit too much for me but I thought they would be the boots I would buy Suzanne of Idee Fixe if I ever had to pick a pair for her.

The Grey Velvet Boots

Imagined these for Vix of Vintage Vixen, a very glamourous lady indeed. The yellow should be more mustardy and the green leaves should be embroidered on grey velvet. They may look uncomfortable but they would look fab if they were real.

The Divoon Orange Boots

These would go to Helga of Helga von Trollop, of course. I can see her wearing these with one of her fabulous capes and her beehive style do. I haven’t decided if I want them in patent leather or just regular leather. Either way, those bows would look amazing.

The Navy Boots

And these are for me, thank you very much. As I’ve said countless times before, this is one of my favourite colour combos.

Now all we need to find is someone to make these for us. And not too expensive, please! Which one is your favourite?