warm fuzzy winter wishlist

owl kigu - purchase here | kicker's kick hi booties in red - purchase here | gipsy speckled ribbed tights - purchase here | adventure time box set - is this real?! does it exist?! i need it! | topshop cat burglar jumper - purchase here

sometime last year, i joined the onesie hype the second it appeared. i had had a onesie when i was about 11 or 12 and missed it, so i got one of the first styles that primark brought out, which was an ugly black/yellow bumblebee thing. i've been on the hunt for a more stylish one since then, and recently i found kigu, which is an amazing company that sells all kinds of fun and cute onesies! i think the owl one is my favourite but i'm also quite partial to the giraffe and the kangaroo (and the corgi... and the flying squirrel.. okay i love them all!). kigu's are slightly pricier than your average primark onesie but you're paying for better quality, better designs, and you're helping a company that is much more kind and lovely than primark. i'm too broke to purchase one right now but this is going straight on my christmas list!

i have also fallen madly in love with adventure time. i watch it with my sister every day when she gets home from school and i get home from sixth form (it makes me miss the days where i'd run home for lizzie mcguire and that's so raven!). i can't get enough of it, it's SO GOOD. i don't know if the boxset is a 'real thing' for us in the UK but if it is then i'm getting my hands on it as soon as possible.

because i look so young, if i try to dress 'grown-up' i just look like a little girl playing dress-up in her mum's wardrobe, so i like to play up my toddler look. that is why i love these kicker's - they look like something a gorgeous little child would wear, but they come in my size! since my trusty old primark brogue's have bit the dust (much like these old favourites) i have been in need of some good, sturdy shoes, and i think these are the ones.

and, of course, what could winter be without a jumper and some woolly tights? these are my current favourites. the tights, i am madly in love with, but i feel that the jumper is a bit pricey (although gorgeous) so i think h&m will have to be my saviour here. xx

west yorkshire playhouse costume dept.

on tuesday, me and all the a-level textiles girls went on a trip to the costume department of our local theatre to try on costumes as research for our textiles project. it's amazing in there! they pretty much let you just walk in and try on some costumes, i loved it! 

my project is based on the book / musical 'wicked' so i was looking for big ball gowns, victorian-style clothes, big elaborate dresses, and obviously, any wizard of oz things that i could get my hands on. there was actually a huge wizard of section in the back which i got really excited about. 

so this is just going to be quite a picture-heavy post about the costume department and the outfits i tried on :-) hope you guys enjoy! 

so the first thing i tried on was a wedding dress! i wandered around for maybe 20 minutes being a bit disheartened because i couldn't find anything that i thought would fit me, and i didn't want to put something on that swamped me and then feel shit about myself. the first 'small' thing i found was this wedding dress so i had to try it on but i ended up getting stuck in it and spending 10 minutes wrestling my way out haha, oops...

the most beautiful dress ever! i was so in love with this thing! i've actually written a whole post on it because i loved it that much, which'll be up soon. :-)

second favourite dress of the day! it was a tim-burton style ball gown. it was fully-boned and really heavy, and the train drove me mad haha, it was hell trying to walk around in that thing! i felt like helena bonham carter in sweeney todd in this. :-)

munchkinlander shoes! i was so in love with them but they were really battered and two sizes too big :-(

ruby slipper tap shoes! sparkly red tap shoes have actually been on my shopping list for years and years, since i saw 'wizard of oz' at the playhouse when i was about 12, so i was really excited to see these :-)

my friend tyla trying on this INSANE showgirl costume that the costume dept. guys called the "feathers" haha.

munchkinland heaven!