Feeling the 90's Grunge-Love

This is officially my favourite dress ever! It's from the H&M Plus Collection, which admittedly, I often find quite drab in store, but there are a few sweet pieces online and I do love their stretch skinny jeans. You can check out how amazing this dress looks on the lovely German blogger, Katrin, wearing the same dress - I was totally inspired by her to get it!

I paired it with my Asos Curve leather jacket from last season and my favourite plaid Primark scarf. On my feet I have my burgundy Doc martens with red skull laces.

My necklace is handmade by my best friend and is one of a kind.

And now the first glimpse of my Amy Savage tattoo done a couple of weeks ago on my thigh - it's still healing so I will do some closeups very soon! It's a chinchilla in a waistcoat - he's so dapper.

Credit to my lovely friend Marie for these photos!

And now to find a cocktail dress for my next Christmas party!!!

XX ToodalooKatie

An Arm With A Little Charm

I'm back and so much has happened! I've been from London to Toronto, Toronto to Halifax, Halifax back to Toronto and then Toronto back to London all in the span of three weeks. It has been a grand adventure and it was so nice to see all my family and friends who I have left back in the Great White North while I am off living in the UK. I did so many things while I was back home and will have to do more than one post to show you all, but this post is dedicated to my new tattoo, which I am absolutely crazy about!

I had decided that I wanted to get a Shel Silverstein illustration a while back but had not settled on one in particular. I waited until I got back to Toronto, where I have his entire book collection nestled on my bookshelf to crack each book open and mark off which illustrations I like most. I decided on the poem 'Invention' which shows a little girl/boy trying to plug a light bulb into the sun (see the poem at the top of this post). I am so lucky to know a fantastic tattoo artist in Toronto who you should definitely pay a visit to if you are looking for some new ink, her name is Emma James and she can be found on Facebook or pop me a message and I can pass along contact details to you. Emma is so lovely and super cool and the entire experience was wicked! I can't say enough good things about it all.

 Here are a few pictures of how it all went down:

First, the stencil...

Then, Emma worked her magic:

How I felt throughout the tattoo:

And Tada!!!

And now, a couple of weeks later, it's mostly all healed and looking amazing. Now I wake up smiling even bigger than usual.

Thanks Emma for jazzing up my visit back home with this new tattoo and thanks to my darling friend Andrew for hanging out and taking photos of it all!!!

See you all soon!

xx Spec

"If you are a dreamer come in..." - Shel Silverstein