an english inspired outfit

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Sweater: Winners

Kilt: Thrifted, Chez thrift, bolton

Necklace: Hattitude jewels www.GotHattitude.com

Collared shirt: Thrifted

Boots: Town shoes

Hat: Queen st. west, Toronto

It's now turned from summer heat wearing dresses to wearing my fleece tights, my kilts and warm sweaters! It sure was chilly today - 5 degrees! brrr. 

This is a Europe inspired outfit. I just got back from spending two weeks in England. I just adore this floppy hat. Something about putting on a floppy hat and instantly your outfit goes from a 1950's grandmother's outfit and turns into a modern day fashion look. High boots are also important in this type of look. If you don't have knee high boots, that is shame and that must be remedied for this season! I think high boots modernize any outfit and are great for longer wool skirts, that COULD be frumpy but updates them to be stylish.
The three patterns on this outfit all work well together because they are either small pattern or they have a lot of cream or solid colour background to compliment it. Throwing on a statement necklace is also important when trying to modernize pullover sweaters and below the knee length skirts. Statement necklaces look awesome over collared shirts and pull over sweaters or cardigans. Do the buttons right up, leave your shirt un-tucked and wear a long cardigan with a statement necklace from my online shop www.GotHattitude.com with some jeans for a more casual look if you don't think you can pull of this english inspired outfit. 

Are you all ready for Halloween? Tristan and I are decorating this weekend. We are having a halloween party and the guest of honours are Mr. and Mrs. skeleton and their family. They'll be residing at our dinner table for the evening. (Can you tell I love halloween and can't wait for next weekend's party, strobe lights, fog machine, dry ice, guts, blood and more!) 

Tristan and I are having some troubles figuring out what we should be. Here's our last two year outfits. 

What are you going as? Do you celebrate halloween? What was your favourite costume you ever dressed up as?

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Have a Spooktastic Halloween!

No I said...What kind of bird are YOU?

 Dear Suzy, When? Dear Sam, Where? 

We have a Star Fox, a Suzy, a festive witch, Nickle back, hipster Santa Claus, a homemade batman costume (from when she was 7) and a Sam. 

Missing from the photo is our paper bag princess (a very hairy 27 year old male), our knight, and a captain. Sorry you guys missed the photo shoot. 

Everyone that we had up to our new place dressed up and looked amazing! Thanks for such a great Halloween weekend. 

How was everyone else's weekend? What did you dress up as? Are you going out on Wednesday?

Have a spoooky week :) 

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cottage thrifting

shirt: found at cottage

skirt: thrifted

 belt:vintage

Moonrise kingdom necklace: Available in my online shop here

I hope everyone had a heavenly weekend. This necklace is named after the amazingly, whimsical and strangely romantic, moonrise kingdom move. If you have not seen it, go see it! 

Has anyone see the last waltz, with m\Michelle Williams? I've been thinking about going to see it and would love to hear some reviews. 

These photos were taken at the cottage. I tried to get in a little bit of our paradise in the photos. It was a bit chilly (I know, right? with the heat we've been having, how dare I type that!) so I threw on an old shirt I found in the closet of my mom's. I think she may use this for gardening? Cottage thrifting at it's finest. That's one of the great things about the first few weekends heading up to the cottage, (besides the fresh corn on the cob, but that only comes in August) is finding everything old, yet new to you again that you had left there over the previous year. 

Wait untill you see the red polka dot shorts I found at the cottage, in my outfit post for tomorrow. Swoon!

Enjoy your monday coffee! 

Just a reminder, if you're in a pinch and want a REALLY unique gift or anniversary present for someone, or have a special occasion coming up that you need a perfect accessory to go to, stop by my new studio shop for some one of a kind accessories. 

Online Store Update

Hope you all got to escape to the beach for a cool down this weekend! 

Here's an online store update for the week. Enjoy the jewels :) 

moonrise kingdom

We saw Moonrise Kingdom this weekend and went out for Sushi on Friday night, date night. 
Have you seen Moonrise kingdom, the new Wes Anderson film? 
It was strangely romantic, wonderfully whimsical and absolutely fabulous. 
I love the era it's in, of course, being a 60's loving girl. It's just such a beautiful, well done movie. Very avant garde and artsy. We had to search for a movie theatre that was playing it. If it's playing near you, and you love Wes Anderson films (Royal Tenenbaums, Life Aquatic, Fantastic Mr. Fox) you'll really enjoy this young love story. He's so quirky in his directing.

 Shirt: Winners
Pant: Thrifted, Chez Thrift, Bolton
Earrings: www.GotHattitude.com
Cat: Beaubeau
Shoes: Guess
Thanks again to everyone who came out and supported the pop up show on Saturday. www.GotHattitude.com. I still have a number of awesome pieces left over, so I've been toying with the idea of Etsy. Has anyone else been on etsy? What do they think of it? I know as a customer of Etsy (I buy ALL my christmas presents on that site) I love it...but wondering what it's like from a store's perspective.