All black on a grey day

On Saturday evening we went out to celebrate my best friend’s birthday. It was quite a grey day but I managed to fit in some quick outfit shots, just before walking the dogs.

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I am making an effort to be more strict with my blogging schedule this year and aiming to take outfit pictures every Saturday, or at least once a week. I have tried this previously and managed to keep it going for a few months but I always end up getting swamped with work and giving up at some point.

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Fitting in blogging while running a business and a household can be tricky, but I’m trying to change things around to give me more time for blog posts and videos. I also filmed the “furry friends” tag for my youtube channel on Saturday so keep an eye out for that!

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Outfit Details

Jacket: ASOS

Jumper: Topshop

Trousers: Zara

Shoes: Miista

Bag: Givency

Necklace: Richard Ayres

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Urban Dreamscapes

Yesterday I went fabric shopping and met my friend Laura in town for lunch. We stumbled across this garden installation (which I assume was made to advertise dreamscape gardens, cool idea) on the side of the road and decided to take some pictures.

It was interesting to have my picture taken by someone who is an artist but not a photographer, as the images we ended up with are slightly outside the norm for this type of post, but I really like them.

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Photography by Laura Powell

Outfit:

Jacket: MUUBAA

Dress: Miss Selfridge

Leggings: Ebay

Boots: Dr. Martens

Bag: Givenchy

Glasses: H&M

Neckalace: Adorn

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Fashion at Victoria baths

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Yesterday we went to a vintage home fair at Victoria baths in Levenshulme. I was mostly interested in going to take pictures against the beautiful tiles and stained glass windows. Unfortunately the stain glass windows didn’t work for me but I had some against these cool tiles that look a bit like waves.

Cape: Vero Moda

jewellery: Richard Ayres

Sheer bomber: Eustratia

T-shirt: Topshop

Biker leggings: H&M

Boots: Dr. Martens

Images by Janet Ratchford

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Auxiliary calender images

In October last year I shot a couple of looks for a submission to Auxiliary magazine’s 2012 calender. I posted some details regarding the inspiration here.

In the end there weren’t able to produce the whole calender so they chose a few of the best images (6) to make into phone and desktop backgrounds, they are all stunning and can be viewed/downloaded on their site, here.

Amongst the selections was my image, by Jennifer Byron photography. I’m glad they picked this one as it was probably my favourite from this set.

My favourite from the other set we shot that day is the one below, the rest can be seen on my facebook page, Biomechanina.