Champagne Kisses Necklace and FOTD

Just a small post today, folks, even though I have really neglected my blog ( I apologize, I know I suck.)

So about early january, I stumbled upon the Champagne Kisses bigcartel site and fell in love. Namely, the love takes time pocket watch. So I ordered it (and another necklace, but I shall leave that for another post!) and today it arrived, although there was a minor complication with me not knowing how to change the time (doh, you thicko) until my best friend came round and promptly showed me how to do it. She likes showing me up a lot and was very smug at this.

Isn't she a beaut? (Yes, it is a 'she'. Because I like girl power!) Anyway, the colouring in this picture may look a little off, but that's cause I had my white balance on the wrong setting and it ended up too yellow so I tried to rectify it with selective colouring, although it still looks odd to me.


A bit more true to colour, I didn't take a full outfit picture because I couldn't get any decent ones, but I'm wearing a high waisted skirt so this comes to a little above my waist.

And then after Alohamora, it opens! (Ok just kidding, I'm no witch. Dani is though, she has a wand!)


So there you have my latest piece of jewellery that is also practical (no more asking what time it is/peeking at mobile in school now!)

And for the more beauty related aspect of this post (after all, what is this blog again?), here's my FOTD for today. I felt like jazzing my usual look up, so I added Urban Decay's Ransom on my lower lash line cause purple just makes me happy :)

It's quite faint in this pic as I took the picture late afternoon and I applied my makeup at 6 am (I hate early mornings so much, you have no idea..)

I hope this measly attempt of a post makes up for my absence and I will do my best to update this weekend!

New Necklace!

Bonjour, mes petites poules!

So lately I have developeda habit of loving jewellery, which is quite odd as I have never really been a jewellery person. But after discovering some gorgeous handmade jewellery sites on etsy.com and bigcartel.com, a couple of weeks ago, I ordered a few necklaces from assorted sites and my first one arrived today!

Ok, the picture is not the best, being a webcame pic but you can see the necklace, which is the Oh, to be in England necklace from Ess Bee Vee's etsy shop.

I will be posting better quality pictures once I get different batteries for my camera so that you can all see the necklace clearer, it's gorgeous and lovely and I'm running out of adjectifs to describe it, but I think quaint is quite apt!

Other pics from her shop would be the Lovely Bones necklace, O Swallows flying from the golden woods and the lovely lovely locket love, you could use a little of locket. She's having a sale at the moment, so go check her site out!

On another note, I have decided to make it my mission to convince some of my teachers to do a field trip to the Chateau de Versailles. We have been covering it in History (doing Louis XIV, le roi de soleil!) and Art History, and I just think the place looks stunning! I am a bit of a history geek, especially French history, it's absolutely fascinating and I'd just love to spend a day losing myself in the gardens and the castle, just exploring.

This panorama 360 view of the Hall of Mirrors is making me want to go even more so, as I think that room is just stunning and to see it in reality would probably gobsmack me.

(picture from google search)

So I would love to go there and hopefully, with a few well placed points, I might just be able (with the help of my classmates, obviously) to convince some of the teachers and make a trip to Versailles a reality.