paint it black

Arrived at my boyfriend's house today. Usually I spend new year in Exmouth, where everyone dresses up and truly believes it's the best place on Earth, which is precisely why I'm spending it in Liverpool this year with him. This will be the third new year we've had together, but the first that we'll actually have spent together, if that makes sense? I've always spent my new year with friends rather than family, so I think we will be going out for a meal and then meeting friends for some drinks.

In one of my latest posts, I mentioned that the Christmas presents my boyfriend ordered from Asos still hadn't arrived. They were clearly paying attention because one arrived today (one is still MIA). I gave him a list of some dresses I had my eye on, which would be welcomed under my Christmas tree. He ended up going for this one. It's not quite my usual style and I'm worried it makes me look a bit frumpy. It comes with a slip underneath as the whole dress is sheer, and the size 10 fits perfectly. Like my other dress, I'm really happy with the length of this one. I'm wearing 'the boots' in the photos and, even though I only wore them around the house for a bit, my feet are aching! On the plus side they make my legs look amazingly long, but they also make me level with the giants. I like being taller than average, but not taller than everyone around me. Models must be huge! 

The photos don't really pick up on the detail of the dress - the website shows it off better, though the dress in real life seems to look quite different from the one on Asos. I wouldn't wear a necklace with this one because of the frill detail down the front, but I'd add lots of chunky, silver rings and maybe a floppy, 70s hat as seen on the website. I would've worn all my rings in the photos if I'd remembered to pack them!

hello Santa Claus

The stunning quality of these photos is all down to Mike, my master photographer...haha. I've been looking over the archives of some top blogs recently, and it would appear that everyone starts off a bit shaky, so bear with me on this. I never thought I'd even do outfit posts!

I also received The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo on DVD. I've just finished the triology of books, which were amazing. If you haven't read them, you must! It was so nice to read a book at my own pace and to read something that I genuinely wanted to. I have to read loads as part of my English course, at a rate that I'm sure is going to make me go prematurely blind!

I'm off to bed now to watch it. Hope you've all had a lovely day x