OOTD

OOTD by emilyhouse featuring a brown long sleeve shirt

OOTD

OOTD by emilyhouse featuring black ballet flats

Wish List

Wish List by emilyhouse featuring black cat eye sunglasses

Matchy matchy

After creating my last couple of posts and looking through a number of fashion magazines I stumbled across some styling that I am head over heals in love with. Matching! That's right matching having a crop top that is exactly the same pattern and colour as your skirt or shorts is, in my opinion, an amazing way to embrace summer style.

I come across the first outfits looking through skirts to match with a peplum top a few days ago and instantly fell in love with the pattern and after having a quick browse of hm.com  I found the matching shorts and crop top which have made it onto my wish list meaning I will soon be picking them up and spending my hard earned cash.

Crop tops have become one of my go to pieces for this summer and I can't get enough of them paired with high waisted trousers, skirts or shorts. I think the fact they let you expose that tinny strip of skin around your waist makes me like them even more. This is yet another reason why I love this trend so much, it incorporates all my summer favourites form bold print to crop tops to high waists. 

Its not all about bright pattern so if that's not your thing I found these darker patterns selling in Topshop. With one being simple and the other a little bit more interesting they show that there is something for everyone. But although both of these outfits sport the full skirt with a little added detail they look worlds apart from one another. I love the cut out details that are everywhere this season but only at topshop have I seen them be used on the front of pieces, but I think its a great way to expose skin in a very sexy way.

And hey if you want to go the whole hog why not add a matching pair of shoes!?

OOTD: Midi-dress

Ok, so here is just a tiny outfit of the day with something I picked up recently in the sale. I think I said it in my 7 deadly sins tag but me and midi-dresses have a bit of a love hate relationship. But today was definitely love more than hate. So... 

This is the dress in question its pretty similar to the ones I have seen dotted around my local Topshop but this one is from Dorothy Perkins sale it was originally £19.99 reduced to £10.20 in the sale and with 15% student discount too, which meant I couldn't not pick it up!

It was pretty cold today so I paired my dress with a plain black cardigan, scarf, leather jacket and boots to keep me warm in the cold and rain.

For accessories the standard rings I always wear, backpack, little hamsa hand bracelet (I swapped the watch from the video with the bracelet) and a necklace I bought in a charity shop and DIYed.

OOTD: Midi-dress

What I'm wearing:

Bracelt - DIY and ebay - £1

Leather jacket - Topshop - £55

Dress - Doroty Perkins - £10.20

Scarf - 99p Store - £0.99

Backpack - Topshop - £36

Belt - (old) Primark - £1

Boots - (old) River Island - £30

Necklace - Charity shop DIY - £1

Rings - Gift or Charity shop - £8-£20

Spring/Summer style ideas

If spring/summer ever arrives in my city this will be what I was wearing!

Spring/Summer style ideas by emilyhouse featuring Topshop tops

Lust List!

Lust List! by emilyhouse featuring hot denim shorts

summer wish list

summer wish list by emilyhouse featuring peep toe high heels

I thought I would post a few of my current wish lists from polyvore. Its a bit of a mix of stuff and admittedly most of it is from topshop but I've been a bit addicted to them recently! Although, I also have been attracted to American Apparel and Urban Outfitters so maybe those wish lists will come later. Along with maybe a makeup one too. Apologies also that it is mainly all black, grey or white, those are the only colours I'm wearing at the moment.

black and grey wish list

black and grey wish list by emilyhouse featuring pointed shoes

iphone 4/4s case

I know this isn't exactly the traditional fashion and beauty post but everyone I've explained this idea too has said they would never have thought about it so I thought maybe to someone out there this might be a useful idea.

I recently traded in my old blackberry for a new iPhone and I see why everyone raves about them so much! Being a new member of the iPhone family I was very eager to find a protective case for mine ASAP given that I'm bloody terrified of breaking it. I set off searching the web and realized there really wasn't anything that was my style and affordable, so I settled for a plain clear case instead. I really enjoy customisation and DIY so I thought why not try and make a customised phone case with a pattern a bit more my style? I know that many websites will put photographs on cases for you but as a student I don't really have money to spend on things like that and wanted a cheaper alternative.

I'm extremely picky and someone who gets bored easily so it needed to be a case that had a lot of different possibilities. Then it hit me why not print off a bunch of patterns and cut them to fit behind the back of the clear case?

So that's what I did. I used Google images to find the patterns I wanted, printed them, drew around the clear case to get the general shape and trimmed them to fit inside the back. It has become the perfect solution to my problem meaning I can change the pattern on my case I'm minutes and have a million and one different designs at no extra cost. Perfect if you ask me.