Outfit of the day: a speck of sunshine on the first day of fall

Last week I was sunbathing and sweating my proverbial pants of and this week autumn has set in. And you can't not notice it! Because yesterday and today were true fall days with wind, thunder, cold, rain and everthing.

So I decided to wear an outfit which would instantly give me a summery feel, although the weather looked something like this

I have worn this outfit multiple times during the summer and I always got compliments about it, because of the vibrant colours. The skirt is one of my homemade circle skirt projects. I'm currently broadening my horizon in home sewing, because I want to do more than just circle skirts. Hopefully I'm able to join a sewing course starting at the end of this month, but I'm still on the waitinglist..... :-(

Two weeks ago I bought a little purse, which goes lovely with this outfit. I saw in a thriftshop and I knew it had to be mine! And now it is ;-)

Top: C&A

Skirt: homemade

Belt, bangles and bag: thriftshop

Shoes: Schoenenreus

Hairflowers: H&M and outletstore

New in: lots of brooches

Last saturday I went for some thrift shop shopping and it turned out to be a good day for finding brooches! In fact, it was the only thing I found ;-)

In two stores I found a total of 10 brooches and one hairclip (Funny thing: one of the thriftshops is run by the local church and I ended up paying 2 euros for 8 brooches. The other shop was more commercial and I paid 5 euros for 2 brooches..... But hey, it still is cheap for these lovelies that I found!)

I think it's a shame that today the art of wearing brooches is a bit lost to people. You almost never see them being worn nowadays, while it is such a simple way to adorn your outfit.  So much for my advocate for wearing brooches ;-)

Sneak peek: starting the poodle project

As I have said before, I wanted to make a poodle skirt, a classic piece of American fifties style. First I choose a piglet pink fabric for it. But after I had made the skirt I didn't want to adorn it with an application, because I liked the skirt better without. So my poodle plans went back to the freezer for a while.

But since last week I made a flamingo skirt, I thought back of my poodle plans and I started thinking what I wanted to do with them.

So far I came up with this:

I'm planning to make the skirt from a plain baby blue cotton/polyester bland with a black waistband and some details in the same colour blue gingham fabric. Maybe even a black band at the hem to complete the waist. The poodle will be made from black and blue felt, with some white for the eyes and nose.

I'll keep you posted about the progress of this skirt! I'll promise it will be quicker this time :-)