OOTD - Summer Stripes

How much of a babe is this dress? Y'know when you've found the one and this is the one! For this Summer anyway. I discovered this dress from reading Hannah Gale blog, she's a beaut, check her out! 

This beauty is from Fat Face. I don't think I have ever bought anything from Fat Face before because I didn't really think it was my style, how wrong I was! I now have a wish list as long as my arm! 

I think this dress is the perfect Summer staple. It can be worn as a day dress or in the evening and can be worn at home in the UK or on holiday. The other great thing about this dress is that it's not a high fashion item so I know next year I'll still be able to wear it. What a bae.

I love the pastel blue and white stripes, the tie waist which fits just at the right place, oh yeah and it has pockets! Pockets are a game changer! This dress has to be one of the comfiest dresses I own and because it's a bit longer than most of my other dresses I don't need to worry about a gust of wind flashing my hooha, ain't nobody got time for dat! 

Dress - Fat Face
Jacket - Old (similar here)
Bracelet - Tiffany
Sunglasses - Old (similar here)
Shoes - Old (similar here)

Speak soon gal pals. 

Love, 

Sophie x 

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DIY - Marc Jacobs Mouse Ballet Pumps

I have lusted after a pair of the mouse Marc Jacobs flats for a few years now. I have often thought about buying a pair but I just couldn't spend a couple of hundred pounds on a pair of ballet flats. I had the idea to make my own mouse flats based on the Marc Jacobs ones. One of my favourite pair of mice are the Marc by Marc Jacobs Disco Mouse Flats and I also thought these would be fairly easy to recreate. Below I am going to show you how to revamp a pair of ballet flats into a pair of disco mice. 

Picture from Pinky Polish

What You Will Need:

Plain pair of ballet pumps (New Look)

Multi coloured gems (Amazon)

Six large gems for eyes and nose 

Glue gun

Pencil

Unpicker (if need to remove bows from shoes)

First off I unpicked the bows that were on the front of the shoes, now the shoes were all ready to decorate with the gems. I started round the top of the shoes with the largest gems on the sheet, this didn't take as long as I had thought it would and was probably the easiest part of the decorating. 

I glued on the eyes and nose (I got these gems off an old bag but you could use anything for this, maybe even buttons) on each shoe and then I drew on the tail, whiskers and ears as a guide. Then I glued on the middle sized gems for the tail and the smallest gems for the whiskers. For the ears I used a mixture of all the gem sizes as I thought it gave a good effect. 

Overall the shoes were fairly easy to make, just very fiddly and time consuming! To decorate the pair of shoes took me about three to four hours but I did really enjoy making them. The total price for the shoes came in at under £13 which is a fraction of the cost for the designer Marc Jacobs pair and don't look too dissimilar. 

Would you buy a pair of Marc Jacob Mouse Shoes or would you make your own? Let me know your thoughts in the comments. 

Love, 

Sophie x