Oh so you're NOT dead?

No - I'm not dead. I know how you might think that, what with me saying I was back and blogging and then...y'know...NOT blogging.
Sigh.
I'm bad at this. But hey, I'm here now.
I've recently stumbled across a website called Wanelo and it scares me for two reasons. The first being that it has SO MANY cool things on it that I had no idea existed (it freaks me out that I don't own any of it yet) and the second reason being that I'm scared of what it's going to do to my bank account.
Here are just a few things that I think the world needs to know about. I just can't get over the coolness. Yeah...I should get out more.

I LOVE unusual jewellery. I like making people smile when they look at me - in the laughing with me not at me kind of way.

I am a little bit obsessed with coffee table books. I have so many that I have to rotate them so they get decent coffee table time. This one looks amazing.

These tights are AWESOME! The butterflies look so cool like that. It's actually inspired me to do the same thing with bats...and with a tattoo instead of tights!

Too cool for words. The coolest things are the simplest and most obvious ones that you hadn't thought of yet. Divine.

I think if I ever wanted a swimsuit then this one would be it. As it happens I go swimming very rarely and I never go to the beach. I'm more of an adventure/exploring holiday kinda girl. But for this bad boy I'd totally get my pasty white ass out.

DE-LISH.

I had to stop at 6 things. I'd go on forever otherwise.
The Boy and I have been on a real mean budget recently and we've literally only had the money to feed ourselves so finding this website was a REALLY bad idea. I've managed to be good so far...do you think the landlord would mind if I paid our rent with coolness this month??

Putting the ROCK in ROCKABILLY

I've recently re-invented myself and the way I dress as I was becoming one of these boring people that just wore a random mix of plain tops teamed with some mediocre jeans. Yawn. I always knew deep down that this wasn't me. When I was 12/13 years old and was just beginning to find my own style and buy my own clothes I was a goth. I, much to my parents horror, dyed my hair black, wore only red, black and purple and clomped around in a pair of deep red Doc Martens. Over the years my style mellowed out until one day I looked in the mirror and thought - 'Bloody hell...who are you?'
I'd come to realise that I'd been dressing according to what pleased others rather than what pleased myself. I have always loved the Rockabilly look and I started to trawl eBay around the middle of last year in the hope of changing my style into something that really gave me some identity. I'm now exactly where I want to be, although I'm finding my style is evolving even now.
For Xmas my gorgeous boyfriend got me a pair of these bad boys -

which I completely ADORE. Up until now I had been wearing cute Mary Janes or T-Bar mid-heels with my pencil skirts. I had begun to follow the 40's and 50's trend quite literally and had stopped adding the Rock or the Psycho to my Billy. With the introduction of these however, I'm falling back into my lovely alternative self again.
It's been about 10 years since I last wore a pair of Doc's and I don't know why I left it so long!
Long live the Doc's!

I'm Back! And Writing About Art Brut Tattoos...

My hand is red because I slapped it - slapped it for not being a dedicated blogger over the last month! I went home for the Xmas holidays and to my horror my Mother did not have internet. Is this the 20th century or what? I also have been lazy and out of the habit of writing - which is not constructive. But I'm back now, so all is well in the jungle.
For my first blog of 2011 I want to share with you all a new discovery of mine. Art Brut tattoos are a new style of tats that I'm seeing increasingly in tattoo magazines. It wasn't until I bought the American magazine Skin&Ink today however, that I actually knew what the style was called.
The artwork is pretty much beyond anything that I can describe - each tattoo is so different and unique that I've found myself staring at them for ages, completely mesmerised by what, why, who and how?
Art of course can take many forms, and it's nice to see tattoos going off on a completely random tangent. Tattoo's are always going to grow and develop - certain styles may go out of fashion (tribal anyone?) but I don't think this style ever could. It's just too random and wonderful. I don't think I could even begin to think of a design. Have a look at these pictures and tell me what you think...

Pink Has One in the Oven

Congrats to Pink, who is expecting her first child. Please please please let this celebrity pregnancy be just a little bit alternative (and I mean the cool way, not the 'I'm going to call her Apple' way - give me a break). Pink is just about the only mainstream celebrity that I trust to stick to her alternative roots during and after pregnancy. With this in mind, I have compiled a small list of items that I think she should buy for when the little terror arrives...