essence of last-minute worries

I'm going to my FIRST EVER CONCERT tomorrow - REGINA SPEKTOR AAAAAA! (it's kind of sad, because I'm 14 [and six months] , and finding something to wear was impossible. First, I raided my sister's wardrobe, then my own, AND then I raided mum's. And do you know what I found there?

There, in the corner, hidden away, was mum's 10-year-old brownie dress, forgotten and lonely as still plastered with achievement stickers. And I thought "hey, that could actually work with some tights and a belt and my new shoes". And I tried it out. And felt ridiculously relieved because I didn't need to worry about finding something to wear anymore.

I'll show you some pictures either tomorrow, or the next day, and get some of my day-outfit as well (it's just a little too risky to go to school in that dress, besides, I know I'll get it dirty - I'm a really messy eater).

Spoodles,
LittleBig

essence of blue peasant

I love my electric blue tights. They truly make me happy. Even if people think I'm crazy. That is all.

essence of costume memories

Sorry, haven't been bothered or stylish enough lately to post anything... so here's some old costumes that are also pretty babe. The first one is my grade six CARNIVALE costume and the second is last year's halloween costume. Yeah... it's a LOOOOOONG story.

essence of Brunswick St outings

essence of black and gold

I'm not feeling all together too well today... which explains why I look pale and have dark rings around my eyes. And I apologise for the blurry pictures...

I'm wearing an eight-year-old party princess dress as a skirt, and I love it. It's so shiny, it makes me want to smile and skip and laugh and dance. I stole the top from my mum, and I'm going barefeet because it was raining and I was raindancing outside, and we all know that you can't raindance with shoes on!

Cupcakingly,
LittleBig

essence of paisley

I know, I know, it's not quite paisley but it's close enough - and I just love the colours of this vest. Someone today told me that I "have the most interesting style of all the people she has ever met" and when I asked her to clarify 'interesting' she said "in a good way." How exciting is that? People have said that I have an interesting style but not most interesting.
The dress is from a retro store but it isn't retro - just made out of retro material. And the belt I got from a fete. Thank goodness for fetes! And yes, I am wearing shorts underneath because it is terribly short.

Also, I apologise for wearing my shoes three days now, and I promise I'll wear different shoes tomorrow. And the next day. Confession: I don't have many shoes. I'd rather buy a dress than shoes. Although my wishlist shoe-wise is:
- another pair of flats in a pale colour
- sandals of some sort
- boots that aren't broken
- some white sneaker-y shoes with red stitching

The shoes I'm wearing have been complemented 8 times,
LittleBig

essence of curtsey ZOMBIE

This skirt is a hand-me-down from my darling and favouritest cousin, and I hated it at first (when I was boring, and much skinnier) but now I really like it. It's great for curtseying! I know my eyes look weird, but my priorities are musical practice and music practice, so I had to take the pictures after it was getting dark. The top is from one of those warehouse sale thingies, and you can't quite see it but I'm wearing my new oxfords.

Curtseyingly,
LittleBig

essence of autumn

So... today I felt like wearing "that" outfit - you know, the one in the little characterture. Cute charicter, isn't it? I hope it looks like me...
I think I wear this out fit (or slight variations of it) a lot. I've worn that kind of thing in possibly every season, but it's pretty Autumn-y. The beautiful orange and reds. I LOVE RED. Especially that red. I'm always wearing a combination of those three red pieces. The belt I got in Singapore and I stole the scarf from Mum. It smells like her... mmmm. I love the shoes a little too much - I'm always wearing them, and they're really scruffy now. But I could never let them go! You can't really see the flowers on the tights because my legs are ridiculously thin, but they are there. I promise.

Anyway... Autumn isn't my favourite season. Too cold! I hate the cold. Everyone says that you can "accesorize more" in Winter, but I just love the heat. But it's the most beauitful season, Autumn. I love the colours.

Painting the town red... and yellow and orange,
LittleBig

essence of camera

Well, I'm not really aspiring, seeing as I actually have a blog, and a photographic post and, but it's not like ANYONE knows about this - apart from my darling friend Deborah. Which means that whoever is reading this is likely to be her. Hi Deborah. Hopefully you've decided to make a fashion blog too, if I, of all people, have one.

Anyway, dear Santa/God/Genie of aspiring fashion bloggers,
I would very much love to have a DSL camera. Obviously there are reasons other than fashion blogging as to why I would want such a thing. However, I believe that a great big amazifying camera would make the images look WAY cooler, not require so much retouching (even if just in microsoft picture manager) and make me look babe. That's the main thing I love about those cameras. They make everyone look beautiful - EVERYONE. Even people that aren't photogenic.

Wishing for my great big amazifying camera,
Little Big

essence of new

This outfit is pretty damn new - the shoes and cardi I just bought today (wearing trackies and a t-shirt... anyone that knows me will know I barely ever wear trackies). The dress usually looks really bad on me. In some picures I'm wearing a claspy black belt with a gold butterfly and my favourite (albeit only) straw hat, in others an old buckle belt of Mum's and a string of fake pearls.

I'll start off this blog with an explanation as to why I finished off the last blog:

1. It was getting boring

2. People actually knew about it, so it wasn't like I could spill EVERYTHING.

3. My blog was probably extremely boring to other people too.

4. I had completely left it because I had homework, or fun stuff, or travelling to do.

5. I wanted a theme to my blog... actually, I wanted a fashion blog but I knew that I didn't really have that many clothes, and they're not really all that "fashion-y" and I'm not a total babe, like all the fashion bloggers are.

Well, I let go of my inhibitions of that last reason and decided to start a fashion blog.... as you can see. It's mainly because I recently purchased some absolutely gorgeous shoes, as shown above on picture 3.

I'm in love - truly and utterly in love.

Anyway... the title is kind of an in joke between two of my best friends and me, and kind of a pun because it's similar to "essence of being" except it's essence of be, because my nickname is Be. But it's barely even a nickname - or an ekename, whatevs - anymore. It's my name.
This isn't going to be a daily thing - whenever I get around to it.

So... see you then, readers (ha-ha!) and dearest, newest, blog

Stylishly (wishingly)
LittleBig,
aka Be.