Secret Santa

My friends and I have a small Christmas tradition of meeting up the weekend before Christmas to exchange our Secret Santa presents. One of the main rules apart from the budget is to make sure the present would actually be useful as we all agreed years ago that giving someone a present they won't use is a bit of a waste of money and slightly annoying.

We also do the Secret Santa raffle months in advance so we have enough time to think of a nice gift for each other which is one of the best things as everyone gets something really nice.

Yesterday we met up at the local pub for drinks and a festive gift exchange and this skirt was the present I got from my Secret Santa ! I was actually really over the moon getting a skirt as a secret Santa present, honestly I can't think of anything else that I would be happy with, I love wearing skirts and having a new skirt for Christmas makes me happy.

This one is kind of unusual which makes me like it even more and I can't wait to wear it as it would be such a  great skirt to wear with a simple black jumper which is probably my current favourite combination when it comes to casual outfits.

It's time for the winter blues

Top COS , Skirts Pull and Bear , H&M , Scenario

As the days are getting colder I find it harder and harder to dress myself up in the morning, living in a cold and dark flat doesn't make winter mornings a fun experience and as usual getting ready for work is where this shows the most when it comes to dressing up or just taking a photo of an outfit I had in mind.

Today was no different, I had my mind set on wearing the blue top/sweatshirt from COS for days and just had to get it to work right but somehow couldn't.

Some people might think it's not such a big deal, but I've been avoiding blue garments for a long time, until I caved in and got this top a few months ago, mainly because I loved the contrasting collar.

I'm not sure where my issues with blue start, but I can only remember a discussion during  my high school days when the popular girls declared how wearing black and blue is so wrong, being a fan of black and adhering to the fashion 'tips' from the popular girls from high school stuck with me for years so I kept avoiding anything blue until recently when I realised I actually kind of like the black and blue combination, despite the fact it's one giant  fashion faux-pas according to some. 

So there it goes, I got this top when it started getting colder and haven't had many opportunities to wear it so today I decided to give it a test run with the three skirts I thought would work best. My favourite look was the leather looking skirt paired with the top but as I was going to work I thought rocking that skirt might be a bit of an overkill for a casual work outfit so I stuck with the boucle like skirt from Pull and Bear which I have a strange love and hate relationship with, but that's probably a story for another time...