The countdown

The last week before Christmas is probably my least favourite time of the year, mainly due to the fact that it's the busiest and most stressful week for me in my job, spending most of my time at work trying to make pre-holiday deadlines and conclude projects before the end of the year. It's one of weeks in which I spend most of my days and evenings at work in a mad race against time so on most days, I try to give myself a few extra minutes of sleep (or snooze) before the madness begins again so naturally getting dressed is not really a top priority which means I pretty much rely on whatever I can pull out of my wardrobe as fast as I can. Surprisingly those last minute 'in a rush' outfits are the ones I'm usually happiest with and my outfit for today is certainly one of those slightly messy but trusty outfits that I know I feel the happiest in, especially when I know I'm facing a very stressful week at work. 

Work from home

There's no better way to start the weekend then actually working from home on a Friday ! My job gives me a bit of flexibility and in the run-down to Christmas things are getting quieter so today was the perfect day to take things easy and skip the mad rush into the office and setup my temporary office in my local cafe. To celebrate my work from home moment, I decided to dress appropriately for my work session and pretty much wear 'whatever' because no one would actually care. I always enjoy finding a good excuse for a lazy outfit and this one is certainly the mother of all lazy outfits, just put a giant cardigan on whatever you wear and you're sorted! I have no idea why but I decided it would be absolutely essential to wear a necklace to 'break all the black' before I packed my laptop and shuffled down the street to start my 'working from home' day, I suppose it does give a bit of a 'glamourous' touch to this outfit that could perfectly double-up as a pyjama any other day. 

Oh joy

I always feel a little adventurous when I get dressed during the weekends, I suppose it's always a good excuse to try out all sorts of outfits I had in my head and see if it goes well or turns into a total failure, this was one of these outfits that I just thought could work but just couldn't completely convince myself it did. When I try to test an outfit, I'm usually not really happy with it until I actually go out and wear it outside, if I walk around all day feeling uncomfortable and constantly having to fix it , then I know it doesn't really work. So this outfit was exactly it, to be honest I wasn't sure it would work the minute I put it on but was a bit too lazy to change things so told myself it's all going to be fine when I left the house and worst case scenario I had my coat to cover the mess If I start feeling really uncomfortable, perhaps I should have given it a second thought before I left the house because I wasn't feeling it worked right, but I guess there's always the photos and the posts here to remind me what's good and what's not and luckily I actually enjoy those 'not so great' outfit days after all.