BACK with a Motel treat!

Helllooooooooooo,

It's been a while since I last blogged BUT fear not!! I am back and back with a treat for all you Motel wearing lovers. If like me you love all things Motel then you will be pretty happy to hear that Motel are having a 2 day SAMPLE SALE, next week *scream* .

If you have never been to a Motel sample sale before then you are in for a treat. I have been to one of their samples sales before and take it from me, it was pretty amazing. I walked out with lots and lots of bags full of yummy things that were very debit card friendly!

So, what are the details? OK, right...

                            Dates to mark in your i phone/ BB/ paper chase diary: 6th and 7th March 2014
                            What time? 10am-7pm on both days.
                            Venue: 71-73 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 7LP (behind Topshop/Miss Selfridge, Oxford Circus)

.. and there is more. The lovely people at Motel have sent me a £5 off voucher for all 'Just call me Shoe-na' readers. (See below) to use at the sample sale. All you have to do is print the voucher off and take it along to the sample sale.





I am going to get my motel sample shop on, on the Friday, so if you are popping down, look out for the girl with the BIGGEST pile of clothes, 'oohing' and 'ahhing' as I go through my pile.

Just add sequins

Take one vintage top, my ever so trusty pair of boyfriend jeans and one pair of fierce shoes and this what you get:

Outfit
Top- Shrug worn back to front, Vintage
Boyfriend jeans, J by Jasper Conran (Debenhams)
Shoes, Topshop
Bag, J&P available at Topshop

As a gal who loves to wear sequins all year round, I dug out this top to wear to brunch and cocktails (did someone say dry January?) last weekend. I last wore this top back in 2012 which was featured here 
I will confess that I only remembered I had this top when I stumbled across an old picture of me wearing it, 2 years ago! This promoted me to add to my 'list of things to do in January', a ' keep one whole weekend free to do a SERIOUS wardrobe (s) clear/sort out'.  It is LONG overdue to be honest....I might actually do a blog post about it as I have a feeling I will 'find' lots of hidden gems along with things I no longer need (I am the worst hoarder ever).

As January is 'no money month', I will definitely sell some bits on ebay or take them down to my fave vintage/exchange shop:bangbang. Watch this space.

xx

Happy 2014!!

Image found on pinterest

Happy New Year!!

Wow! 2014!!!  I always find the start of a new year quite strange. It's exciting and scary (?) at the same time. It's sort of a chance to 'start again',  learn from the mistakes experiences from the previous year and of course, there I say it make some resolutions. I stumbled across this quote/image by Oprah (love this woman), on Pinterest and I had to feature it in my first 2014 post as it pretty much sums up all what I have just said about the start of a new year.

Do I have any resolutions? Hell yes! a list that includes a mixture of blogging goals, career goals, health and diet improvements, oh and a few style resolutions. Now let's just hope I can actually keep them!

What are some of your 2014 resolutions xx

Happy Fabulous Christmas

So the big day is almost here. With only 3 sleeps until Christmas 2013, I would like to take some time to wish all those who have read my blog and supported me along this crazy but exciting fashion journey, a very fabulous Christmas!!!

How am I spending it? With the family,eating wayyyy to much turkey, chocolate, mince pies, drinking mulled wine and the rest and dancing  around the Christmas tree. I am also having to work in between Christmas which is a shame BUT hey ho, it could be much worse.... somehow....

I am thinking of doing a sort of mini review of 2013 as this year has been one heck of a year, full of many ups but also downs but let's see.

Have a good week xx

xxx

All black everything...

Ummm, so after weeks of trying to block out that it is Christmas very soon, I am now grabbing it by the horns and embracing it. Now don't get me wrong, I love Christmas but the last few months (as other freelancers probably can relate) has been manic. As a result my blog (my fashion baby), has been a little neglected, but I am now back and ready to get my blogging on!!

So look out for more regularly blogging this week.

I wore this black ensemble on Saturday night out- cocktails and nibbles anyone?

I rarely wear black from head to toe, but recently I have been having a huge love affair with everything black!!

I snapped up this maxi, mesh panel number months ago, when H&M were having one of their 25% off (in collaboration with Grazia), so I only paid a very a debit card friendly price of £9.99 (bargain baby).

As Tis' is the season to partyyyyy, I am pretty sure this black beauty will have a few more outings.

Thoughts on the outfit? 

Mafia style

Last month I assisted a very FAB stylist, on a Mafia themed fashion shoot for Style Noir magazine.

This was my first menswear shoot and I loved every second of it!  Here are one of the snaps from the shoot (courtesy of style noir magazine)

The magazine is on sale now :)

                                       All images are courtesy of Style Noir Magazine

In the press: Best of Black British Bloggers

So, a few weeks ago, this happened:

Reporter from The Voice newspaper (on the phone): "Your blog has been selected as one of the Best Black British blogs"

This is a HUGE honour!!  I grew up reading The Voice and I also list my blog as one of my proudest achievements, so to be recognised is a great feeling!!

Click on the link below to read the article.


http://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/best-black-british-bloggers