Rainbows, lollipops & roller skates

If the good Lord had intended us to walk,

he wouldn't have invented roller skates. 

 Willy Wonka

I had so much fun taking these photos. I hadn't put on my roller skates in yeeeeears. It was great to know I can still skate and putting together this outfit was half of the fun. Skates are '80s retro so of course everything else followed. There's a whole story behind that jacket Back in 2011 I participated in a Fringe festival project in Dublin. A woman decided to declutter her house and opened up a shop, giving away all her stuff, in exchange for advice on lots of different things. She had a list of questions, and you could pick one question in exchange for one item. The website for the project is still up. So that's how I got this jacket. I wore this same pink tutu at Pride this year. You can't really see it but it sparkles. The skates I bought a while ago in Office. And the Star Wars backpack I borrowed from Karen. She says it's from Tesco and it used to contain boys swimwear? You can never have too much Star Wars stuff, especially borrowed stuff. 

Oh and if you squint you can see Pippi Longstocking on my necklace. It comes from Barcelona, I wish I remember the name of the shop.

Now my once-injured foot hurts but it was so worth it.

Thanks to Karen for all the photos and video <3

Details:

Pink tutu ~ Claire's 

Jacket ~ Topshop, swapped for life advice.

Skates ~ Office, a long time ago

Stripey top ~ charity shopped

Glitter heart shades ~ Penney's (Primark) a good while ago

Gloves ~ a present

Frozen hearts

There's so much I love about this outfit. For starters, I got to wear this red cardigan I bought a while back in Barcelona and somehow never wore. It's cold here in Ireland and the little cardi is flimsy and low cut. But it's so pretty. I need to find more ways to wear it. Then the dress underneath. It's from my favourite shop in Dublin, called Carousel. It has lots of vintage-inspired and real vintage clothes. There's hardly ever anything there than I don't like. They don't stock this dress anymore, but have a look anyway, they have so many more gorgeous things. They always fit perfectly and they're super comfortable. And my little necklace. I LOVE it. My friend Karen got it for me, and she got one for herself too, so we can play at being twins. The hat is hers too. I need to increase my hat collection. So far it amounts to one, purple and sparkly. Not very versatile. 

My kind neighbour saw her taking photos of me and he offered to take a photo of us together, so here she is. Maybe this will encourage her to start a blog of her own:)

Details:

Cardigan ~ Tiralahilacha

Dress ~ Carousel 

Hat ~  Primark/Penneys

Necklace ~ present (from Primark too, I think)