Featured: knitted yellow snood

A new crush of mine is this knitted mustard yellow snood scarf that I bought when I visited Sweden over Christmas. I bought it at Indiska, which is a Swedish chain of shops that sell a unique mix of fashions and interior decorations inspired by India. It's a unique style of their products - a blend of Indian and Scandinavian design, with a modern bohemian twist, that radiates colours, patterns and energy.  

This scarf in particular is not very Indian inspired, except maybe for the colour. But please, have a look at the rest of their collection, and I'm sure you'll fall in love too.

Anyway, I just wanted to show you this new find of mine, and also show you different ways of wearing it; as a double scarf (which is my favourite), as a mix between a scarf and a hood, or as a bolero. It's also a perfect match to my yellow Wallis earrings that I bought early last year.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to you, my lovely readers!

Fashion Infatuation is more popular than ever, and I should hope so with all the time I’ve spent writing on this blog in the last year – I managed to write 100 posts in 2012! Not bad, not bad… That's an average of 2 posts per week.

Anyway, I thought I’d make this first post of 2013 about Christmas and New Year’s fashion, showing you what myself and my stylish colleagues wore to our Christmas party. Although – looking at the photos you’d think it was more of a New Year’s party with all the blingy dresses!

My glamorous team, including fashion blogger Martin from Martin Loves and TQS magazine to the left.

Another blogger colleague of mine is fellow Swede Kristina who runs the blog Mode of Style. We're really matching with our black, sparkly dresses. It's a shame the photo is black and white (stupid photographer!)

At our company Christmas party I was wearing this grecian style layered black dress in sheer material with a bit of sparkle under the bust.
The fellas looked handsome in their suits.

The love of my life and me. Love you hunny!

If I was to sum up my 2012 I would first of all say that it has been a very exciting year full of events.

I could babble on about this for ages, but let me save you from boredom by simply listing a few things in bullet points.

• I bagged myself a new job (within the same company) and I now work with blogger engagement. Very creative, indeed!
• I visited 3 countries I’ve never been to before – Mexico, France and Croatia. That’s 3 countries ticked off my list of places to visit before I die. Time to plan the holidays for 2013!
• I’ve been to some amazing concerts – Shinedown, Nickelback and Alanis Morissette.
• I adopted two tiny little girl cats.

What were your highlights of 2012? Anything you’re extra happy about?

Happy 2013 everyone, and let’s make this year even better than the last one! :D

Christmas has come early

Myself and some friends had a little Christmas present swapping session this weekend, and they had bought me some really lovely stuff! :) What I liked the most was this bronze nail polish, and some pretty jewellery.

 This nailpolish is from Topshop's own collection and is called 'Treasure'. It's a gorgeous bronze hue, and it feels as if it's of really good quality. I've only painted one coat in this photo.

Topshop has lots of really lovely nailpolishes of unusual colours, and with quirky glitter in them. I will definitely invest in some more polishes from there, and I can really recommend them.

 

 My friends also gave me these stunning earrings, and this stylish ring. They're both handmade with silver and real amethysts. Since they're handmade they're also unique, which I really like. The set is from Outrage jewellery in Leeds Corn Exchange.

 Here you can see the size of it compared to my finger. Just a good sized stone!

I really love swapping Christmas (as well as birthday) presents with friends, because after having moved away from home they are after all the ones who know me best, and know what sort of things I like :)

Cosy knit

 We're in the middle of December and it's starting to get really cold. Winter is not a favourite season on mine (far from it!) but what I do like about it are all the cosy knitted jumpers you get to wear. This light grey knitted jumper is a new buy from last weekend, and today was he first time I wore it.

 I found this jumper in the shop West One at White Rose shopping centre in Leeds, and for £22 I think it's quite a bargain. You can tell that it's of really good quality.
What I really like about it is the collar with the button details, as well as the super soft, comfy material. Although it's a knitted jumper it's very thin, which is a big plus, but it's still very warm.

 I'm a big fan of quirky earrings, and these are some of my favourites. I bought them a couple of years ago in a shop called Butterfly, and they're made of a silver coloured metal, with little lilac stones, and if you look close you can see prints of little fish on the dangly bits.

Dressed up military style

This military style dress in black is one of my favourite dresses. It's so versatile and can be matched with pretty much anything, whether it's for the office or for a night out. I just love everything about it; the cut, the big metal buttons, the waist, the slightly poofed shirt, as well as the details on the shoulders.

I've paired this dress from Jane Norman with a pair of military green tights from New Look, and high black faux-suede boots from Dorothy Perkins. I wore this outfit last weekend when I attended the Alanis Morissette concert in Liverpool.

The accessories are simple - glass jewellery in green, blue and bronze hues mixed with black. The necklace was bought in a little souvenir shop in Greece last year, and the ring is a Covent Garden market find from earlier this year.
And yes, for anyone that wondered... Alanis Morissette was amazing live!

Kardashian for Dorothy Perkins

I'm just having a browse around the Kardashian "kollection" over at Dorothy Perkins. The Kardashian sisters have created a range of clothes including dresses, tops, jeans and handbags, and the kollection’s official UK home from now on is highstreet shop Dorothy Perkins.

I don’t know very much about the Kardashians, except that Kim seems to have a fantastic wardrobe that most girls would do anything to get their hands on. Well, now you kind of can! Just head over to DP and have a look!

I would say that the Kardashian kollection has a theme of purple, lace and leopard print. You can see examples of some of the garments below. What do you think?

Lazy sunday

After having spent Friday and Saturday away in Liverpool (hotel stay and concert) I'm now treating myself to a lazy Sunday, mostly spent in the house.

Today I'm wearing this super comfy, but still stylish knitted grey jumper from Bank. I bought it last weekend on a little shopping trip to Leeds. What I really like about it is the loose fit (it's still tight over the hips), the cowl neck, and the light material. It has also got little zipper details on the shoulders, but you can't actually see that on the pictures (sorry!).

I spiced up my casual sunday outfit with this cute Fiorelli necklace in light blue, which was a birthday gift from Laura over at Top Style Advice.