2010: Bring It On

Happy New Year my lovelies!! Hope you all have a wonderful evening of celebrations :)

For Unto Us a Child Is Born

Yowza, I can't believe how quickly Christmas has come!!!

So from our home to yours, myself and Mr JR would like to wish you all a truly joyous Christmas full of love and happiness and a prosperous New Year

I heard this just the other day- such a lovely version!!

Have a wonderful holidays dears!!!

Hello Christmas

Evening dears!

Hope you've all had a wonderful pre- Christmas weekend... Oh yes, thats right: Christmas is so close now I can almost smell the turkey and mince pies!

So what better way to kick off the festivities than with some vintage fashion...

My eyes literally popped out of my head when I saw this... So perfect for some Yuletide fun:

Wine Formal Dress with matching Fur trimmed capelet $89 from SwanDarling on Etsy

I love capes :)

I love this cute, fairy inspired 'Doily' dress ($260) from ArmoursansAnguish also on Etsy. If you've never heard of them before they use recycled and reclaimed vintage material to make all of their uber fabulous clothing.. Hence, you really shouldn't feel guilty about splurging.. Y'know eco-consciousness and all that

Ok so this next one has already been SOLD(sob) by the lovely people at PoshGirlVintage but I think it deserves a special mention anyway. Ruby Red Velvet with subtle floral print- you don't get more Christmassy that this!

Thats all for now! I shall leave you with one of my favourite Christmas songs EVER.. never fails to put me in the mood!

Good ol' Nat

Muchos love,

The Wanderer Returns

Ok so I haven't actually been wandering... In fact, I've been quite stationary for this whole time.

Evening dear friends!!

Oh how good it is to be back at last! I have missed blogland(and its inhabitants) very, very much. To say the past two months have been a rollercoaster would be quite an understatement...

Firstly I'd like to thank you all for your wonderfully sweet comments on my previous few (mostly full of sickness) posts. They were a joy to read upon my release from hospital hell
Secondly, big hello and welcome to the new followers I've acquired over the past few weeks! I promise I will get back to proper blogging now =)

So where have I been? And what have I been up to??

Not much to be perfectly honest :) As JR explains here I have been quite poorly but am thankfully now on the mend. Big thank you to Mr JR for postig on my behalf and also for referring to me as 'witty, charming and cute'- major brownie points for you, Sir!!

Swine flu was hell. I don't think I need to go into any more detail there.. I think the confinement or 'conswinement'(geddit? geddit? swine flu+confinement=conswinement.. Har Har I'm SO funny) was the worst part though. Mind numbingly boring =(
Seriously ick.

I had had a small chest infection before the swine flu which steadily got worse and worse and worse until...

I found myself in hospital being investigated for all manners of nastiness which I won't depress anyone with here. Lets just say it wasn't nice. And in the end it turned out to be nothing at all! So finally after 19 long and torturous days I got out...

HALLELUJAH!!!

So for the past little while, myself and Mr JR have been trying to sort out the organised chaos we call life. Its mostly been spent either visiting friends or cleaning our apartment... In all his worrying, poor dear, Mr JR apparently forgot how to wash stuff. Hmmmp.. Typical man =P

Safe to say we are back into the hum of ordinary life again- Hurrah!

Now to the fun bit: Just when I thought I was over the obsession with Etsy, my absolute fave seller Audrey and Grace come out with this beauty:

Elegant Appliqued Wedding Gown $350

It has the sweetest Dove appliqué on the skirt ::swoon::

Maybe its the doves but it just screams Christmas wedding to me!! Fur capelet, lace gloves... Hello gorgeous yuletide bride

Speaking of Christmas: Only 31 days to go!!! The excitement is almost too much for me to take!! :)

Wedding Porn

Hello =) I'm back.. Did you all miss me??

Anybody following me on twitter will know I've been promising a very long post about where I've been for quite some time now.. Alas this is not the post!!

I will get round to it very soon I promise.

Though it is safe to say I am very much over my ailments and not a minute too soon! Hurrah!

So my major input for today.. I just had to share this with you! How freaking gorgeous is this wedding??

**Swoon**

Check out the rest of the dreamy pics over at Classic Bride.

Muchos love,

Blogging Hiatus

This is not going to be a fun post.. For a number of reasons:

1) It involved Wicked Frills taking a bit of a breather
2) Miss JK is in hospital
3) I am not JK but rather Mr JR and hence not nearly half as witty, charming or cute

I'm writing on behalf of my beautiful fiancée who, you may or may not have noticed, has been absent from blogland for the past number of weeks now. First there was swine flu, then a nasty chest infection and now... theres the small issue of a little shadow on her right lung which neither we or medical proffessionals are quite sure what it is. Nor do we know how serious it is =(

But it is safe to say she is in good hands and even though she'll never admit it, is quite enjoying being fussed over and spoiled rotten by practically everyone... And *hopefully* she'll be right as rain and back to you all again soon

Until then...

JR

Down the Swany

Or should that be 'swine-y'?!?!

Evening m'dears! Yes I am back. And not with good news I'm afraid :(

You see, Miss JK has somehow(despite rigorous handwashing to an almost obsessive compulsive level) managed to contract the much dreaded Swine Flu aka H1N1 Flu, to give its full title. I am feeling horrifically sick at the moment: stuffy head, headache, bone ache, temperature and a nose thats both runny and blocked all at the same time. Very frustrating. So I've spent the past 3 days either in bed or moping about the house. I haven't dresses properly or showered for any of those 3 days either. Ick, I know.

So lets not dwell on that!! The only good thing about it is now I have time to blog :) Yay! I've missed the thrill of discovering new followers with awesome blogs and email notifications of new comments.

And I've found lots of pretty things! :) Only todays the first day I've been well enough to sit down and share it all:

I've become a bit of a sucker for trawing PreOwnedWeddingDresses. I like being able to see how dresses really look on real brides. Its all very well having a 6ft model wearing it but what about the 5ft 2in munchkin who has to wear it?? Trust me when I say, more often than not, they look BETTER on real brides!!

Its filled to the brim with bargainous deals on the likes of Vera Wang, Monique Lhuillier, etc, etc but it also has a a tiny Vintage section which occasionally throws up some real gems:

Such as this original 1950s Ballgown for $450. The pics aren't great quality but wowee what a stunner this one is. Peking lace on the bodice plus a satin ribbon at the waist

And this gorgeous 2 piece Lace and Satin dress which to me looks to be 1920s/30s in design although I'm not sure. The owner lists it as 1950s-1970s. Either way it is beautiful! $695: an absolute steal!

Just look at the lace detail- so pretty!


Well thats all from me today! My nurse(Mr JR!) is insisting that its time I go back to bed and stop trying to give the laptop swine flu with my incessant sneezing/coughing/general spluttering all over it :)

Toodles!