Stuck in a rut; that's not fetch

Getting stuck in a fashion rut over winter is common occurrence (with me, anyway) and sometimes the cycle can be hard to break. Here are some tips to help staying fetch and keeping warm!

In winter, I always find my default item of clothing is jeans. They are warm, comfortable and durable, the perfect pair of trousers for crisp autumn mornings or winter walk. But the habit of slipping on a pair of jeans can be hard to break. Here's some ideas of how to mix it up featuring a mustard cardigan from Joules:

Joules navy dress / Joules yellow cardigan, $79 / H&M low rise corduroy pants, $40 / Opaque tight / Joules denim mini skirt, $79 / Seychelles rose tight / Jack Wills leather loafer / FS/NY ballet shoes / Navy Dog Womens Welly Print Printed Wellies | Joules, $59

Corduroys: Corduroys are a great alternative to jeans as they are still warm, comfortable trousers that are easy to throw on without a second thought. They also come in tons of amazing colours as well as the basic colours of black, navy and green

Denim Skirt and tights: This is always a fun outfit to play with. I like a mid length skirt and a pop of colour on the tight to brighten up an overcast autumn day. Jewel tones such as purples, mustards and emeralds really liven up autumnal colours such as navys, blacks and browns.

Wrap dress and ballet flats: A wrap dress is a must for autumn/winter. It's sophisticated, yet playful and easily paired with opaque tights and ballet flats.

Stay fetch and warm with autumn!

Keep Dorking On,

A x

Scrap the schedule!

I've realised that the schedule that I set as a target for this blog is going to be unattainable during this coming year. It's a big year for both S and I and we feel like we would be doing a disservice to you adorkables promising posts and not delivering.

We're very sorry, but we hope you enjoy our post when we can!

Keep Dorking On,

A x

One step at a time

Okay, this is going to be mainly aimed at myself.

I really need to learn to SLOW DOWN. It's okay not to be perfect at everything first time round. I am a classic overachiever and, especially after results day, I'm finding it quite hard not to beat myself up over the little things. One mark off a grade. Not running as far as I did the week before. Not creating enough blog posts (sorry!).

Sometimes I just need to step back and RELAX. The simplest things in life are the greatest pleasures. Here's my list of great simple pleasures to help unwind.

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Baking: As cliche as it may sound, baking is brilliant. It always gives me time to unwind and think things through before making a rash decision or getting upset. (And you end up with a yummy treat at the end!)

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Music: Whether it be listening to it or playing it, music is extremely therapeutic. Let yourself get lost in a melody or a bass line and you'll forget all your troubles!

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Walking: Go walking, get lost, have an adventure. Fresh air and beautiful scenery can always help clear a clouded mind. (Same goes for running)

How do you relax in your most stressed period? Tell us in comments below!

Keep Dorking On,

A x

Good Luck!

This is a quick post to say Good Luck to all the adorkables

 out there who are getting results tomorrow!

As recipients of tomorrow's results, WE KNOW HOW YOU FEEL SISTA!

GOOD LUCK!

Here's some pictures of cake and Klaine to calm you down

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Muchos muchos love and hugs, 

Keep Dorking On,

A x

That's quite FETCHing; Pashmina Scarves

Come rain or shine, you can almost guarantee that I'll be wearing a pashmina.

Many people scoff and scorn at the idea of pashminas, calling them 'terribly MC' (middle class) and constantly saying 'gosh, you must be hot with that on'. Well, no. I honestly love the fact that pashminas are as middle class as I am and they often help to keep the temperature just right for me.

Another great thing about pashminas are the endless colours, patterns and style that they come in. They are a  staple accessory to any outfit for me and the  most common phrase heard in my house is 'just put a pashmina over it' (above 'darling, you know I love you but...' and 'could you make me a cup of tea'. Terribly MC, I know), with no regards as to what you are wearing. This versatility makes it my go-to.

My 'classic' pashmina is a navy blue one. I wear it so often that I am refered to as 'pashmina girl' by my friends (either that or 'ponytail queen' (I wear ponytails A LOT))

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Other type of pashmina that I love are floral patterned ones. I have a pink patterned one from Istanbul that always adds a POP to an outfit and keeps me smiling in the winter

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Plain or Patterned? How do you wear yours? Tell us in the comments below!

Keep Dorking On,

A x

Break-outs are so not fetch

Yes, they happen. And here's how I get over them!

It's taken me ages to find the right product for my skin, but now I've found it I won't ever use anything else. I get oily skin that dries out quickly (if that makes any sense?!) so I needed a product that would take away the oily-ness without drying it out completely, as some products do, and an accompanying moisturizer that won't make my skin oily for the rest of the day, tough challenge, I know!

Whilst at the beauticians, I was recommended Clean Start, the teenage range from Dermalogica, and it works perfectly for me!

I use:

Clean Start Wash off (am and pm), great all round cleanser

Clean Start Ready, Set, Scrub (am, 3-5 times a week), brilliant feel, not too heavy. I don't use this everyday as it is quite strong but it works miracles

Clean Start Bedtime for Breakouts (pm, leave on whilst sleeping, wash off in morning) brilliant for breakouts,  clear them up in one or two uses, but I use it about 4 times a week to be safe

Drum roll please! My miracle moisturizer! Clean Start Welcome matte (am, everyday) Perfect balance of hydrating and light. Love it, wouldn't swap it for the world

Clean Start Hit the spot (when needed) this spot on treatment is for that pesky zit that just popped up this morning that no amount of concealer will cover.

Other things to consider with break-outs are:

• Diet (too many eggs and chocolate always make me break out)
• Exercise (are you getting enough?)
• Sun light! (The vitamin D helps clear up spots)

Don't worry about the spots, Keep Dorking On,

A x

P.s This post was in NO WAY sponsored by Dermalogica or any affiliates, I'm just trying to help by writing about my personal experiences!

Some not quite so fetch changes

Adorkables, today is a sad day.

14th of August for me always symbolises the start of the back to school fortnight. Over here in the UK we always start school the week beginning/containing the 1st of September so this is the time that I start gearing my thoughts back towards school and what this year will entail.

Luckily, I chose all of my subjects last year and should have, more or less, the same teachers, classmates and rooms (Please say  it's not just me that gets anxiety about trying to find a seat in class when there isn't a seating plan? Just the thought stresses me out!). And I start the subject I swapped in back in May so nothing should be new!

Now for the bad new, adorkables. This impending doom of school will mean less frequent posting! Yes, S and I are extremely sorry but we reasoned that posting every day, on top of the heaps of coursework, just isn't feasible for us at this period in our lives.

So, the new posting schedule will be:

Post on Monday

Post on Wednesday

Friday Feature - 'That's quite FETCHing'

Saturday showdown

We really don't want to cut down like this, but we feel it is a neccesity in keeping up the juggling act throughout the coming school year

Keep Dorking On,

A x

When do you go back to school? Thoughts, feelings, dreads? Tell us in comments below! 

Saturday Showdown; Marilyn vs Audrey - Round 1: Marilyn!

Oh Norma Jean!

It almost sounds like a fairy tale; the daughter of an unwed mother spends childhood being sent all over the country to various, mostly unhappy, foster homes, gets married at an early age, and that's unhappy too, and then, after being both poor and unhappy for most of her life, she becomes one of the most successful actresses in Hollywood, a sex symbol (although she didn't really enjoy that bit, and I quote 'a sex symbol is a thing. And I just hate to be a thing') and an icon. It's not a fairy tale, though, and the ending is far more tragic that Cinderella's, but all the same - Marylin Monroe is just as iconic as a Disney Princess. Perhaps more.

Her films- Some Like It Hot, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How To Marry A Millionaire to name a few- have come to not only showcase but define an era of Hollywood's history that seems impossible now. An era where romance and glamour ruled over all, where the paps only saw what you wanted them to see, where affairs remained secret and were never splashed over the front page of a newspaper (yes, K-Stew, I'm looking at you) unless the adulterers wanted it to be, and where the Queen of Hollywood was a woman who was once known as Norma (a name I, by the way, think should totes come back in to fashion). Her characters and films are iconic because she was iconic, and from the white dress-over-the-subway-grate scene in The Seven Year Itch to that last line of Some Like It Hot, they have entrenched themselves so deeply into pop culture that even Madonna, an icon herself, borrowed her look and stuck it on an album cover.

And it's not just her films that have made her iconic (although they did help. Obvs.), her turbulent and whirlwind romances in the public eye, that were so far removed from her rumoured-to-be-forced first marriage all those years ago, seemed to reiterate the romances of her films. Her elopment with baseball star Joe DiMaggio, for example, sounds like a Hollywood script. Ignoring their divorce nine months later, of course. 

And her marriage to the playwright Arthur Miller - the Intellectual and the Showgirl! They were sad, yes, because they ended badly, but boy, were they proper Hollywood romances. No Brangelina nonsense for Norma! 

Ah, yes, now we're getting to the real reason she's an icon - Marylin herself. Not only did she ooze sex appeal, something that scandalised Hollywood at the time (oh how times have changed!) but she was graceful and sweet - hell, even one of her most famous characters was called Sugar Kane! And even though her story has the saddest ending, and, despite all her hard work, critics still slated her acting, she is iconic because she embraced the idea of dreams and fantasies, once famously saying 'I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.' Because she was. Men wanted her- perhaps not in the way they'd want Grace Kelly, but they wanted her all the same- and all the little girls who wanted to be actresses wanted to be her too, because she was oh-so-beautiful and oh-so-glamourous and oh-so-adored. And in the end, that's all anyone wants to be, isn't it? Adored? 

So that, adorkables, is why I think Marylin Monroe is an icon.

That's quite FETCHing; Skirts

There's something incredibly timeless and feminine about skirts. They're flouncy, flowy, and down right awesome. It's just something thrilling and magical about pulling on a skirt and gliding through the rest of the day.

Some (and by some, I mean lots) of people, friends, family, even random classmates have questioned why I love wearing skirts and try to argue that 'skirts represent oppression of women and they give in to men's ideals of femininity'. To those people, I say 'shut the hell up, skirts are awesome' because, well, they are.

While trousers are all well and good, I believe skirts give girls something that is uniquely 'us'. Boys don't wear skirts (I mean, they could if they wanted to, but they don't). I always gain a certain air of confidence whenever I wear a skirt.

Skirts can express so much in so many different ways, like loud patterns or bright colours, and get away with it because, hell, it's a skirt!

Here's some of my favourite skirted outfits:

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(this is me!)

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How do you wear yours? Loud, subtle, classic?

Tell us in the comments below!

Keep Dorking On,

A x

The Weather is being neither adorkable, nor fetch

Legend has it that long, long ago when flares were still in and 

collars were pointy, it was sunny in August.

Now, I don't know about you, but I'm finding it very hard to believe said legend. Because it's August. And it's not sunny. Cloudy, yes. Rainy, sometimes. But sunny? No. And it's not even like the not-sunny that is so awesome in the winter - the whole 'feels like a day that never started' thing that just makes you want to stay in your onesie (onesies = fetch) all day and watch shed loads of Audrey Hepburn movies (Audrey Hepburn = fetch, you'll find out why on Friday) and eat an entire box of Cabury Celebrations (chocolate = fetch). Oh no, it's the kind of potential-sin that sucks so badly and is commonly referre to by my Mother as 'Cardigan off - Cardigan on' weather. Because that's exactly what it is. Confusing much.

You can't make a decision on what to wear in the morning because you know that by half past two it'll be raining, and that by half past six it'll be 25 degrees and you'll want it to be raining again because it's so darn hot and then it actually will start raining again and you'll raise your fist to the sky and cry 'It's August, damn you! August!'. Then you remember that the sky, despite what your English teacher may insist about pathetic fallacy, is not an actual person and therefore can't hear you.

Or is it just me who does that?

But even if it is just be who does that, dear reader, it doesn't detract from that fact (hey! that rhymes!) that the current weather at this very moment in time, sucks. So I'm putting all my hopes/wishes/prayers on the very concept of consistent sun during September. Because playing hockey in the rain is so not fetch.

Keep Dorking On,

S

Have an adorkably fetch day!

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Keep Dorking On,

A & S

I'm currently dorking over: New Mumford and Sons album, Babel

Okay, firstly I'd just like to say, AAHHHH!!

Let's get on with the show, shall we?

Three years ago, almost to this day, I fell in love with not one, but four adorkable men who make up the folk-rock group Mumford and Sons. Their soulful vocals and truthful lyrics make them my go-to band, whatever mood I'm in, everything speaks to me at different levels.

Their new album Babel is out on 24th of September and is available for pre-order now (I've pre-ordered it because I'm a total Mumford dork).

Our first sneak peek of Babel, a song called 'I Will Wait', was played on Radio 1 on Tuesday, 7th of August. Video below.

If you've never listened to Mumford and Sons before, I'd suggest listening to their first album 'Sigh No More', which includes tracks such as 'Little Lion Man', 'The Cave', 'Sigh No More' and 'Winter Winds'. More good frock (folk-rock) artists include:

• Laura Marling
• Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit
• Ben Howard (who I'm seeing live in November!)
• Bon Iver

How do you feel about Frock? Love it or Loathe it?

Keep Dorking On,

A

Welcome to Our World!

Hi there! 

It's Abigail and Sennen here. Welcome to Our World.

We're nerds, geeks, fangirls, dorks. And we love it. 

Adorkably Fetch is going to be our little home on the big wide interwebz to share with you anything and everything we think is adorkably fetch. Movies, TV shows, books, fanfic, clothes, anything. Hold on, because you're in for a white-knuckle ride into the depths of teenage girl-dom. Here's some pictures of kittens in cups for your troubles:

Keep Dorking On,

A&S