Stuck at home during LFW?

Yes, I know that London Fashion Week was last week, but this applies for any fashion week in any country. Ever find yourself strapped for cash (or out of time) so can't make the journey to fashion week? Or perhaps you live in an isolated place, such as Guernsey (where I reside for the whole year, bar the occasional trip to Sark or Herm, which are the islands just off Guernsey) and you can't really go to the events? Well, I am one of these sad (and oh so sorrowful) people who couldn't attend anything to do with LFW! So I'll let you know what I've been doing instead and who I've been living vicariously through to get a little bit of the action (that sounds a bit wrong - my apologies). So~

Things to do while NOT at London Fashion Week:

1. Take a look around the World Wide Web and have a look at the LFW inspired items available (after all, think of all the money we've saved by not going, don't want it to burn a hole in your pocket, now do we?)
2. Get inspired! Perhaps Lookbook would be a good place to start or if you prefer, just take a look at the various fashion photos on Tumblr (I like your shoelaces).
3. Re-organize your wardrobe or clothes-storing-equipment (haha, isn't that just a fancy phrase for wardrobe, oh well).

Or perhaps you would like to try something new for the upcoming Spring season and to really get in the S/S spirit?
I recently undertook two DIY projects~

Creating an acid-wash effect on a denim jacket using bleach:
It's super simple:
1. Fill a washing up bowl or basin with warm water.
2. Add 1 cup of bleach (or a little more if you'd like).
3. Scrunch up your jacket and submerge it in the bleach water and leave it there for about an hour.
4. Check every half hour to hour to see how much the bleach has worked and decide how bleached you would like your jacket to be.
5. When it's ready to be removed from the bleach water, rinse in thoroughly in cold running water and leave it to soak in a basin of cold water overnight.
6. Allow the jacket to dry after removing it from the cold water, and voila~ One acid wash jacket!

How to rip jeans!
Also very simple:
1. Decide where you like the rips and place a wooden block in the leg of the jeans under where you will be making a rip.
2. Use rough sandpaper to create the rips. Rub the sandpaper up and down and right to left until you have the rips you want!

See, tres facile mes amis *winks*

If you want to hear about LFW or other fashion weeks, there are websites available, just simply type the certain fashion week into your search engine and browse to your heart's content. However it's always good to hear from other bloggers, some of my favourites are Lily Pebbles (mostly a beauty blogger but fashion also) and Monica Barleycorn (an awesome fashion blogger).

Of course you can always do a nice homely activity, such as:
Baking, cleaning, reading (fashion or gossip, whatever floats your boat, cats?) magazines or a good book.

Have fun at home and I hope this post was helpful! Maybe I'll go to A/W fashion week, who knows.

Also I'm very sorry posts have been more infrequent recently, I'm doing the best I can at the moment with school and personal problems and such! Bear with, bear with (do you watch Miranda? haha)

Take care,
Louise <3