We went to visit my sister’s boyfriend’s family in NJ (ooh! A road trip!). Their house is beautiful and they had a real fireplace!!! I love fireplaces, and wish I had one. So I had to take a picture in front of it immediately. ;)
Matching Christmas ornament
I was told this device is used to squirt air at coals?
- Dress: Betsey Johnson knock-off
- Belt: vintage
- Cameo necklace: gift from a friend
- Tights: opaque red, Target
- Booties: Nine West
- Eyeshadow: Diva
When I brought this dress home from a shopping trip in Soho, nobody liked it. Mark accused it of being ‘last season Anthropologie’, and my sister said the fabric looked cheap. Even the color wasn’t something I’d typically wear – shimmery gray. But to me, the dress has its charm and *I* like it – the only criteria required. ;)
i love a real fireplace! my parents had one at their place. you look amazing as always, happy holidays!
I like the dress too. You look just like my friend Sammy in these pictures, only with redder hair.
Fireplaces are amazing. My family has one, and during the three weeks or so of winter that AZ has, we use it a lot. Mmmm. Now I want ot go home and roast marshmallows.
I love the dress on you! It really is unique. The second picture is my favorite I think.
You’re so beautiful!
Miranda
I think that dress is gorgeous. It’s certainly something that would be hard to wear, but you seem to have no trouble making it work. :)
I really love the style of the dress, especially the skirt part. Haha, and that thing you’re carrying isn’t just used for fireplaces, it was used in coal trains, as well. Keeps the fire hot!
Diva is my most favorite! I wear it at work a lot!
Cute!
Lucky me, I have a fireplace in two of my houses :P Unfortunatelly, I live in a small flat in Lisbon :( I wish I could live in my village or in Sines (south of Portugal), where my places are HUGE and cute.
Kiss from Portugal
GOOD FOR YOU!!! MOST PEOPLE WOULD NOT WEAR SOMETHING AFTER IT HAS BEEN REJECTED, BUT THE FACT THAT STUDE UP FOR THE DRESS IS REALLY AMAZING. BTW YOU LOOK GREAT IN THE DRESS
OHHH MY GOD I TYPED STUDE INSTED OF STOOD OOOOPSYS
The dress is fabulous.
that dress is so remarkably reflective!
Your hair looks so amazing, it’s a luminous s your dress.
Firstly, you look lovely as always.
Secondly, the dress really works quite nicely and you wear it well.
I do adore how it shines brightly in the light along with your hair :) ’tis most excellent.
There’s something that makes you not look like you in the first and last photo, though I’m not sure what.
We have a fireplace, but it doesn’t heat the room. It is nice to have, we’re going to use it on Christmas.
Ah yes, bellows. Fires get choked by their ashes and so you use the bellows to get oxygen to the coals. This is why it is so annoying to go camping with people who keep throwing random stuff on the fire. It just makes the fire die quicker! *end rant* haha!
I totally adore the dress, it looks fabulous on you!
wow! awesome dress! The fabric is so cool! Looks all weird and 3d kinda. It reminds me of Terminator when they shape shift and turn into that weird liquid metal, zinc? It looks ace on you anyway :)
As a HUGE fan of silver and ruffles, I must say that dress is simply amazing! Great pictures as always!
I love the dress!
i’m trying to save my natural wood fireplace. it’s so beautiful, but my parents want to replace it with a fake insertion. so far, i’ve managed to make the shelled out fireplace a favorite sleeping spot for the cats. that’s three in favor of keeping the fireplace!
I too think the dress is great, It looks like it would be amazing with a crinoline too. The styling you did with it it fab, the red tights with the red hair bring out your eyes, just lovely.
The dress is really cute! It looks great on you!
Hello! I love your outfits, you’re always looking great. I found this website by chance and I absolutely love it. The dress is simply fabulous, I think grey and red are looking great together. I recently bought red tights, just like yours, and didnt know how to combine them, now I got the idea. Greetings!!
Love the dress!! Very jealous of the booties too.
Love the dress. :)
It matches your shoes. <3
You look adorable! I love how the grey works with your hair. :) Which is gorgeous, btw.
Have you changed your hair colour again? It looks stunning and so shiny :)
I have a real fireplace too, but I live in Scotland where its essential due to the serious cold :|
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I absolutely love the dress, it is realy cute and the red realy makes your hair stand out:D also i love fireplaces. at my dads wer have an old wood stove that heats the place. its a neat experience.
I agree with your one criteria.
I’m not a huge fan of the dress as a whole, but I love the way that the fabric gives a Frank Miller-style high-contrast look in the photographs.
I think the dress is lovely. Beautiful choice.
Ooh you’re pretty like a fairy tales !^-^
I love this dress – both the colour and style, it’s lovely! But then I love anything silvery (:…
I’m not a silver person myself, but I do like the high-intensity shine the fabric has. Its a hard color for us redheads to wear, it totally blanches my skin if I don’t adorn it properly.
The matte color of the boots throws me off a little bit, but the contrast isn’t all that shocking with the red tights =)
I love your style. Thank you for being you! :)
How could anyone NOT love that dress? Especially on you, lady – simply stunning.
Fireplaces are great. And I love this dress, I think it looks amazing, and you wear it greatly. It also makes your hair really stand out.
And yes, that device is used just for that. :-)
Lovely pictures. I had a skirt once that looked like your dress.
You look amazing as always. :P The silver looks very festive on you. :) … so I figured out why I was having problems with the eyeshadow… apparently it doesn’t work as well if I use sponge applicator things… once I started using brushes, it made a whole lot more sense. Happy holidays!
Love the dress, the tights and the booties!!
I really liked the story that won : )
I have to ask, are you wearing Lime Crime eye shadows in these pics and if you are what shades? i LOVE this kind of look on you as well. The understated (but still unique and eye catching) make-up colors look amazing with your new flaming red hair.
I found that dress your wearing, it could possibly be the same one its so identical!
Forever 21
loving it
The dress looks amazing against your hair which is such a beautiful colour!
i really like the dress only that it is very shimmery but else i like it very much
xoxoxo
Wow! You’re really pretty. I’m amazed by your red hair colour and how it makes your eyes pop!
The dress is fantastic too.
Merry christmas!
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In Wisconsin, it’s weird not to have a fireplace. A lot of people have more than one!
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