A casual camouflage Sunday

Today was a much needed lovely lazy Sunday.  I don't get many of those (you will soon discover that I am a total workaholic as well as a shopaholic).  So I'll have to confess that little thought went into I wore, as I rather relished picking Friday's clothes off of the back of a chair and sticking them on.  But I still really like this outfit, it's casual, comfortable and understated but the little flashes of gold make it feel a bit cheerier and glam it up a bit...

Whoops!  Forgot to take off my specs

Am I ever going to get this photo taking thing? 

Ah, that's better! Just edit out the head...
Zara shirt
Beige sheer T-shirt 
(I got a zillion of these in different colours off ebay from China and they were about £4 each. Bargs. 
Oh, you can still get them! - here you go)
Topshop Necklace
Primark black jeggings
Nikita Boots - Office

I am really going to have to find a better set up for taking these pictures and try to remember to do it daylight. Here is a better picture of the Zara studded camouflage shirt I'm wearing:
  

Zara top (see more studded shirts)

I LOVE this shirt.  I bought it back  in September when I was stocking up for work and it is definitely a purchase I do not regret.  I'm not really a camouflage sort of girl, but I saw this and that thing where I instantly come up with about a thousand outfits happened.  It was £40 which I felt a bit sick about the time but I have got loads of wear out of it already. 

I got it a little big so that I can wear it as a "jacket" over jeans and a t-shirt, like I have done today.  It is equally great over dresses in the same jacket-y guise, especially when you want to dress them down a bit.  Or I can button it and wear it as a modern take on a button down with jeans or a skirt (tucked in, left out, sloppy tucked, sleeves rolled, etc, etc I could go on and on). The green is a neutral and the studs and gold accents make a regular casual-leaning shirt more interesting, modern and dressier so it would be fab with jeans and heels for a night out, although I've yet to actually do that, I must (watch this space)! It looks great against dark or light solids and is the perfect element for pattern mixing, and it's just right when you're travelling or don't know what to wear; you can just throw on and it basically makes an outfit instantly.  

I think you will be seeing A LOT of this baby!

Lots of chat about The Challenge today and also received loads of messages, and phone calls of encouragement so I'm feeling very positive and excited, as well as bloody petrified I won't pull it off because EVERYONE WILL KNOW...  

Spotted a gorgeous red dress in a shop window and DIDN'T EVEN GO IN.  Dead proud. It's ridiculous. Especially because technically I could have bought it because The Challenge doesn't officially start until the 1st. Smug, I am. 

And then, of course, I was linking the stuff above for you guys and  I found these and nearly caved. I mean they are £2.99!  and the yellow, blue and black would be the perfect things to get me through The Challenge over the summer *plans a gazillion worth of outfits in head*  Oh, God.  I feel sick.  I need to go to bed

It's nearly Monday now... *sigh* 

One week until The Challenge REALLY begins...