Mary-go-round

Readers will most likely think I'm freakishly obsessed with all things brightly coloured and printed. A while ago I posted about Mary Katrantzou, the London-based designer who is generating bucket-loads of excitement of late for her most recent project - a collaboration with Topshop. It's not the first time Mary has paired with the superstore, she designed two small lines a couple of years back, both incredibly successful. This nine-piece collection follows Katrantzou's trademark hyper-real garden-inspired patterns, vivid colours, and structured shapes. The collection is set to land in store and online on February 17 and I can't wait to try and get my hands on one of the dresses.

DIY neon yellow collar necklaces

I've been pretty obsessed with Sass & Bide's The Life Exotic necklace for the last couple of months. Also having been utterly inspired by the lovely Geneva's DIY version of the necklace over at A Pair & a Spare, I decided to finally jump on the bandwagon with my attempt. 


I bought the two necklaces from Diva accessories at 2 for $30 (bargain!) and bought some Dy-Mark spray paint in white and fluro yellow. The trick with this process is really to build up with lots of light layers slowly rather than one big thick layer, which I learnt the hard way after the paint started flaking off after one big coat. So I started again and followed Geneva's steps and voila! Here is the result and I can't wait to wear them both.