If you haven't already checked out Recollection's Fall/Winter collection, now is the time to do so! I'm partnering up with Recollection to offer a $100 gift certificate towards a purchase in their new online store.
How to enter…
1. Visit Sandra-Murphy.com and comment below about your favorite RECOLLECTION item.
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3. Share this giveaway on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook (mentioning @recollectionNYC)
You can enter multiple times (Maximum seven) but be sure to leave a separate comment for each entry. Also, the more ways you enter, the better your chances to win!
Be sure to leave your email address on each entry so we can contact you if you win!
Giveaway will close Thursday night and the winner chosen at random. Contest is open to International entries.
In addition to the giveaway a 10% discount is being offered on any purchase with the code "vixen10off" at checkout. Offer expires October 7th.
Remember the post I did a few weeks ago, about funding an online store for Recollection? Well, thanks to all the support, the Recollection online store is now open!
The woman behind the label, Sandra Murphy, asked me to style a dress from her Autumn/Winter 2013 collection, and I can safely say this dress will be a wardrobe staple for years to come. There are so many ways to accessorize it! Now that a chill is in the air it's the perfect opportunity to add a cozy sweater and adventure seeking boots.
Although the cardigan is something I made, it looks quite a bit like The Miss Woolford Cardigan available on the site!
It's cotton (yay!) so it'll be a year round dress, layering with tights and scarves in winter and adding nothing but a brooch in spring. Everything from the seam finishing to the small details make the frock extra special, and all her clothing is made in the U.S. which is becoming more and more important to me. So do check out the new line at Recollection, and stay tuned for a giveaway!
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Mrs. Belmont dress-Courtesy of Recollection
Sweater and hat-Handmade by me
Boots-Antique store
Brooch-Urban Eccentric
This weekend Sam and I finished both seasons of Once Upon a Time on Netflix. I started it a few weeks ago but after getting back from Disneyland and seeing some of the costumes on display, I wanted to get back into it. And then I accidentally got Sam hooked on it too, so a sick day turned into a Once Upon a Time marathon.
It's a show about all those familiar storybook characters we know from books and movies, who get cursed into living in our world. They don't remember they're from a magical world, and they can't leave the town, which is ruled by the evil queen who of cast the spell and of course remembers everything. You still with me?
Her adopted son finds his birthmother and brings her to the town thinking she can break the curse. He figures this out from a book of stories he carries around and spots parallels in the characters in the book, and the townspeople. So each episode jumps between the present in this world and the past in their world.
It's a really fun show, the costumes are over the top, there's such nice eye candy (I do appreciate quality eye candy), the twists on classic fairy-tales are so interesting, and best of all the female rolls are anything but traditional damsels in distress. It's a mainstream show with an even male/female ratio and comparative complexity in their stories and personalities, and that alone makes it good in my book.
{Screencaps from here}
