pick me up! london graphic arts festival.

A couple of weeks ago we went to visit  Jam and Ali aka hello DODO at Pick Me Up, a yearly graphic arts festival held at Somerset House, London.

Lazy Oaf 

Lazy Oaf

Lazy Oaf

hello DODO were part of the Best Room and when we went to visit it was PACKED! We came back just before close to take some snaps!

Best

Best

hello DODO's work in the Best Room

I couldn't help but buy some of the gorgeous pieces and I snapped up a graphic print by RISOTTO and a FUN print in the Lazy Oaf Room.

We listened to Cathy Olmedillas from ANORAK talk about their new Magazine DOT. I love listening to successful business people saying that they didn't have a plan, they were winging it or they went against others advice but still SMASHED IT!

It was a visual delight of colours and patterns and you should definitely go along next year! Did any of you go this year, which was your favourite room, or piece?

ROAR!

Karli

WIWT. OOTD.

An OOTD, WIWT, me in clothes post! Encouraged by the Brighton Etsy Team members I have decided to do my first outfit post...

My wonderful sister took the photos for me and I'm not sure who will take my next ones without laughing at me!

I was visiting my family and we were off out for lunch, not that that made much difference to what I have chosen to wear as this is probably my favourite dress at the moment and I nearly always wear my Nikes unless I have to wear "grown up" shoes.

Please ignore the yellow-y tinge to my hair, I dyed it fluro yellow and this is the remains as I wait for it to wash out properly! Brassy is Chic.

Trainers | Nike Air Force 1
Dress | Lazy Oaf
Tights | American Apparel
Necklace | designosaur (obvs)

Clutch | ASOS (present from Toby, thanks Toby! - I'm not going to link it cos I'm not going to look it up, cos that's rude.)

Rings [L - R]

Green Glass | Partially Obscured
Silver confetti cloud | Pylones
FUN | Lazy Oaf
White "milky" rectangle | Plyones

Heart Spin the Bottle | Me and Zena
Lilac Unicorn | designosaur
Gold Zig Zag | River Island
Pyrate Gold Ring | (Amelia bought me this from Renegade Craft Fair, I can't remember the brand, if anybody recognises it please let me know!)

Do you like seeing what I wear? How I style my designosaur? I hope so as I have set myself the task of 4 more of these outfit posts to achieve my NYR!

ROAR!

Karli

SPARKLES AND GLITTER!

Everybody loves sparkles and glitter, no?

WELL I DO!

and our latest products are made of the most sparkly stuff ever!

Our little dinosaur brooches have been vamped up and are ready to rave in five awesome glittery colours

Black with Gold Glitter

Red with Red Glitter

Black with Silver Glitter

Turquoise with Turquoise Glitter

Clear with Silver/Holographic/Rainbow Glitter
(yeah you can see the colour but I don't know what to call it officially)

You can get each dinosaur in any of the five colours, just select from the drop down boxes on Etsy.

So you're wondering what can I match this glittery goodness with?

I've done that fashion blogger thing of finding other glittery things for you, no need to thank me.

...well I started to do that, and then I got bored, so I found three glittery pairs of shoes instead. Let me know what you think of the shoes, and obvs the brooches.

Glittery Converse

Glittery Lazy Oaf x Kickers

Glittery-and-I-own-these JuJu Jelly Shoes

ROAR!

Karli

I don't wear trousers.

It's true, I don't wear trousers... most of the time. I wear dresses and skirts and shorts because it means you can get two items onto your bottom half, which means LOADS MORE COLOUR!

I don't know if you've noticed, but I have a lot of tights. I post them on instagram, and I started doing this because I wanted to record all the tights I'd had. Some pairs are a one wear only before they get a ladder!

I never wear tights with ladders - infact I totally hated that trend where people were pulling holes in their tights on purpose. Those poor defenceless tights! I also don't wear plain black tights. I hate them, they remind me of school and it defeats the object of adding colour to an outfit.

I hope that nobody takes offence to anything I'm saying, I really don't mind what you wear.

Anyway, I was going to do a bit of a round up of my tight collection so far as I realised I have over 70 pairs of tights currently in circulation...

So there they are, that isn't all the pairs, or even most of them, but just some of them, and if you enjoyed that you should follow me on instagram... if you didn't enjoy it then still follow me on instagram so I can show you sneak peeks of new designosaur products and the awesome commissions we do!

ROAR!

Karli