Violet Tales of an Ingénue H

I've done quite a bit of traveling in my time and I love exploring new and interesting places. I try to make my everyday life as beautiful as possible and traveling is no different. You won't find me in sweat pants and thongs (or flip flops for my American readers), I want to feel as pretty leaving a 7 hour flight as I do going out to dinner! So with my recent trip to Singapore I thought it was the perfect time to show you all how I travel in style. This is a compilation of tips I've picked up on... read more

Morning everyone! Today I'm going to treat you to a special guest post by my good friend Lisa from Nail Art World. She actually made this mani inspired by me, how cool is that?! I've done one to go on her blog too, I'll post the link when it's up :D Lisa- "First of all i am extremely proud to be a guest here - at the Violets blog. She is the most wonderful creature i ever met in the internet, and i just admire her beauty and creativity. I am a huge fan and regular reader of this blog, and i also...

Evening everyone! Nuffnang is having another competition to win tickets to the Regional Blog Awards. For those who haven't heard of the competition it's basically to show how fun Pringles are and you have to use the word "Krrunch" in place of the word "fun". Anyway this is my entry, I hope you enjoy it! Today has been a very boring day :( There is absolutely nothing to do. It's my day off so there's not even any work to keep me occupied. There is nothing going on online either *_* No new emails...

WE ARE GOING TO SINGAPORE FOR THE NUFFNANG AWARDS THIS THURSDAY!!! That's right everyone! We both won tickets to the Nuffnang Asia Pacific Blogger Awards with our Pringles competition entries! OMG SO EXCITING! Thanks so much to Nuffnang for paying for our tickets and accommodation! We are so grateful for everything and can't wait to meet all the other bloggers going! And OMGOMGOMGOMG we leave this Thursday! So much packing to do! This is the first formal event I've ever been to (I didn't go to...

A warning that there are a lot of photos in this post so be warned :D If these photos just aren't enough, I've uploaded a large selection of everything we took over at my Flickr account. Hey it's not everyday that someone flies you to Singapore for free so I took a lot of photos! So starting on Thursday night, our flight was at like 11:45pm so James' Dad drove us to the airport and we chatted before going through security and customs and doing a little shopping. We were keeping an eye out for Erica...

Well as promised here is my outfit for the Nuffnang awards in all of it's minute details! I put so much time and effort into this outfit that I think it deserves it's own post if only for my records heeheee! The dress: I was so torn on what dress design to go with. I wanted something Hime Gyaru obviously but I wanted it to also feel like I was wearing a million dollars rather than something I'd made. Originally I wanted to buy a dress but I couldn't find anything I liked so I improvised. This is...