A Beach Safari and the Best of British Eco Fashion Blogs

As I seem to have spent such a lot of time working lately, yesterday, I decided to take a much needed break and take the children to the beach at Weston Super Mare for the day. I love Weston Super Mare and had a great time making sandcastles and watching children taking donkey rides. Unfortunately I forgot to take my camera but hopefully I will go back again soon and can take lots of lovely pics.

As the weather is at that sort of in betweeny stage (not sure if it is winter or spring) I couldn't make up my mind what to wear. Not quite warm enough for t shirt and shorts but out of the wind and with the sun out, it did get quite warm. The answer - one of my trusty cardigans (from George at Asda). I decided to go for a safari theme with a mixture of animal skin pattern and the lovely Antelope T shirt recently sent to me by Your Eyes Lie. The tribal style necklace was a present from my mum a while back.

I was really pleased today to recieve an email from Eco Fashionista, informing me that Style Eyes had been featured in the best of British Eco Fashion Blogs post for their special features in the run up to Earth Day.It is great to get some recognition for my constant struggle (OK perhaps it's not that difficult) to wear sustainable clothing, recycle and refrain from buying clothes that I do not need and whilst also trying to promote sustainable clothing to others. The other blogs featured were Eco Princess and Eco Goddess Fashion. I would definitely recommend a visit to them, for great ideas on how to be both sustainable and stylish.

SS10 Outfit challenge - Safari Trend

It has been a while since my last outfit post and since I last put together an outfit for my no more wants challenge partly because things have been just so mad busy I have lost all ability to think creatively and sunk into that comfort zone of old favourites. I haven't given up on the shopping ban though, even though there has been much temptation.

So as I sit here at 5.30am on Sunday morning watching Dora the Explorer again, It seems like the perfect time to squeeze in an outfit post with the pictures of an outfit that I took yesterday accompanied by a few strategically placed animals, the monkeys are my absolute favourite, although not entirely sure of the accuracy of these species on an African safari, they have been collected by the children on our many zoo visits.

So enough about cuddly toys, some of favourite safari style outfits from the SS10 catwalks.

At Oscar De La Renta

At Louis Vuitton

At Kenzo

At Elie Tahari

At Giambattista Valli

This challenge was the perfect opportunity to wear my favourite bargain ever, this Burberry Prorsum top which I picked up for about £8 in a second hand shop. I have resisted the urge to add all sorts of animal and tribal prints in favour of a more mininmalist approach which is highly unusual for me. I may well revisit this trend though with more pattern added once the weather improves a bit.

Jacket - Burberry Prorsum, second hand

Top - Next

Jeans - Marks and Spencers, Autograph Weekend

Shoes - Next

Necklace - Monsoon

Bag - present

Bangles - presents and New Look

catwalk pictures from http://www.style.com/