Vintage Warmth & A Great Big Giveaway

I've decided that I'm not very good at dressing stylishly for the cold weather. I haven't dared take outfit photos for the past couple of days as it's been all baggy jumpers, several layers of socks, boring jeans, and scarves, earwarmers and fingerless gloves worn virtually all the time.

Vix came to my rescue today though. What a tremendously wonderful woman she is. As well as a v. exciting craft project (more on this at some point in the future) and a funky bracelet, she sent me this amazing vintage dress. Oh how I love it. It's not only very beautiful, it is perfect for this weather as it's just so warm and snuggly. Also, tartan, yippee! I am fully in love with tartan/checked clothes at the moment.

I think I have it on backwards in this photo but the colours have come out better so I wanted to use the pic. Shhhh....

Just wish I had a slightly longer neck so the neckline sat a bit better on me!

Dress - vintage
Tights - Marks & Spencer
Boots - swapped

The boots are a triumph of the art of cobbling. MSE fashion thread girls may remember the day that the heel broke on these boots and I was boohoo-ing about potentially having to throw them away, having failed to fix it with a glue gun. A quick trip to the local cobbler and for the princely sum of £5 he had fixed the heel, repaired the other one which was on the verge of snapping too and resoled and reheeled both of them! What a man.

Anyway, onto the main point of this post, the giveaway!

Now I should warn you that although it's inspired by the 12 Days of Christmas, it's not a faithful interpretation. I'm running it over the first 12 days in December so that hopefully I can get the goodies posted out to you before Christmas. And it's only very loosely themed on the song, otherwise there would be some weird ass prizes on offer! As it stands, they're not the most expensive or glam prizes in the world but I've paid for them all myself and didn't want to bankrupt myself. Also I've tried to cover all the bases - I know I have readers of all ages and interests.

Rules are simple - pop a comment on this post to enter the giveaway for this item. I'll be keeping all the days open until midnight on 13th December when I'll draw a winner for each day and then announce them all at once. It's open to everyone but if international followers do win, I'm not so sure they'll get to you before Christmas, sorry. Good luck everyone!

So, on the first day of my giveaway, I will give to thee...

Some v. cute decorative magnets, one of which features partridges in pear trees, and a bag of delicious pear drop sweeties. I didn't want to get too bird themed but there's not much else you can do with this first one!