200 follower and 2 year anniversary GIVEAWAY

21/08/11: COMPETITION NOW CLOSED: WINNERS TO BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY

Have you entered my fabulous five giveaway yet? No? Well, what are you waiting for?

1st prize is a Filofax Flex systeml

2nd prize is a selection of Burt's Bees products;

3rd prize is a pair of leggings from Tabio;

4th prize is a bottle of Soltan Self Tan for the face and a face application mitt;

and 5th prize is four bottle of Boots 17 nail polish, a Models Own eyeliner and a Burt's Bees lip shimmer.

To enter:

1. Leave a comment on the original post - including your email address.
2. For an extra entry, follow this blog on blogger or bloglovin'.
3. For a further entry, tweet the following: "I just entered the Fab Five giveaway @sugarandspiceSG - you can too: http://t.co/GpVjgo2".
4. The giveaway is open to EVERYONE!
5. The giveaway will close at midnight GMT on 28 August 2011.

The Fab Five GIVEAWAY!!! 200 follower and 2 year anniversary thank you!

21/08/11: COMPETITION NOW CLOSED: WINNERS TO BE ANNOUNCED SHORTLY

I've been promising a big giveaway for a while now, to celebrate reaching 200 followers and 2 years since Sugar and Spice was founded - and now it is here! I have teamed up with some fantastic brands to bring you five fabulous prizes:

1st PRIZE: NEW FILOFAX FLEX + inserts

2nd PRIZE: BURT'S BEES FACIAL CLEANSER; BODY WASH; and CONDITIONER

3rd PRIZE: TABIO LEGGINGS

4th PRIZE: SOLTAN SELF TAN FACE CREAM + APPLICATOR MITT

5th PRIZE: BOOTS 17 SUPREME SHINE NAIL POLISHES x4; MODELS OWN KOHL; and BURT'S BEES LIP SHIMMER

To enter:

1. Leave a comment on this post - including your email address.
2. For an extra entry, follow this blog on blogger or bloglovin'.
3. For a further entry, tweet the following: "I just entered the Fab Five giveaway @sugarandspiceSG - you can too: http://t.co/GpVjgo2".
4. The giveaway is open to EVERYONE!
5. The giveaway will close at midnight GMT on 28 August 2011.

Good luck!! And a huge thank you to all those who contributed to this giveaway.

Please nominate me in the "Established Fashion Blog" category

Filofax Blogger Style Off: THE OUTFIT

When I started to create the outfit for the Filofax Blogger Style Off, I admit, I was a little late in doing so and I was suddenly overcome with a horrible bout of indecision!! Gah! And then I decided to do a little search and see what other bloggers who were participating in the challenge had been posting – and I suddenly got very nervous!! Obviously blue and pink were to make up the biggest part of my outfit… However, I seem to have a dearth of pink in my wardrobe!! Who’d have thought?! My first outfit took inspiration from Jil Sander’s catwalk collection which teamed a block-coloured maxi skirt with a crisp white tee. Raiding my wardrobe I pulled out a black maxi skirt and a blue tee – adding a pink skinny belt to finish off the look. It did the job, but – yawn! So I went back to the wardrobe. In there I discovered: a bright blue dress, a bright and summery coral pink dress, two pairs of bright blue court shoes and two bright pink cardigans (why two?!!). My accessories in these two colours are a little less – a big pink flower for my hair but that's about it… So then came the challenge of putting this all together to create a winning outfit:

I hope you think it is a winning outfit too and will answer my pleas to head over to the Filofax Facebook page and vote for my look. Thank you thank you thank you, in advance!!!

I am wearing: Mango dress, Topshop t-shirt (as belt), TU by Sainsburys flower and Spartoo heels.

How to... COLOUR BLOCK

Last month I was contacted by Claire of Filofax regarding a “blogger style off” to celebrate the launch of the brand new Filofax Apex, the personal organiser that aims to “put the fun into fashion”. Each of the bloggers involved chose one out of the four colour combinations and use the organiser as inspiration for our outfit. 

My choice of the pink and blue Filofax soon seemed a little ambitious when trying to put an outfit together but I didn’t let that put me off! Instead I decided to pull together a couple of mood boards.

The first is filled with the colours and confirmed that the combination is in fact everywhere and, in addition, a pretty summery combo too:



Source



Next, I decided that as obvious as it might be colour blocking was the obvious trend to try to work for this challenge. Colour blocking was a huge trend on the catwalks of numerous designers for Spring/Summer 2011 and has been featured on this blog previously, in this post and this post. So the second mood board is a collection of images from the runway of bold colour combinations:

Source: Style.com

My favourites from the above board were the simple Jil Sander looks, with the bright bold coloured maxi skirts teamed with the crisp white tees. These then provided the basis for the outfit that I have created and that will be unveiled later today, on the Filofax Facebook page (look out for Twitter updates) and will be unveiled here tomorrow. Now, comes the part that I loath and that is to ask that you might all lend a hand and “like” my look. If I win, I will receive a number of the Filofaxes to giveaway – so you will all have the chance to gain too! Win-win, no?!