"It takes half your life before you discover that life is a do-it-yourself project" Napoleon Hill
Passion, that's what Ikea calls my relationship with clothes. I call it an addiction to spend money and the need to always have something new but whatever trevor. We have a slight difference of opinion. We do however have the same opinion that my room is a mess. Granted, I have my room and wardrobe as organised as physically possible for the amount of stuff I have. My bras hang in my little walk in wardrobe, I have a scarf box, drawers for different items of clothing. And yet I still find stuff with tags on it and find myself going "I don't remember buying this!" My clothes are also spread over 5 rooms of my flat, there's 3 coat racks at the front door with coats that I haven't worn, a shoe box in the living room and up in my store room, I have my formal dresses just in case I magically have to go to a formal anytime soon. (Still have my formal dress I wore at my AS level formal which was 7 years ago.....)
My 26 Bras, I think I wear about 5
You can actually spot a pair of jeans with tags still on them. Bought in summer 2012, still not worn.
So it was ironic when Ikea contacted me and said "Hey Laurina, would you like to make room for your life?!?" Why yes, Ikea I really really would. More on this little development later.
Ikea and I are great friends, apart from when I am building their furniture and I smack my thumb with a hammer. Then I call them a lot of not nice names but most of the time we are very good friends as my house is kitted out in their lovely furniture. So it is with my pleasure that I am getting to host a Swap for Your Life event as part of the West Coast Cooler FASHIONWEEK on Saturday the 23rd of March in a stylishly designated area of their Belfast's customer restaurant.
Ikea, Belfast Fashionweek and I are encouraging fashion followers to make room for their lives at home by organising their wardrobe before the lovely spring weather and gorgeous spring styles start to appear on the shop floors. (Lucky for you guys, you can actually buy them :( I just have to lust after them... I am having a hard week this week. I did nearly break, but I stayed strong!! It was my first trip to Zara since I started this so please forgive me). Once you have organised your wardrobe, bring your previously loved garments to this event and you can swap them for a whole new array of findings!!! Fashion swaps are a great idea as they fill your wardrobe full with new clothes without spending any money!!! It was one of my first ideas when I started this blog for my challenges but I never expected it to be this big and in conjunction with Belfast Fashionweek or Ikea!!! I expected a couple of rails in my living room & a few of my friends but this is going to be amazing!!
So quick fire information on this magical event:
- Saturday 23rd of March during Belfast Fashionweek (More info on Fashionweek, www.belfastfashionweek.com)
- 11am to 2pm in the lovely Ikea restaurant
- Can drop off clothes before hand at FASHIONWEEK HQ, 3rd floor, Talbot Street, Belfast or at Ikea Belfast or bring them on the Saturday
- Clothes will be sorted into a traffic light system to ensure a fair trade and you are swapping like for like garments
- No garments then sorry you can not swap :(
- Oh! There will be a fabulous auction in aid of Diabetes UK, Ikea's designated charity for 2013 of a secret coveted item of clothing
It's like this was written just for me!
definitely looking forward to seeing your ikea video, i was only looking at those on the ikea website the other day. ikea's a favourite of mine.
ReplyDeletegood luck with your clothes swapping event, sound like it's going to be amazing!
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