This is a door & Royal Ascot - I < 3 you!

There is a few things I love.

1. Lego
2. Hats
3. My boyfriend (gush, gush, swoon etc)
4. And this door:

This is the magic door. It leads to no where and one day I'd love to do a wee photo shoot in front of it. This is the one good thing about living in a countryside. Beautiful scenery and random bits of quirkiness.

Whilst I sit here sprawled over my bed and typing this, I have one eye closely monitoring the telly.

Royal Ascot.

More specifically Royal Ascot Ladies Day. Anyone who knows me will know I have a small obsession with hats. I made them solidly for two years at uni and even did my entire dissertation on it. If anyone wants to read it (Beware! It is MASSIVE!) I popped it in a link on the sidebar.

This is the latest one I made:

Excuse the fingernails! And for the nitpickers amongst you - yes, yes. It is indeed a fascinator. Not a hat. Dur dur.

This wee riot was created through the sacrifice of an old hat which had become battered from living in the attic. Plus, my future flatmate asked me to make her something for a wedding. How could I possibly say no!

The demented look is just an added bonus...

My inbox is slowly filling up with beautiful creations being worn right now. It's actually starting to frustrate me because I don't have the stuff to work out how they did half of it!

Daily Mail

These guys are by far my favorite. Completely quirky, full of colour and most importantly, they use feathers. There is not enough feathers used in the world!

And if you own a horse and feel that their heads are being left out, never fear! The legend that is Stephen Jones has solved this issue.

Daily Mail

I also think ASOS know I just got paid. They are now rampaging me with sale previews.

If anyone wants to buy me it, click here. It would be superly awesome of you...

Dissertation

As most people know, 4th year means dissertation. I am a 4th year and dissertation is become a nightmare.

My mentors decided that as I have a slight obsession with hats, that it would be best to focus on them. So two titles I'm juggling are:

Hats: The secret love affair?

Size does matter

Haven't decided which one is best but I'm pretty sure its an investigation into if hats could be reintroduced into every day wear. Course people wear hats as accessories. I wear berets most days during the winter but I'm talking big hats and fascinators from the past. I know its pretty unrealistic but I'm more interested in the history and the social status of hats.

I will look at the history from right at the start of headwear to a few decades ago. I think i will look at the Glasgow Hairies which will incorporate both the history and social status of hats. Of course I have to look at royalty as well as royal ascot. It wouldn't be a millinery dissertation if I didn't include those.

I really don't know why people stopped wearing hats. I see people wearing little fascinators in their hair if they are brave enough but I do sometimes wish I was born in the past where it was all about glamour and elegance.

Im going to take a chance with this and try and get case studies from professional milliners. I did a course with the amazing Jane Smith this summer and I'm hoping that if shes not too busy she won't mind me contacting her so I can bend her ear and do a case study on her.

Writing 15,000 words on something I love will not be hard. But for some reason I feel like I'm being over whelmed already.