Yellow skirt update and GIVEAWAY!!! {Ended}

♥ This giveaway has ended! Find out who won here ♥

Original illustration by Gemma Milly

The Great Decluttering has officially commenced. This weekend has been spent floundering in the spoils of my own insatiable consumerism. Let me tell you, I am not only shocked at the sheer quantity of stuff I have accumulated, I am ashamed. I found THREE pairs of shoes that had never been worn and which I had forgotten that I owned. Three! What is wrong with me?! I also found, and consigned to the charity shop pile, the (purple, tweed, mini) skirt I was wearing the first time I ever snogged Fin. (Yeah, I just used the word "snogged". I'm basically a 14-year-old girl.) Unfortunately the rest of the Supergirl costume seems to have disappeared...

One of the garments I knew would be going was actually acquired as a result of this very blog. Remember my great yellow skirt hunt? Well, in the end, the ultimate winner was this little beauty from asos:

Skirt in 'Olive Oil', £35, asos (also available in 'Squirrel'. WTF)

But before I finally found this skirt, you, dear readers, were like my own personal pack of fashion hunters, scouring every imaginable source and sending a me constant stream of swirly yellow skirts that filled my inbox with sunshine. I cannot thank you enough for all of your help (and I know exactly where to turn next time I get a fancy for a random item of clothing!). In fact, you were so helpful that I actually ended up with not one, but two yellow skirts hanging in my wardrobe, thanks to an ebay tipoff from the lovely Emma of The Honeymoon Project. 

Now, my former clutter-loving self might have argued that you can never have too many swirly yellow skirts. And maybe I might not have been alone in that (*cough* Aisling *cough*). But now that I have embraced decluttering with what can only be described as wild-eyed fervour, the second yellow skirt has got to go. And that, ladies, is where you come in.

As a little thank you for all of your help, I would like to bestow this yellow skirt upon one lucky reader in My First Ever Giveaway!

I'll pause while you applaud and squeal and generally express your unimaginable levels of excitement.

The skirt in question:

I'm sure you can all imagine how much I enjoyed coordinating my outfit with these flowers.
And how much Fin enjoyed taking these photos. Not.

The nitty-gritty:

♥ The skirt is a UK size 10 (US 6 I think?) and was originally from Gap

♥ It has a broad waistband with chunky buttons on the left hip

♥ It is fitted to the upper hip then flares out in a swirly fashion

♥ It is made of cottony-type stuff and is fully lined

♥ Its swirliness rating is Very High

♥ The giveaway is open to anyone, anywhere. I will send this wherever you want and I will pay for postage, because I'm nice like that.

♥ To enter, just leave a comment on this post some time before teatime on Thursday 4 August. You don't need to say anything witty or tell us a story involving a yellow skirt or any such nonsense, although feel free to do so if the urge takes you. But make sure you say whether or not you actually want to enter the giveaway!

If you aren't sure whether you really need a yellow skirt in your life, let me tell you this: the first time I wore my yellow skirt, I went to a casino and won $34. Clearly, the only possible explanation is that yellow skirts are lucky. So quick, get commenting!

Yellow skirts are lucky. Fact. Also, yellow skirt + denim shirt = accidentally on trend.

P.S. Don't worry. If nobody wants the yellow skirt, I won't cry, or be offended or anything. I will simply add it to the ginormous pile of skirts and dresses and shoes and tops and scarves and hats that will probably now clutter up my hallway for weeks until I finally remember to take them to the charity shop. Which reminds me, why did nobody warn me that getting rid of stuff would turn your house into giant TIP?? Please tell me it gets better!

P.P.S. Since decluttering turned out to be so boring and messy and overwhelming, I thought I'd declutter the blog a bit instead and give my sidebar a little facelift. Whadya think? (Consensus so far seems to be "fancy", which I... hope?... is a good thing. I do like to pretend I'm fancy.)