nice things

Haven't blogged in a while because I've been very wrapped up in Christmas shopping and don't want anybody to see what they're getting. Now that I am finished with it I can get back to thinking about stuff that I want... ha, as if I ever take a break from that!

Silver branch and skull earrings by Noemi Klein at no-one and Les Bijoux de Sophie owl necklaces from The Moon and Mars... yes please.

You donnnnn't need a ticket... to santa clause's partyyyyy

It's christmas party season! Clare and I went to get groceries in Dalston and got a little bit carried away. We basically had no choice but to throw an impromptu christmas soiree. I mostly took pictures of the food instead of the people though. OOPS.

Clare made mulled wine and baked cupcakes. I... er... cut cheese into squares and put them on toothpicks with hula hoops.

holgraphic jade nails

I almost had a heart attack when i received a surprise Chanel package at work on Friday. It was the JADE nail polish... kindly sent to me by my mum! THANKS MUM!

An awesome weekend ensued. My sister came down from Edinburgh and I took her to see BEYONCE at the O2 for her 21st birthday.

There were tears of joy. It was THE most amazing thing I've ever seen. There were sequins and flying and a video where beyonce's face turns into a cheetah and then it zooms in on her eye and she cries a single tear and then it zooms further in to her eye and her eye is SPACE.

Anyway - just before leaving for the O2 I decided to combine my 2 fave Chanel nail polishes (Holgraphic and Jade) to create the most powerful manicure ever...



There is only one way to make this manicure better... ADD BEYONCE TICKETS TO HAND.

Fangs are Fantastic

Why not celebrate the impending release of TWILIGHT THE SECOND with this Wildfox FANGS ARE FANTASTIC tee? It's not really jumping on the vampires are cool now bandwagon if you still own the VHS tapes of all the Buffy episodes you recorded off the TV in 1998.

Liberty, Luella, and LUNCH

Was sad to hear the news about Luella ceasing trading today... had heard whispers of this for weeks now and they were finally confirmed in the form of texts and twitters and omgs while I was at Liberty on my lunch break feeling seriously underwhelmed by the Luella Christmas Grotto but impressed by the windows (photos above).

This probably means there is going to be one crazy sale which both excites me and scares me a bit. I don't doubt that Luella will go on to do something else (at a lower price point?) and am excited to see how the brand re-invents itself after all of this.

Apparently the SS10 collection will not go into full production but happily it was another season of 'meh' for me and I haven't really felt insanely excited about Luella since the witch collection (erm... which I MAY have bought just a FEW items from...)

I was thinking of selling my Luells shoes because moving flat has basically completely bankrupted me... but I think I will be holding on to them now in case there are never any Luella shoes made again!

soup and sandwich

Toasted Cheese and Tomato Soup (MUST. BE. HEINZ) with scallions is one of my favourite winter meals. This Soup and Sandwich Tray is a must!

Spence

I just thought I would share with you the delightful iPhone background that Dan and I "collaborated" on before we had internet or TV in the flat.

Due Sardi

We live right by Jaguar Shoes, and in the past week they have opened up a pizza place next door - Due Sardi.

Ermmm... I just about screamed when I saw they had a pizza which had CHIPS on it - "patatina" ... had this delivered with an ice cold glass bottle of coke n settled in to a night of eating and watching BUFFY. In between declarations of love for the pizza I declared my love for Seth Green (OZ!!) ...


Clare, "I love Angel..." - Dan, "I LOVE Willow..." - Me, "I LOVE Oz... and pizza!"

halloweenie

Ermmm... It's been rather quiet on my blog lately. I have bid adieu to south east london and moved to shoreditch with the two other halloweened creatures pictured above.

Have been busy busy busy taking many trips back and forth with boxes and suitcases, taking apart furniture, putting furniture back together again, trying to get internet installed... etc... etc...

Am happy to say we are now well settled in and normal blogging/life will commence.

Luella / Owen Plummer AW09 Collab launch party

I kindly received an invitation to the Luella party last night (errr, sadly not the actual show or the REAL party at bungalow 8 though...) Anyway, despite the fact that I managed to take no pictures of any people, the Brook Street store was packed with people and the free cocktails were much appreciated.

The party was celebrating their collaboration with illustrator Owen Plummer for their AW09 collection. I have to say that as soon as I saw pics of AW09 I fell in love with the little pyramid money man and bought the t-shirt as soon as I could get my grubby hands on one.

... so yeah, needless to say the sight of more scarves, t-shirts, bags and brooches featuring this design pleased me greatly and I certainly know where I will be taking my payday money this month.

The store was decorated in true luella style. Giant paper mache meat drumsticks, sacks full of play money, luella cookies, and errr... lots of free booze.

great fun.

ex oh ex oh my god what have you done to your hair

Not sure which I'm more repulsed by... Chuck Bass and his hideous tattoos, or Vanessa's faux dreads at a polo match in the season 3 premiere.

How do you make an already annoying character even more unlikeable? Give her dreadlocks! I swear when I was watching it again to screen cap this monstrosity of a hairstyle I saw a fly buzzing around her hair during an entire shot. I would make this into a gif but I think I've already devoted enough time today to blogging about the hair of a fictional character.

xoxo.

socks and sandals

Best thing I've seen at NYFW so far are the Erin Fetherston boots that look like socks and sandals! Clever!

I'm a huge fan of socks and sandals. My sister takes it one further and wears GLADIATOR sandals and socks. I dunno...

nails did

Our new flat is just a few mins down the road from WAH nails... have been looking through their blog and I can't wait to check it out!


100s & 1000s nails


eyeball nails!!

While perusing nail blogs I read about Minx Nails, a company who will print your photos onto nail transfers that are then applied with heat. Katy Perry is a fan - and although I am not a fan of hers, I am def a fan of her CAT NAILS!!

lunch envy

Luxirare's latest feat has given me serious lunch envy. PLEASE go and look at her original post as blogger has shrunk the photos and zapped all colour and clarity out of them on here - also it was too hard to pick a few to feature - you need to go and read the entire process.

I'm particularly enamoured with the array of jelly cocktail shots. I'll clumsily try to emulate them once we're in the new flat I think.

spooks

More lovely birthday presents... Many thanks to my sis for sending me this Dracula mug from her trip to Transylvania (seriously) and Clare for getting me these A-MAYYYZ-ING glass cocktail stirring eyeballs on a stick!

Old age

Old age and having to work on yr birthday ain't so bad when you get to take a long lunch at nando's and be given lovely presents.



Krispy Kreme donuts, my so called life DVD, Luella hair bow, Marc Jacobs pirate necklace, and a hi-lol-rious iPhone card with apps such as KFC and KILL LA ROUX.





Thanks everyone. I have gotten some really thoughtful pressies and cards this year (more posts to follow)!

Spent all day flat hunting in Stoke Newington with Clare and Dan. Had a lovely lunch but there are SO MANY babies and dogs there and the estate agents seem incapable of being helpful.

We then took our search to Highbury and sat behind a boy on a bus who was sketching some kind of sci fi fox character with a unibrow. Somebody sat behind him and he put the drawing away. The driver made us get off the bus as the brakes weren't working and smelled like they were on fire.

Rummaged around the Market and bought some old photos of some chic 1960s couples at ski resorts and traipsed through all the estate agents getting increasingly annoyed about how shit they are. Um it ended on a good note so fingers crossed it will be time for moving (and decorating) soon soon soooon.

Gonna spend the rest of the weekend watching MY SO CALLED LIFE and being angsty about being 25 and being excited about the next episode of TRUE BLOOD naturlich.

--Post From My iPhone

i will be decorating my room in the style of a village fete

Berkley Illustration do prints of animals in human clothes. We all love this right?





I have been stalking their etsy shop daily in anticipation of their paper banners. What a genius way to use up their leftover imperfect prints. Today I snapped up the last one and it will be on its way to me soon.



Literally can't WAIT to move flats and redecorate my room.

ROY G. BIV

I will be moving flat shortly so my head is already filled with new ways I plan to decorate my room and organise my mountain of stuff. While the thought of packing everything up and transporting it from SE to NE fills me with dread, the thought of arriving in my new place and unpacking everything and finding a new place for it is totally soothing.

I just came across this Polaroid on Fred Butler's Blog. Organising your wardrobe by colour is one thing, but the MATCHING hangers has completely blown my mind. GENIUS. I will now commence trips around all the Peckham pound shops (best place to buy hangers no?) on my way home to make sure I have all my colours covered.

old hag

I am turning 25 in two weeks. Excepting the obvious like a trolley dash in the Apple store, an apartment with wood floors, or a trip to Stockholm/Vegas/San Francisco/Japan, here are some things that might help soften the blow of my swift descent into middle age.


A subscription to WIRED


A manicure with Sophy Robson @ Fortnum & Mason.


This Cambridge Leather Satchel with JMH embossed in gold.


This TBA silk dress. It has pockets. When the sample came into the office I had a mini fit. It is my dream dress.


These TOPSHOP boots.


Creepers from Underground.

Things I would also enjoy would be a steak dinner, champagne, a memory foam pillow (for my old age), and pajamas like Coco.

A dozen loaves of McCambridge's bread would be nice but I only just horrifically discovered that you can no longer order it online (or buy it at Fortnum & Mason) #stupidrecessionhasmademyposhimportedbreadunavailable

Dominic Jones

Dominic Jones triangle thorn brooch and leather gloves with gold nails... yes please.

gif dot gif

I grabbed this gif off Dan ages ago but couldn't find it when I was putting up my post about stereo cameras ... SO GOOD.

please halp

CLICK CLICK CLICK ... I am selling my stuff on ebay. Please check it out and forward the link on to anyone who might be interested. I'm selling a lot of Urban Outfitters and TOPSHOP stuff that I've only worn once. Shoes & bags. RAYBANS. Marjan Pejoski... etc... I'll be putting stuff up at the beginning of the month each month. My studio apartment is starting to feel very small and I need to either move somewhere bigger or part with some of my possessions. I am also toying with the idea of listing one of my Luella hair bows so uh... keep an eye out.

polar bear

There comes a time in the day where it's either time to try on samples or go and get a coke or a chocolate dreamcake. Today I spent a while squealing about this Peter Jensen sweater. Should be available on our site soon soon soooon.

my kind's your kind i'll stay the same

This Jeremy Scott x Adidas map dress is fantastic. It basically embodies everything I loved about being an international primary school swot. Hours looking at maps, globes, encarta95, school trips to the UN, etc etc etc...


Elisabeth Lecourt, whose site seems to be down, makes paper folded dresses out of old maps. If this map was digitally printed onto fabric and made in a babydoll shape as above I would snap it up immediately!


Numbered maptacks from mapcenter.com
We had a huge laminated map up on the wall when I was a kid and I remember being kind of obsessed with it even though I never put it up in my own room.There is nothing more satisfying than putting pins in a map and connecting them with string.
I love the Keep Calm Gallery GET LOST prints. Each is hand letterpressed onto an old map of the UK.


My globe lamp - still in Dublin along with all the other stuff I haven't been able to move over in a suitcase... need to get it!

and, this wouldn't be a post about maps without...

nail art airbrush kit...

UO over in the States are killing it with the online only products in their DIY section... they keep adding great stuff and today I died a bit when I saw that they are now selling a Nail Airbrush Kit!

It never crossed my mind that you could buy one of these for yourself, and I'm not sure why as I am a regular reader of the Argos catalogue and I'm sure they have something like this in them. I will find out and report back to you.