Creative Blood

I've started taking pictures.
Please bare with me, I'm still learning...very slowly!

I miss making pretty things...

... So rather than spending another Sunday watching TV and eating so much I almost burst,I'm dusting off the sketch book in order to create something fabulous!

Hey sexy lady...

Drawings by Alberto Vargas

Lace Face...

Found these beauties whilst I was supposed to be looking for lace eyelashes... thought I'd share!

LWD

The new LBD? Maybe, considering that the weather this coming weekend is apparently going to be glorious sunshine. There's something youthful about a white summer dress and below are a pick of my current faves.




1. TOPSHOP £68.00
2. TOPSHOP £65.00
3. MISS SELFRIDGE £32.00
4. RIVER ISLAND £29.99
5. FRENCH CONNECTION £125.00
6. FRENCH CONNECTION £165.00
7. FRENCH CONNECTION £115.00
8. TOPSHOP £55.00

Mood board?!

Fashion-sexuals

Fashion-Sexuals : A term for those who exhibit the highest level of fashion love, eclipsing the word "fashionista".

See Lady Gaga's column in this months V magazine.

Hiroshi Tanabe

Fashion illustration has been a love of mine, I have endless books on the subject and I often fill large spaces of time flicking through endless images.

Whilst on my final year at university I spend a lot of time researching Japanese woodblock printing and developed a love and respect for this technique and the images this technique produces.






As far as modern day illustration goes, a favourite artist of mine is Hiroshi Tanabe.
I love the mix between old and new influences demonstrated in his work.

Angelina at Cannes

And it begins again...

So I decided that PR wasn't quite for me (luckily before PR decided I wasn't right for it). This means one thing APPLY APPLY APPLY!

That says it all...

Run out of things to say? Let your t-shirt do it for you!

I love a good old slogan Tee and here is a selection of my current faves!

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If you go down to the woods today...

...You'll see a load of bluebells!!!!





oh, and some cows!

LOOKBOOK

Holly Loves!

So in my never ending quest to fulfil all of my jewellery desires I came across this little gem today.

Wendy House Rocks (the name alone earns the brand serious cool point) sells vintage-style jewellery, all the designs are handmade and to top it off they are amazingly well priced.

Here are a few of my faves...





http://www.wendyhouserocks.com/unusualjewellery.html

Designer nails!

I may not be able to afford a designer handbag but there's nothing stopping me getting myself some Giles Deacon designer nails! Cute!!! :)

My Birthday Vogue

A few weekends ago my Dad was clearing out the garage aka getting away from all the women in our house, and he came across the newspapers he'd kept from the day I was born...So I decided to see if I could track down a copy of my birthday Vogue (the vogue printed with the month your born).
After several hours of intense ebay bidding I was successful in purchasing January 1988. It was worth every penny! Mint condition and utterly fascinating!

Ring a la Bling

A picture that demonstrates my love of gold jewellery!

New fave boutique

When it comes to clothing I'm a die hard lover of minimal chic and effortless simplicity, but when it comes to accessories, it's a completely different story!
Maybe its because accessories are smaller, therefore safer and so less can wrong!?
I like unique statement pieces... items that have a story (or at least look like they have a story). Stand out colours are a must in order to liven up the lack lustre black or grey I seem to of made a habit of living in these day. I want to be covered in mini pieces are art!


And so I have found the perfect place to fulfil all these specific requirements - 'Pretty Eccentric'. They have the most beautiful and individual items, it's like an Aladdin's cave of all things fashionable and to top it off they now have a new fragrance line, defiantly a collectable.

Vie Va La French

I'm loving French connections Spring Summer collection!
At first I was a little unsure, maybe it was because I had gotten so used to the all the blacks are greys and general darkness of winter fashion, but this collection is the complete opposite!

Beautifully feminine and wonderfully fresh, and yet still practical and well suited to our lovely English weather.

Here are a few of my favourite pieces...

Girl Crush

I watched a programme on E! the other day all about Angelina Jolie and how she become an actress, the up's and downs of her career and her crazy personal life. It completely reminded me of how much of a girl crush I have on her. She is just the definition of the word perfect... totally want to be her when I grow up :)

The wants

I don't know why but I have become so obsessed with Spring... Maybe its because we had such a chilly winter, or maybe it's working in retail and I'm fed up of lugging coats around the place. Anyway, here are a few items that are already on my 'To buy' list.

Things I need in the very near future...( but will never be able to afford)

Daisy Knights



Acne



Herve leger



La perla cami and brief set

Just browsing this eve and came across these lil gems!

All items from net-a-porter.com

More mugs

The Mr just sent me this picture... I need it!

"Oluk is a coffee cup, of which saucer is designed in the form of a maze to enable user navigate and play when coffee drips on it. Aim of the project is to reuse these drops and make the office hours and breakfasts more enjoyable. Project was exhibited in 2010 imm Cologne Fair, Germany."

Uni days

For me uni was full of major highs and major lows, guess it's that way for a lot of people. When I look back now I wish I could go back and do it again, not so much the course and the work I was doing but more the lifestyle. I wish I had been less worried and more able to enjoy myself and enjoy being a student. Despite this I did meet my Mr and I wouldn't change this for the world :)

Anyway, the reason I'm being all sentimental is because I found these pic's of the room I was renting in my third year for a few months... it's teeny!!!