Monday, 26 October 2009

Cakes and Babies



Yayyy the highlight of our London birthday trip was meeting gorgeous baby Edie!

Extremely chilled out when we met her, with a gorgeous new nursery and outfits to match.

I so wish I could fit into that pink coat and matching beret.

At only four weeks old she has already made her first modelling debut on Friday at a designer knitware shoot in North London. You will all be pleased to hear she was kitted out in some white with pink rose sprig Cath Kidston leggings :-)

Hope you all had lovely weekends and I will look forward to posting more London pictures this week x



Tuesday, 20 October 2009

Birthday Eve with Marty Maraschino!



Wow it's been a week since my last post and I've been a busy birthday bee out and about on little day trips and lunches out with friends and family, so I hope you have all had a great week too.

Well it's my big day tomorrow ... thirty SIX!!! My mum told me yesterday she can never remember how old I actually am and tells everyone I am 33 which is fine with me :-)
Chris is off with me tomorrow so no doubt we will have a little day out somewhere.
It's also nice to be off work for a week but rubbish timing, I have an absess on my tooth so am on the old antibiotics at the moment. I just hope it sorts itself out as we are off to London this Thursday. I've been reeeeeally looking forward to that and hoping to have some great piccies for you next week.
I have an afternoon tea planned as well as Breakfast at Tiffany's and a night at Ronnie Scotts jazz club this Friday ... a little shopping (fingers crossed Anthropologie opens in London this weekend yippee) and checking out some of the cupcake shops. I haven't done any outfit posts recently: 1. because I feel a bit of a plonker and 2. because it drives my husband mad having to stand outside in the cold taking my pictures teehee. However a few of you lovely ladies have kindly asked me to post my Breakfast at Tiff's outfit, so I will oblige next week :-)

Lovely Kelly-Ann the star that she is baked me some pre birthday cherry chocolate cupcakes last week. My picture does not do these cakes justice at all, they are the nicest I have tasted EVER and I've tasted a lot of cakes! We named them the Marty Maraschino ... like in cherry (this will only mean anything to any other Grease fans out there)!

Also I didnt make it to the knitting event tonight :-( I did however visit Cath Kidston on Saturday, so Poppy is the proud new owner of a Cath Kidston cat bed which she seems to love.

So with that bidding you all a fabulous few days and I will be back next week a little older and with some London stories and pictures xxx

Wednesday, 14 October 2009

Knit Wits



Any Liverpool or local Cath Kidston loving 'knit wits' out there???

The Liverpool Cath Kidston Store are holding a knitting event next Tuesday (20th) evening - it's also my BIRTHDAY EVE!!!

Between 6.30pm-8pm Knitting expert Susan Crawford will be introducing you to the wonderful world of knitting with a vintage inspired fashion show! Plus you can receive 10% OFF at the Cath Kidston store on the night!

The fashion will be followed by tea and cakes and a book signing of Susan's latest book 'Stitch in Time'.

There is absolutely NO WAY my husband will come with me to this so if any one is interested in coming along please send me a message as we need to book places in advance :-)
xxx

Tuesday, 13 October 2009

Breakfast at Tiffanys




My mum has kindly bought me birthday theatre tickets to use in London next week. I've suddenly switched affections from Oliver the musical to see the stage adaptation of Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's. I believe this version is more closely based on the Capote novella rather than the film version, a darker adaptation with Pushing Daisies and (those of us in the UK) Brookside star Anna Friel debuting as Holly Golightly.





Always one for a good ghost story I was interested to read that Anna had told the production team she believes there is a ghost haunting the Theatre Royal Haymarket. She has felt like she is being observed and followed to the wings by 'people she cannot see'!


Check out her vintage inspired aftershow outfits though, nothing like a tad of 'method dressing'.






I'm looking forward to putting my own Friday night outfit together now - have spotted a vintagesque leopard print coat in Topshop, AMAZING sequinned bow evening jackets and a 40's inspired long evening gown in French Connection. Apparently this is part of a limited edition collection for Christmas ... so will be hunting it down.



Monday, 12 October 2009

Purple Caped Crusader

Taschen Guide to London
Louboutin for Laduree

Ringseclectic - Net-a-Porter



Antik Batik - Mywardobe.com



Lindsay Lohan




Marc by Marc Jacobs - Net-a-porter





Vogue.com




Louboutins - Net-a-porter









Laduree Cocktail







Paul and Joe - mywardrobe.com




Sonia Rykiel - Mywardrobe.com





Marni - net-a-porter

OOh I could crush a grape!

Those around me have known about my allusions of grandeur for quite some time, but I am having 'a moment' and lusting after Royal Purple. Call it what you like ... very berry, hold your plums - I can't get enough of it.

Sunday, 11 October 2009

Tweeter










Inspired a month or two ago by The Lil Bee's blog and the imminent arrival of her baby, I decided with the help of my work designer Nicky to conjure up a personalised picture for my friend Hannah's new baby and nursery.



She has decorated in an olive green colour with olive green and white polka dot curtains and is aiming for a folksey/vintage type vibe ... as well as a love of owls (!) so we came up with the Owl and the Pussy Cat nursery rhyme :-)

I'm so pleased with the poster, I just need to get it framed in time for visiting them next week. It's also meant to be a surprise so hope she isn't reading this!!

I'd also bought a cute, mini, lime green owl toy from:
MoonTea Art in Etsy, there are so many gorgeous owl goodies to find there at the moment.

Friday, 9 October 2009

Macaron Madness




Ooh two of my macaron pictures have been chosen for some sort of Flickr macaron public gallery how exciting! I made the mosaic from photos taken on my last London Laduree trip in the spring so I am super excited to see what their Christmas window display will be like the week after next!

Am really looking forward to this London trip and have already started to compile a map of favorite shops and places to visit :-)

Hopefully I can sneak a little birthday treat at Laduree too :-)