working weekend

My diploma calls - and I'm off to the big city for an intensive study weekend folks, though I'm certain 'study' and 'weekend' should not belong in the same sentence.

Slight contradiction....

....bit like this photo.

Whatever you're up to - have a good'un!!

xx

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wishful thinking

Seriously wishing this photo was my life right now.

sigh.

xxx

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Thai temptation

Am now embracing a new love affair with Thai food after my first official evening at a local Thai restaurant.

After a feast and several rounds of Jasmine tea - I practically floated home on the flavours.

Are you a fan?

yum yum.

xx

(delicious pics)

Another very vintage weekend

What are your weekend plans?

I'm in full vintage mode again this weekend.

Attending a 1940's themed event (Don't you just love 40's fashion?!) on Saturday .....

.....and appearing at a vintage fair on Sunday.

Whatever you do - have a fantabulous weekend.

(is that even a word? well - it is now!)

much love

xx

I'm all ears....

So I'm currently in love with sweet Swedish songstress Lykki Li.

You might know her song 'possibility' from the film New Moon -
(the hypnotic scene where time is passing by as Bella is left alone in her chair, staring out the window?!)

Her songs are so dreamy, unique and beautiful.

If you get a chance, check out 'Tonight' and 'Until we bleed'.

These two tracks are seriously wearing out my repeat button!

I'm keen to discover some great new singers after my recent Lykke Li discovery-meets-obsession.

Care to recommend any? I'm all ears.....

(image via here and her website)

Happy Pancake Day

Yum yum yum.

Who doesn't love pancakes?


Enjoy!



xx



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Confessions of colour

I want to, at least once in this lifetime, have a head full of flaming, red locks.

I was always jealous of everyone cooing at my sisters auburn curls when we were younger, while I yanked angrily at my own straggly mousy brown mop. (Which is now a blonde mop.)

I would love to be brave enough to just stroll into my salon and demand a red head, but alas, it is not always so simple.

There is something so strong, sexy and powerful about vibrant red hair.

It holds such significance in fairy tale stories of the past, and captures my imaginations with characters in the present.

Redophile

[Noun] "A person who is drawn to redheads, feels emotionally attached for no other reason except hair color".

Oh yes, one day, I want to have redder than red, Jessica Rabbit inspired hair. Please?

“Once in his life every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead"

~ Lucille Ball

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Happy Val Day to all!

In case you let it slip your mind.

(click to enlarge)

xx

Birthday Babe

Happy Birthday to Christina Ricci.

Crazy, edgy, cool.


This one's for you!!




Have a great weekend all

xx

(images vi.sualize.us / actress snaps)

Girly giggle

Should anyone have the burning desire to ruin a Valentines moment this weekend....

...oh you gotta love it!!

xx

(from here)

Today I am mostly loving.....

.... The Circus....

and all things....

well,

circussy.

Utterly gorgeous Porcelain set

Stylishly walking that line

Coca Rocha for numero magazine. Stunning.

The always lovely blog de Betty

Circus editorial by Eugenio Recuenco

Wish my legs could do that

(Top image: Russian Circus)

Valentines overload

Miranda Hobbes: Is it just me or is Valentine's Day on steroids this year?

Carrie Bradshaw: No it's the same, we just played for the other team.

I'm echoing this sentiment this year.

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm all for loving love.....but it's literally spilling out of shops, emails and restaurants - and onto my new shoes.

It's all a bit hyped up and scary, and for some reason, this year it seems to be overwhelming me.

I want to tell the people I love that I love them. Simple as.

Well.... I might bake some heart shaped cookies too.

Maybe.

x

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My wierdo beardo phase

So, I'm going through a total beard / facial hair appreciation phase at the moment.

A while back I lusted over men in spectacles, but now.... it's fuzz.

I do not know why.

These things just seem to happen.

But I have found five very good reasons why....

You a beard fan?

Facial Hair...... phwoar or faux pas?!!!

Votes welcome...

xx

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I Heart Art

Do you have a favourite painting?

For me, this is a difficult question - like asking 'what's your favourite film? or song?' - impossible to pick just one.

But one portrait that always springs to my mind is 'The Dancer Anita Berber,' 1925 by German painter Otto Dix.

Who was she?

Anita Berber was immensely famous in 1920s Berlin - for none of the right reasons.....

She danced nude in nightclubs

seduced both male and females

appeared in soft porn silent films,

drank one bottle of cognac per day,

married three times,

was addicted to cocaine and opium,

was never seen in public without heavy make-up,

talked incessantly,

....and, predictably, died at an early age.

She sounds like some of our modern celebrities spilling out of the tabloid papers, no?!

Incredibly, given her notoriety, almost no one in the present day would have heard of Anita Berber were it not for this Otto Dix portrait.

Maybe that's why I like it.

A dark life, a hidden character, a public disgrace - brought to life with this vibrant portrait.

For an artist who celebrated the beauty in ugly behaviour, and rarely painted with the colour red, it stands out to me in a way I cannot quite describe.

What would Buffy do?

Serious crazy fan moment is creeping over me..... I grew up LOVING Buffy The Vampire Slayer series on television.

So much so, often throughout my teens years when faced with angst and peril, I would think to myself the all important question...

What would Buffy do? !!

Blonde school girl, divorced parents, falling in love with all the wrong men, fighting the evil in the world whilst trying to finish homework.

I could, like, totally relate, you know?!!

I often dig out old episodes to watch, like a sort of TV safety blanket, and get lost amidst the witty script, sexy men, pretty girls, kick ass fight scenes and funky soundtrack.

Did you know.....?

Series creator Joss Whedon said the idea for Buffy came from all the horror movies he had seen featuring a helpless young blonde who would almost always be the first to die. He felt she needed a better image.

Blog high five to any other B fans out there!!!

"No, Angel, it's not you. You're the one freaky thing in my freaky world that still makes sense to me." ~ Buffy Summers, Season 2

Time flies

Um....where did January go?

I seem to have misplaced it.

My my how time flies.

Is it just me?!

xx

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