Sunday, July 24, 2011
Never Late
I'm one of those people that sets their clock 5 minutes fast so that I'm never/not normally less late than I would be otherwise. On some searches I found this really super cute clock by Diamantini & Domeniconi. The "On Time" Clock, that throws you an extra 3 minutes of time by putting a wee kink in the minute hand. Very sweet.
via core77Labels: buy, design
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Tattly & Good News!
As some of you know, I've been mad stressed the last few weeks about whether or not I'd get into the History of Art course at Cambridge to finish Part II of my degree. Today I found out I have! I'm mad excited and so happy. I can't wait to start - already bugging out on amazon over which book/quarter of a book to buy with the £12 left of my overdraft.
In other news, now that I've given up on ever figuring out what my password was for my old twitter account, or which email address I used to set it up (don't even remember that), I've started a new one to keep track of various blogs. On my brand new twitter feed I read about this dope new site Tattly, which sells design conscious temporary tattoos. While I'm more than happy with the average ebay fodder of butterflies and roses, these tats are so cute, and pretty funny.
My favourites are the 'You're Late' watch (remember when kids used to draw unbelievably shit rolex watches on their wrists in biro???) and the skintone 'tattone' square.
CUTE! I'm going to buy this and you betcha I'm going to run around asking, "hey you want to know what time it is???"
When I want to be edgy(er - that is a classic 80's design in the watch tat), I'll wear this skin-tone faux pantone tatt. I used to buy those useless postcards from paperchase of just block colour - I thought I was so cool, until I realised they looked awful on my wall, and the gloss took away from the idea of tone. Silly postcards.
Click the images for higher resolution, and check out http://tatt.ly/ for more dope designs. Labels: buy, Fashion
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
Taking Liberty's
Goldhawk Road is one of my favourite places in West London. Nowhere else will you find various members of Middle Earth out in plain view downing Special Brews with quite as much enthusiasm as you will on the corner of Shepherds Bush Market and Goldhawk Road, nor will you ever find an area with such a high concentration of SUV-like cars teamed with quite as high an unemployment rate as there is here.
Despite all this chat, I do love it for other, more valid reasons. I love that there are a billion buses that take you there, I love that its right around the corner from Westfields, and I LOVE the fabric shops. I love that whatever fabric you could ever want, in whatever length, in whatever colour, stretch stitch or weight, you'll find it there. However, I did think that there was one type of textile you wouldn't/couldn't find next door to the Middle Earth Men, that's anything by Liberty of London.
I got proved royally wrong today at Classic Textiles.
They had the most beautiful collection of Liberty silks and cotton prints. The prices start at £16 a metre, but they do have a selection of off cuts that you can buy for quilting or accessorising. Me and Alex had a wander and peered in the window for about 10 minutes, drooling over a flame red, coral and yellow peacock print silk, UNTIL we got inside.
When we got inside, the woman informed us that they were sold out of the orange colour, but she had just received some in a rich blue purple black wonderful amazing tint. She held it out for us to see, and I swear, my heart flew out of my chest, flung itself at the silk and just beat there against the crisp peacock feathers for a full 20 seconds. I was in love, but unfortunately, my credit card wasn't. Alex's however, was, and she bought two metres of it. God I'm jealous.
Also, apologies for the state of these photos, they were taken on my phone, and because of my hard-drive failing, I don't have photoshop to edit the colours.. Sorry! Labels: buy, camera phone, classic textiles, fabric, goldhawk road, london days
Sunday, March 21, 2010
to buy or not to buy
It's hardly a secret that I am full on in LOVE with those Balenciaga hoof boots. And the Sam Edelman knock offs. Sadly, for me, neither is within my budget. But it hasn't stopped me lusting.
Today, on an e-bay shoe-searching binge however, I found something that made my heart stop.
A pair of knock off knock offs.
So knocked off that they're down from Balenciaga's $1700
down from Edelman's $350
all the way down
down
to $70.. That's £45 to us brits.
£45?!
FORTY FIVE POUNDS?
Yes please. Although it'll mean for sure that I have NO money AT ALL.
Tell me what you think:
They make my heart bleed love blood. Labels: balenciaga, buy, imitation, money, sam edelman, shoes
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