A.P.C Love
I am totally in love with A.P.C!
If only I could afford to stock my whole wardrobe full of their lovely wares I would! Alas, this is the ever restricting credit crunch so I can only but dream. The Parisian style is super cool, elegant and a little bit kooky in a bookish way. I wish I could go back to Paris – such an inspiring place full of beautiful things. It’s officially dark, rainy and super gloomy in London – I am not feeling the love. I guess I’ll just have to keep looking at inspiring things to keep me from getting too down. Speaking of inspiring things I can’t stop reading Ninainvorm’s beautiful blog - so lovely!
Fete Cakes
Hope everyone has had a great week? I have been coveting the above knitted cakes all week, I am seriously in love with them all! They are by the very lovely, and inspiring Bombay Duck - a company that source very cool decorative items, homewares and generally everything lovely. I love how these cakes and the styling they use to photograph them reminds me of beautiful English fetes, he ones my mum used to take me to as a child. With tones of cakes, tea, lace and old china in various miss matched patterns. I love all the knitted cakes and want to get a huge Christmas tree and hang them all on – in all the various colours. That would be one yummy tree!
Oh well a girl can dream but at £30 for four I think I should stop thinking about a whole tree covered in them. Have a great weekend everyone – oh, if any one does take the plunge and buys something lovely from them, there is a Bombay Duck voucher code in circulation giving 15% off – I may have to indulge!
Tissue Shroom
The weather has been so unbelievably hot in London this weekend, I think it was set to top 21 degrees today and after trekking 5 miles around my local woods I can confirm it’s pretty damn hot. Yesterday I ventured out into London to attempt to find crafting materials, I ended up in Liberty’s very nice haberdashery section and came out a little poorer for it (they had a great selection of sparkle felts). I also stopped the the very cool All The Fun at The Fair in Kingly Court, Carnaby Street which sold the best knitted cactus’ ever! After lunch at the super Cha Cha Moon I found this adorable pink tissue shroom.
It reminded me so much of Shroom from Super Mario, but in super cute pink I couldn’t resist. It’s from a shop called Bird Cage Boutique in London and they have the matching trays which are really awesome too. I am busy crafting and making Christmas felt lovelies ready for my first year of having a home to decorate – and my first Christmas living with Miles! Hope everyone else is enjoying the weather? It’s crazy making Christmas tree decorations when I am wearing flip flops and have the windows wide open.
Inspiring Spaces
I have been seeking out inspiring things lately since returning from my holiday I have been a bit overwhelmed with work and everything so the situation called for some pretty inspiration. However it seems everything has come all at once, beautiful places to eat, my new Cath Kidston book ‘Make’ arrived today and Miles left me a gorgeous single coral rose in my Greengate jug on my dressing table, as he went away today. The collage above shows some of London’s prettiest places; Lauderee Harrods, Shipps Tearoom and The Athenaeum Hotel (big image). This is just a little selection of pretty pink hues around London that amaze me.
I am off to the Future of Web Apps tomorrow (very exciting). Happy 15th birthday Cath Kidston for tomorrow by the way (did anyone else enter the Cath Kidston quiz?)!
