Thank you "My spare thoughts" !

A BIG thank you to My spare thoughts for the blog love!

3 awards - Wow I feel v honored indeed!

Ok.....Here's my answers....

5 details on things I'm obsessed with...

1. Afternoon Tea (white no sugar, please) and plenty of cakes
2. Seth's sassy blog (especially the Patti Lu Pone deconstruction's)
3. My dog and husband
4. Tights (I own a big box full)
5. Red wine & cheese

For the "Over the top" award I get to answer all these quickfire questions about myself, and then pass it on to other people that I'd like to find out more about - I want to find out more about all of you so please jump in and answer. Here goes me ...

1. Your hair: newly cut, wavy, messy and down...
2. Where is your cell phone : beside me
3. Your father: I love him
4. Your mother: Was the best, although gets very poor marks for staying alive (Died at 47, how rubbish!)
5. Your favourite food: Italian or Chinese
6. Your dream from last night: My dog sniffing a rabbit (I really need to get out more)
7. Your favourite drink: Tea or red wine
8. Your dream/goal: stay happy
9. What room are you in: living room
10. What is your hobby: Singing, shopping, walking.
11. What is your fear: cancer
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years: As long as I'm happy I don't care
13. Where were you last night: Watching "Spiral" BBC4/french BRILLIANT series.
14. Something you are not: Pessimistic
15. Muffins: Chocolate
16. Wish list items: Very Cropped jacket not in black, maybe in green tweed
18. Last thing you did: Made a pot of tea
19. What are you wearing: HM skirt with sequins on the hem, Gap Stripy black & white top, Black chiffon scarf tied in a bow, black tights.
20. Your TV: Law & order SVU, House, It's me or the dog.
21. Your pets: 1 dog
22. Your friends: Fab
23. Your life: Fab
24. Your mood: Happy
25. Missing someone: mother
26. Vehicle: Bike
27. Something you're not wearing: shoes
28. Your favourite store: ooh tricky...I love all stores really!
29. Your favourite colour: For clothes dark green, in general blue or red
30. When's the last time you laughed: 10 minutes ago
31. When's the last time you cried: last weekend
32. Your best friend: Husband, dog or Abigail.
33. One place you go over and over: Paris
34. One person who emails me regularly: Amazon
35. Favourite place to eat: on the sofa or in a nice restaurant

I pass these awards onto -

Anyone who feels like answering these questions.....

Have a good weekend all! :-)

UPDATE - People I'd like to answer these questions...but you don't have to -

Cocos Tea Party

London Zest

Madeleine's Wunderkammer

Wife in the City

A rose beyond the thames

Thank you LibertyLondongirl!

LibertyLondongirl has written a great post here

In her words -

Designed by the head accessories designer for Jigsaw, and the brainchild of The Bag Ladies, a group of talented London mothers working pro bono, this stylish handbag is helping to raise funds for BACT (The Bulgarian Abandoned Children's Trust)'s Baba Programme, which finds surrogate grannies to care for disabled Bulgarian children (seen as a disgrace in Bulgarian culture) who have been locked away from society in institutions where they are physically and mentally abandoned.

A total of 500 bags have been produced and 100% of the net profits (£155 a bag) will go towards the hiring of new Babas in one of Bulgaria’s biggest institutions for babies and young children. If all the bags are sold, forty children can be matched with a Baba to care, nurture and love them.

The sale of 1 bag alone will provide 6 weeks of dedicated care for 1 child. What are you waiting for?

Yes, I agree 100% LondonLibertyGirl - So I'm off to buy one now, and I think a couple for special christmas presents.

They are available in metallic, a lovely faded purple and carmel leather as above.
£155 plus £5 postage
More on The Bag Ladies at www.helpinghandbags.co.uk
Buy a bag here
And find out more about BACT's wonderful Baba Programme here

UPDATE - Mine is ordered in carmel.

In NYC? Pop to WendyB!

In NYC? Pop to Wendy B!


Great news for those of you who will be in New Yawk on November 20 and 21 (I wish I was!)

Wendy Brandes is doing a pre-holiday sale at her very own Wendy Brandes Jewelry pop-up shop!

Please go to 48 Greenwich Avenue (near Perry Street) to meet the gorgeous, beautiful, talented Wendy in person and try on jewelry. As a bonus, She will have some clothes by her designing friend Zang Toi on sale as well.

Bring your friends to try on rings and other lovely things!

Wendy Brandes Pop-Up Shop
Dates: November 20 – 21
Hours: Noon – 8 PM
Location: 48 Greenwich Avenue

IF YOU'RE IN NYC - THIS IS A MUST DO!

This is my WendyBrandes piece, I really love it. Hopefully I will add another piece to my collection soon....I'm thinking a ring... note to self - must work hard in 2010 to buy more WendyBrandes jewels!

Love this handbag!

From Next and only £28/€38 I think it's lovely! Great colour!

Normally I can avoid Primark buying...but this is tempting...

I Like this dress alot! I'm very tempted!

Normally I avoid Primark (I dislike the actual store in Oxford Street, too bright headache inducing lights, too busy, stuff looks naff when all pushed together, child labour problems...etc...etc)

I bought a few things there last winter, (going very early in the morning) but I found although they were V cheap they weren't really 100% my cup of tea. I bought a bright acid yellow dress (very nice, but I felt a bit too "look at me" in it! Thats gone to a charity shop) I bought a lovely wine coloured tea dress that fell apart the first time I wore it...A brown dress that the size 12 was far too tight (I'm normally a 8 or 10) . I bought some tights that are GREAT and still going strong! I bought some cheap and cheerful faux (obviously!!!) pearls that are superb!

I nearly bought a charming floral coat, but then saw at least 25 people in it...

I had a coat from Uuth (used to be in Malborough Street and Covent Garden - Don't know what happened to the brand, it was quite jigsaw-ish, but a bit more quirky) about 8 years ago, very unusual , in red and beige tweed with a faux fur collar and cuffs and I wore it for 4 or 5 years especially around Christmas...it was a real "feel good" coat.....

Until I went to the Meridan Hotel in the Strand (now a Hilton I think) and saw a woman in the Lobby wearing the same coat - I HONESTLY THOUGHT SHE WAS GOING TO KILL ME!! I have NEVER had anyone look at me with such hate and venom, she was honestly really, really scary! I smiled at her, (She looked very nice in the coat) and sort of half laughed, as I thought it was quite amusing to see someone wearing the same coat, especially as it was from a small-ish shop and quite old at this point. She continued to give me the evil eye and I felt like she was putting a curse on me!!!

Anyway, that experience has rather put me off wearing clothes that other people may be wearing, as I want to enjoy my clothes, not be given the "evils"

I do still like the primark dress though.....

UPDATE - And It's only £15 !!

Back soon...

Hi,

Just to say work is crazy at the moment, there's too much to do and too much needs to be done ASAP, so I'll be back when I'm less busy..

Lots Of Love in the meanwhile xxx

(I wish my dog would work like this good dog!)

Anthropologie opens in London on Friday 23rd!!

VERY exciting.....

Visit... http://www.anthropologie.co.uk/