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December 5th, 2010

Tour Guide.

I’m back!!! It’s been a little while, but i’m finally free of work and couldn’t be happier. And to make up for lack of everything for the past week, I present to you a little video that I made with the help of Miguel!

We had a little time at uni to create something that was personal to us and could be used to promote our work, and as I haven’t dabbled in film for a year or so I thought i’d put something together. I decided to do a ‘promo’ video for the blog – I had rather grand ideas of wearing a plethora of outfits in beautiful locations but only having a day to film (a very very cold day at that!) had severe limitations. Still, I hope you get the concept!

The video shows what I would hope to be a representation of my blog as I show you around a few of my favourite shops and London sights on a journey into town. The amount of emails I receive asking for London shopping tips is crazy, so I thought i’d take you there “in person”! It involved skipping down Regent street and getting a few odd looks, but i’m happy with how it turned out for the time I had to create it. Do let me know what you think!

We also took some outfit shots (of my many many layers!) but unfortunately the card was wiped before I got to upload them – so i’ve taken a few stills from the film to accompany it.

Anyway, enough babble from me because I could talk forever! I hope you enjoy the video – see you soon x

London Shops: My Sugarland

May 16th, 2010

a bag I that I fell in love with…

As I told you in the previous post, i’m currently interning at My Sugarland, a boutique in Islington, London. I’d only been in once before and it completely stuck out to me as being my dream shop; the way everything is presented is so inviting, it’s almost like a collection of my favourite things in one place – I knew i’d have to photograph it for you. Whilst it may look like an extremely well presented vintage shop, My Sugarland is much more..! They also stock some amazing designers – unfortunately, they are a little bit out of my price range (not ridiculously though, so some saving could be in order!) so i’ll concentrate on the bits that I could afford.

The Skull Headband by Havva, below, is one of my favourite items stocked (The Blair Waldorf in me is on the lookout for the perfect headband!!) along with some of the beautiful dollhouse jewellery and accessories. How cute are the bow necklaces? They would look like little bow-ties when worn, and they were affordable too.

Although I love the clothing, my favourite part about the shop is the way it’s decorated. Luckily, My Sugarland sell the bits and pieces that make it so visually appealing, like the hat boxes, suitcases, clocks, door-knobs and containers so you can make your own home a sugarland too. I remember photographing the collection of vintage pictures above the fireplace the first time I visited, and that is now a feature of my own house..remember?

If you’re in London, i’d definately reccomend a visit to My Sugarland, I have no doubt that there would be something for you to fall in love with. If you can’t get to London, you can find most of the products online.

402 – 404 St Johns Street, London. EC1V 4NJ Nearest Tube: Angel

Possibly my favourite item: Havva Skull Headband

Ruby Tuesday Jewellery – so cute!

i’d like to mention that I didn’t feel obliged to write this because i’m working at My Sugarland, I totally loved it beforehand and this has given me the opportunity to get some pretty pictures and share it with you! Have a lovely Sunday and see you soon for the blogs 2nd birthday! xx

A Post With Lots of Bloggers on Phones.

March 4th, 2010

If you follow me on Twitter, you might have realised that i’ve been Tweeting more frequently in past week or so, and this is because the lovely 3MobileBuzz gave me a phone that actually has internet capabilities to try out for a few weeks. I always feel left out at these events, and have to catch up on my tweets when I get home but having a phone less than 3 years old is a godsend! I was lucky enough to receive the HTC Hero, which i’ve found extremely simple to use and kind of fallen in love with..I don’t want to give it back!

Not only that, they took me and my looovely competition winner, Katie, along to London Fashion Weekend with a bunch of other fabulous bloggers. Here is how our day looked…

shy bloggers – Katie with Frankie from Swell Vintage.

Natasha with her morning coffee – it was an early start!

Fiona of Save Our Shoes with her new Luella clutch (..and INQ Chat, of course)

It’s lucky we did get there early because it meant that we could get to the good stuff first – we saw Luella on the list of designers selling at the event and bolted there straight away, not stopping to look at anything else on the way – I knew if I was going to be spending money on anything that day it would be some of Luella’s last pieces. Fiona managed to get the ribbon clutch above for a mere £40, reduced from £900-and-something – a huge bargain! I managed to get my hands on a few bargains too…oops! I was never any good at saving money..

London Fashion Weekend is a great way to get hold of some bargain designer clothing, but it got ridiculously busy later in the day, so I suggest starting early to find all the good bits!

Katie with Amy from Wolf Whistle

Natasha and her winner, Lindsey

We were also treated to the London Fashion Weekend catwalk, which highlighted new trends, showcased some vintage clothing and we also got to see the entire Betty Jackson Collection. Of course, as an army of bloggers with phones in our hands, we didn’t take the whole thing entirely seriously and tweeted throughout. There was some lovely clothing though, if you were there on Saturday too and heard very audible gasps and “oooohs” coming from the back row, that was us..!

Now I know all too well that you love an outfit post, and as I was the one with the camera in my hand (and sadly no boyfriend around to take my photo!), I decided that i’d post my competition winner, Katie’s outfit instead because I was in love with it – and I hope you are too! Her amazing rhinoceros playsuit, schoolgirl shoes and satchel are all vintage, and she finished off the look with a bright red ribbon in her hair! I knew straight away that she was a reader of my blog, and it turned out we have an awful lot in common! Check out her blog here. I bet you’re all this well dressed, right?!

I certainly made some lovely new friends on my day out to London Fashion Weekend, and hopefully this means i’ll provide you with some fabulous new reading material too..here are their blogs:

Natasha Bailie Vintage, Fiona from Save Our Shoes, Katie from Unicorn Katie, Frankie from Swell Vintage, Amy from Wolfwhistle, Lindsey from BeGorgeous and Ellie from Pretty Much Penniless. x