Fiona, Dollie and Frankie at EC One

A couple of posts ago I mentioned how my online life was fast turning into real life. As the blog started taking over my life in just 6 months, life is becoming anything but ordinary right now and I’m enjoying every minute of it. As I work from home alone so don’t have the normal colleague office-situation. My fellow bloggers and tweeters have become the people I moan to, discuss work with, gossip with.

As nerdy as that sounds, we’re often people in the same situation and there’s an awful lot of love in our little community. So when we get an invitation to go to an opening, a launch, a party – and we get a lot – we go, not just because we want to stock up on the freebies, but because we want our after-work drinks with colleagues just like everybody else.

I used to be quite shy and reserved when it came to meeting new people, now I’m an outgoing and chatty person, because when we meet, we’re often already the best of friends. Then throw in a Bellini and a canapé or two and you’ve got yourself a blogger party.

This is what happened when I met Lira Leirner, who I wrote about earlier this week, and it again happened last week when I met with the lovely Frankie from Swell Vintage and Fiona of Save Our Shoes at the EC One jewellery event on Exmouth Market.

We drooled over some of the amazing jewellery on display. Me over the two-tone Fiona Paxton necklace I’m still dreaming of at night, Fiona even bought some Nicholas King neon plastic… cuffs? They also serve perfectly as self-defence devices, and for £8 a pop, very worth it. But mostly, we chatted, gossiped and played around with Dollie the doll.

Not at any time was it strange to meet up with virtual strangers, in a way we’ve known each other for so long it just seemed normal to be doing this. In a few weeks we have a big blogger meet up lined up, which I’m looking forward to, as there’s still some girls I’m dying to meet! If you want to get involved, drop me a line, the more the merrier!

So thank you to the great peeps at EC One and Push PR for a lovely night which allowed some new old friends to finally meet!


Me in the amazing Fiona Paxton tube necklace


Fiona in her Nicholas King neon cuffs


In house workshop at EC One Exmouth Market

I forgot my camera, so all images except polaroid are courtesy of Frankie Swell Vintage

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my birthday is coming up soon, so I thought I’d let you know I found yet another perfect present, you know, just in case you were still looking. It’s only a month-ish away after all…

I’ve been in love with the Proenza Schouler PS1 bags for so long now, well-documented on this very blog, but then they showed their Resort 2011 collection a few days ago and well… The PS1, but much, much BIGGER!

The clothes were really nice too, full of exotic Indian influences, lots of shorts, a bit more like a citygirls’ perfect summer wardrobe rather than resort perhaps? But these bags are sure to be the biggest sellers of the collection – pun intended.

Of course they won’t land in stores until November and will have a waiting list a mile long, but well, just thought I’d let you know I wouldn’t mind one of these at all.

Love,
your much deserving daughter.

All images via Style.com

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I’m not much of a sandal person. First of all, they’re just too flat, secondly, I’m not a big fan of looking at other people’s toes, unless they’re immaculately pedicured. Let’s face it, toes can be pretty disgusting. I don’t own many pairs, and the ones I do are cheap and out of necessity, they cause me blisters and much agony, and are one of the only reasons I hate summer. So you can only imagine my surprise when I fell completely head over heels with Opening Ceremony’s latest collaboration with K. Jacques.

K. Jacques is a French company that has been handmaking their leather sandals for over 80 years, so you could say they know a thing or two about them. Their stuff is pretty basic, with a few forays into ‘Fashion’ (zebra, leopard, studs), but here it’s more about quality than the design, so that’s where Opening Ceremony comes in.

Together they’ve made 5 limited edition designs: 3 for women, 2 for men. The Parys Gladiator in particular caught my eye (see above), specifically the colour combo one. Can’t choose between green patent, blue python, yellow leather, nude or leopard ponyskin? Oh well – WHY NOT HAVE IT ALL! As kitsch as that sounds, it just works. At $290 a pop, they don’t come cheap, but if you think about it, they’re 5 sandals in 1?

Buy K. Jacques pour Opening Ceremony here

Python Gladiator Sandal


Picon Thong Sandal


AnnaPyr Cross Sandal


Men’s Barigoule Strap Sandal


Men’s Adrien Fisherman Sandal



All images via Opening Ceremony

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