Showing posts with label london. Show all posts
Showing posts with label london. Show all posts

Sunday, 19 February 2012

london yay!

in exactly two weeks I will be on a plane to London! HOORAY I am TOO excited.



I'm excited for many things; for buying tickets to see Matilda:The Musical (music by Tim Minchin ! ), for a break from this intense Cape Town heat, for revisiting old favourite places, and for extreme exploration expeditions.

I have been raising my blood pressure to near nosebleed-point daily by checking out events/tours/fun things on TimeOut, as well as by doing some online window shopping. I know it's a cliche and everyone who ever went on a one week holiday to London says it but Topshop is still one of my best ever shops. Lately they have upped their game in a big way, mainly by bringing in designs from my 2 favourites of the moment…

Mary Katrantzou for Topshop


look at these lovely dresses! Their print + their shape are simply magical and I love their Ming vase-y-ness. They look like works of art.



I've been counting sleeps 'til the release of her range but I blinked and missed it as pretty much everything has sold out already! I wanted this dress most of all


I felt very sad for a bit then realised that £350 is almost my whole budget for my trip/an outrageous amount of money to spend on a dress. At this stage in life anyway.


Meadham Kirchhoff

I have expressed my love for these boys before. Topshop has an adorable t-shirt of theirs for sale



and (most excitingly) NAIL WRAPS!


I feel very passionately about nail wraps (yeah! life's good!) and seeing these babies make me want to cry with love. They were designed with the collection that set my heart on fire so naturally I must own them OR ELSE.



shoo-wee, is anyone else sweating?!

Tuesday, 15 November 2011

no place like london

Some days I just want to sell everything I own and move back to London. Today is a day like that, kindly bear with me. I think it was sparked off by my finding these lovely prints





Notting Hill Carnival "Who the fuck is this? Surely not Che?"



You got to choose which budgie you trusted most to predict your fortune (fact: you can determine the trustworthiness of a bird by the shape of their beak) and then they picked up a piece of paper and gave it to you. I kept my fortune safe, tucked away in my still-awaiting-publication Gap Yah Journal:

The heavenly gift for you will be a wealth man. Your best friends will envy your happiness but they won't harm you. Your lucky star says: you'll live in happiness and silence, and you'll be his before marriage. You'll inherit a great wealth from an uncle. You'll marry Peter and you'll live 86 years. You'll also have babies.

Those of you who know me will agree this is preeeettttty eerie! Shout out to my best friends for not harming me, and mwa to my wealth man Pete!