My Award from Inspiration in Italy

Rachel, Inspiration In Italy

Stella McCartney featured at Selfridges

English Countryside

Bahamas

Aston Martin DB9


When Rachel from Inspiration In Italy sent me a message saying she had given me an award,I was just extremely,exceedingly happy. I am still smiling. Rachel is one of the most stylish women on the planet and her blog is outstanding. Thank you again.
I have to answer these questions in one word so here goes!


1. Where is your cell phone? sofa

2. Your hair? black

3. Your mother? beautiful

4. Your father? discovered

5. Your favorite food? Caribbean

6. Your dream last night? food

7. Your favorite drink? water

8. Your dream/goal? success

9. What room are you in? lounge

10. Your hobby? dressing

11. Your fear? failure

12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? bahamas

13. Where were you last night? bed

14. Something you aren't? stupid

15. Muffins? museli

16. Wish list item? DB9

17. Where did you grow up? england

18. Last thing you did? laugh

19. What are you wearing? clothes!

20. Your TV? LG

21. Your pets? none

22. Your friends? lovely

23. Your life? unusual

24. Your mood? light

25. Missing someone? yes

26. Vehicle? Golf

27. Something you're not wearing? jewellery

28. Your favorite store? Selfridges

29. Your favorite color? red

30. When was the last time you laughed? earlier

31. Last time you cried? sunday

32. Your best friend? Jesus

33. One place that I go over and over? blogland

34. One person who emails me regularly? cousin

35. Favorite place to eat? home

My First Award!

Lovely Nina from ballerina'sclosetobsession

Debbie The College Years

The Boy From Another Planet

Dragonfly Designs

Emma's Music

Haute Like Wasabi

Inspiration In Italy


Julie Magers Soulen Photography

Junk Jewelry

Delance Fashion Blog

Pixie Dust

My (Stylish) Pursuit of Happiness

The beautiful Nina from ballerina'sclosetobsession has given me my first award. I am so happy and amazed. It feels so nice .Thank you, Nina,you are a ballerina fashionista!
Now for 10 things I am happy for
1. I am happy that I am safe,healthy and have a warm house to sleep in and food to eat everyday.
2. I am happy for my lovely family, friends and including all my wonderful blogpals
3. I am happy for finding something that makes me laugh til I cry almost everday.
4. I am happy for the colour pink.
5. I am happy for Spencer, my sister's new kitten.
6. I am happy for the 1950's vintage coat which only cost me £15.00 and makes me feel like a superstar.
7. I am happy for all the new and up and coming designers in the world, who make the world of fashion a far more interesting place.
8. I am happy for the beauty of the English countryside.
9. I am happy for answered prayers.
10.I am happy for the invention of cupcakes

Now to pass on the award to 10 others, even though I wish it could be many more
I award Debbie The College Years - Thank you Debbie for being one my second follower and all your lovely comments. You blog is fascinating and so well written. You are pretty and pure hearted.
I award A Boy From Another Planet - you should be a journalist, your blogs are varied, intelligent and funny too. You can almost nearly do the splits.Way more people should be following you!!
I award Dragonfly Designs - your blog is full to brimming of wonderful items of fashion and beauty - the heart shaped paperweights are simply divine!
I award Emma's Music - Your rendition of My Fair Lady's - All I Want Is a Room Somewhere deserves many awards. The guest blogger piece on Audrey Hepburn is simply dreamy
I award Haute like Wasabi - Your blog is always a delightful place to visit, you are a supermodel. Your fashion/penguin blog is so inspired!
I award Inspiration in Italy - your sense of style is as stunning as the Italian architecture that surrounds you.I am transported from my living room to Italy evertime I visit your blog. You should be in a movie!
I award Julie Magers Soulen- Your photography is breathtaking. I like your name - it's so sophisticated. You have earned your place as a Blog of Note.
I award Junk Jewelry - Finding your blog is like finding money - it's so cool. I have discovered some of the most amazing jewellery ever on your blog
I award Delancefashion Blog - The Delance Fashion Community you have launched is fantastic. I love dynamic fashion forums such as this, that helo make fashion happen!
I award Pixie Dust for her fabulous blog and making me appreciate my hometown even more. Your latest blog on meeting the stars is the best! Hee hee.

Lenka, I wanted to award you to for your awesome blog My (Stylish) Pursuit of Happiness, however, someone beat me to it! You deserve an award everyday!

I own a LenkaLovee Original!

I am now the proud owner of a LenkaLovee original signed hand drawn art sketch. This particular piece features adorable miniture sketches of beautiful dresses. I discovered LenkaLovee via her lovely blog My (stylish pursuit of Happiness. It was love at first blog! Not only is she a talented artist with her own Etsy shop, she is a marketing major, visionary and a very warm,sweet person overall.
The sketch comes in a beautiful black frame, which gives it a classic, chic finish. Hence, you could hang this sketch in a varierty of places, from your boudoir, to the hallway, or your office. It is an enjoyable, fun and whimsical piece. I have spent ages looking at all the various designs,considering which ones I would actually like to wear. My friend saw it yesterday and absolutley loves it. I suspect I will be visiting Lenka's shop again soon.
The sketch has become one of my favourite things, so I have photographed it with a pair of my favourite shoes by Coco James and perfume - Coco Mademoiselle and Coco Chanel. I just realised they all have the name coco. So I will name the sketch - Coco by LenkaLovee.

Betty Blythe And Blizzards

Today was spent with my lovely friend Raquel and her brother Michael, who is over here from Germany. Despite the freezing temperatures ( we are getting -3 in London and -20 in Scotland and the North!) we met up for tea and cakes. We visited a delightful tea shop in West London, Brook Green called Betty Blythe. It has a beautiful 1920's interior and tea is served in the most delicate, floral teacups. Raquel and I shared a delicious carrot cake with cheese frosting, Michael had one all to himself. We sat downstairs, on charming round tables with the most beautiful settings. The hot choclate I ordered was delicious, with lovely vanilla overtones. To add to the whole 1920's ambience, accessories are available in a beautiful dresser. We played dress up with long beaded necklaces, flapper girl headwear and tiaras. We made Michael wear a feather hat (pics coming. Lenka, when you visit London, we have to go!
After that we headed over to Westfields shopping centre, which is supposed to rival the big malls in the U.S. However,it gets a thumbs down from me. I love U.S shopping malls, they are infinitley better in every way. Hence we didn't stay long and made our way to Notting Hill. We walked past the house which George Orwell once lived, author of 1984 and Animal Farm. The houses are exquisite, pastel pinks,blues, greens and yellows. A terrible wind was picking up, and it was beginning to feel very icy. However, we carried on, making our way along the famous Portabello market. Portabello Market is vintage heaven, as well as a hub for cutting edge design. Antiques galore and some of the best restaurants in London. Inspired by Betty Blythe, Raquel bought a beautiful handpainted china cup and saucer. We decided that she simply had to have a cupcake to go with it, so we queued for a while in Hummingird bakery, which makes the most exquisite cupcakes. Raquel is a petite half Kenyan, half Italian beauty, she can get away with it!
We exited the bakery to be confronted with a real life blizzard. How ironic, as I was saying to Debbie, that I have never been in a real life blizzard. As sharp flakes of ice flew in out faces, we all got the giggles and made our way back to the car. Goodbye George Orwell, goodbye Betty Blythe, goodbye Hummingird, we had a lovely day, now it's time to go home.

Style Hydration

As with each New Year,we are faced with the various methods of atoning for our sins of over indulgence. Apart from our optimistic resolutions to visit the gym, start a new healthy eating regime, the word detox becomes the new 'in' word for January. The market becomes flooded with various amazing detoxing programmes, claiming all kinds of transforming qualites. Such programmes, formulas and magical elixirs often come along with an impressive price. The general understanding being - the more you pay the better it is. If you say so. However, listening to a doctor on tv yesterday, he dispelled the detox myth. He explained that the best detox system we could hope for is out own liver and kidneys.They have been perfectly designed to filter and get rid of our bodies impurities. Once you don't marinate them in gin and vodka of course. A little assistance for our God given in built detox system comes by way of nothing but sweet pure water. I suggest you cancel your detox programme that you took a mortgage out to pay for and go buy some water instead. In fact you can do it in style, flaunting some of these designer water bottles.The likes of Jean Paul Gaultier and Christian Lacroix have turned their hand to creating limited edition bottles for Evian.Serve water in style at the dinner table in beautiful glass decanters. Even a pretty vase can become an improvised water jug. Add slices of lemon and lime, orange or mint leaves for a delicate hint of flavour. You can even become a water connoisseur and buy a copy of Fine Waters by Michael Mascha to study.
A Happy Detox to you!