On my shopping list

Jacket from Topshop, Blouse from Vionnet

Which to choose?

I'm moving in to a new room in a new house for the rest of my time in London and since I haven't had a proper home for about 3 months now I am really really really looking forward to making the space a little more 'me'.  I'm contemplating new knobs for the chest of drawers.  I am totally in love with the knobs on ...love maegan's chest of drawers seen here.  What do you think of Anthropologies choices?

Have you heard?

Browsing Twitter the other night I came across this genius idea of @CondeElevator.  Yep, you read right... some fabulous person has created a twitter account to record the hilarious and unbelievable conversations had within the sacred walls of Vogue, namely the elevator!  Unfortunately, the creator has run scared but a job at Vogue would certainly trump a Twittter account.  So after only a few days the twitter account went silent.  Have a look anyway and pick your favourite. I couldn't choose betwen...

Girl 1: Oh man, I'm so tired, I was at the Rangers game late last night… Girl 2: Wait, really? Me too. Which one do YOU date?


Woman #1 to Woman #2, holding an omelet: "What's the occasion?" Woman #2: "...huh?" Woman #1: "I would need an occasion to eat that."


Summer Intern: My driver had SUCH a bad attitude. I was like, "don't complain to me, I didn't eat lunch either! You think I eat clothes?"

Topshop Melbourne... Look out!

The wait is finally over!  With the arrival of Zara in Sydney and then Melbourne earlier this year, Topshop is going to launch their brand in Melbourne!  Woooo!!  I'm originally from Melbourne and on the phone this morning to my Mum (who still lives there) she mentioned that in the newspaper there was an article about Topshop coming to Melbourne.  I was over the moon!  

Although, however fabulous it might be for the consumer that Topshop is landing in Australia I wonder what local retailers think of their new competition?  As a season behind America and Europe retail buyers frequently make buying trips to New York, London and Paris to source 'inspiration' for their own private brand labels.  As such they are able to translate the trends from overseas in to suitable products for the Australian market... with a 6 month lead time.  Now that Zara and Topshop (two of their largest sources of inspiration) have landed on their doorstep and will certainly air freight goods in to store how are they going to compete?

Check out the article in The Australia newspaper here.

Sequins divine

I saw this amazing Topshop t-shirt on Coco's Tea Party blog and stopped by Topshop in Oxford Circus today to try it on.  It was fabulous!  It's a pity they make the cuts of their clothes on the smaller side otherwise I would have spent 30 pounds on it, and probably many other things in there!

Topshop

Churchill and World War 2

Although not a very light topic to start the weekend with I headed in to Westminster today to visit the Churchill War Rooms and it was amazing!  The War rooms have been left as they were in the 1940's and prove to be one of the best things I have done while living in London.  The museum part of the bunker is incredibly informative and interactive and the actual war rooms used by Churchill and his staff are certainly eye opening to say the least.  At one point as we were entering the map room sirens sounded overhead as if to alert of a bombing air raid.  I was caught off guard and was surprised at the anxiety I felt when I heard the siren.  If you are ever in London put this on your list of must do things!

The man himself- Winston Churchill

His bowler cap became part of his image during the war

I also bought this fabulous poster in the CWR shop, they always put it at the end of the exhibition and get me at my weakest!  But I love it!

You can buy the poster here

Pride and Prejudice... yes please!

The photos speak for themselves but a little background for you... On Sunday it was a glorious warm day in London and my best friend and I decided to get out of town and rent a car somewhere cool.  And cool ended up being Basildon Park just outside of Reading where the 2005 movie Pride and Prejudice was filmed.  It was beautiful and to my extreme delight there was also an exhibition on at the time for Horrockses dress!  It was like Georgian beauty mixed with 1950's housewives in the English countryside.  My kind of ideal!

I'm totally in love with this skirt by H&M and am in the process of
 buying it in black too!  It makes me feel like a ballerina.