Showing posts with label Tagged. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tagged. Show all posts

Thursday, 13 May 2010

Hello Lover


What with the last few days of political change it was a bit of a relief to be the recipient of a light hearted tag from Wildernesschic. And I thought I could do with a rest from the enormity of Project 100 and thinking about hard times.

The lovely and talented Forty Not Out has invented a new award the "Hello Lover" award where you are to display seven pair of shoes, your favourite seven pair of shoes... I was good I limited myself to just seven and opted for six heels and one pair of flats, despite living in flats on a daily basis.


My much coveted Manolo Blahnik silver pair. I just had to have them and these were the only pair in all of Manhattan in September 2007. I really could have done with the size 36 as the 37 are slightly too big, my left foot is a bit smaller. The helpful Bergdorf Goodman sales assistant gave me some half insoles to help my foot from flipping out. What price a pair of shoes. They are great to wear but I feel compelled to put something on the leather sole. Which would be sacrilege but London is so wet and dirty!

My Roger Vivier shoes are my favourite, I got married in these despite thinking Mr MDS would shout out some panto joke when he saw them. Luckily he was too nervous and had been drinking. When I wear them I glide rather than walk. They say sophisticated and also something else if you've seen Belle de jour the Luis Brunel film starring Catherine Deneuve.

I love these mesh flats I bought in Russell & Bromley in 2003 after seeing them in Marie Claire (probably the last time I bought a copy). I ran down Bond St in the pouring rain and arrived drenched but I got them! They are by shoe designer Beverly Weldmen and actually they are crying out for a pleated skirt or something similar. I haven't worn them for a couple of years but I love them and they stay.


I bought these Studio TLS wedges last summer and they are fab ...but they do leak orange dye on my feet. It rubs off! However they look great and are very comfy. It takes about 4 - 5 hours of hard wearing before pain sets in.

These are Marc Jacobs and although they show too much toe in my book I don't care because they've got great gold heels. The patent green is gorgeous and I should wear them more but haven't really been out. I think they might hurt quite quickly but will have to road test them again.

My honeymoon shoes! I changed from my wedding dress into a white shirt, blue velvet straight pants and these Mui Mui shoes. I did dance for 3 hours in these and only at the end did my feet hurt. On honeymoon in Rome I wore them with a short little black dress and a black tuxedo (with fake tanned legs of course) to go out for dinner.

The first collaboration Pierre Hardy for Gap produced these babies. I can and have run for a bus in these. I wear them a lot and when/if they fall apart I will cry.

I need to tag a few people so we can see their shoes too! Let me see...Faux Fuchsia, WaceyStyle, Miss Peelpants, teawithonesugarplease and Vintage Vixen will do for a starter....

Friday, 19 March 2010

Result! An award

I've got about 5 mins to catch up on blogs and do a post. The lovely Sharon Rose the Thrifting Queen very kindly gave me an award. This is good news otherwise I would have bored you with my cycling attack by snappy dogs incident this morning on way to train station. I was cycling through the park when two goodness knows what snappy things went for me. The owner was useless and basically I swore (quite a bit). At the other end of the park are a group of school kids no doubt amused by what would look like Anna Wintour on a Pashley cycle from a distance (my Pink Soda Coat with DVF dress, Pierre Hardy shoes and Chanel sunnies plus my new fringe) going round in circles being attacked by yappy critters. After making my escape, as I got close to them I breezily said 'That was a spectacle wasn't it.' Okay now I have bored you with my 7:45am drama.


So, over to the award. The rules of acceptance include telling of 7 things about yourself and passing on this award to 7 other beautiful bloggers, so here goes!!


1. My vehicle of choice is my Pashley
2. I have been known to swear like a trouper (please see above extenuating circumstances)
3. I have a weakness for Percy Pigs from M&S
4. Nearly every morning I start the day with fresh carrot, apple and ginger juice thanks to my juicer.
5. Mr MDS irons his own shirts, I'm too slapdash.
6. I'm a complete neat freak
7. I'm off to Cardiff on Saturday for the rugby, Wales v Italy - it will be lush!

I tag these 7 seven lovely bloggers

Faux Fuchsia
La Belette Rouge
Wife in the City
That's not my Age
WaceyStyle
Forty Not Out
and Fashion Pearl's of Wisdom (I needed her Henry Holland F.F.S t-shirt yesterday morning)

Thursday, 18 March 2010

Capes, Memories and Photo MeMe

Wildernesschic tagged me for a photo meme, for which I'm quite grateful since this is a busy week. I've hardly had a chance to touch the ground let alone think. Yesterday one of my clients flew into London for a shop en route to South Africa. I style a lot of TV journalists because I understand the nature of the game and the requirement for the camera. The work clothes tend to be practical but then the creativity is in the personal wardrobe. Our worlds are completely opposite given I'm never going to be stood reporting with bombs exploding in the background and they rarely spend a moment thinking about or buying clothes. Today I'm teaching.

The point of the photo meme is to open a folder and select the 10th photo. I started with A which happened to be anniversary. So this is me on our first wedding anniversary. I'm stood in the folly in the grounds of the hotel in Wiltshire where we were married.


I've added my actually wedding day photo to show that I actually wore a cape. Most people don't believe me. Mine is black velvet and lined with a silk in the colour of Tiffany blue. I had it made especially and would like to state for the record I was into capes before everyone else! (That's for you Mrs Fab xx)


Sunday, 7 March 2010

Fantasy Glamorous bag and its contents

Life the Universe and all thats in it, kindly tagged me to reveal my fantasy bag and what I would have in it.
Since I love a wish list (not having a bean to part with) I happily decided on my summer bag of glamorous -ness! Since ditching the library books I'm all about ease and hands free. The Alexander McQueen Cross body bag in electric blue is a lean mean machine for the summer.
In my bag you'd find a purse. I'm going with this bright pink with this DKNY one

Plus a blackberry, a pack of hankies, my oyster card, keys and my Dior Addict Lip Glow Colour Reviver






I'm meant to tag a few others so I'll choose Faux Fuchsia, and Fashion Pearls of Wisdom do reveal your fantasy glam bag and contents xx

Wednesday, 27 May 2009

Bloggie Award of a fabulous nature

Returning to the fold of the blogosphere is even nicer when you get an award.



Now I have to detail three things I can't stand and three random things plus answer a question from the lovely blogger Looking Fab in your Forties who gave me this award!

Three things I can't stand:

1. People who bite their nails or chew their fingers in a cannibalistic way. I'm subjected to this on a daily basis when travelling on train/tube/bus - please desist. File your nails and sit on your hands.

2. People who chew gum with their mouth open. Again I'm subjected to this on a daily basis when travelling on train/tube/bus - please don't and actually don't chew gum at all as I recently stood in some at Waterloo and I nearly screamed!

3. Flat tyres - my poor bike is suffering a worn valve and its booked in for repairs at cycle shop on Thursday. Not being able to cycle to station is the worst thing to befall me. I don't cycle in central London as even I'm too scared, we need cycle lanes like Amsterdam and Copenhagen.

Three random things:

1. What's on your bedside table? Photo of Mr MDS, earplugs (he snores and breathes too heavily!) a biography of Leni Riefenstahl, my phone, earrings from yesterday, a hairband, a lamp, a clock and petit garcon's baby comb.

2. Last thing I bought? Well after a great talk at Central College St Martin's Innovation Centre on Fashion and Celebrity by Pamela Church Gibson last night, I fell of the high brow wagon and bought Hello and of course Grazia on the way home for a bedtime read.

3. Guilty pleasure? This year it is buying clothes. I've sold items on ebay, saved my pennies to convert to pounds and occasionally allowed an allocation of work money to buy essentials. For example I needed some jeans for my recent stint in Watford. Oh and once a month I have a wicked Wednesday and have some cake - I'm amazed how frugal times give you more pleasure than times of plenty. Why is making do so satisfying? Sure I miss a multitude of products for skin, hair and a facial I'm sure I'd faint in ecstasy if I had one now...

If you could shop online from one retailer, which one would it be?
Toast - I'm sorry it's their home ware. I can't resist the quality and indulgence, please don't let me bore you on this matter.....I'd rather go naked and lie in their towels!

In the spirit of (global)tagging I tag

Hammie
La Belette Rouge
Wendy B
Already Pretty
Skylark & Son

Sunday, 1 February 2009

No really...

...I have nothing better to do on a Saturday night other than read your blog posts and write some of my own. After a full on week, college, petit garcon, teaching at the NHJ Style Academy and styling a model on Friday for her test shots plus a Saturday shopping session for a client - it is blog or bed! Oh and did I mention a visit to the final week of the Annie Leibovitz exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery on Wednesday morning before lecturers.

So, when Sharon Rose tagged me to reveal the fourth picture in the fourth folder, I thought great that's Sunday's blog post sorted! Tiredness makes one lazy.... What you do is, go to the fourth folder on your computer where you keep your photographs, choose the fourth picture, explain it and tag four other people.

My fourth folder is my new decorating folder with samples and ideas. This picture is a wallpaper from Cole & Son.

I'm thinking of putting this on one of the landing walls which is very high and we are going to put lots of framed photos on a dramatic wallpaper. I'm waiting for the sample along with many others to put on the wall to select.

I dutifully or annoyingly tag:-
Fabulous Frocks and Fashion Disasters
Siljes Fashion
Sorting it Out
Same cat....different spots

Friday, 31 October 2008

Four thingy tag - Halloween Special

Over a week ago Big City Bumpkin tagged me for the four thingy thing - which I've been tagged about before so I thought I'd do a Halloween special (and yes Sharon Rose, I've got your award thing to mention as well on my to do list!)



The four places I go over and over again:
- the graveyards
- the woods
- the ghost train at the fun fair!
Four people who email me regularly:


Four places I would rather be right now:
- Greyskulls
- the bat cave
- Morticia's chamber
- Transylvania

Four of my fav places to eat:
- Spook and chip shop
- Ghoul restaurant
- Ghost cafe


Four people I'm tagging:
- Frankenstein
- those pesky kids on Scooby Doo
- Ghostbusters
- Skeletor

Four tv programmes I watch over and over again:
- Adams Family
- The Munsters
- Scooby Doo
- He-man

Happy Halloween may it be a spooky one



Sunday, 12 October 2008

Citizen Tagged!

I'm thinking that on my deathbed I'm might issue 'tagged' as my last word, thereby spiralling a huge investigation into what did I mean, or be left with an epitaph which reads 'geez this gal was a blogoholic'.

The wonderful Observationmode has afforded me another opportunity to purge myself of random matters with the four tag thingy!

1. Four Places I go to over and over:
- to the nursery
- to London College of Fashion
- to Caffe Nero
- Waterloo station

2. Four people who email me regularly:
- my course director
- my style booker
- Amazon
- Net-a-Porter (they are wasting their time these days)

3. Four place I would rather be right now:

- New York

-in bed asleep

- a spa

- Barbados

4. Four of my favourite places to eat: (all currently in my head)

-Le Caprice (London)

- Baltazar (New York)

- Ninos (Roma)

- La Taxidermista (Barcelona)

5. Four people I'm tagging:

- Everybodysaysdon't

- Sharon Rose Vintage

- Same cat different spots

- Wee Birdy

6. Four TV shows I watch over and over:

- Sex and the City

- Lazy Town

- Charlie and Lola (I quite like this one)

- and the freakin rest of cbeebies!

Friday, 27 June 2008

'Tis the season to be tagged..

It's a bit like a mexian wave so wrong you shouldn't do it but hey what the heck!
And how can I ignore the delightful Observationmode and the page 123 tag.

The page 123 thingy is as follows:
1. Pick up nearest book
2. Open to page 123
3. Find the 5th sentance
4. Post the next 3 sentances
5. Tag 5 people, and acknowledge who tagged you.

Luckily I've been to the library and my nearest book to hand is Mary Elsey's Pedals and Petticoats: On the road in post war Europe.

Here's the bit from page 123

'Darkness descended early that night. Later when the tent was finally set up and we were eating our meal of macaroni and cheese in what we believed was its safety, Agnes had to light a candle, the stand of which we affixed to a pole. Its cheery flicker somewhat offset the gloom outside.'

No pressure just skip if you can't be ar**d but the tagilious babes are (which reminds me using such dreadful words - I completed missed Gok last night - did I miss anything?)
Mud on My Tea Dress
Sorting it Out
Couture Carrie
All things Blonde and Beautiful
and Disney Roller Girl as she is the finding a book gem person

Friday, 20 June 2008

Tagged:Seven Songs for Spring

Disney Roller Girl tagged me good and proper to reveal my 7 songs for Spring.

This set me off on a You Tube dallience of which downloading videos and uploading to my blog proved to be a techno step to overcome. I choose not to ransack my iPod for my top seven as my selection of Amy Winhouse, Mark Ronson, Kayne West, Stereophonics, All Saints have sat there unchallenged due to complete laziness.

The choices by Disney Roller Girl set me off an trip down memory lane and also nearly a tear as I had to part with my LPs and singles during our move from Bristol to London. Downsizing and clearing out were the top issues at the time- agh!

Still here's mine, eclectic and diverse

Hong Kong Garden: Siouxsie and the Banshees

Should I stay or should I go: The Clash

Down in the tube station at Midnight: The Jam

Unfinished Symphony: Massive Attack

I try: Macy Gray

Could it be Magic: Take That

Say what you want: Texas ( I choose the vid for pure Sharleen Spiteri oggling - she is just the coolest!)

Now all I have to do is upload them to iPod and continue the spirit and rules of the game as dictated and therefore request 7 fellow bloggers to list their 7 songs for spring.

http://sharonrosepixie.blogspot.com/

http://thefashionassistant.wordpress.com/

http://squareoldsoul.blogspot.com/

http://www.mudonmyteadress.blogspot.com/

http://cupcakesandcashmere.com/

http://everybodysaysdont.blogspot.com/

http://deliciousindustries.blogspot.com/

Sunday, 1 June 2008

Quirkily tagged


Given my exhausting weekend as a host to guest, I'm quite glad to have been tagged by Observationmode otherwise I might have bored you with my trifling last 48 hours.
Instead I will reveal my 6 quirks (that I'm aware of!)
1. I nearly always wear a pearl necklace, I have 5 of varying quality and length.
2. I've worn sunglasses since the age of 5. I have blue eyes and used to squint them up in the summer sunlight so was made to wear sunglasses and have been addicted ever since. Except now it's all year round and even on the tube, I'm such a poser.
3. I can't abide drawers being left open, even the wardrobe door. I'm forever closing drawers.
4. I love raspberries and eat them every morning at breakfast.
5. Lists - love making them, for shopping, things to do, places to go and the perfect clothes list, ref project top 50 post!
6. Long argyle socks over the knee. This is now a quirk to go.....
And I tag Delicious Industries and Charponnaise

Monday, 28 April 2008

Tagged!!

Agh it has happened at last!

Wee Birdy has tagged me to reveal six unimportant things about myself. Ok here goes....

1. By complete coincidence I also, like Wee Birdy, hold my pen in a most unorthodox and downright ungainly manner
2. I pulled my back this morning whilst rubbing body lotion on my right leg, so I'm visiting the osteopath at 3:30pm today...
3. I'm currently addicted to the BBC's 'I'd do anything'. My favourite wanabee Nancy is Jodie.
4. I'd be strutting about in my white Gap high waisted sailor trousers if I hadn't done my back in.
5. My literary intake is on the up since joining the local library, my latest loan is Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
6. I love raspberries

In the spirt of tagging I'm opting for...
Observationmode
Dressed and Pressed
Everybody says don't
Coco's Tea Party
Mahalo Fashion
and
Flashy Shades