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It is cold in London. Not normal cold but the kind of cold that is reminiscent of New York's bone crunching temperatures. I'm not happy about it. This weekend has been effectively cancelled in my mind and I've been tidying / clearing / organising my clothes instead. I keep finding things I have totally forgotten about, which is good for me but really just a result of my being very, very bad. 

Blazer - Topshop 

T shirt - Eleven Paris 

Trousers - Zara

Shoes - Vintage Thierry Mugler from thrift store in LA

Badge - from YSL exhibition in Paris during 2010

FEELING BLUE

Cardigan  - Henry a la Pensee

Dress - Whistles 

Tights - Marks & Spencer 

Boots - Giuseppe Zanotti 

Another Whistles sale dress...

Dress - Whistles 

Tights - Marks & Spencer 

Boots - H by Hudson 

Spike bracelets - ASOS & H&M 

Cluster bracelet & Ring - Whistles 

Mask ring - ASOS

MY WHOLE WARDROBE IS WHISTLES

Prepare for an onslaught of Whistles dresses. I swooped in at the last minute for the final reductions and picked up some real bargains. Two short but sweet numbers (this is one of them), a 70s number for £50 that was £175 and a party dress that is so impractical but so fabulous that the utter impracticality was blocked out because it was trimmed with feathers.   

Cardigan - Vintage Dior from thrift store in NY 

Dress - Whistles 

Tights - M&S

Clutch - Zara

Shoes - Robert Clergerie

GIRL HAIR

As my hair has grown longer I have made friends with my GHDs in a big way. There is so much hair it really needs taming. 

I've never been one for really long hair, I was a massive tom boy as a child and my teens and twenties were spent cutting it super short and then growing it out to chin length, before cutting it super short once again. After years of never really understanding how people grew their hair so long my hairdresser gave me some advice...stop cutting it! Sounds so simple but I needed to hear it from a professional. Even she admitted that her hair never gets as long as she wants it if she cuts it as more always comes off that you're anticipating. It's been 9 months now, so I figure get to a year and then I'll go for a trim. 

Jumper - River Island 

Trousers - J Brand 

Trainers - Aldo 

Boots - Galleries Lafayette 

WINTER FLORALS

Excuse the glow. I'd been to see my personal trainer before work and boy did she punish me. Still, after Christmas and the New Year I need a bit of cold hard punishment to make up for all of the red meat, cheese and chocolate. 

Dress - Topshop 

Thermal long sleeved top - Uniqlo 

Tights - M&S

Shoes - Alexander Wang

Bracelets - ASOS & H&M

IN PRAISE OF INSTAGRAM

Seriously, if you have an iPhone and aren't totally addicted to Instagram, what are you doing?

Clearly this blog slightly gives away my predilection to sharing mind-numblingly boring insights and photos of myself but Instagram takes it to a whole new level. You like sneakers? Not a problem. Interiors? Hairstyles? Nice graded landscape shots? Puppies? It's all there ready and waiting for you to search. 

For me Instagram is my visual diary, a way for me to record what I'm doing for my own sanity and pleasure, and in return the happy bit is that I also get to share in other people's lives. I really enjoy finding out about...Mums in the West Country, tattooed Disney nerds in Southern California, a ballet dancer who lives with her Corsican boyfriend in some unnamed European city, hot moustachioed guys in Vancouver...the more you give the more you get. It's my current social networking community of choice.