i love my sister and my sister loves...

My little sister Claire is just lovely and I miss her immensely. She lives in Dunedin, New Zealand - here are ten things she loves "and can't live without, although they change frequently," she says.

1) My Siblings
Spread around the world at the moment, we talk frequently, but never often enough.

2) Marty Jestin Jewelry
Cute, a little kitsch, I am saving for the ring entitled 'I'd buy that for $1"...It's a whole lot more than that.

3) Navy and Dusky Pink
Never have two colors achieved such perfection together.

4) Vaseline in a Vintage Inspired Tin
No longer am i embarrassed to pull it out, plus it's cheap and defrizzes my hair.

5) It's Nice That... & Take Ivy
These two things aren't really related, but I was running out of numbers. It's Nice That is a fantastic British design blog, which inspires me when feeling a little uncreative.

http://www.itsnicethat.com/

Take Ivy is the greatest book idea ever. In the 60's, a Japanese photographer traveled around Ivy league schools: cue preppy fantastic.

http://acontinuouslean.com/2008/05/19/take-ivy/

6) Bernard Hermann
The mind that changed film music forever. He worked on all the brilliant Alfred Hitchcock movies, and when their relationship fell apart, so did Hitchcock's genius.

7) The Rolling Stones: Rock and Roll Circus
Never released in the 60s because The Who outplayed them on their own show, this is a weird made-for-TV gig, with the Stones (plus John Lennon, The Who, Marianne Faithful, Eric Clapton) running a very trashy circus, complete with trapeze artists and fire breathers. Sadly their last live performance ever with Brian Jones. Worth it for four things: Keith Richards dressed as a deadpan cigar smoking pirate to introduce acts, Mick Jagger & John Lennon's staggering, stilted conversation, Charlie Watts uncanny resemblance to the murderous villain of No Country For Old Men, and John Lennon performing with Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and Mitch Mitchell: in the words of Mick Jagger, "Dirty."

8) Benger Gold Nectarine Juice.
Tastes like summer on a cold, wet Dunedin day.

9) Babelfish.com
Everything seems better in French.

10) Monocle Magazine
A ' meeting between Foreign Policy and Vanity Fair'