i like to wear dresses

baby love

I want a kid just so I can dress it in Stella McCartney's new collection for Gap. Cute! Oh and a rabbit would be cool too.

paperback writer

So, a couple of weeks ago I, perhaps misguidedly, signed up for this thing called NANOWRIMO. It's sort of like the 40 HOUR FAMINE, only rather than going without food, you write a 50,000 word novel over the course of November. It's not like the 40 hour famine at all then, really. What a shit analogy. You have to log your words in each day so on average you write about 2000 every 24 hours. Now, I've started many a short story, but this? This feels like an insurmountable challenge.

It also feels like the sort of escapade that won't result in a great work, but one that will, in all likelihood, revolutionise my waning work ethic. I just finished my first installment, and I have to say that it was surprisingly easy. I also have to say that the story is paper thin and the protagonist is weak and insipid – she's annoying me already. I'm very curious to see how it will all pan out, as, strangely, I almost feel like I have no control over what happens to them. I was struggling to start writing, so I got together the images above to set me on the path...

twee as fuck

Last night Natalie joked to me that we need to put some more snarky things on the blog because we're becoming too twee happy-happy-joy-joy-I'm-in-lurrrve-and-the-world-is-such-a-beautiful-place. Or something along those lines. I'm not feeling very snarky today - it's so sunny and it's almost the weekend (ugh, I am twee) - but here are some photos of girls looking thoughtful and forlorn. Although I guess that's not snarky, just emo...

big shot

"I love a picture that surprises you: you try to get everything perfect, then somehow it ends up looking wrong. That's why I love this one. It was taken with a Polaroid, one of those beautiful things that no longer exist. The light has caused the blurriness, giving the shot extra emotion. There's something eerie about it, too: the girl's expression is both vulnerable and strong."

One of my favourites, Ellen von Unwerth talks to the Guardian about her best shot. Lovely! Read more here.

checkmate

I want to learn to play chess for next winter!

i'm obsessed...

With this song... I think I've played it ten times today already.

sans

We are very excited about Lucy Marr's new line of hair and skincare, SANS. Take a look at the website here. The video is beautiful, and the products and packaging equally so.

"Sans reduces all your needs to a few intelligent luxury items - considered and uncluttered."

sweet dreams are made of these

White sheets, mohair rugs, feather eiderdowns and pillows - beds are havens. No matter how messy my room gets, I like to always have a perfectly made, cloudlike bed in pride of place.

home sweet home

play nice

"It's nice to be important but it's important to be nice."

Natalie put this as her status update on Facebook recently, and it's been stuck in the back of my mind ever since. Such a nice life motto! Working in fashion, it can sometimes feel like you're surrounded by people who just want to be important, with so much unnecessary negativity and over-analysing. I want a T-shirt like this to wear to work events and fashion parties, to try and remind people that at the end of the day, it's just clothes.

crystal castles

Images from Madre Padre and The Selby.

Zoe and I made a journey to Crystal Mountain over the weekend. It's not the most beautiful of settings, but it fed my fascination with crystals that has been growing slowly over the past six months. Yes, they can be a little tacky, but you have to admit that they're fascinating and magical little creations of the earth.

with compliments

An adorable old lady stopped me on the street today to tell me she loved my red peacoat and that I looked very smart. Isn't it nice when someone gives you a genuine compliment out of the blue? Whenever I see someone wearing something great, I always tell them - even though the response can sometimes be glacial.

airy-fairy