Guilty pleasures (while at work)

Michelle Obama's look book, via NY Mag



Pretty pictures with charming captions on It's Pretty Good


Stylish outfit pictures from new blog crush Park & Cube


Online shopping at ASOS. Much time and ££ have been wasted here.
Left: latest dress purchase, Right top and bottom: Want & need - sequinned ipod/camera holder and Steve Madden sandals

This June, I am into...

Wearing: Fascinators, open-toed shoes, new Vivienne Westwood/Melissa Lady Dragon shoes in peach, less bulky layers, clothes brought over from Singapore

Beautifying: Boots Organic Rosewater toner, Neal’s Yard Orange & Geranium body lotion, Clairol Herbal Essence Brilliant Shine shampoo & conditioner, Avalon Organics Peppermint shower gel, Prescriptives lipstick in Racecar Red

Watching: Story of a Man, Sons of Sol Pharmacy

Listening: Songs on shuffle in my iPod

Eating: at Gordon Ramsay, dinners out with friends to celebrate birthdays/farewells/no reason needed

Enjoying: longer days, playing with my MacBook, the line-up of summer events like Royal Ascot and Hard Rock Calling, getting a tan in the London sun (if it comes out)

A classic trench coat

On the left: double breasted trench coat , on the right: classic double breasted trench

I had some spare time this afternoon, so I wandered into Harrods for some window shopping. I managed to persuade myself that I didn't need another matching set of Calvin Klein underwear, and was smugly leaving the building when I walked by the Burberry concessionaire. On a whim, I tried on the classic double breasted trench (pictured right), and am now in serious love. 

Having always wanted a classic trench coat, am thinking this is probably the best time to buy one, since I actually live in a city that requires some trench coat-wearing. Now that I'm at home, I've been looking through the Burberry website and am completely flummoxed by the variety of choices in trench coats. How on earth does one tell them apart? Case in point with the two coats above, what's the difference?

New accessories love: Uterqüe

All images from the website.

While looking through The Cherry Blossom Girl, I found this link to a new accessories label: Uterqüe, owned by the Inditex group, which also has labels like Zara, Massimo Dutti and Pull & Bear under its stable. The designs seem to be very much in keeping with the Zara / Massimo Dutti style philosophy, and judging by what I can see by the web shots, don't seem to be of shabby quality either. I can't see prices on the site, but am guessing they won't be entirely cheap.

I'm loving almost everything I see here. They don't seem to have a shop in the UK yet, and I'm seriously plotting ways to get myself to Portugal just to check them out. And of course to get a summer holiday in as well.

White walls no more

Clockwise from top left: Hello May from AshleyG and Drew, I Like Your Bow from Belle & Boo, Yoshitomo Nara prints from eBay

I couldn't stop thinking about pretty pictures for my room, so I did a little online shopping on eBay and Etsy. As you can tell from my picks, I've gone for sweet, girly and dare I say it, rather childish in light summery colours. I can't wait for them to arrive!

Actually, if I was spending freely, I'd also be getting these fantastic Yoshitomo Nara postcards and these adorable glasses.

If you'd like to find out a bit more about the artists I've bought from, you can visit their websites: Belle & Boo | Kitty Genius

White walls

Picture from Design*Sponge. Love the colour of the walls.

New illustrator discovery: Tadahiro Uesugi.

I love my room, but have recently been thinking about doing something to the bare walls. The trouble is it's not my house, so I can't drill holes and do as I like and put up pictures. On looking through Design*Sponge today, I found this charming sneak peek into a French designer's home and liked the arrangement of little polaroids in what seems to be her son's room (another view here). Perhaps I can do the same - put up little postcards-sized prints of Yoshitomo Nara or Tadahiro Uesugi artwork.