SPACE AGE ORDINARY

I think one of the wonderful things about having lived so many places and so many different lives is that you feel at home almost anywhere. There aren't different people - just different ways of living... different ways in which peoples lives have played out due to different circumstances. No one of these lives are better or worse, and at the end of the day, all people intrigue me. What interests me most is observing people living their different everyday lives almost blissfully unaware of the fact that this life may be their only one, that human life comes with a price - mortality. In small scales and on scales spanning hemispheres people are so caught up with the little battles and struggles that they forget to see the larger picture, that they are a microcosmic part of something infinitely larger.

**The dress is a 'gift' from one of my best girlfriends - she bought it in a market in India for the equivalent of about £2 (I say 'gift' because I kind of just claimed it after trying it on). I think it is apparently supposed to be a Miss Selfridge dress - I am not sure if the dress ever made it to the racks. It's one of those perfect dresses that I will be wearing all spring. It's nice & short, just the way that I like it, and it makes legs go one for miles. You just have to remind yourself to hold down the skirt when the wind blows (or at least wear cute knickers). The jacket was bought at a little boutique across from Rokit in East London. I don't remember the name, but the shoulders are great because even though they're daring they can be dressed down. I'm all about being subtle and not overdoing things. There's a certain aesthetic in playing down an outfit and letting your flesh appeal do the talking that I've loved more than being 'ferosh!, darling.'


song Ten Years Gone, Led Zeppelin



JUST LISTEN TO SOME FRANK ZAPPA AND CALM THE F*CK DOWN






(Corselette from La Magia)

Here are some pictures, because I get lovely comments when I do photo-blogs. I've been thinking about taking my film cameras out and just taking pictures of random things again outside these four walls. / I've been asked to do a Valentines outfit post and I've been looking through my wardrobe for lingerie pieces that I can integrate into my outfits without looking like a street walker. Still looking. I guess the key is to mix them with masculine trouser or loose flowing skirts. / Personally I'm pretty bah-humbug about Valentines day. Any day that I get flowers is Valentines day for me. What will you kiddos be doing on love-day? x

Here's my favourite love song - an insight to how I am when I fall in love, I guess.

Song All of Me, Billie Holiday


WISE WORDS - ALICE IN WONDERLAND


Alice: I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!


Image Source: this is an experiment
(you can find more images from the Vogue Editorial there)





PARKS AND JUMPERS



I'm wearing all vintage except for my shoes. That's the way forward.



MISS CROFTON, UNDERWEAR EXTRAORDINAIRE

I've written about the lovely old house Crofton 89 before [here], and I've promised to write more. I lived there a couple of years ago, and I still think about it all the time. A few months before I moved away to go on great adventures, a lovely little lass called Jess moved in to the house. People were always moving in and out, or just staying for a while. According to one source, 25 people lived in the house in different stages over a few years. Jess is the girl in the pictures, and the pictures were taken in the house.

So I moved away, and more people moved in and out, until two young ladies called Georgia and Katie moved in to stay. They started to make handmade knickers (ka-nickers) out of lovely floral cloth which they sold at markets. They named their vintage-style lingerie after the house - Miss Crofton. Soon Miss Crofton was featured all over the place.

I truly believe that the old house has had a magical spell cast over it, because all that has come out of it has been wonderful. I will write more about the wondrous things that have come out of Crofton 89 later, because there's loads more. It was a little commune of creativity, complete with dirty cups of tea and cheap bottles wine.



LOOK AT YOU NOW



Brassiere by Miss Crofton



Hey guys, after numerous requests, I finally got crackin' on a make-up tutorial.
You can find it on my other blog, here.

ITS YOUR PARTY

Happy Happy Happy Birthday Mondy! Some of you may know of him as that guy on your TV screens but honestly, when I got to know him through George he made Manila a different, more relaxed, super fun place for me. Mond does everything for his friends, and that's why he is so loved by everyone. He is generous, game for everything (trip to Paris, Go! A lazy lunch after three hours of sleep in Manila, Game! Shopping in Sweden? Why not?!), and he has the best sense of humor ever because he knows how to laugh at everyone and anything, even himself. When I'm with Mond I am always laughing. :-)

Mond, you make Manila so much more funny, glamorous, stylish, and happy. I will move back one day, because there's no place that makes me happier. Have the best party ever, and I'm sure all the generosity and love that you share will come back to you x1543321312908659347131290485934792312213092000034832100 tonight.



SET MEAL NO. 6 AND A BLACK TEA


“I’m far more interested in style than I am in fashion as an industry”
-Alison Mosshart, Vogue Feb 2010


*Make-up tutorial post soon, promise.

THE BED-ROOM

Here are some of the things that are occupying my spaces right now. The overnight skin cream is nothing fancy, just a cheap pharmacy brand, but it makes my skin so soft. It is infused with bergamot and almond oil. Anyone who has read my blog through the years know that the little rabbits are a souvenir from when I lived in Hong Kong for a few months. I bought the necklace in the Philippines. It is a record that you can spin to different terms of endearment in French and English (I love you, I hate you, A little)

I think I bought this perfume because it has one of my three favourite numbers on it, and because of the simple & beautiful packaging. It smells wonderful though, and I love to make the smell permeate my sheets. The other perfume is an old mens perfume. I love wearing mens perfume.

My sister gave me the lamp when she moved back to Oslo and the book is a library book. The San Pellegrino bottles are treats to myself when I want to feel fancy. I end up leaving the bottles all over the place because I think that they are pretty.

My ladder to heaven and the most comfortable bed in the whole of London.

This is what I am reading at the moment - a book on Marilyn Monroe that I bought for 50p at a used book store. I think it was published before she tragically passed away because there is no foreshadowing to the her death and I am already on the last few pages.

A framed picture of my favourite scene in my favourite movie, which was a Christmas present. Everything in my room cost me almost nothing. Except for my clothes and my cameras. I found my desk on the street (I'll show it off another day). I find a lot of furniture on the streets. And then I paint over them with cheap paint. Its fun.


At the moment I am listening to this

THE AWKWARD PHASE


I'm an impatient girl, and 2-3 years for my hair to grow long again was just too long. I could get pregnant and give birth at least twice-over in that period (although I don't condone doing that unless you're ready, ladies!). My newest project is: spray-painting my desk Tiffany blue. You see, I found it on my street, by some trashcans. It could definitely do with a glossy Tiffany blue makeover.

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