A couple of weeks ago, I went along to the always-fab What Katie Did shop in West London’s Portobello Road for a special evening event. It was, as the title of this post suggests, all about pyjamas, namely WKD’s loungewear range; and pincurls. Specifically, a class in how to do the latter! The class began…
Tag: beautiful things
Ginger and Grey
With such a heatwave on the go, I thought it was only right that for my latest King’s Ginger adventure, I should head out into the Great Outdoors. Well, outdoors, anyway. So here I am, in a very beautiful garden, designed by the Edwardian era’s most famous and celebrated green-fingered lady. Come along with me…
Love and Ink
So here’s something which I heard about through the grapevine, loved and wanted to share. I think there may be some division of opinion though… here goes nothing. Laura New is a friend of my dear Bethan. She is an artist who works with paper ephemera – often dating back to the 30s and 40s….
Girl’s Best Friend – Diamonds galore
Gemstones have always fascinated me. My mum has always worn beautiful jewellery, and she acquired her love of it from my grandmother. My whole family was very widely traveled thanks to my grandad’s travel agency (see my last but one post for pictures) and they’d often come back with a gem from some far-flung place…
The Vintage Tea Party Year… party
Oh Angel Adoree. One of the most wonderful, talented, hardworking and generally awesome ladies I know. She’s beautiful and successful, with a brand-new and soon to be best-selling book out right now. What a cow. The Vintage Tea Party Year is just fabulous in every way. From its gorgeous die-cut cover, illustrated to perfection by…
No Ceremony – my vintage wedding shoot
Good morrow, good people! I have a large picture post for you today. A couple of months ago, I was lucky enough to be involved in a very wonderful photoshoot. It was a collaboration between lots of lovely ladies who are all in the wedding business, and particularly vintage weddings. I’ll let the pictures speak…
Marvellous Miss Bamboo
As I like to do from time to time, I’d really like to sing the praises of one of my fabulous sponsors today. She’s been with me a wee while now, and is just a very lovely lady – super glamorous and beautiful, with impeccable taste when it comes to the dresses that she carries….
Best things
On Friday, I got to watch my best friend of fourteen years get married to her soulmate. It was the smallest, most fuss-free and intimate wedding I’ve ever attended, with only a handful of guests drawn from family and closest friends, a simple dress bought off-the-peg from a high street shop, two flower girls for…
Spring out of season
Ordinarily, I wouldn’t be posting another round of sponsor adulation so soon after the last one, but this is a bit of a special case. This dress has traversed the world like a little cloth-based gap year student before landing in my eager mitts after what seemed like an absolute eternity. Oh, but it was…
Boulder holders
Today ladies (and gents), I’m going to wax a little lyrical about brassieres. This post is prompted by a visit I made to Bravissimo, the underthings shop aimed at the curvier lady, whose bras start at 28D and end up at a KK cup. I can’t even imagine a KK cup. Except that it would…