I rarely do fashioney posts but I do like to keep my eye on what is happening at the various fashion weeks throughout the year. I do fantasize about dolling my creatures up in a bit of Preen or Kenzo although I don’t have the skills to recreate the outfits and perhaps that would be a little too Fifi Lapin. Preen’s Spring 2012 Ready-to-Wear collection makes me sigh a little, so girly, the colours, yum, like macaroons!

All of the above a diversionary tactic, I’m beginning a class on Monday and I’m nervous already, not a course to be undertaken with shaky hands-boo.

Images via style.com.

Wishing you all a very happy and healthy festive period. I wish that I could send you: A bird to keep your soul safe.

A Leaf Lantern to light your way.

A stool for an extra few inches.

A clock to mark the minutes.

Something pretty to keep you warm.

Somewhere to hold your tea.

And, that bird is for me!

I can’t lie, I will be glad to see the back of this year, artificial marker though it is, onwards.

Run My Children, Don’t Look Back.

My thoughts are turned towards all things Parisian today, with only a week and a bit to go until we fly off to one of my favourite cites, the H1N1 flu virus permitting of course. This is the perfect opportunity to indulge myself in some magical images from one of my favourite parisian bloggers, Diane of Hibou Caillou Chou. I wish I possessed Diane’s incredible sense of style, her images are so ‘cool’ and bewitchingly serene, frozen water droplets on a window pane.

I have some exciting news to share soon, it involves another sweet Parisian. Keep your eyes peeled for announcements!

This print and this bag send me into a rapturous delirium of acquisitiveness, oh yes pleeease imaginary secret benefactor!

In Russia screen print from Lizzy Stewart’s shop, About Today.
Tote from Dazzling Lanna.

Hopefully a Plush You report later!
XXX

I need to be a very watchful mummy owl, just like the bird in Amy Ruppel’s lovely painting. My owlet isn’t very well and I need to take a little break from the computer until the middle of next week. I hope to be back on wednesday for a super productive email session and another wonderful interview. In the meantime have a peek at these beautiful accessories from Eatable Of Many Orders, strange name but all will become clear if you visit their website. I had planned a longish post on ‘Eatable’ but I guess it is not to be, so do enjoy these images, such very beautiful work, pieces of art really!

Libertine design the kind of clothes I would love to wear but I know they wouldn’t suit me, I’m a jeans and t-shirt kind of girl, big bum and boobs, frills and flounces are a big no, no! I really like the mix of styles and sources of inspiration here. Skull prints seem to be popping up all over the place at the moment, Topshop carry more accessible versions of this print. I will have to wait for autumn, I can do beautiful, big coats!

Oh and Libertine have collaborated on some plush too! I love these crazy, hybrid pandas. It would be fun to try something similar…hmm!

And for Autumn/Winter 09/10 some seriously lovely coats, roll on winter, I never know how to dress for warm weather but frosty is a dream for me!

I love sneak peeks, especially when they involve super fancy pants clothes from Makool. If you care for a preview head on over to the Makool collections site, ultra dreamy! Thank goodness that the model above has my current leg colour, I am embracing the lily-white, post-winter leg show, I don’t tan!

I adore hats but they don’t suit me, my little noggin freezes in the winter as a result. If I could get one of these Red Riding Hood hoods in a tiny size my boy would do the bonnet honours for me, luckily Ishi looks charming in chapeaux!

That bicycle is a delight and as for that blouse…!

This is my favourite blue, I could melt into it.

My tummy is doing flips, this is all so girly!