Cardigan Uniqlo | One-arm Bodycon, leggings, Shoes Topshop | Skirt Gmarket | Scarf Mum’s | Bag DIY Studded Vintage

Yes I’m in ROMA! Punkie and Winnie you’ve just won a goldenvault full of my wet and affectionate smooches for guessing right. Actually the pretzels hint was rubbish, I learned that the pretzel-like things they were serving on the Alitalia flight were were called Taralli so gave myself a tutti frutti smack on the butt for getting it wrong. Sorry.

Other than the fact that everything written reads to me like a Spaghettihouse menu, eg. Spaghetti All’Arabbiata: Please Do not lean, this city is the most beautiful city I’ve ever visited. So rich in history and culture, you can almost taste the height of the Roman Empire by the mere vastness of the architecture. Breathtaking doesn’t even start to explain what this place is, even tap water tastes like laced with some kind of myth. Actually tap water here tastes pretty damn good, like rainbows and kitten butts.

Tomorrow: Vatican city with a sprinkle of gelato, and shopping under the Piazza di Spagna (Spanish Steps). [Q&A on hold until I get home and have no obligation to get up and walk till my feet are stubs]

So the temperature plummeted as if hit with recession and we’re back to the postcard image of drippydrab London with umbrellas screwdrived into our skullcaps. Hey, I did say English summer rolled in and then right back out early this year. The British weather forecast is like the slots, ding ding ding you got Clouds, Sun and Tsunami. Ok maybe not a tsunami but since light snow counts as a natural disaster here we’ll swap that one in – and Rain, Rain, Rain is hardly a jackpot.

Anyway, you know I have nothing much to say when I start out a post with the weather. Truth is, it was bright out when I started knitting today and I look up now it’s dark – I look down again and I’ve only done a hand’s length. I say this now, this will probably be done around, meh…say… August, so you might as well forget about it for the time being.

Inspired by the Doo.Ri A/W’09 tights

Tights H&M | Shoes Chloé

I went for a more royalty-inspired embellishment than the exact copy of Doo.Ri. It turned out to be quite sparkly in real life, so I didn’t have to do as much!
Advice on choice of tights & caring

• For this kind of beading (vines and chunks) better pick densely-woven tights like mine.
  If you want to do it Doo.Ri style, pick bigger sequins, beads and crystals on sparsely woven tights like bigger laces.
• If you do choose to do it on lace tights, then wear socks over the feet to prevent them from getting dirty.
• Handwash for cleaning. Avoid beaded areas.
• You could even try lace leggings if you don’t feel like such delicate care.
• Be gentle while putting it on!

Good luck!

Coat Zara Scarf Urban Outfitters Pants All Saints Shoes Topshop
Bag DIY Studded Vintage Tshirt I Don’t Like Mondays

Random boy jumped into my sacred outfit shoot. In two years’ time he will see this post over his girlfriend’s shoulders and say hey that’s me and they’ll get into a fight about why he was with another girl.

The jeans are actually light blue with curry stain-like yellow spots in places as part of the design. No wonder I picked it up from All Saints for £17. Noone picks up anything from AllSaints for that price.

Dramatic excuses like my boiler turned into a hunky man so I had to go on emergency caribbean cruise.

Sweater, Dress Zara Boots Bronx (Office Shoes) Bag DIY Studded on Vintage

Okay this is a pathetic excuse for a new layout. The aim was to have bigger pictures and get rid of the sidebar… which caused some problems because one just does not easily relocate a sidebar. It just refuses to go anywhere other than the side. Biatch. So – sorry to my linklist – I’ve put the blogroll in a separate page – it’ll be accessible from the top.

I just wanted to avoid the whole circus going on next to all the posts and people like me get easily distracted and start reading the category list and go all hey this doesn’t make sense.

Well anyway, welcome to the suckier version of my blog, please feel free to lug dead rats at me if you don’t like it, I’ll add it to the witchbrew and hopefully next time I’ll conjure up a better spell.

Looks like lots of bloggers are having fun at Bryant Park, can’t wait for LFW… Planning to camp outside the Science Museum in South Kensington come March.