The Tatty Devine store on Brick Lane is a magpie’s wonderland: Blingin’ wall decorations, and plenty of blingin’ plastic bling. I love it. If you’re into bright colours and eye catching jewellery, you should go and take a look!
1. Coins ahoy! Put ‘em in your purse! Wear ‘em around your neck!
2. The only thing better than a shiny bear is if the shiny bear is made of stars.
3. This would go nicely with the coin necklace.
4. Clowning around.
5. the only sort of grey sky I’m ok with.
Posted by thefty on 13/06/2011
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I spent Saturday afternoon at Somerset House, engaging in high-quality people watching. Turns out that I was mainly watching their legs.
1. Badass leggings and sexy booties.
2. Capes, pantaloons, flares, feathers, snakey legs and leopard print. Woah.
3. Leather, fur, Chanel and Louboutins.
4. A black-clad photographer and her technicolour subject.
5. A shining example of laid back cool.
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Posted by thefty on 20/09/2010
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London Fashion Week has just kicked off. Turns out they don’t mind flowers, either.
1. Some very elaborate bling.
2. Glam headgear for Queens of the Desert.
3. My White hole-punched top and 60s style lace dress.
4. Wooden laser cut necklace, from Spitalfields Market, London.
5. Hawaiian night.
Posted by thefty on 17/09/2010
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Because collars ain’t just for dogs.
1. Hard versus soft.
2. Market stall brights.
3. Matthew Williamson at Harrods.
4. Leid-back cool.
5. Summer on a chain.
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Posted by thefty on 03/09/2010
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The stereotypical Girly Girl is an elusive being: Most ladies don’t spend all their time gushing about mascara while shopping for adorable peep-toes. No. The Girly Girl generally lies dormant and emerges periodically, not unlike werewolves at full moon.
1. Big, flirty eyelashes. (Glitter optional.)
2. Candy-hued, heart-embellished footwear.
3. Cupcakes. Of course!
4. Pearls, bows, sequins and flowers.
5. Manicures and cocktails.
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Posted by thefty on 09/08/2010
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Apart from the human body, is there any natural form that is revered as much as flowers? We take their shapes and colours and scrawl them onto ourselves and our clothes and our homes, and we bottle their scents and spray them onto our necks. Oh, spring, won’t you hurry up? Fabric flowers are good, but I’m craving the real thing.
1. A fuchsia orchid from Accessorize. Good for wall and self adornment.
2. Some 2-Dimensional blooms at the Haymarket Hotel, London.
3. The bag I’d take on a summer stroll in the meadows. (SIGH.)
4. Vintage styling involving cabbage-sized silk roses.
5. And lastly, my beloved fairy lights from Monsoon.
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Posted by thefty on 23/03/2010
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I’ve always been a magpie. When I was little, my grandparents had a huge chandelier gathering dust in the garage – it belonged to their landlord. I used to sneak in and pluck off individual glass ‘diamonds’. I used to justify my theft by only taking the tiny diamonds that noone would notice.
One day, my grandma found my stockpile. ‘Where did you get those?’, she asked. I told her I’d found them in the garden. She didn’t say anything, and I thought I’d fooled her. The next day, she beckoned me to her and handed me a huge chandelier diamond which she’d ripped off herself. ‘Take it’, she said ‘but don’t tell your grandfather!’ Man, my grandma was the best.
1. Vintage 1950s clip-ons from Spitalfields Market. That place is a goldmine.
2. A juicy bunch of rubies.
3. A grandmother’s sky-blue stone.
4. A sign in London’s Borough food market. Ah, Mae West.
5. The source of my childhood fascination.
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Posted by thefty on 15/03/2010
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My mother says that hats don’t suit her, thanks to her skinny skinny face. My mother is also convinced that all hats suit me, and so keeps buying me more of them (in order to live her hat-life vicariously through me). This suits me just fine, frankly. I love hats.
1. A pink beauty from the vintage store.
2. A gent, properly attired.
3. A classic Panama hat at the beach.
4. Friendly advice: ‘Beware of the DUCK HAT baring, indie-rocker’.
5. In England it’s a woolly hat. In Canada, it’s a tuque. In Australia, a beanie.
Posted by thefty on 27/11/2009
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In no particular order:
1. Bow hairclips make good wall decorations, I reckon.
2. Paperchase has taken this concept to a much grander level. (I want it!)
3. We’ve all got a a bit of girly-girl within us.
4. Some of us, a bit more than others. (Bow ring from here.)
5. Accessorize knows the score.
Posted by thefty on 13/11/2009
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In no particular order:
1. Nature and its cheap imitation I
2. Nature and its cheap imitation II
3. My silver mesh rosette tote (bought CHEAP thanks to succesful haggling).
4. Backstabbing, floral style.
5. An edible bouquet is the best kind of bouquet, I reckon.
Posted by thefty on 06/11/2009
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