(All photos taken from Pinterest HERE)MONDAY has a tough time.  No matter what it does it's the one day of the week we all greet with a universal 'urgh' the world over.  It follows the weekend:  If you are a nine to fiver - two whole days filled withFUN and frolics and no work whatsoever.  Even though i work in retail and spend most weekends working, i still treat Monday with the same half hearted attitude that the rest of you do.  It's much harder to get motivated somehow; it feels longer than the Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday …

Hello dear and LOVELY beings!  How goes your week so far?!  This week has been filled with productive energy and has been all about completing tasks, seeing things through and for wonky fringes!  Note to self, and to all fringe wearers:  do not attempt to cut your own fringe when you are tired.  It shall only end in a tragedy which leaves you with a fringe far shorter than you intended, that is still primarily wonky AND slightly resemblant of a boiled egg.  Ok maybe thats just me with my pale face English rose-type complexion…  Don't fret,…

Hello and how the flipping HECK do you do?  Gosh doesn't ^THAT^ picture just make you fall even more in love with Autumn?  If it's possible to fall in love anymore that is.  This post is going to be pretty heavy on the Autumn…I am just pre-warning you.  But since when was that ever a bad thing?!?  This week has felt much more productive than last.  Why, i am not quite sure.  I feel as if this week i am just particularly 'ON it' , whatever 'it' might be.  I finished my latest piece for our local magazine last night and w…

(All photos taken from Pinterest HERE) I don't mind telling you i HATE exercise. I like moving don't get me wrong.  In fact i can't bear to sit still.  But the thought of any kind of exercise class leaves me running in the opposite direction.  At least it would if i COULD run.  I once tried and damaged my legs so much that i had to get the bus down the road to work each day and go down any kind of stair on my bottom for two whole weeks.  True story!  Turns out you need the correct shoes and a vague idea of how to warm up before you …

It's been getting a bit SPARKLY around these parts lately.  Sometimes i fail to know quite where and what inspires me.  Often it just comes out of nowhere:  I'll be tearing, cutting and sticking and begin to see a pattern forming.  Or there'll be a similarity in what colours i opt for in what i wear.  Sometimes it's influenced by the seasons, sometimes it's quite out of the blue and catches me by surprise.  Lately has been just that:  a little subtle and I suppose quite un-seasonal hint at sparkle and glitter… I fell head ov…

We're not particularly well TRAVELLED, and i'm okay with that.  We also don't really have a song to call 'our song' in the way that some people might.  But i think it's safe to say that we do have a 'place'.  It's not somewhere memorable for a special occurrence, a grand gesture or visited on any special occasion; it's just special because i think from the very first moment we ever visited, we both fell in LOVE with it in equal measure.  Not gradually, over time or after a few trips:  All at once and une…

Happy HALFWAY through the week dear and lovely faces!  This week feels like i have blinked and all of a sudden it is Wednesday! The kinds of weeks where all of the days merge into one and 'to-do' lists run on from day to day and you sort of wish there were 48 hours in a day and maybe ten days in a week and not seven.  I am sure you have had one of those weeks before too.  
That said it is jolly NICE to be back at Monsoon Towers surrounded by all of our Autumn lines and catching up with all of the lovely faces that work there.  I always …

^The first peepings of Autumn..^I can't BELIEVE this wonderful week off work of mine is drawing to an end!  I feel as if it was well and truly needed:  sometimes you get to a point when you just need to step back, re-charge and re-assess quite how LUCKY you are.  Often i submerge myself so much in my job that it feels rather like there is not much room left for anything else.  This week has been about 8am wake ups (heaven), days spent cycling as far as my little legs would take me (read: mostly just many many times around that park of ours…

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