Today

Dabito for Old Brand New

Today has been made for pottering about your empty apartment in overalls and stripes, putting flowers and leaves in milk bottle vases, watching the light stream in through windows for hours on end and eating jam on toast (and nothing else). These days are so good sometimes you wonder if you dreamt them all up in your head. Take a picture.

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think pink 2.0

Jane by Andrew Birkin // Sans Ceuticals

Just can't stop thinking about pink.

 

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wild prairie

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I want this for christmas so bad that I'm tempted to just get it myself and wrap it up in red and green with a big velvet ribbon and stick it under the tree. That's how much I want it. I've been getting out my Slim Aarons print almost twice weekly because I just can't stop looking at it. There's something about the home and homewares that's getting me excited at the moment, more excited than clothes, or beauty, or books, or movies. I've got new sheets, new pictures, and dreaming of enough coffee table books that my house just looks like this. Time to move out, maybe??

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a kitchen of one's own

fantastic franck

 Talisa always has the best interiors inspiration because she is the gal I know with the best house. It's like anything - fashion, movies, books, chocolate - if you want inspiration ask the people whose taste you admire. Well, I spent hours trawling this website last night (despite and found this apartment, which I love not for its reality (bottles on top of the fridge and a mis-matched book case, you are too good), but for its kitchen. It doesn't all work together - blue chairs, and two different kids of wood, and mis-matched crockery - but that's life isn't it? We don't always have things that go, or colours that work, or furniture that we bought especially for that room. I can't wait to have a kitchen of my own. I think because I've been cooking a lot more that I've started to think about what I want, what works for me, what I need. My kitchen at home is pink. It's wonderful. It's so my mum it's not funny. But when I have my own kitchen it's gong to be white and wood, with pictures on the wall (who said that you should hang art in the kitchen? because they're brilliant), and a place to eat breakfast on a weekend, and lots of bench space for when I want to make coconut dream cake or nougat for christmas, and windowsills to store cook books and plants and everything in between, and best of all, it's going to be all mine.

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in the kitchen

freunde von freunden

The first time I went to the Nordic Bakery I didn't care about cinnamon buns or prawn sandwiches or elderflower tea. I was meeting Stevie for the first time and was so excited and so cold and (so) late. Happily, so was she, and we spent a couple of hours chatting about nothing and keeping warm. I remember Stevie tried to get a sneaky picture of the girls in their aprons (and cos she loves a good pinnie) because they were just that cool. Seeing these pictures of chef Soli Zardosht in London brings it all back. This is how all aprons ought to look if they possibly can. Thick straps, low armholes, big pockets, and a slip-into-it pinafore quality. I'm a messy cook - aren't we all? - and I need an apron. I need an apron to keep a tea towel in, to protect my clothes, to wipe my hands on when they're sticky with the residue of peach juice or tomatoes or olive oil, to leave on when you have to dash down the road to buy more golden syrup, to let the straps slip comfortably off your shoulder. But I want an apron because they're just that cool.

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Stay IN BED

IN BED

I wrote a profile on new lifestyle store IN BED for Broadsheet, and I fell completely, unashamedly in love. If you - like me - are a fan of clean sheet days, cottony throws that double as wraps that double as towels that double as blankets, breakfast in bed and spending whole weekends in your pyjamas, this is the site for you. Dreamy.

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more

garance dore

I want more piercings! There's something very chic about a row of delicate piercings snaking their way up your ear. Someone needs talk me out of it... Until then, congratulations to Kate Ford, Modette, Mermaid78, Marnie and Rachhud who are the winners of the Gatsby giveaway! Thanks for all your Gatsby inspiration.  I love hosting giveaways so please keep checking back over the next few weeks!

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the trench

celebutopia

Seeing Alexa out and about in a trench coat is like seeing your first boyfriend walking down the street looking so damn good. You know it's been years but you kind of think, why did we ever break up? So Alexa, why did we ever break up? 

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