Best Online Shops: A Vida Portuguesa

Thanks to this Times blogger’s travel guide to….Lisbon (just a random find) I have not only found another website to spend some meaningful time on but have also discovered this little shop (it’s in Portuguese and I’m not sure just how easy it is to shop there but I love the look of their website and [...]

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Is Katie Price Too Old?

The above photograph was one of a number to feature in a piece in the Daily Mail, in which the reporter posed this question: Aren’t you too old to STILL be stripping off in public, Katie Price? 
Katy Price is 30. She was modelling her new lingerie range.
So, is this (unnamed) reporter suggesting that women over [...]

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Breathing is Dangerous

Well, it’s bound to be. Or else, it’s not dangerous per se (annoying phrase and possibly miss-spelled but I’m too tired to think of another one) but ’studies’ somewhere, at some point, will show that too much of it (breathing), or doing it in a manner other than a technique prescribed by experts and approved of by [...]

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The £100 for One Hundred Words Competition

 

Just a little reminder that the £100 for One Hundred Words competition is still running over at Larkin & Catcher. The competition is poetry-related but even if you’re not a budding poet it’s worth having a go, as the prize is £100 worth of items from the Larkin & Catcher store. I know I’m biased but [...]

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Over at the Opposition…

 
You know how I said that I would never leave you — even if you kicked and screamed and begged until your throat was red and raw and you’d near enough run out of every very last bit of energy? Well it’s true as that welt on your face and those crazy red eyes you’ve [...]

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Steampunk: J Peterman

I’ve just found this Victorian Travel Coat at J. Peterman  – which fits in quite well with my current obsession with all things Steampunk. It’s on sale just now for $129.00 — if I wasn’t such as short-arse I think I’d go for it.

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I Love Sundays!

Feels weird to be writing that I love Sundays, because I used to detest them. Most boring day of the week and the dreaded Monday morning hanging over everything. Monday — when you had to go back to earning a living — and I think I could win an award for the number of totally-crap-jobs held [...]

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Antique and Vintage Jewellery: Perfect Jewels

I’ve been going through a bit of a vintage jewellery phase recently and found a great selection at Perfect Jewels (I covet practically everything on their Objects d’ Art section).

Huge Art Moderne Jewelled Sterling Brooch ($150.00). This piece — described by the site owner’s partner, quite aptly, as a ’ski-wreck’ — is not really typical of [...]

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Indie Jewellery: Iacua at Etsy

Exceptionally lovely, handcrafted jewellery from Iacua at Etsy.
 
Garden Gate Bracelet ($160.00)

Tiny Blossom Bracelets ($92.00)

Sunlight & Moss Necklace ($40.00)

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Best Blogs: Wee Birdy

Wee Birdy is a blog devoted  to ’shopping, style, beauty and more’. The blogger is an Australian-born freelance journalist, now living in London — and seems to know what she’s talking about when it comes to fashion.
There are some great posts (and photos) on her recent trip to Paris — where she does a nice round-up of [...]

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