my kind of bling

love all of them

{from emma cassi}

glam thoughts

totally over-styled but something i aspire to... looking glam while surrounded by the aftermath of a toy-tornado. {from vogue}

miniature

thinking about little babe ... i adore the little bloomers :)

{from noa noa miniature}

Fee Fi Fo Fum

My daughter - the ever posing 18 month old.

With Fifi Lapin (or at least the lookalike life-sized cardboard version of the bunny).

Fifi

When I was in London mid-September, the world's most stylish bunny had her book out.

I saw it first in Foyles.

I instantly thought of Exp.

(Image courtesy of Amazon)

poketo for target

poketo for target lookbook is up and i'm loving the designs of leah chun as well as spotting the adorable pooch in the video jeana sohn made.

noa noa

loving the Noa Noa catalogue.

Vintage Lust

Ok.

I am loving these from Baby Bean Vintage . . .

Oh, but why oh why do they cost so much for something that will last only for a fleeting moment . . . ?!

Sigh.

hey gorgeous!

I have fashion on my mind simply because I've been sick of what my closet has to offer and I'm in a paris-milan state of mind... (i'm going to rotterdam, paris and milan for work slash fun - yes!) ... these from prismera (top) and bittersweet (bottom) are simply gorgeous...

Rolli Polli

In a few hours, I'll be in fabric haven - Arab Street.

Not that I don't already have a mountain of fabric stashed at the back of our storeroom but a girl can always have another metre or two or three of a new fabric. For when inspiration hits! You never know, right?

Right now, I have to scoot to the kitchen and start cleaning out the cupboard where the chute hole is. Stairway and Empress were up last night dismembering post-nuclear suvivors aka roaches.

On a totally different scale, I am absolutely in love with these by Maja Rose and Tess Lloyd:

(Images courtesy of Polli)

Cinderella....(or not)

Eid is about 2 weeks away and I think we are set, M and I.

We just need to give the cats a shower. Clean the Creative Room (yet again); rearrange the CDs and DVDs in the living room. Change the linen, etc. And oh....pick up my baju kurung and M's baju melayu from our dressmaker. In JB. And er....bake cookies.

Ekk....we still have LOTS to do - what the 'eck was I thinking? I must have been living in an illusionary world!

Breathe. Breathe.

At least I can strike off the "shoes" off my To-Do List. I purchased a pair of pretty, not overtly-sparkly strappy, slip ons. On sale. Perhaps a few seasons past. Who cares? They are going to be on my feet anyway.

I love the shoes. And that says a lot seeing how I hate strappy evening slip ons and hardly wear them ever!

But yes, I am happy. ~ Inspira

Psychedelic Love

Confession:

I fell in love with the fabric in an instant I laid eyes on it. It's crazy wild colours remind me of Missoni.

I'm not one to usually buy brightly coloured dresses. My usual staple of black, nudes, grey/silver dresses are the norm. I thought this would be a nice change, albeit a bit of a crazy shock. :-P

I had my good friend sew a simple dress for me.

I love it. So does M, thankfully.

Now I need green (or pink perhaps?) shoes to go with the dress.

What do you think? ~ Inspira

W.Ho Done It?

I have too many accessories and no proper (and pretty) place to store them.

These by Wendy Ho are such a sight for sore-eyes:

(Images courtesy of W.Ho Made It via Etsy)

Cuffing it Up

So what's a girl to do when she's got too much going on at work and no time to grab lunch?

A lil' distraction in the form of online "window-shopping" of course. :-P

O.M.G (!!) :

M would love these vinyl cufflinks I am sure.

And since I am having french cuffed shirts made for me tomorrow, these would definitely inject a bit of quirkiness in the boring drab colours I have to otherwise endure :

And I even found a pair for Exp and E - the math whizzes that they are :

Cute, aren't they? ~ Inspira

(All images courtesy of Automaton)

dior paris show

loving the dramatic eyes in dior's show in paris - from the new york times... a nod to anne bancroft, don't you think? ~exp~

minä perhonen

i finally can take a breather from my work. now, i feel i'm ready to present my craft in Shanghai - please let me in on secret addresses if you happen to have a shanghainese black book :)

these are images from minä perhonen that i've loved for a while and didn't have a chance to mention them here - enjoy!

~exp~
(in italics-mood tonight)

my kelly

as websites go, besides kate, my heart also belongs to this equestrian



and now, in tangible form, in good humor, i get a piece of it. (via daily candy some time ago)

~exp~

vintagealençon

vintage and nude, my kind of pretty.

p.s. she's okay!

~exp~

i see double: ikea alvine triangel

okay, i don't mean to suggest that you should wear your rug when the leaves turn red, but i do find that home furnishings and fashioin are now closely aligned than they ever were before...

for a peek at the Alvine Triangel rug in a real home, scoot over to here (via More Ways to Waste Time <--so cute (but dangerously addictive!)

left: Emporio Armani fall 2008 show, right: Ikea Alvine Triangel

xo,
exp

bcbg

oh i really love this ombre dress from BCBG Max Azria, 100% silk at (only) USD174. Unfortunately, they don't have it in my size :( ~exp~