rip

(asos)

so the chap bought me the (what should have been) lovely mulberry teddy gloves, but all has turned a little sour with them. after the delivery, i found a stitching problem so poodled along to the store and got a brand shiny new pair last saturday. and then yesterday, young salz popped over for a sleepover and some chicken and she slipped her normal sized hand in to one of the gloves and it just fell apart. a proper tear and a proper sound to accompany it. not impressed. gloves should not fall apart that easily, especially a pair from mulberry. anyway, i have completely fallen out of love with them and it is getting mighty chilly outside and my poor, poor hands need-a-warming. asos have come to the rescue with these yetti styled beauts, they look pretty much exactly the same, yes maybs a bit more on the puffy side, but far cheaper and they still have a leather cuff. boom. mulberry, you can fool me once but i shall not be fooled twice.

K x

collective spirit

(vogue uk)

what a beautiful bunch of british babes (in no particular order - cara delevingne, sam rollinson, rosie tapner, edie campbell, jourdan dunn, lara mullen, stephanie hall & charlotte wiggins).

K x

vacate

(thomas van der zaag)

dreamy.

K x

gallery mess

(gallery mess at the saatchi gallery)

if you follow my instagram/twitter, you would have seen me yesterday sharing my rather yummy smoothie and scone combo at gallery mess. probably not the best week to declare ‘no more alcohol and cake until i am thin’ (ambitious i know) but alas, i ate fairly healthily (minus the scones) and drank none of the hard stuff (we had mocktails). 

so apparently gallery mess occupies the space where the grand old duke of york fed his 10,000 men. hence why it is called gallery mess – the gallery being of the saatchi sort, the mess being of where military peeps eat sort. works for me (simple things). it is really very handsome inside, with floor to ceiling windows, white painted arched ceilings and exposed brick. total interior porn. the mess is mainly for tea, alcohol and lunchtime snacks and definitely has that café, more relaxed kind of vibe going on. full of chelsea-ers but wasn't stuffy at all, so unstuffy in fact, that there were no plates for our bread (hands are really very multifunctional). 

my date tash and i had three courses; tash had the carpaccio with thin carrot shavings to start and the world's largest salmon and cod fishcake for her main (quote: "this is the largest fishcake i've ever seen"). i had a beautiful (but quite heavy - i genuinely had to leave some and i never do that) cauliflower soup for starters, with a super yummy pumpkin tortellini with walnuts and watercress to follow. my tortellini was wonderful, genuinely so so nice, the sauce accompanying it reminded me of one my ma makes (for lasagne, i'm known for my lurking around the saucepan with a ladle for "tasting"). as with rhubarb’s bond & brook, we couldn't say no to scones, and so instead of regular pud we have a mini afternoon tea. the scone babies had just been baked (warm and moist, nom nom) and were the perfect size for the final stages of our food coma's. i can imagine having a full afternoon tea out on the terrace on one of those rare warm london days would be delightful. 

K x

cosmos

(cosmopolitan australia)

gosh, there is something quite beautiful about robyn lawley. i met her just over a year ago when she was modelling house of scarlet jewellery for a charity fashion show and she really is just splendid. her tan/face/jewellery kills me in the first photo.

K x

suvi ii

(tumblr)

oh suvi you finnish beaut. thought this picture was more than appropriate as i cannot stop sleeping. is anyone else feeling like this too? first week back to work after all the gorging and i'm actually real life struggling. today was a perfect end to the week though as the start-up i work for (hoverkey) launched this afternoon and the build up to it has been the last four months of a pure hard work, i'm feeling quite the proud bear. 

K x

sadie

(boohoo)

yummy colouring and styling. pastel goodness. 

K x

twenty thirteen

(my happy finger couple)

fingers crossed for 2013... 

K x