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Hand Candy

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:04:40 -0400

I have always been a fan of wearing more rings than I have fingers, and I have so many different rings so that I can mix and match them. I love topaz and other coloured gems, whereas other times I wear plain gold or plain silver, sometimes chunky or statement rings, or sometimes lots of small ones. It amazes me how so many people can make such an art of this! And make it look to beautiful, often with colourful or interesting nails too. Recently I have also been wearing different sized rings along various lengths on the finger which also looks nice too, I see lots of other people below do it. So here are a few pics to inspire you! Which is your favourite?

This is quite possibly my favourite! Love the bright silver armour feel + neon nails…

Awesome…

WOW rings!

The YSL rings are beautiful, however I always wear mine on its own without any other rings as I think its quite a statement on its own! This one below is very pretty, mine is gold with a royal blue stone :)

Neon Pop

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:02:46 -0400

Neon may seem like an obvious spring trend, but this year I have seen so many beautiful of examples of how to wear it right, and I just had to post some of my favourite pics. The trick is to make it subtle where possible, or to keep the outfit simple and then add a statement neon piece. That way its bright and beautiful, and you don’t risk looking like you are on your way to an 80s new wave fancy dress party. The neon lime Zara jacket in the last photo is the jacket which I just bought for myself after lusting over it for some time. Its super bright (much more so than on that picture) but also wonderfully tailored and I can dress it up or down. I will def be adding a few ore neon pieces to my wardrobe, or trying it on my nails like some of these pretty pictures. Enjoy!

LOVE this outfit…

Beautiful clutch!

And the Zara jacket I bought!

2nd Hand Designer & Vintage Sale at The George Tavern Sunday 29th April

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:51:00 -0400

Its that time again folks! What with the weather getting warmer (sort of) and summer right on the horizon, the 2nd hand stalls and pop up sales are here again! The beauty of 2nd hand shopping at stalls is that you can always find something beautiful and absolutely unique, for an incredible price.

On Sunday 29th April between 12-7pm there will be a sale in The George Tavern offering beautiful 2nd hand designer, pre-owned clothing, shoes vintage handbags and stunning costume jewellery. Also on offer will be garments from ‘Your Label’ by designer Stephanie Brookes and false eyelashes from Holly Silius’ ‘Shimmer Twins’ range. As if that wasn’t enough, on sale there will also be 2nd hand books, with all proceeds going to The Rainbow Trust.

I have included pictures below of just some of the beautiful items up for sale on the day - well worth the visit I think you will agree!

For more info please contact roya@enough-vintage.co.uk

And if all that still isn’t enough for you then you can also head down to Kubicle at Metropolis on Cambridge Heath Road for an after party, details here: http://www.facebook.com/events/385207491519098/

Check out these sites for more info on the venue, and some of the products on offer!

The George Tavern - http://www.thegeorgetavern.co.uk/

Proceeds of book sales all going to http://www.rainbowtrust.org.uk/

Beautiful Eyelashes by http://shimmertwins.com/

Some of the beautiful costume jewellery…

This Cameo brooch is my favourite! Beautiful.

A selection of really pretty vintage bags…

LOVE this one!

And the awesome Shimmer Twins eyelashes!

And the venue…

373 Commercial Road
London E1 0LA

+44 (0) 207 790 7335

Heavy Metal

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 14:39:07 -0400

I have seen so many pretty metallics and metal coloured fashion recently - it seems to be perfect teamed with pastels or neons. But I just had to post some pictures - here there are some amazing glitter and metal coloured pieces, as well as some incredible tailoring. The silver metallic skirt which is in a few of these pictures is from H&M but everytime I have been there they have been out of stock in my size! Will keep trying as it looks like its a seasonal staple, and an easy way to brighten up a work wardrobe while still being smart. Also I absolutely love the silver and gold nails below - anyone know how this was done? I’m assuming these are nail wraps and not varnish? Will def be pursuing these!

The H&M skirt…

I do love this look but I can’t help thinking this is what happens if you cross a disco ball with Karl Lagerfeld!

LOVE these shorts! WOW!

Pretty sure you could reapply your lippy with the mirrors on these!

What an amazing skirt, looks like it needed an architect!

LOVE these nails. They must be nail wraps? http://www.nailrock.com/metallic-gold.html

Beautiful clutch!

Landscape Prints

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:55:47 -0400

Loads of Landscape Prints around this season, and I love them! Its not something I recall seeing so much of ever before, but they are elegant and colourful, and perfect for the summer. Here is just a few of my favourites in the pictures below. Swinsuit brand We Are Handsome has done some of the best, and they also have some incredible animal face print swimsuits too (all to be featured in a swimming cozzie post I am planning!). The very last one is a swimming cozzie I bought from ASOS a few weeks ago, same effect as the We Are Handsome ones but without the price tag!

This dress below is from River Island and only £30 couldn’t believe it, its beautiful! May have to snap that one up too!

This skirt is beautiful too..

And here are the beautiful cozzies by We Are Handsome http://wearehandsome.com/

And finally the ASOS cozzie I bought!

DIY Caviar Nails

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:47:43 -0400

I first saw this a few months ago when Ciate released this as a ‘Caviar Manicure’ in 3 colours.

Straight away I thought it was amazing and even went to put myself down on the waiting list (it sold out immediately) when I realised that actually, at £18 this was a rip off and (never one to turn down a DIY challenge) easily something I could do myself! So off to ebay I went (as I do with everything I see and like - find it cheaper or make it myself from bits and bobs off ebay!) and whaddaya know I bought 5 bags of the multicoloured beads for a £5!

So, I chose a deep purple colour from Barry M, and essential to this manicure - a super quick dry top coat.

I picked 3 colours of beads that I wanted to use, and mixed them up in an egg cup!

I painted my nails normally with the purple for 2 coats, then once that had properly dried I started with the beads. I applied a fairly thick layer of the quick dry topcoat to one nail, then poured the egg cup of beads over that nail. I did this over another small bowl so that after each time I could pour the beads back into the egg cup. I tried to cover the nail as much as possible and gently pushed the beads around and firmly down to set them into place. Then I applied another thick coat of the top coat to set them in place.

And the final product was this!

Pretty pleased! So while everyone else is still waiting on the list for their overpriced Ciate I have already done mine :) I had plenty of beads left in fact I couldn’t believe how little I had used, so I will definitely be doing this a lot more. I would like to experiment with just one colour as well (like the black picture above) or with some sort of art - I wonder if you just put the first top coat in a certain shape or area the beads would just stick there, so that could be interesting. I have been wearing them for 2 days now and not one single little bead has come off! In fact I’m worried I may need a chisel and hammer to take it off!

Avocado Fries

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:21:17 -0400

You may have guessed by now but I am an avid fan of avocados! I actually saw the idea for this on Pinterest, and knew straight away it was something I had to try. Its also extremely easy, all you need is eggs, flour and breadcrumbs.

Take an avocado (not too soft as it will start to fall apart when frying) and chop it into long chip like shapes.

Now take your flour, one whole egg and breadcrumbs and put them in separate bowls.

First roll each avocado piece round in the flour so that it is completely covered…

Then dip it in the egg…

Then roll it in the breadcrumbs so that it is completely covered…

Then pop them into a frying pan with oil over a high heat.

Make sure you keep moving them around and turning them every so often so that they don’t burn.

Et Voila! I also grated a bit of parmesan on mine to finish it off, you could also add chilli powder in there somewhere if you fancy making them a tad spicy.

And here is the original photo I found on Pinterest. They do look a lot more appetising than mine! These were done under a grill, you can do them either way.

Give it a go!

Prints Charming

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:58:00 -0400

So many beautiful prints around this season, and I love how wearing multiple clashing prints can be so pretty and interesting. The Prada AW12 designs without doubt were my favourite from the shows this year, incredible how we can keep reinventing prints season after season and making them so different and more beautiful than last year. Here is a small collection of some pretty prints around at the mo…

The below contrast prints outfit is just so beautiful! Would love to wear this. Anyone know where either piece is from?

And finally the beautiful Prada AW12 Prints…

Touch of Pink + my new Color Bug

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:38:00 -0400

I keep coming across lots of really beautiful pastel pink colours recently so though I would post a few of my favourite. Just something pretty to look at :) I have also just bought the most amazing product by Kevin Murphy called Color Bug, basically a really easy way to add colour t your hair which wipes on then simply washes off. I have only bought one in Pink but will buy a few other colours too, an easy way to get colourful summer hair like some of the pics below without having to actually dye it! Will def do a post on that too :)

This is the colour bug I got, it only just arrived today and only had time to try it quickly but it looks awesome already (the below is just a pic I found on the internet but its easy to see how it just rubs on!)

Def going to buy the purple too I think and then mix the two colours

My ultimate Idol: Rihanna!

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:31:46 -0400

Nothing much to say other than I would probably cut my own fingers off to be friends with this girl. I have always absolutely adored her style, I like that she isn’t afraid of looking rather androgynous and slightly scary at times, but ultimately she is always absolutely drop dead gorgeous and anyone who doesn’t think she is the most beautiful human being on the planet needs their bloody eyes checked. Also I have to admit that her music is a slight guilty pleasure of mine (some of it anyway). Recently she has been spending a lot of time in London and she was rumoured to be on the look out for a property to buy in the Hoxton area. Can you imagine!!! Rihanna living potentially on my road ha. Rich laughs at me because he thinks I will probably stalk her and hang around her house, eventually getting a restraining order but the fact is that is probably exactly what would happen. The other day I even had a dream that she had moved to London and we had become best mates and were hanging out on London Fields in the summer, pretty gutted when I woke up. Obsessed much? Yep. Anyway here are some pics of the beauty herself, a few of my favourite looks of hers to date. Also, I even bought myself this Rihanna graphic tank from Topshop a few weeks ago. Rich has promised me he will buy me, I quote, ‘tickets to go see that bitch when she decides to come tour’ so I’m looking forward to that. Come on Rihanna move to London and we can be best friends and go out together!! Keep on dreaming.

Bloody love her MJ look here..

Can anyone else look this good in fishnets and denim hotpants?

Chanel beauty…

Gorgeous colours

Her Rude Boy look, one of my faves. The watch bracelet is amazing

No one else could make this look good…

And a bit more glammed up..

And a bit more grungey..

And some holiday snaps, hands up if you wish you looked like this in a bikini

Beauty..

My new top!! Such a geeky fan

Sonja's Super Salad

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:14:32 -0400

My first food post! Its taken a while but here it is. Anyone who knows me well will know that I have a great passion for food and love to cook and experiment when I can, however sadly I have very little time for that most of the time. I’m determined to make more time to document my favourite recipes and dishes, but as I found out when doing this, its actually very difficult to cook something and photograph each step! May have to enlist the help of my man next time. So anyway here it is, and please excuse the photography as its not the best, will step it up next time.

Most people think of a salad as something they might eat on the side, but my salads tend to be a meal just on their own! I love combining sweet things such as fruit, with other ingredients which give the salad texture, like various nuts.

The Sonja Super Salad consists of: rocket, asparagus, spring onions, strawberries, mozzarella, pomegranate, pine nuts, pistachios and avocado. A lot I know! When making this, you could easily take away any number of the above ingredients and/or add any others that you like. I have also tried variations on this with parma harm and it was delicious. The below would serve 2 as a meal on its own or 4-5 as a side salad.

Firstly, the asparagus needs to be cut into small spears and boiled for around 5 minutes - long enough for it to be softened but you almost want it slightly al dente. I would suggest using about 3-4 spears in total. This needs to be done first so that it can be drained and cooled, so it is cold when put in the salad.

Get a nice big bowl and put around 2-3 handfuls of rocket in.

Now you just need to chop up all of your other ingredients and add in. I don’t really believe in measurements, put in as little or as much as you like of the other ingredients. In my salad, I used 6 strawberries, a whole mozzarella, a whole avocado (make sure it is very soft and ripe), half a pomegranate, 3 spring onions and about a table spoon of each of the nuts.

Careful with the pomegranate, if you get that on your clothes it ain’t coming off!

I like to dress my salads with quite a lot of different flavours, and I nearly always squeeze a whole lime into most salads (a trick I learnt while living in Mexico, everything tastes better with a whole lot of lime) but you can put as little or as much of the following in as you like.

Olive oil, balsamic vinegar, a splash of soy sauce, the juice of a whole lime, half a teaspoon of Dijon mustard, a squeeze of honey, some ginger, some garlic, salt and pepper.

And here you have it, the end result!

Delicious!

Sound of 2012: Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 14:46:54 -0400

Most people will hopefully already know who TEED is, however if you don’t you need to start listening! TEED has been around for a few years now and my friends and I went to see him play at 93 feet east about 2 years ago, but since then he has grown massively (he is now signed to Polydor) and is sounding better than ever. His on stage costumes are absolutely incredible! Some amazing headdresses - in fact we saw him at Glastonbury last year and he played in the 30degree heat in a huge feather headdress which must have weighed about 3 stone! His album Tapes & Money is due for release just before the summer, and his songs are constantly on loop on my playlist. Recently I have been listening to ‘Trouble’ non-stop, check it out below. The song is awesome and actually the video is brilliant too, I love the styling. Most importantly we are going to see him at Koko on the 23rd May and today whilst out in the London sunshine I saw the poster for the gig and had to take a picture - too excited! Enjoy the song and vid, and check out some pictures of TEED awesome on stage style!

YAY!

Tex Mex

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 14:20:02 -0400

I have seen so much Tex Mex inspired style this season that I had to do a post on it, as I had collected so many beautiful images. I really love this look as its colourful and beautiful, while still being a bit dark and daring. I have also noticed a lot of skull inspired jewellery around at the mo, but not the dark gothic type, more the bright Mexican day of the dead type, and I really love it. Here are a few beautiful pictures of this trend.

Pitfield Cafe and Shop

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:42:00 -0400

Pitfield has only been open for a couple of months now, however seeing as it is a stone’s throw from our house we have visited quite a few times. It’s quite an interesting set up – there is a café on one side and a furniture shop on the other. The café has a deli style – they serve all sorts of salads and wraps, and of course there are some amazing cakes (what I go there for!). I love how nicely presented all the dishes are – as they use all the plates crockery which is on sale in the shop itself. The café has a few small tables, but mainly there is one large long table with lots of chairs around it where most people sit. There are all sorts of magazines and books around too. I really like this set up as it means people actually sit together, it feels very social – sort of reminds me of being at school. And I have noticed it also feels friendlier for those people coming alone, as everyone sits together and drinks their tea and reads or works.

The window displays are also beautiful, incredible selection of cakes in one, and a beautifully decorated home window on the other side. The shop sells all sorts of things from candles, sofas, plates and glasses – to billiards and novelty guns (god knows who buys those).

Anyway it is well worth a visit to sample their wonderful cakes and teas, or if you have (a lot of) money if your pocket for a candle :)

Here is the timeout link for more info:

http://www.timeout.com/london/shops/venue/2:30838/pitfield-london

I had carrot cake (my all time favourite) and Rich had a lemon and poppy seed muffin. The coffee was delicious too!

If only my lounge looked like this too…

Rich had to take an important call…

Novelty gold gun, standard living room staple!

Emily Blunt for YSL Opium

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:56:33 -0400

I had no idea that Emily Blunt was going to be the new face of YSL Opium until I saw the advert by chance on TV the other day. I have to say that perfume adverts are a stupid guilty pleasure of mine, and this one I really love as its YSL and Emily - two of my favourites! Most people might know Emily from films such as Young Victoria or The Devil Wears Prada - I think she is a beautiful young British actress and hopefully we will see a lot more of her. Take a look at the new advert below, and a few pictures of her too.

And finally in this incredible Oscar de la Renta green gown which she wore a month or so ago to an award ceremony. A few days after she wore this the gowns went up for sale on net-a-porter, and even priced at £3,725 sold out within a matters of hours! That’s some serious selling power!

Miu Miu Inspired Nails

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:31:00 -0400

I change my nail polish about as often as most people change their underwear, so whenever I have some time on my hands I look for something a bit more exciting to do with them. I wanted to mix glitter with block colour, and when looking through some pictures of my fave shoes from this season I cam across the Miu Miu glitter beauties. Obvioulsy I could only dream of owning these, so instead I just made a nail design to match! Will be trying more adventurous nail designs soon so stay posted…

The original inspiration…

And the end product!

I used Urban Outfitters base colour in Anthracite, a random silver glitter I found in some pound shop, and loads of Barry M topcoat, to keep the glitter in place. The base colour is nice as its not black, its a very dark carbon colour so the result doesn’t look too grunge like.

All I need now is the shoes. Dream on…

Style Hero: Olivia Palermo

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:00:18 -0400

Don’t ask me to tell you who she is or what she does because I don’t know, I’m pretty sure she is just another one of those socialite type fashion girls, but I have to say have you ever seen a more beautiful person! Her style is probably a lot more girly and polished than I would usually like but there is no denying that she is an absolute style hero. Every single picture I see of her I love, she is always so elegant and feminine looking, not to mention that she is absolutely beautiful. Here are a few (loads) pictures of some of her best looks.

All in the Detail

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 11:58:27 -0400

I have come across so many pretty pictures of beautiful detailing that I had to post! I have always been an avid fan of wearing more rings than you have fingers as many know, but the thought and creativity put into some of these details is just beautiful. No matter what else you have got on - a small flash of jewellery, embroidery, embellishment or even statement shoes can make all the difference. I absolutely love the buckled sandals with the neon socks, in fact this pic inspired me enough to buy neon socks to wear with some very similar sandals I have. Also a socks and sandals post is down on my list!

Power Trousers

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 11:38:00 -0400

I am loving all the statement trousers we are seeing around at the moment - they are mainly very bold prints or colours, and such an easy way to brighten up any plain outfit. I have been looking for a good pair to add to the spring wardrobe but haven’t found the right fit just yet. But here are a few pictures to inspire you!

Thoughts of Summer

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:11:00 -0500

I can’t help but get overly excited about the summer and over the past few weeks my friends and I have been booking festivals and holidays, so now we really have something to look forward to! I have well and truly had enough of the cold and gloomy weather and have already put my winter coats away. The below is just a little collage of my thoughts over the past few weeks - mainly looking forward to pretty summer style, barbeques with my friends in London fields, music festivals, and most importantly Hideout Festival in Croatia which me and 13 of my friends have booked to go to this year. I am so excited to take all my mates to finally see my home country!

So come on summer bloody hurry up!!!