What have I been up to?

Apologies for the blog silence.

My excuse this time is that I have been moving flats in Dubai. This has become a bigger task than expected, especially as I have moved from a furnished to a non-furnished space and need to kit it out with all the basics. I am unashamedly turning the place into an IKEA showroom. When I eventually post some pictures you will see that I am not even joking. Bar the odd piece from Crate and Barrel and the like, it's almost completely IKEA. I get totally carried away in that place.

Anyway, one part of the new flat that I am excited about is the maid's room. And no I am not getting a maid. The majority of 2 bedroom + places in this part of the world have a maid's room and it's essentially a box with an ensuite that only the very cruel would consider as a legitimate place to make someone live. It does however, make the perfect makeup/wardrobe showcase/indulgent space and so I declared it mine and have started "girly-fying" the shizz out of it.

The first part of this is creating an Inspiration Rack and it's an idea 100% nicked from other blogs and several Tumblr pictures. The idea behind mine is to mix textures, colours and pieces that either:

a) Make me smile or
b) Need to be worn in the next couple of weeks.

It's just a nice way to merchandise "stuff" and it gives me a little bit of inspiration and happiness. So IKEA provided the rack and I provided the "stuff" :)

A couple of things to note here:

a) The 11' Cambridge Satchel in Lilac on the left (Link!) - I had a couple of questions on Instagram about this and I got it recently from Urban Outfitters. I absolutely love it - the colour and the quality are just gorgeous.

In my mind I compare it to the Rebecca Minkoff Mini Mac - the sizes are fairly similar - and I 100% prefer the Cambridge Satchel. Both style bags are quite "done", and the more fiddly closure on the Cambridge can be annoying, but for whatever reason I just like it more.

b) The Office Nighthawk boots (Link!) - Any of you who follow my Facebook page know that I waited/stalked these boots on the Office website. They are a blatant ripoff of the original Chloe version and were sold a couple of years ago. I call them my Bros boots (showing my age there!)

Popular demand led to their return on the website and I pounced! It was seeing them on blogs like this - Link! - that inspired me. The boots are such a plain shape but the detail makes them totally unique - although 1000s of us have them and Topshop do a pretty lovely version too. Either way, winter and it's cooler weather can't come soon enough! :)

PS. If I was to have done an OOTD for the last few evening's it would have almost definitely featured these studded joggers from Topshop



Crotch shot!

These are the perfect "pop-to-the-shops-and-can't-be-bothered-to-get-properly-dressed" bottoms. They are also the type of thing that you could wear with heels and a leather jacket but I am not cool enough to do that so a black vest top and flip flops it has been :)

Okay, end of ramble post!

Speak soon! x