i wished my flat looked like this or i could just move in….this is a Queen Anne Town house on Mile End Road in Stepney, it is also the home of David Carter the super interior designer who has decided that his 2 guest bedrooms were not getting enough use & has decided to open up as a Boutique B&B for the creative type, journo, model, designer, visiting london for business or pleasure….
gorgeous!
xoxo
attention people, i have some bad news…during my magical adventures at Glyndebourne yesterday i have realised i have lost my much loved Tatty Divine bow ring….. i’m very sad R.I.P my lovely ring, hopefully you were not eaten by a sheep!
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i am overwhelmed with sadness because there is a serious lacking of magical feelings today, i was thoroughly overloaded by them yesterday, when i made my first visit to the Glyndebourne opera house in Lewes to watch Rusalka. For the ones that don’t know Glyndebourne is part of ”the season” in the same realms of Royal Ascot & Henley. The venue itself is a grand house owned by family that built an opera house on site, which itself is breathtaking inside & out. The auditorium is entirely made of wood & has beautiful acoustics.
the event is basically a black tie picnic / opera performance, with terribly civilised breaks between acts to allow for the tux & ball gown clad guests to tuck into their champagne suppers in the grounds.
the excitement began even before i’d got as far as Lewes, first there was the dressing up in my lovely dress, then there was the curious looks as myself & Seb made our way in gown & tux to Victoria. the closer we got to Victoria & then the closer we got to Lewes on the train, we spotted to more & more people also dressed up to the 9′s carrying picnic hampers. it was like we were all in on this big magical secret! i loved it!
the performance i saw was Rusalka a story of a water nymph who falls in love with a human with cursed consequence’s, you might know the squeaky clean adapted version as Disney’s the little Mermaid (there are no blood thirsty mischievous in Walt’s version). the performance, stage & costumes (my favourite part) were fantastic!! here’s a few pics
i can’t wait to go again! back to reality & not wearing evening dresses during the day :(
xoxo
being a book snob i relish the day when a new set of limited edition cover books are published, finding new pretty covers to adorn my shelves is really quite exciting! (yes i know i am very sad) so when i saw these cuties in Waterstones i practically jumped with joy!
they are from the publishers Weidenfeld & Nicolsons who are this year celebrating their 60th anniversary. to celebrate this they have selected a few designers & artists to create special endpapers for some of their classic novels….
designed by Louisa Scarlet Grey
designed by Mikko Rantanen
designed by James Dawe
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this weekend i have been in Cornwall for a family wedding, anyone that’s on facebook will of seen evidence of my disastrous attempts at dancing under the influence of many a glass of Addlestones….anyway we also got to do some sightseeing of some of my favourite Cornish places, Mounts Bay, Cape Cornwall & St Ives…whilst in St Ives we went to the Tate which had a Barbara Hepworth & Alfred Wallis exhibition on, both of which are 2 of my favourite artists, this combined with the scenery was all so incredibly stunning it has inspired me to get the paints & brushes out & make some time for some landscape painting, which i have recently gotten badly out of the habit of doing!
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i am a proud hoarder/clutter addict i am always rifling through vintage shops, charity shops & any shops for bits of pretty fabrics & vintage laces & buttons, pictures, dresses to customise & balls of interesting wool etc , i’ve got a blanket chest full of bits & pieces that i WILL one day use!
anyway sometimes it does come in useful especially to people like my friend Roh who always seems to be rummaging through my stuff looking for things to use in shoots…..here is the most recent one (the beat my heart skipped) featuring my knitting (it will be a scarf one day), some Yellow Rose printed Ralph Lauren fabric i nabbed at the Designers Guild warehouse sale last year & a big blue dish i found for a pound in a Banardos !
i am currently building up a collection of pretty woven fabrics to start a patchwork blanket for myself, seeing as the one i made for Roh was such a success!
xoxo
this weekend i was mostly:
- being served by the best waiter ever at Brasserie @ 68 in Fareham
- finding houses i wanted to live in around Portsmouth & on the Isle of Wight
- finding fab 50′s retro buildings at the fun fair
-eating brilliant fry ups at Long John’s in Ryde
- stealing fruit from the Osbourne house walled garden…….after being thoroughly overwhelmed by the interior!
xoxo
the beat my heart skipped
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