Baggy Trousers!!

Last night whilst lying in my bed at my Mummy's (love being back in the UK even it is only for a week) I was flicking through LOOK magazine which those of you from our fair isle should be well acquainted with. It's my own little style bible and I buy it religiously every week. I love that it features clothes I can actually afford to buy and also clothes that I would actually wear! Apparently, one of the big trends for Autumn is going to be anything floral and faded and with this in mind I went and raided my Mum's wardrobe.... as you do. Imagine my glee when I discovered this pair of trousers - floral, faded and too small for Mum. SCORE!

I LOVE them! Please excuse my barely-there make up. And by barely-there I mean I didn't bother my arse to put any on. Ahem. Anyway, back to the trousers, if LOOK magazine had added 'baggy' and 'nicked off Mum' to their Autumn style predictions I'd be so fashion forward it might actually hurt a bit!! So now I have a slightly questionable but altogether comfortable new pair of baggy trousers to take back to Deutschland mit mir. Fanks Mummy!!!

Loola x

Not so 1950s Housewife

I LOVE the 1950s. The clothes, the hairstyles, the colours. I love all the pastel pinks and blues and the lovely lemons and I'm working on making my kitchen look as 50s as possible. It's not like I cook in it so I might as well use the space to store pretty stuff. I really am a hopeless cook. I'm not interested enough in food to spend hours slaving over a hot stove and on the rare occassion I do use my oven in the way God intended, I get distracted by a noise or a book and completely forget I'm 'cooking' until I get a wailing reminder from my over-worked smoke alarm. Bad, I know, but I do eat fairly healthily without having to have a constant battle with the chuffing cooker (who knows without a shadow of doubt that I hate him. Yes it's a HIM)!! But I figure thats no excuse for abandoning the homeliness. It's the first room you see when you walk in to my house so it still needs to look nice.

Photos of the 50's and 60's

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So here's some stuff I've been drooling over....

www.countryliving.com

www.retroplanet.com

The most perfect tea towel ever? www.ebay.co.uk

www.grahamandgreen.co.uk

www.amysgifts.co.uk

www.Robertsradio.co.uk

http://www.lakeland.co.uk/

Cheers all :)


Love Loola xx

Manicure? Uh, no thanks...

I am not one of these people that regularly has manicures or pedicures. That's not to say that my nails are icky and I have to keep them hidden away!! I just don't tend to fork out on this kind of thing when I can do it myself and spend the money I saved on shoes. Or pretty knickers :) Anyhoo, yesterday I was out shopping with my baby sister and totally of the cuff I decided to treat myself to a manicure. We're going out tonight to see our favourite band 'The SkaBeats' and I decided that a little bit of professional grooming was in order. Never again. They spent a total of approximately 3 and a half minutes on my nails, they were wonky, the nail varnish peeled off before I even got 100m away from the shop and I could have quite cheerfully cried. I KNOW I should have said something but, honestly, I am such a chicken where this kind of stuff is concerned. Instead, I came home....whinged, moaned and bitched and then did them myself and they now look fairly normal, if a little short, again. Moral of this story? Put the money towards shoes. Or go to youtube and follow this little gem.

Gossip Girl Style Crush

Taylor Momsen. I hate this girl. Well, actually I LOVE this girl. She's sassy, knows what she wants and she wears great clothes!! Be still oh little green monster of mine. Jealousy - such a yucky trait. Best way to counter it? SHOP! Hurrah!

Loola x

Topshop

River Island (yep it's these boots again..)

River Island

River Island

New Look

Pretty printiness....

I'm due to move house soon and I'm absolutely obsessed with buying lovely new stuff for my lovely new home. One of the things I can't seem to stop buying is prints. I buy them, I love them, I weep with happiness and then I wonder if I'm going to have room for them all. One way or another I am going to fit them all somewhere. Even if I have to cover every single wall. I have a load for my bedroom, a load for my living room, a load for the kitchen and a load for...uh...wherever. A little selection of some of my most favouritist (yes, it IS a word.....)

Loola x

From THIS etsy shop

From HERE

From THIS etsy shop

From THIS etsy shop

Shoes glorious shoes...

My name is Loola and I am a shoe-aholic. The worst part? I don't care. I mean why this constant need to try and justify the number of shoes you have? It's not like we don't need them. This is the UK! We wear shoes EVERYDAY! So why not have a pair for everything? Plus a few spare pairs incase you're feeling indecisive? Buy, buy and buy more I say. Hours of fun sitting on the floor, staring at your bea-ootiful shoe collection..... what more could you want? Oh, plus a season change is upon is and those gladiators you've been wearing all summer ain't gonna cut it throughout Autumn when the rain starts.....

A quick look on the schuh website identified a desperate NEED for these particular lovelies.

These babies from topshop

And these want want must haves from River Island

I know, right? Brings a tear to your eye doesn't it? Only problem now is that after forking out for all these how the chuff am I gonna afford clothes to go with them all? Sigh...

Loola x

I'm smiling because....

Well, just because really. Just spent the last month doing nothing but crying so now it's SMILE TIME. And because it's SMILE TIME I just bought this as a pertinent reminder :)

Fifi du Vie - I applaud you and your lovely etsy shop.

AND in just three short hours I will be picking up my baby sister from the airport cos she's coming to stay for two weeks!! YAY!! I live and work abroad and it's these visits that keep me going when I'm away from home. Bring on the karaoke nights!!!!!


Loola x