#136 Lingerie

I dallied on the jenny packham shop website for far too long yesterday ( can you blame me?), which is how I came across this french lace with silk chiffon robe & chemise of the same label

  
via jenny packham shop + net-a-porter

Even though I think I can say with a fair amount of certainty that i will never be able to afford them, they are just a bit gorgeous!

Then I was sidetracked by carine gilson...
 
 

these two from rosamosario  + this one from stella mccartney
  

these two from la perla + last but not least, agent provocateur
  

I included the shoulder padded bra from la perla purely because i need you to tell me whether I'm really that out of touch? I'm so confused?
I love the agent provocateur set, stunning.
All sets pictured are available from net -a-porter. Some wedding sets & some well, not really?

Cx

#77 Musings of a Personal Nature.

I've been feeling a bit like this of late...

by amy neunsinger via under a paper moon

Ok, perhaps a not so glamorous version of that anyhow...

Fine fine. A LOT less glamorous.

I felt flat all week for no particular reason that I could think of. I just ignored the feeling.

Seems that was a mistake as by Friday I was a blubbering mess.

Still none the wiser as to why...

Feeling a little overwhelmed by the size of my to do list? Feeling homesick/dearfriendsick? A bit of anger thrown in there towards a certain someone? Feeling disappointed at myself for still feeling anger towards said someone? Feeling frustrated with myself for not holding it all together?

Bit from column A, bit from column B, & a good whack of mystery reasons too...

You know. One of those days.

I absolutely hate feeling like I am complaining, yet somehow I feel that it is all I do?

I'm an over thinker you see... Hardcore. It doesn't help.

I think I often sound like I'm complaining when I'm not too? I try to be too honest maybe?

Oh wait, what? I'm over thinking this? Why yes. Yes I am.

Thank goodness for amazing friends who know just when to call, who know just what to say to make you dissolve into the tears that need to be shed, who know just what to say to pick you up & show you the sunshine.

Thank goodness for Mr N too, who came home to mess of a house & a very red eyed me & didn't even blink. Just gave me a hug.

I'll confess that I've been avoiding blogging. 

In fact I've been avoiding everything.

Plus, I've misplaced my upload cables.

It's probably with my fabric knife...

I'm hoping I've put them away somewhere silly & that it isn't the little Mr who has squirreled them away?

I do have photos for sharing, so when the cables reappear...

Here is a bunch of random, perhaps largely uninteresting, stuff that to me is exciting & lovely.

It was totally lovely to have my sister & Mr B come to stay, they leave for India in a month! Eek.

I am an aunty again! Welcome to the world beautiful Clara Heather!!!

I bought the boys braces for the wedding, & their ties. I've finished 3 wedding table runners.

I have a new outdoor setting (replacing the one we didn't have) spring just got a whole lot sweeter.

My dear friend C (nope not referring to myself in the third person, another C) will baby any day now... any day...

Hope your weekend was swell...

Here's to a motivated & inspired week!

Cx

#42 A Horse and Controversy...

Hi there! Remember me?

Whilst it would appear to most that I had fallen off the proverbial horse of blogging, ok ok - be apparent to most that I had taken a tumble - I really do have quite a legitimate excuse.

It is a tale of spur of the moment decisions, 3 cities, 1 dressmaker most exceptional, many cuppas - wines - & over indulgence in all things that fatten, news of the elating/devastating variety, & much loved up-ness from those whose hugs are too often too too far away...

Before the whirlwind that has enveloped me this last while, I had a Wedding (& everything else) To Do List about as long as your arm. Actually, make that my arm.

Now that same To Do List is about as long as the arm of the BFG. (High 5 to you if you get the reference?)

The said list included, somewhere among the reams, a bit more effort on my part in getting around to posting on here with some kind of regularity.

BUT. I was also thinking (dangerous to be sure!), 'Why?'

Is there any point in this blog? It hasn't saved my nearest & dearest from wedding talk nearly as much as I hoped it would, It feels mighty self indulgent, & i was also starting to wonder if it was a little cuckoo to be writing to myself?

Then while away, one of my delicious bridesmaids told me that she had seen another lovely friend recently, who I haven't caught up with for quite a horrible length of time.

This friend told my BM that although she hates weddings- or more specifically all the kitsch that come with them, she has been enjoying reading these pages of ramble & that she thinks I will have a beautiful wedding & will BM please take lots of photos to show her.

CUE WARM FUZZY FEELING! Bless her socks & silver (pearly white) jewelery ;)

Even though I have what feels like a thousand exciting things to update on, it would seem that oddly enough, this warm fuzzy feeling has manifested in me a desire to sabotage myself & this page & quite possibly ostracize me...

I LOVE DOILIES.

Via - unknown & laura splan/museum of contemporary art

Via - apartment therapy

There. I've said it. It's out there.

I'm a loud & proud doily lover.

Please don't judge me?

Sanity from now on.

Mostly...

It's good to be home!

x