For bitter or worse.

Everyone is talking about the new Ashish range for Topshop. I just had a look at it there, and while it is cute and everything, it just seems a little bit meh for me. It's such a change from his more high-fashion designs, which are mad for the bit of sparkle, colour and all that jazz.

This lot screams "I could do that myself...Give me a fiver and I'm off to Hickeys!" at me, a lot louder than it says "Yes, I can spend 40 spondulicks on a tee, no problem." But maybe I'm just bitter because I still haven't found that goddarn money tree I need so badly. Hmmmh.

Check it out and make up your own mind...

Please do not adjust your set...

..as normal posting should resume by Monday. Running around like an ADD kid in the CocaCola factory trying to get everything sorted for the big move to London Town. Which is happening tomorrow, gadzooks.

Anyway, feel free to browse through some luvverly pictures of my new home city and I'll be back here after the weekend. Over and out!

(All images reposted here from weheartit)

Broke is the new black, apparently.

Everybody is aware that we're having a bit of economic misfortune at the moment. My favourite spin on it is that we're now experiencing the "pre-boom years", just gearing us up for the next wave of overpriced coffees and flah-flah-flahing about like we just fell out of the O.C.

However, as with any global crisis, little ol' Earth just keeps on turning. People still get married, have birthdays, produce offspring and so forth. An upside to the doom and gloom is that it forces folk to rethink their ideas, which has produced some pretty awesome design in recent months. I stumbled across this range of greeting cards by 9SPOTMONK yesterday, which I adore for their clever sentiments and utter simplicity. My favourite is "Candlelight dinner". Now if only they'd get shipping outside the US. Check them out here.

If you go down to the woods today...

I love this time of year. Something about going back to school, pulling out all your wintry, snuggly woolies, the crisp but still warm weather makes me go a little bit fuzzy inside. I even get giddy at the sight of new stationery (I was always the kid who had to have a new pencilcase, pens, notebook, school bag and so forth come Septmber, much to mia madre's delight). Dare I say it, I much prefer it over the summer "sunshine" that we always hope for but never get at home. At least autumn/winter never lets you down - the odd sunny, warmish day is an added bonus.

Yesterday I made my first purchase of this wonderful time of year - a gorgeous sheepskin jacket for the princely sum of 5 litle euros.

Jacket win.

And now, even though I should be making the most of this unusual hot weather we're getting right now, I can only dream of wrapping up in chunky sweaters, going for walks in the woods* and layering up like it's nobody's business. This Polyvore set will just have to do for now, I guess!

(I'm pretty sure I've never actually done this in my life, but in my daydreams I live in a Gap ad. Obviously. I'm also two stone lighter and rolling in money but they are not so pertinent to this particular tale, methinks.)

Shiver me timbers...

This made me laugh this morning...

(Found via Jezebel)

Summer-loving in the wintertime...

I haven't posted anything on here in about a week or so, but regular service should resume tomorrow. Or the next day, it's all very jet-lag dependent.

Came home from beautiful Cape Town today, you see.

Depressed is not even the word.

Miss the boy, miss the amazing friends, miss the weather, miss the atmosphere.

*looks sulkily out window at grey skies*

This lil' video is from a Capetonian band I love, whom you might know from their (unfortunate) collaboration with Shakira for the World Cup. But please, don't hold that against them, we all make mistakes, eh?! It's such a cute song, methinks. Plus, it's the only thing putting a smile on my face today. Right, I'm off to mooch around the house, eat copious amounts of biscuits and annoy my mother. Over and out amigos!

The more I see, the less I know...

This is how I'll be making all my relationship decisions (If I ever have any to make again. *le sigh) from now on. Seven kinds of wonderful in a pretty chart.

(Found here on The Morning News).