Category: London
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THE STAY CAY- STAYS
It’s official, we are not getting off the island this year, and if we are to, it will be a mission to accomplish and go through either at the next end or on this end… either away it feels very stressful to comprehend but fear not babe, I got you. As I have often said,…
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LONDON- 3 EXHIBITIONS
We are almost there… let’s just hold the line and our nerve, here is light at the end of the tunnel and we are going to have an epic spring summer fall… trust me babes I got you. I all for jumping on an plane at any given time, you know that, but in light…
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London | Daisy Green
Guys! Guys!! We are getting out of here!!! We are going outside of inside!! Bloody hell June 21st could not come quick enough because even I am TIRED of starring at my pretty walls and picture frames and moving furniture only to move it back. It has been a long year! I cannot beleive we…
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London | A Countervailing Theory- Toyin Ojih Odutola
Its a story about re-writing history, changing the narrative of how we came to be as entities; nations, people, defined roles, traditions and customs. This is challenging the patriarchy whilst enhancing the matriarchy and an imagined way of the world different from the history we have been taught. It presents a concept of what if…
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On A Random Sunday Morning, We Went Truffle Making
Sunday morning, its raining and its grey you really don’t want to get out of bed but then a long awaited truffle making class has been scheduled by a crazy person on a Sunday morning- said crazy person being me. I should point out that my relationship with chocolate can best be described as love-hate-meh,…
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The Holiday Windows | Fortnum & Mason- Cats
I love this window so much I could cry and I am not much of a cat person, they play way too hard to get for my patience but this window, this incredible window, is all the joys of Christmas wrapped up in one; Happy, festive, traditional, whimsical, fun, lovely… and all the superlatives one…
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The Holiday Windows | Selfridges – Futuristic and Minimalistic
I hated this window when I saw it, it didn’t make sense, where was the pomp and ceremony? Where was Christmas, the glitz, glamour and tree. I didn’t even think s’nice I just thought wtf is this. BUT as with the liberty window it took a few visits for me to actually really love this…
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The Holiday Windows | Harvey Nichols- Tipsy & Tinsel and A Secret Forest
At first I was unsure about this window, I thought s’nice but not at all festive but having had time to digest it, I rather like it. It reminds me of this window from Harrods that led to my short-is story, but this feels like the continuation, the arrival in the alps of all the…
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The Holiday Windows |Liberty- The Tree of Liberty
I love Liberty and its entire history, I love its old and rickety interiors, am obsessed with its Tudor facade and how indoors feels like going to your grandmama’s house with a hodgepodge of fabulousness going on. And I really wanted to love this window. The Tree of Liberty explores a magical time when snow…