PLACES | sky garden

On Saturday, Sunny and I started our day 35 floors high. We went to visit the Sky Garden which is literally a green garden in the sky. It is FULL of palm tress and the architecture design is simple but stunning. There's something super modern about the curved glass. The view of London was the best I have ever seen. To book your free visit click here.

Sky Garden | £0.00

INTERIOR | marble w/ glass sink

 Victor Vasilev is a  architect and designer whom seeks formal and material purity. This purity of form, we find in his sink Kub playing with straight lines, the transparency of glass and the strength of marble, making it virtually invisible useful object. I love every single one.

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ACCESSORIES | watch

Iv needed an every day watch ever since the Ibiza incident. I normally go for gold but have recently swapped for silver. I was sick of having tarnished rings and as sterling silver is so much cheaper then gold, purchasing a large number of rings was more accessible.

I had to get a Larsson & Jennings. It's the most simple and modern yet classic watch currently on the market. The thinness of the face and the 'gentleman's' strap are was incised me in.

Larsson & Jennings | £225.00

PLACES | ACNE Archive

So, I graduated today.... Meaning I'm back on the blog. After accepting a job at Harvey Nichols back in March, continuing to work with Zoe Jordan and House of Sunny along with completing my final three months of University and maintaing some kind of social life, I just couldn't find the time to blog. Plus the last thing I wanted to do at the end of a day was continue to write/edit on a computer!

However from my last exam in June, till now, I have seen, brought and been to plenty of places to tell you lot about, and number one on my list is the Acne Archive Store.

Sunny took me to Stockholm for my Birthday this year, and after receiving the plane tickets with my birthday card on June 6 I began my research. I read mixed reviews about the Acne Archive store and gathered it was all about timing and luck. Knowing it was the end of the season I was hoping for the best.

The store was small and discrete yet when in side it felt spacious. There was plenty of sizes to choose from and an amazing denim wall. They had a large mixture of different seasons and sold accessories, shoes and clothes with about 70% off and the staff couldn't have been more stylish and helpful if they tried.  What more would you want?

ACCESSORIES | gold grill

If you follow me on Instagram you are probably aware I wore this gold grill as part of my Holloween costume back in October. This gold grill has now become my favourite item of jewellery.

I don't wear it often but it can complete a basic outfit perfectly. The fact it has no jewels or details and is hardly noticeable makes it discrete and minimal. Sadly I'm still yet to get the boys approval.

I got this gold plated one on eBay. It comes with a self mould kit. (new obi)

grill | £11.50  

FASHION | matte blk

I have always worn a lot of black, I'm a lazy dresser and sometimes look for convenience but I also believe there's a big difference between the 'stylish' and the 'show offs'. I look for a nice cut, fabric or design rather then a bold colour or print. 

I have been obsessing over matte black, well matte everything tbh, it feels so modern. I got these matte black Stan Smiths and they are by far my best buy this year so far. They were £11.00 from an Adidas outlet shop in Portsmouth. Unlike most Stan Smiths they are full black making them feel super minimal.  

They look good with my House Of Sunny matte black trousers as the slit falls open and exposes the Adidas logo on the side/sole of the shoe. 

Stan Smiths | £11.00

Total | £11.00

  

ACCESSORIES | back to basics

 Well fitted, functional and almost invisible, I cant remember life pre Calvin Klein's basic underwear sets. 

bralette | £28

pants | £18

total | £46

ACCESSORIES | tripple stud

These gold plaited triple studs are a minimal and modern alternative to hoops or even an ear cuff. They remind me of the 90's when I was a kid and used magnetic earrings to do this all the way to the top, although it could be because they are all brought from the same shop... good old Claire's Accessories.

These triple studs come with matching tinny hoops, also in three sizes.

earring set | £12.50

    total | £12.50 

PLACES | cocochan

Cocochan sits just behind Selfridges. (38-40 St James Street, London, W1U 1EU)
It's a pan-Asian restaurant with monochrome interiors, minimal dinnerware and the food is perfection. What else could you ask for? I ordered the “Spider” Soft Shell Crab Futo Maki, it was amazing and a glass of the Sauvignon Blanc, Touraine, France which I would also recommend.

wine | £6.50

maki sushi | £11.00

Total | £17.50

BEAUTY | negative nails

Focusing on the negatives rather then the positives and love how minimal they look. 

My girl @itsmechloew designed and painted these bad boys for me.  

DIY | hanging plant

I have been seeing these plant hangers around recently. The rope and olives are from Leylands but I'm sure you can get them from any hardware store. I already had the plant and pot from Ikea.

1| get four meters of rope & cut into 6 equal lengths
2| using string tie the ends of the rope together
3| lay flat and  take the rope and put them into pairs using the tiny olives to hold them together
4| repeat this taking a rope from each pair
5| place plant in the middle and  hang it up

rope | £1.32

olives x6 | £1.56

total | £2.88

ACCESSORIES | four

I was due some new hand candy and when I found this on the & Other Stories site for six quid I could not resist.

four bar ring | £6.00

DIY | recycle

White, minimal and free. I really liked the shape and size of this Vanish washing powder pot so I planned to use it as a mould for my DIY concrete planters, but as I removed the labels I came to realise I preferred just the way it is.

You can use it for a verity  of things.  

white plastic pot | £0.00

total cost | £0.00

DIY | customisation

People customise their food and drinks everyday, yet when something is designed, manufactured then purchased, the purchaser commonly stops the design process there.

Yes, not everything needs to be customised, but making something more suited to your needs is a good thing.

I have been asked to style a SS15 look book this weekend which brought on the  reason for the rant on customisation. I was after a minimal double strapped sandal, much like The Row's SS15 and after seeing the collection I was styling and discussing with the designer he also agreed this type of sandal was perfect.

After a long time looking I decided they don't yet exist. So instead I customised some I found on the internet.

DIY | storage solution

   

Spending Christmas in my (what seemed huge) family home back in Southampton was lovely, Christmas is defiantly one of my favourite times of year, but when I got back to my tiny flat and bedroom in London, I was stuck for space. I couldn't quite believe how much stuff I had acquired over the holiday. I have a place for everything and every place was taken but instead of popping to Goodhood and buying some beaut storage boxes from HAY even tho I really wanted too I choose to reuse the boxes some gifts came in. I felt I should as one of my new year's resolutions was to 'spend less money' and its only the 4th.

 I spray painted the boxes matte black and matte white. The spray paint is from Leylands.  It only took about 10 minuets to spray them however I would recommend spraying them outside as I nearly choked myself and Sunny to death doing them in the studio this morning.

Hope you like.

boxes - recycled | £0.00

matte spray paints | £2.75

total | £5.50

DIY | twenty fifteen

The new year always excites me. 

It feels like a fresh start, a time to improve and a time to achieve. Something that never fails to make it onto my New Years Resolution list is 'be more productive' which is why a calendar is essential. 

Click here to download and print this minimal and clean twenty fifteen calendar.