Day 83. Let its snow! Brrrr. 2 degrees

1. Condiments. I bloody love a good condiment.

2. Taxidermy. Weird but compelling.

http://www.lestroisgarcons.com/restaurant/index.html

3. Murano glass chandeliers in candy colours. Genius. Similar to a Euroluce one I used to LOVE.

4. A jewelled sabre-toothed tiger. You can never have enough of those.

5. Another glass chandelier, but this was made of porcelain birds. Beautiful.

6. My gorgeous Secret Santa gift! A lovely little handpainted tea-cup from Anthropologie.

http://www.anthropologie.eu/uk/page/home

7. SNOW!!!!

8. Creepily lit leafless trees in Highbury Green. Very Halloween.

9. Again with the condiments. Enough already! Loved the 'served' signed. 

"Mrs Slocum are you free?" 

"Yes I'm free!"

Are You Being Served

10. MORE SNOW!!!

11. Heavy cutlery. A sign that you mean business.

Day 76. Bright start with a grey, cold finish. 3 degrees!

Hey campers, its darn cold here. The wind is biting, the air is freezing and there's frost on everything.

Enjoy. x

1. Beauty in the most unlikely places. A butterfly on a dirty brick wall.

2. The warm glow of street lights. Like two iridescent yolks.

3. Happy Thanksgiving all you Yanks. Here is my Turkey Day table setting!

4. Thanksgiving feast that had us all loosening our trousers and falling asleep.

5.  Railway arches. I just love the graphic geometry.

Day 69. Grey, cold but dry. 8 degrees.

Hi Gang!
Checking back in with y'all and hoping the Christmas spirit is making its way around!

Enjoy. x

1. The dainty little butterfly cut-out lights at Isarn. If you visit, order anything on the menu. Its superb.
http://www.isarn.co.uk/

2. The candy coloured brogues on my two colleagues. Mustard and turquoise, what a pair!

3. A perfect Manhattan. Perfect, like Manhattan.

http://www.esquire.com/drinks/manhattan-drink-recipe

4. Oh to have a Topshop a hop, skip and a jump away! And housed in a Jean Nouvel building...Genius.

www.topshop.com

5. Jean Nouvel's One New Change. Its cross shape lends itself to stunning vistas of St Paul's Cathedral. Thoroughly beautiful and uniquely London.

http://www.onenewchange.com/

6. The baby grand piano at the RIBA Manser Medal Awards. Such old world glamour. LOVE IT.

7. The LED washed stone walls of the Florence room at the RIBA. One part Frank Lloyd Wright, one part Priscilla Queen of the Desert.

http://www.architecture.com/

Day 57. Cold, wet, grey and tres depressing! 8 degrees.

Ok so its been more like little ms crapside than little ms brightside... I have been terrible at keeping up the blog on the regular. Sorry to those of you who have grown to read the blog whilst wasting time in the morning in an effort to put off doing the boring drudgery of the day-to-day work.

So here a few make-up entries and a promise to try my hardest to keep a daily blog...eeek! Fingers crossed.

Enjoy. x

1. Baboushka dolls! Before Kinder Surprise the Baboushka doll had the toy-surprise market stitched up. Still my favourite kind of doll.

2. Halloween decorations. The perfect pointy precision of the arrow eyes impresses me to no end!

3. The elk skull display in mine and the Mr.'s favourite breakfast joint. There is nothing better than a Sunday morning vegetarian breakfast with a Virgin Mary and a big cup of steaming Earl Grey tea.

http://www.the-elk-in-the-woods.co.uk/

4. The big cup of steaming Earl Grey tea.

5. The phosphorescent simplicity of a naked bulb. And how much do you love tungsten? There is no word more fun to say than tungsten.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungsten

6. Literally overnight the world turned into a veritable sea of gold!!! GOLD GOLD GOLD! I love this time of year before the leaves have turned into a rotten mess and they are still a beautiful blanket of crisp golden layers.

7. Another jack-o-lantern! The wonky smile is charming.

8. Karaoke! Belting out the greats is a superior form of exercise to jogging. 

9. A mini picnic. How I miss mini things. It seems like everything was made mini when you were a kid. Mini fork. Mini spoon. Mini cash register. Mini jams. Mini chairs. Mini tables....the list goes on.

10. I loved the Lewis Carroll style message on this door bell. The simplicity. Press.

11. More mini. CLEARLY I'm obsessed. But these days the mini shop is far more culturally diverse featuring mini sushi!!!! 

Day 43. Cold. So very cold. 12 degrees.

Ok, so Little Ms Brightside has been a bit crap with keeping up with the daily posts... I am going to try and maintain the daily posting but it may be that I do a weekly every now and then!

Just so very busy with work!

But...here you go. Enjoy. x

1. The Barcelona Autumn...tropical. Felt like home really.

2. The block colours in Silky the Fairy's outfit and mug.

3. The most beautiful glass detail. Number 55 got it going on.

4. The first frost. Brrrrrrr.

5. A wooden owl. The best canal-boat watch dog.

6. Joan Miro tapestry. Fuzzy because it was taken stealthily whist trying to avoid a security guard. What I really wanted to show was the big beautiful knitted texture.

7. I loved the rough and stark contrast between the metal and the stucco of the wall.

8. The perfect Autumn day. Blue sky, red leaves, clean, crisp air. CLEARLY I have an obsession with the Regent's Canal.

9. Shadows.

10. Morning sunshine on my way to work. Clinging onto it as we crawl towards the end of daylight savings.

11. Thirty three. So much cooler that 33.

Day 36. Crisp, cold with blue skies. 12 degrees.

So Little Ms Brightside is back! Sorry for the delay again, but I have been loving my job and spent a few days in Barcelona so the bright side of life was staring me in the face without much effort this last week.

Today's list is a hotch potch from the last week.

Enjoy. x

1. The Barcelona Pavilion by Mies Van Der Rohe. Its so nice to see a legend up close.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona_Pavilion

2. Onyx. Such a beautiful stone and a marvel of nature.

3. Spiky grass puffs that reminded me of summer when I was a kid in the Human Rights Parc Barcelona.

4. Electric blue jellyfish. Anything electric blue is good in my book.

5. The smell of log fires. Folk in Highbury are already burning timber.

6. I love this photo. Taken during a zoo night visit with the Mr.

7. Stunning abstract stainless glass window in an old Catholic Boy's School in Barcelona. The power of light is astonishing.