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!!!!