Stranger in a Strange Land.

My goodness it's been so long. Please excuse my absence, I started a new job last week and haven't had the time to do anything. I've hardly spent any time at my computer because the moments that I do find myself without anything to do my body collapses and falls fast asleep. It's been a bit of a bodyshock for me but hopefully by next week it will begin to get into a routine and I will have the time during my days off. This week however, I am working every day. Exhausting when it's been a while since you've been in work. I am sitting here at 6am now, just as it's the only time I can find to come on here and show my face.

I couldn't write this post without adding some visuals so I collected some of my recent 'pins' and realised I had been inspired by interior. Perhaps I yearn to run away to a beautiful place or I just really want to give my bedroom an overhaul. 

Everything I seemed to have pinned appears to be rooms flooded with light and incorporating natural wood. I've always adored collections of frames on a wall and stacked books on display. 

Give me a few more days to settle in and get my body in it's right place and I will be back to regular programming. Just a short sabbatical. 

In the meantime, please remember the competition I have going on with Bear & Co. to win a custom made dress fit to your measurements. It would be great to win, so take a look and enter if you wish. Read more about it here if you haven't already.

You have 9 more days to enter.

Wishlisting in a new direction.

It's taken me from Saturday to Monday to go from basics to full on vibrant colours. A few bits I collected from around the web today were peacefully sitting on my desktop, not enough to make a fulfilling post but they sat their patiently. 

I was very good today and despite Wednesday being my submission deadline for my freelance writing I work on each week, I got it all completed and submitted by lunchtime (Go me!). I finished up a few other pieces on my to-do list and I then found myself with nothing to do. What do you do when you've checked off everything on your check list? You go window shopping online in anticipation of payday. This is what led me to have a few items laying around on my home screen, that was until I decided to have a browse on Anthropologie. Always so refreshing, shying away from fashion's current trends the site left my computer completely cluttered and a wishlist exploding with colour. Basics are definitely absent in this post. 

My favourite prints this season are definitely lush green leaves and ferns, strangely insects - something I have never paid an interest in but now I just can't get enough and finally, graphic checks. Besides from the last, it's all very nature focused and quite often in a repetitive form. 

So without further ado, from top left:

1. Botanical pencil skirt, the perfect camouflage for Spring's new life. 

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2. Thinking about socks and sandalled shoes, slithering through the seasons in these python capped beauties.

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3. A long lost Monki discovery which I stumbled on via Pinterest and is no longer in existence. Neutrals and neon, always enjoyable. 

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4. Another appearance from the fluorescent, in the form of sheer baroque lace. I'm thinking a simple white t-shirt with a bright pink heel?

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5. Anthology magazine because you can't get more inspirational than interior design. Especially when it looks like tidy clutter.

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6. Mirrored Monki Bag. 

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7. Introduced to Brian Vanden Brink's photography through Liebemarlene and her beautifully chronicled memories of Illinois. Influenced by the deserted and decaying and natures relationship with architecture when it is free to roam. When possible, I enjoy collecting photography books to lose myself in and this book makes me wonder how people could possibly leave these charming structures behind.

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8. This Beetle book which I discovered via Anthropologie (of course), has left me even more head over heels for the little mites and I found my searching on Etsy for brooches and framed creatures. 

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9. More inspiring interiors, this time from modern California circa 1930-65.

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10. Powder pink and snakeskin heels. 

Moodboard: Light & Nature

Images via (from left to right): The Epitome of Quiet, Lepor Lepos, Wet Paint, And The Moon Appears, Wet Paint, Obessee, Rosettes

The bleak chill fades, evenings become lighter and the future seems brighter in my mind. 

I always find it intriguing to observe the subconscious parallels created when I decide to make a moodboard and select photos. In retrospect, light I think is the theme here, for this one. 

Pastel mints, yellows & pinks, pure whites with a nod towards nature. Overgrown plants wildly creeping through the cracks in the pavement & potted plants basking by the windows. The same windows that flood the rooms with a natural light.

On a side note, I added Clemence & Astrid's image in at the top because of my love for the detail in both of their outfits; a delicate, jewelled indulgence. 

A befitting word of the day: 

Effulgent (adj.) shining brightly; radiant

Got to give it up.

A mixture of fun things I have favourited on my etsy account.

From left: Lake Print / Vintage Aztec Trim / Girl & Boy Head Pillows /

Vintage Decorative Arrows / Tiger Head Brooch / Moon Chart Print /

Vintage Alarm Clock / Oil Painted Ball Locket / 1950's Turquoise Portable Typewriter