Monday Motivation

OH WOW: David Benjamin Sherry

How gorgeous are these? I'm obsessed with Americana, my favorite colour is rainbow (yes it's in the colour wheel if you look.. sh.) so of course I love this collection.

Sherry just finished showing a new series of analog photographs taken over the course of several months while he travelled through the Western and Southwestern states at the OH WOW gallery in LA. Recording scenes of the American landscape, in exceptional detail. Through a painstaking darkroom process, Sherry transformed these photographs of national parks, monuments, and familiar panoramas into impossibly chromatic and passionate renditions of the country. Sherry traversed these feral regions equipped with a large format, handmade, wooden camera.

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike… This natural beauty – hunger is made manifest … in our magnificent National Parks … Nature’s sublime wonderlands, the admiration and joy of the world.” – John Muir

Decorating The Living Room: Part 1

Obviously living in rented acommodation we can't change or paint anything, and I have to fit around furniture that is already here (a lot of pine - to my horror).  A lot of people don't bother to decorate rented accomodation, but these are all pieces I plan to take with and carry on styling up future living spaces with. So why not start now? It's expensive to decorate so the longer i have to collect items, the better in my books! 

In order to put a personal stamp on things I think it's important to have stand-out colourful pieces that work hard to overcome the not-so-nice rental pieces already in place. 

So here's what I've collected for the living room...

(Juju Headdress: Etsy, Candle: Dyptique Books: Amazon, Rug: Ikea, Klimt Art: Ebay)

It's beginning to have some sort of personality.. what do you think?

SPOTLIGHT ON: Alex Monroe

My style is constantly evolving, a few years back it verged very on the 'hipster' side of things, Doc Martins, American Apparel, Urban Outfitters.. hair piled in atop my head like some sort of wilting pineapple.

It didn't last. Going University in East London has a strange effect. It was fun while it lasted but let's face it, I'm no hipster.

My current favorite brands are much more on the reserved, British, chic and simple, it feels like these match my general self as an outside representation more than the clunky and chunky hipster clobber of yesteryear. More complimentary to my curves shall we say. Think Emilia Wickstead, Coast, Oscar De La Renta, Reiss, Whistles and Ralph Lauren and somewhere in the mix you'll get the picture.

I used to love 'blogger' jewellery, the knuckle rings, mid-finger rings and Erin Wasson cross necklaces. You know the sort, I have tons if anyone wants to buy some. It's time for me to stock up on some new jewellery as currently, i'm struggling to find anything to go with my new wardrobe.  Now it's all about the dainty and... um.. lady-like! (It's coming to me slowly ok. When you're a clumsy oaf being a laaaady takes practice.)

Behold the beautiful and .. dainty 

The middle three are my faves, what about you? Find Alex HERE

Fruity Notes

Look at these adorable notebooks, they look like something Smythson should do as a special edition this summer - but are in fact just £7 from the Natural History Museum. With fun little fruity sketches through-out and a felt page keeper I can't see how anyone could resist. 

I'm currently looking to start a creative writing course somewhere in London, I've always wanted to write. Nothing serious, something fun and girly, these will be perfect to jot down ideas until I fin the right course.

Wish Want Need...

How beautiful is this little number from Three Floor? A fabby shade of blue, very on-trend also!

Review er... pending?

Eventually, once I wrestle it free from his royal highness, I will be reviewing Palmers Natural Bronze Cocoa Butter Body Lotion. Eventually.