Yay for online shopping. If I was in London, I’d be on here a lot:
I also recently discovered l’Emile et Son and the joys of buying wine from Wine Style and Norman Goodfellows. Happy days!
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Online spending bliss
15 DecI am a good shopper. It’s something I do well. Shopping online though takes my skill set to a whole new level, and feeds my introverted nature (agorophobia anyone?).
Delighted doesn’t come close when I stumbled upon Meekel today. Add to that Yuppie Chef and old faithful Amazon and I hardly ever have to leave the house!
Here are my favorites from Meekel:
Jen
Thanks for coming November
28 NovThis has been a week I’d rather forget (and believe me, I’m all about seeing patterns and learning from them, etc, etc, but damn the last 7 days have kicked my ass!). In fact November (I usually love November as it’s my birthday month and indicates all sorts of much anticipated things like summer holidays, beaches, sea swimming and sleeping in late), has been a month from hell. Really. November 2011 almost had me in the ground (or at least on some serious coping medication).
And the last weekend in November pulled out all the stops and said: “Hey, bitch, you are 30 and awesome and everything, but for fuck sakes can you please sort your shit out!” Take three ex-boyfriends, one foot-in-mouth friend, too much wine, some insane blasts from the past, a long-desired unrequited flame, a bad case of an inability to say ‘no’ and some wild hormones, and you have the following:
- Exhaustion on a very basic level (and finally making some decisions because something had to give)
- A realisation that even when money is good, toxic work environments contaminate your soul (and may led to homicide)
- Ex-boyfriends arriving in your space literally one behind the other is something to take note of. Some represent a youthful love that has a special place in your heat always, but is so very far removed from who you are now; some represent something you’ve always wanted, never had, and on reflection may not want at all anymore; and some just leave a bitter-sweet taste in your mouth and a desire to shake your head and shout “Really?! Really?!”.
- Being on The Pill is not a joke and the beginning of that journey shouldn’t be taken lightly, because: goodbye contraceptive pill, hello mad moods and a body in turmoil.
- When I am unable to practice every morning, I need to reassess. When I am hating practicing, my body hurts all over and I keep hitting snooze, taking a few days off is ok.
- Thank God for the lightness of retail (thank you Anthropologie):
Dirty thirties
14 OctHello October. And that means that it’s almost November, my birthday month, and since this year is the year I turn 30, I will be celebrating even more than the usual month-long festivities.
Anthropologie is one of my very favourite online destinations. Birthday elf, go shopping!
Jen x
Coffee table pretty please
18 AugRight, my brain is melting. I kid you not. Too much work, and too many balls in the air. I need a PA and I courier.
Erm, where was I? Oh yes. Frazzled. And my poor blog gets left out in the cold. Much like my cat who is giving me the cold kitty shoulder as I’ve been too busy to devote all my free time to stroking him.
My house is looking lovely, after I painted some plastic animals and plastic army dudes neon pink (I will post pics…). But I really need a new coffee table. And it has to be one that is big enough and low enough to handle an impromtu informal snacking vibe. I have my eye on one from Modernist (ok, I have my eye on many things from Modernist, but I’m being restrained). Who’s up for making my day?
On another note:
Blog (via Urban Dictionary)
To spew uncontrollably from one’s brain; involuntary and unstoppable release of thoughts onto electronic media.
“Dude. I totally just blogged all over that web page.”
“When I read about what happened last night, it made me blog all over my website.”
“I thought that chick was so hot that I had to blog as soon as I got home”
Photographs
26 JulWhat a good practice this morning! There are just days that everything works (despite the rapid drop in temperature again and the fact that I feel like I could sleep all day!). I saw my needle-happy physio yesterday (for the ongoing hamstring/hip flexor issue … the unsexy limp) and he managed to locate a very large knot in my right butt cheek. The pain was intense (hello elbow in the ass and needle twisted in the epicentre of the spasm), but somehow today I feel good. Happy day … although post-practice I’m back to the limping around :/
I ordered a whole bunch of prints of photographs I’ve taken over the years (about 100 … I may have been overzealous) and I’ve been scouring the internet for original ways to display them – I will have to buy some frames, but would rather display the majority in more unusual ways.
Here are some ideas I found:
Jo’burg’s lightness
17 MayI went to Randlords on Saturday night … I love the place. It puts Jo’burg (and its luminescence) into perspective, and I always leave thinking how much I love the city centre; its aliveness, its humanity, its breathing buildings, its architecture. I suddenly feel like we live in a proper city, like London or New York – there’s that swift optimism that the suburban set will begin to venture back into the CBD, injecting it with vigour and facilitating a cosmopolitan street culture.
My heart beats to a Weyandts beat
12 MayWhat a weird week. I put it down to all those public holidays we’ve had … and yet another one next week! I’ve managed to see psychics and old friends, and drink too much wine, and skip yoga two mornings this week. I’ve managed to have a bad case of the sads and a big case of the happy heartbeats, all within four days … I feel exhausted (and mindblown that it’s Thursday!).
I really need some bedside lights, and I’d like some of the hanging variety … of course Weylandts always has these things covered:
These bedside lamps are also gorgeous:
With the cold weather set in, I’d love to dress up my floors:
And I don’t really need a new table, but this one would look so good in my house, and I can just imagine throwing large dinner parties around it!
Mudpuppy ceramics
12 AprIf you’re a regular visitor you’ll know I have a thing for ceramics.
I found this store, Mudpuppy, on Etsy. Look at the delights!
