Custom Made

What do you do with spare time? I guess we all roughly do the same thing , but what do you do when you have an excessive amount of free time on your hands with nothing constructive that HAS to be done?

I tend to pace up and down the hall being a bit hyperactive not really knowing where to place myself - I'm not in the mood to watch a film or listen to music or catch up on salacious gossip

and so instead I find myself dusting off all the books I've purchased from amazon over the past few years and actually READING them. I know! READING them - not just letting them sit there looking pretty. (They are pretty, thats why I bought them)

I start with books about shoes -easy reads , I'm already hooked by the words 'jimmy' and 'choo'

I must say I've learnt much about shoes over the past few weeks , from origins of the venician chopine to the deep and intense reasons as to why women are obsessed with stillettos but the thing that I found most interesting wa


TRAINERS.

yep. those ugly but comfortable things that really should be confined to people with lack of taste / the gym.

To me they are not fashion they are function.

But did you knoooow that to 'trainer geeks' wearing the wrong pair supposidly says alot about you in the fashion stakes. Honestly. A battered pair of canvas pumps with jeans and T-Shirt may be on trend but to the trainer trendies you are an absolute plonker.

At 5'3 and a half clumpy Nike custom mades are not my idea of fashion happiness, but I've always been partial to a bit of Converse and my pink ones are pretty tatty these days so to save myself pacing up and down the hallway I invested a bit of time into creating my own custom made high tops :

my top 2 style icons.

 

 

 <3

jelly shoes WILL save your life.

how many types of shoe can you wear splashing about in the sea without them getting ruined? Jelly shoes OFCOURSE!

and as for saving your life - if you splash too close to a jellyfish you can make it back to dry land pretty sharpish.

Functional AND practical... fashionable? hmmmmmmm , maybe if you're 6 - personally I'd quite like to see the return of the jelly shoe and it turns out so did some major fashion labels this season so check it out and make sure you have some packed in your suitcase... ready? 1...2...a 1, 2, 3 4...WEEEEE'RE ALL GOING ON A ... SUMMMMMER HOOOLIDAY.

Thank you Cliff.

(above) Miss KG - Kurt Geiger

(above) French Connection - a colour to suit an array of bikini's / moods


and below my absolute favs - Michael Kors. JELLY YUM.

ladies... the lengths we go to for our handbags (literally)

GO City Girl Hermes Birkin Competition from GO City Girl on Vimeo.

I like to think I was made in Chelsea but IS the only way Essex?

If the words 'The Only Way Is...' or 'Made in...' have not entered your vocabulary within the past few weeks you may aswell switch off now...

(But if your ongoing love for repeats of The Hills or The City have left you feeling sour for new reality TV material maybe you could gain a new obsession in life after reading this)


A friend (who shall remain anonymous for various reasons) once told me

'One day I hope to marry a rich man who wears really nice suits to work who I can have intellectually stimulating conversation with and lead a life of luxury... I also hope my bit on the side will be a builder from Essex who will smack my arse and call me darlin. CORRRRRR'


I have, fortunately or unfortunately depending on if you're a half glass full or half glass empty enjoyed the company of both Chelsea boys and Essex lads since this statement and I was firmly team Chelsea.



Until... The Only Way Is Essex came and ravished or ruined (again depending if your a half full/ half empty) my life.


Never have I prayed more for the money to enhance my clevage or to paint myself in shades of orange a la Amy Childs

These days I find fake eyelashes in the most obscure places around the house (I'm most pleased when I realise it is NOT a spider lurking by my jewellery box)


But then


Oh


Whats this??? ...the adverts for Made in Chelsea start pushing my guilty pleasure button and suddenly BOOOOOOOOM - I'm transported back to being 19 and heading to Raffles and other various hotspots on the King's Road.


And so it is time to pick a side. Metaphorically speaking do I choose my investment banker yuppy or my Essex builder ?

 So desperate to be a Sloaney marely 2 years ago and now I'm a total hag for all things fake (Kate Middleton you could STILL turn me back)


So in conclusion:
Made in Chelsea has literally just made its debut this story is to be continued...

But seeing as the only person who made me laugh in that entire hour was club host Ollie Locke ( bottled st. Tropez fiend )

The only way really IS Essex.


SHUTTTTTUPPPPPPP!

And just like that summer was over.

5.30am - I'm sleeping, I'm dreaming - my soul has lifted itself from my body and I'm literally away with the fairies.

I'm not sure what I'm doing but the colours remind me of what I can see when I'm wearing browny / yellowy tint sunglasses ...yes, everything looks like SUMMERRRRR.

Until I'm noisily awoken by a million decibels of thunder crashing around up there in the heavens.


Back to reality. 

Cheers god. or Zeus. Or whatever your calling yourself these days.


I didn't even get a chance to burn let alone tan.



So here I am praying to you dear lordy lord, oh goddy god. (oh zeusy zeus because I remember you're the one who does the weather report)


BRING BACK THE BRITISH SUMMERTIME YOU TEASED US WITH!


please :)

Atleast for another couple of months before I hope to be absolutely in my element a la Gisele on the cover of one my fav-o Mario Testino books (hmmmmmm I wonder why?)