Delicious Kitchens

Our initial 6 months in Wolverhampton are nearly over and now we are looking for a new place to live, either in Wolves so J can keep his job, or in Nottingham - to let the real adventure begin! If anything is cetain, its this: I'm on a hunt for a fabulous kitchen!!

It has to be faitly modest too, afterall, in September I will be a student again, so as long as there is room to make baked beans on toast and pizza - we're fine!!

Here's some inspirations:

Breakfast bar attic style kitchen, great worktop space even thought the kitchen is small

Kitchen/Diner in a house in Nottingham (affordable!) Could imagine this for when we have kids too

Lush kitchen island/bar/worktop with storage. This would be ideal because then it can go with us wherever we move to. I like the wood colour with the white.

Davina has kitchen shelves instead of cupboards and it's so handy, you can see where everything is so things don't get lost. (Ikea of course)

Love the chalkboard idea. And I'm spotting a theme here - Kitchen Islands!

Gorgeous exposed brick wall, rustic cooking in a rustic kitchen.

Kitchen/lounge/diner, open plan which has a spiral staircase in the middle of the room, leading to a mezzanine floor for the bedroom... LUSH!

In Wolverhampton Princess lofts (but someone is renting it already)

What's your favourite kitchen styles?

Meez xX

Merlin Boots

For Christmas I am hoping for some new boots! J has messaged everyone in our families to ask them to club together.. but I keep finding more boots to choose from! I love the current trend over the knee boots, but I would like something more wearable for the everyday uni days, something that will last for years without dating, or at least something that suits me and the styles that I wear. Tall boots can make me loose my legs!

...My inspiration came from watching Merlin, the BBC series..

www.bbc.co.uk/merlin/

From Free People (who now ship to UK, finally!), these are perfect, but perhaps over priced, and coming from USA I can't try them on or return them.. Brit Boot £148

http://www.freepeople.com/index.cfm/fuseAction/products.detail/_/Brit-Boot/productID/548ef12f-db87-4e0d-9a2f-0200f87317ab/productOptionIDs/0b6e9cad-a8f4-4ccf-8a37-466219f4ea95/categoryID/9bc28317-1ea4-460d-a375-7bd1806ebb71/cmCategoryID/8a61524b-907c-474c-ab37-f357c9ae11e3/&detailcross

From Dune, these are great on the screen but crap on my feet! Tiff £90

House of Fraser has a brill range, I headed in the direction of Kurt Geiger even tho they tend to be expensive and found these, they looked fabulous in the shop and on my feet but they are brown instead of black and also heeled.. hmmm

Which are your favourite??

Gap Year beginnings

The release of 'Pirates of the Caribean' caused a rippling of trends accross designer and high street brands alike. Primark are still stocking the same knee high suede effect boots that they began to sell in high volumes 2 years ago, and harem trousers were even more popular this summer than last.

Above: Lily Cole modeling Jean Paul Gaultier

Below: Similar to popular Primark boots

The next Resa Smith collection (note: amended spelling, word now translates to mean laughter, and also links to the word Yield - useful when my hubby's freelance company is called Yield) was to be a black autumn/winter trend, until that idea was splashed all across the magazines for this years trend - making it become old news by the time I have it finished for next years winter. 

2010 will see the release of 'Prince of Persia'. What better idea than to take inspirations from the few images I could find from this film and translate them into fashion ideas?

I will begin injecting colour to my very black looking collection and be making use of my fabulous costume book that Rosh gave me :)

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Our beautiful wedding day

Our ceremony at Citygate Church, Bournemouth

Culeaze manor house complete with duck pond and rowing boat!

Barn dancing

Husband and wife!

At the stables

Gorgeous photography by Rachel Walkden

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