shop online like crack cocaine

• IMAGE HEAVY POST TO MAKE UP FOR NOT POSTING FOR SO LONG!!!!
  
  
• I didn't take my digital camera to Glasto...... GASPPPPP I KNOW SORRY. I thought I might drop it or lose it in a puddle of mud or something, so you'll have to wait until I develop my wind-and-snap drugstore cameras.
  
  
• The title of this post refers to my obsessive purchasing from amazon/ebay/topshop website during the past 6 months or so. Most of the new items I have bought in that time have come from those 3 online shops. I am officially an online shopping addict.
  
  
• RIP Michael Jackson. Your music will live on forever.

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Chelley's delicious lunch :)

Check out her blog for the pictures of the actual people there.. sorry Chel, I didn't take pictures of anyone, only of the food hahaha

A take on egg and soldiers... had gorgeous smoked eel and a green veg puree. Yum.

My yummy skate cooked in brown butter.

The unidentifiable (but apparently delicious) meat which we later found out was deer.

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I GOT SUNBURNED AT GLASTO. I AM A LOBSTER, I KNOW.

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Remember these wedges which I tried to sell cus they were a little too small for me?

Well, no one on ebay wanted them so I thought, sod it, I'll just keep the damn things for myself. I cut the cross straps at the front and re-sewed them straight across the foot to make them looser.

Voila!

They're all mine now muahaha, now I don't need to buy new summer wedges!

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Time to catch up on blogs!! Mwah x

Z xoxo

Quiet nights

Polyvore seems like a legitimately useful activity at 2am.

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(Exhibit A) Stuff similar to what I've been buying recently.

I've been weaning myself off black/grey/white with accents of blue, brightly coloured footwear and gawdy clashing cardigans.

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(Exhibit B) Dreaming of being by the pool.

This summer is all about mesh, DIY-fringed EVERYTHING, cut out swimsuits, pastel colours, mismatching bikinis (so much more choice!) and your favourite piece of statement jewellery. This Pamela Love talon bracelet is a little out of my reach at £1029 so this summer will be about my H&M dripping-with-sparkle necklace.

Sorry for being so crap with posting and returning comments :( I'm afraid this sporadic blogging will continue over the weekend, unless I can blog direct from Glastonbury festival! EXCITED!!!!

I have my LIME GREEN HUNTERS ready and waiting.

With these babies on I shall expect some backing music as I stride through the gates. Just sayin'.

(Either this or this)

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Z xoxo

White & Grey

It's about time I showed ya'll the bag :)

This is what I wore to Chelley's lunch today with the exception of the shoes. I wore boots and (of course) the weather turned against me and it was sunny all day!

I looove big bags.

Being silly with my little sis (behind the cam).

I am secretly a ninja.

Sunglasses - H&M

Necklace - Flea market

Dress - Miss Selfridge

Blazer - Zara

Shoes - Aldo

Bag - Reiss

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Z xoxo

bloglovin'

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Very overdue with this... Never really got into bloglovin' when I signed up ages ago but it seems to be the easiest way to keep track of all my reads! :)

REISS.

It was "designer Saturday" at the pop-store in Westfield. I know I'm basically spending my entire summer shopping budget there but I can't resist.

Today's star purchase was a gorgeous (DONATED!!!! by Reiss) snake-print leather Reiss bag from the new S/S 09 collection - ie. not from Topshop, H&M, Zara or any of the (predictable?) high street stores which are trying to emulate "trends" but just end up looking copycat-ish.

That's it right there, on the online lookbook cover image! The lookbook cover is actually also the huge billboard campaign photo that the Reiss store uses in their Westfield store. I love it when you buy something then go into the shop and see it in the ad campaign haha. Makes you feel like you made a good choice :)

I'll take pictures of it soon... it's a gorgeous soft grey colour with a champagne satin lining and I am in LOVE. All these women kept coming up to me when I was in the store and asking me whether I was actually going to buy it. YES I AM MUAHAHAHA! Even when I said yes they were like oh ok.. how much is it? UHHM what part of "Yes I'm buying it" did you not understand?!

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You should definitely spare a moment to peruse Reiss' lookbook images - I adore their clean, unfussy styling using a muted palette with splashes of colour. This is what I want my summer wardrobe to look like! I now want to wear my trenchcoat with tailored mini shorts and a delicate blouse...







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I'm actually feeling really uninspired by the high street at the moment and am thinking about weaning myself off the high street in favour of investment purchases combined with good old fashionable support of charity shops (which I always was a fan of anyway). I know this is nothing ground-breaking but it really hit home today when I realised that a lot of my recent purchases have come from Amazon, ebay or charity shops and I feel that it makes them feel like a special buy because you know that there aren't going to be 500 copies of it selling in Topshops/etc around the country. I won't be able to quit the high street completely but I've definitely realised that you don't need to go buy Topshop's summer lookbook outfits/follow trends by the book - having your own take on modern trends (or even going against them completely!) is so much more refreshing. This is why I love reading blogs :) There's so much individuality but everyone looks so stylish!

If you read that random spillage of thoughts the whole way through then well done, haha.

Z xoxo