New York Fashion Week SS11 • Frank Tell • Raphael Young

Array of de-constructed draped asymmetric web knits, inspired by a wall inset in the Musée du quai Branly.

These wedge shoes were by Raphael Young for the Frank Tell collection, which brings together the pale mint moss and ivy looking knit dresses and leather trousers bringing some serious height. Supposedly the wedges are inspired by Star Trek. Graduate of Starfleet Academy.....

Rafael Nadal Career Grand Slam

Nadal wins U.S Open -Hurricane Rafa swept New York with gusty winds reaching 132 miles per hour.

I felt more alive than ever watching tennis last night, for those of you, who may or may not know, I've been following tennis since I was a young girl and have travelled to watch some tense thrilling live matches as a spectator and as a Rafa Nadal fan. I've always revelled in watching tennis, but I never really adamantly followed any one particular tennis player, until Nadal arrived onto the tennis arena. For this hyena tennis has never been the same since!

From watching Rafa win his first ever French Open to sealing a career grand slam has been an unbelievable odyssey. particularly when just last year after suffering a devastating injury, then having the courage to fight through the agony, the personal heartache, the despair, the pain to find his way back, when many others had written him off as done and dusted. Unbelievably proud!...for all of the work, all of the humble strides for improvement, for all the trials and pain he has been through to get here. Yet he's still the same humble endearing guy.

♥ A Great Champion.. Great Athlete.. Great Person..  

G Dragon Hair Attachment

HAIR ACCESSORY STRICTLY NOT ONLY FOR THE HEAD

In sync with the natural vibe of your body, every beat, every tone, every melody, the aforementioned naturally fits that of the muse named G Dragon, photographed below, he's the K-POP veteran band member of BIG BANG, known for inhabiting a free spirit when it comes to style, fashion and rhymes. And it would also seem he's donning a blonde hair braid neck piece! Where could I get my hands on this!?

This could be my first ideal D.I.Y project to undertake, if only I had the time patience and aptitude!.. oh well that was a short lived dream and idea. Moving On this hair piece necklace reminds me of a post I wrote before named Haversack of Accessories, when I was pondering on whether to buy a human hair zip necklace. I can confirm I did buy the hair zip necklace, but I came to conclusion it was more suited for those who didn't have black hair, it was just a hairy black hair overload, I wasn't feeling the look. So I gave it to a blonde haired friend of mine, who was able to fully pull off the look. And so it wasn't a bad idea overall. reassures

Zip Necklace with Human Hair and chunky lobster-clasp closure.

HAIR ATTACHMENT PART II- MANDY COON

The NY Fashion week SS 2011 is currently under-way, and what caught my eye from the Mandy Coon presentation was the exaggerated braided helmet hair, providing a Mary Quant mod expression 60's style. I've got to experiment with this one, I'll use my sister as a guinea pig, if she lets me!

       

Photo's courtesy of Shawn Brackbill

The prairie blows the grasses

PINGO HIATUS OVER

Hiatus Over! Okay so I've been slacking off with updating this blog, I was swamped with work and travel, I wish I could say I had a thrilling hiatus- but NO such thing. The warm months of England or shall I say a warm month went by breakneck speed, and visiting the high street today in the city of Leicester, it was obvious to see the season of autumn clothes are ripe for us to pick and ready to wear off the racks. I'm not sure whether I'm ready for the morning dewy lanes just yet, but hopefully it will be a September to remember. Since my Grandmother will be coming over to stay in England with us for only the second time. I don't have the words or the vocab to describe how precious my grandmother is, her youthful grace and legendary wisdom is just one of life's richest treasure's.

[My Amigo]

I don't think I've ever shared my fondness for animals of all kinds, even though August was a hectic month, what with my sister moving homes, barbecues, birthday's including my own, visits to the national parks and carnivals in between. But recalling back to this, what I most relished, was visiting the near by canals and stable a skips away from where I live and spending time with the horses grazing on the farm. The horse above shown in the first photo, looking as if I'm about to stroke it's eye (I promise no harm was done!) has got to be one of the most approachable charismatic horses I have ever met. Sadly I don't know it's name as of yet, so I just call it my Amigo (friend). Secretly I think this horse is only curious about my hat-attire haha whenever I come to visit. Makes me wonder whether I should take up lessons for horse riding, but I don't think I've ever had good poise and balance and sturdy thigh muscles. I think I'll just stick to updating this blog for now. Yeh I'll be glad to start posting again sharing my quirky eye candy and visiting some of my favourite blogs again.

my two rocks (sisters)

Absent While OnLine

Has it nearly been a month since my last post !? Uh-Oh I must try harder....I will try harder! Part of the reason I haven't been updating is due to two virus's currently plaguing my laptop and myself, well the laptop mostly, I am much better now having taken a week off from work. August has been a mixed month for myself, I'm hoping I can step off from this roller-coaster before next month comes around SEPTEMBER Yikes, where has the Summer gone?? 

September 8th seems like a nice round date to start updating again, until then I will be AWOL for a little longer, my apologies and love to you Amigos and Amigas. ♥

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Break from Babeldom

MINI HIATUS I WISH THE BELOW

The summers alfalfa of August is drumming its beat calling for a break, its a super busy month for his hyena! I would like to have blogged more frequently but my daily excursions will keep me away over the next two weeks. I will update again on the 28th of August. Finally I should get a haircut over the next few days, lessen my usage of wigs, which for one is not helping my dandruff situation haha. Something you probably didn't need to know. No need to leave a comment I've disabled it for this post. Although may sporadically visit some of your tasty blogs but I wouldn't count on much. 

Take care y’all for now! So Toodles and Much Love to You's

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• Markus Lupfer Ribbon Tee • Moon Watch

BETWEEN, HALF A MILE OF  BLACK WATERLINE

Felt like posting my way in black and white lines today, having seen Numero 115's editorial image of Magdalena Frackowiak by Greg Kadel with the escaped stroke of eye liner, if only my unsteady hand could create a look similar and still be able to pull it off. The black water line brought to mind the Markus Lupfer painted Ribbon t-shirt design, it was £85.00 and was then slashed down to £45.00 on Cocosa, but I was too late to pounce on it! All though note £45.00 is still on the high end of what I would normally pay for a T-Shirt for moi, but I was going to treat myself, instead for now I will buy some sweet treats of chocolate kisses and ice cream wishes!

Moonwatch has been designed to establish a relationship between the moon cycle and a person’s emotional states. It’s a new concept of time based on nature which invites people to reflect upon and gain a closer understanding of their mood and daily life on earth. The emotion lab is a strong collective of designers that share a passion of creating original ideas and developments. 

It would probably take getting some use to learning how to tell the time with this moon watch, but it is still very enchanting, although currently it is not for sale and Emption lab are in negotiations to bring into the market, heres to hoping there successful. So maybe just maybe I can see this mini moon on my wrist! - HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND! 

GIVEAWAY WINNER

The moment to announce the WINNER of the CSN Giveaway......The winner of the $60 gift card to CSN Stores is FASHION ICE, Congratulations!! Be expecting an email,  Thanks so much to everyone who participated. 

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