Cape Moth: 2013

Merry Christmas everyone. I know it's a little belated but I hope everyone had a good time etc. etc.

Thought I would share with you my Christmas time in the style of one of my favourite little Christmas songs, The Twelve Days of Christmas.

So on December 25th my family and friends gave to me,

1. One baby bee necklace.

2. Two adorable little pugs. Anyone who knows me well knows I have a soft spot for little pugs and one day I want two living, breathing, walking and talking pugs but until then I have these two little cuties. I love their pink glittery eyes!

3. Three items of nightwear.

This is made of the fluffiest stuff and is extremely cosy. I feel like a little cat in it myself, it's so furry.

To match the fluffy top I got these pyjama trousers with a lovely chaotic cat print.

I also got a super fluffy very pretty Cath Kidston-esque dressing gown. It will blend in with my wallpaper they are both so similar!

4. Four books, a mixed selection but I love them all.

I also got a tiny little 2 inch square book entitled 'The Quotable Oscar Wilde' containing quotes from the great man himself.

5. Five pieces of a crockery set by Spode I aim to collect to complete for my future Georgian mansion in the country. The design is called Woodland and is an almost direct copy of a gorgeous 16 person dinner service I saw in an antiques shop in Herne Bay this Summer.

The pieces I got to start my collection are as follows:

While looking for the photos of the pieces I got for Christmas I discovered Spode even make a matching cutlery set! Of course I would have to have this in my Georgian dining room~

6. The sixth season of Mad Men which I can't wait to watch. It really is one of the best things on television.

7. Seven attempts to take a Christmas photo I was happy with!? I took the Meadham dress out for a spin! ^_^

8. The height in feet of the Christmas tree we managed to procure in the Homebase sale when they were flogging off their Christmas stuff. It was originally £240 but we got it for only £30! It's a beautiful realistic fir tree with pine cones and dew drops on the branches. ^_^

9. The time I arose from slumber on Christmas morning! The days of waking up at the crack of dawn as a child have long long passed!

10. I also painted my nails for the occasion dabbling in a bit of nail art with my Barry M nail art pens, but to varying degrees of success! The expectation seen in the top photo and the reality below!

11. On Christmas Day the last episode for the eleventh Doctor was shown. I'm yet to watch it as I watched a film in the evening but I'm looking forward to it!

12. Twelve months of a Gemma Correll Calendar. A tenuous finale to the song and my post but who receives 12 of something!?

How about everyone else? Did you all have a good Christmas?

Sally xxx

So I start this, my blog about anything and everything, with one of my favourite things. Fashion.

On the 21st November Topshop released their capsule collection designed in collaboration with Meadham Kirchhoff and it is safe to say I have been obsessed by it constantly checking eBay and Topshop for new pieces or returns! The 89 pieces released by the duo were each as wacky as the last, it led me to look at their latest collections and I think I have a new favourite designer.

Meadham Kirchhoff x Topshop

Edward Meadham and Benjamin Kirchhoff, two graduates from Central St. Martins created their collection for Topshop for a fictional girl band called 'The Cherrys'.

The four members of the band, 'Cherry Blossom', 'Cherry Cherie', Cherry Satanika' and 'Cherry Pikka' each have their own style, I think I'm definitely more of a Cherry Blossom gal!

I was up bright and early on the 21st but not early enough! The collection came online at silly o'clock but luckily 7am was early enough to get most of what I coveted!

So what did I get and what do I still crave you may ask? Well I went a bit mad and did a 'I'll buy everything and then send back what's no good' but I've definitely kept more than I should, including a pair of shoes that are too small for me but I'm just so in love with them to part company!

To be Cherry Blossom I will wear:

Eye Lip Mini Dress

Close Up Detail

This little slip dress under the eye dress not only avoids its sheerness but also adds a pretty lace frill to the bottom of the dress.

I originally bought these to wear with the short sleeve eye dress but reluctantly swapped the short sleeve dress for the long one as who can go about their daily life in elbow length gloves!?

See, I told you it looked cute!

I think this fluffy bag has to be the best fluffy bag I have ever seen.

I think this is definitely the nicer of the two rainbow blouses they did.

I plan to wear this skirt with the blouse above as a cute little skirt suit.

To be Cherry Pikka I will wear:

This PVC playsuit, but as of yet I have no clue what else to wear with it?!

To be Cherry Satanika I will wear:

Pretty impressive I think, but as with the heart playsuit, at a bit of a loss as to how to wear these!

There were a few things which did have to go back unfortunately.

This cherry shirt, as I bought it to wear under the playsuit but in real life the stalks of the cherries are green and the frill on the playsuit is a duck egg blue, it just didn't look right!

This PVC jacket, as although it is fabulous the photo just does not prepare you for how unflexible it is! I couldn't bend my arms and I couldn't move without rustling!

This photo does not accurately display how much it stuck out at the back either!

There were a few things I haven't managed to get which I would love to own at some point in the future. These are:

Namely this little (or rather big if you look at the photo below) as he's utterly gorgeous but they only made 10! Sobs forever~

Refreshing madly all day and I still just missed out.

The eyeballs are so macabre yet kawaii at the same time.

Green glittery face platforms, need I say more?

Yes, they only made four and half of them ended up on eBay but the real reason I could never own this is because it is real fur. Very unhappy with Topshop about this. Would love to own it if it were faux though.

CUTE

Again, I would love this if it were not real.

FURRY PASTEL STRIPEY BOOTS

These gorgeously outrageous pink brogues.

So all of this Topshop x Meadham Kirchhoff excitement led me to look at pure Meadham Kirchhoff and I can see why this collection for Topshop was such a hit, as it is pure undiluted Meadham Kirchhoff.

Taken from www.vogue.co.uk about the duo's Spring Summer 2013 collection:

"MOULIN ROUGE met Little Bo Peep this afternoon at Meadham Kirchhoff's spring/summer 2013 show – one that continued with the super sweet and flowery trends we’ve been seeing at London all week.

There were screens placed all the way down the catwalk with bunches of flowers arranged just so beside them and an ornate armchair for the models to elegantly loiter around or linger upon as they made their entrance. And when they did, they turned out to be some way between Mary Poppins, Minnie Mouse (though that reference was on purpose and part of a special celebration collaboration), and Can Can girls. But that’s the thing about the Meadham Kirchhoff duo, Edward Meadham and Benjamin Kirchhoff – you know you’re going to be taken into some sort of surreal world but you can never quite be sure of which one. You just have to stay tuned and go with it.

The models played along for today’s game, walking airily and mystically down the catwalk in their over-smothered ribbon boaters; their embellished Edwardian bodices atop be-bustled short skirts, petticoats layered over the top; huge puffy-sleeve corseted jackets; and layers and layers of frills and flounces, feathers, bows and ribbons.

It was a very concentrated collection to begin with – of all things embellished, ornate, decorated, textured, jewelled and encrusted, but then it worked its way into the more wearable realms, still loud and proud but less costume-y. So jackets turned into white denim variations of what we had just seen and bodices were worn over T-shirts, those full skirts worn with just a long-sleeved grunge one. It didn’t last for too long though.

With Shirley Temple ringlets in their hair and every type of ornamentation going, these boys were certainly in the running for the sweetest collection of London Fashion Week."

Here are just some of my favourite looks from their catwalk that season: