Just close your eyes, let me hypnotise you...

I am in love with Manish Arora's Spring/Summer '11 collection, there is something so hypnotising about the bright colours and snake like patterns... and I have to be getting myself some of those latex leggings! I am like a magpie to all things golden and sparkly, so it's no surprise that I was introduced to this designer through a advertising campaign for a gold sparkly top, which is literally the most beautiful thing in existence but alas cannot be found anywhere (believe me I have looked!) on the www! So in the style of the recent oscars, I would like to thank NYLON for thrusting me towards this amazing designer and his Beautifully intricate designs... 

I have always had a thing for hypnotism, and whether it can actually be achieved. It does scare me though, if it can be successfully performed, how vulnerable we are to hypnotists! They could achieve anything... and this world would turn all bernard's watch - (an incredibly british children's program on about 7 years ago, where a boy had a magic watch which could freeze time). At my school we used to have a stand-in teacher who was supposedly a hypnotist, which always put me slightly on edge... 

any who, I leave you with this slightly provocative choon, which you are vary much entitled to enjoy 5 minutes and 33 seconds of pure techno excitement, (you are allowed to do a bit of crazy dancing to this one) permitted the sub-woofer is turned up loooouuud! 

N.E.R.D - Hypnotise You (Nero Remix) 

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A recipe to bake yourself happy....

In an attempt to become S and B, two gorgeous fictional 'it girls', S and I attempted the baking of some very 'upper east side' macaroons.....

To put it simply, after about 2 hours having completed these almondy pebbles of loveliness, I have eaten about tray full (12ish) and am feeling far less gossip girl but more, too-full-to-move girl.... ah well you only live once....

So why spend it hungry ?

The macaroons themselves....

Heart carvings

The disasters mixed with ice cream.....

Or drizzled with chocolate

and for those of you feeling inspired and in need of a delicious sugar hit...

we'll send you the recipe free of charge

Enjoy

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Dear Mr D.

SO excited!! Tickets are booked so Mr Deez (can i call you Darwin?) wherever you are, just to let you know 4th March in Bristol, I will be there so you better sing your lovely curly head off and i'll have a bloody good evening! I'm even going to dedicate your classic Radar Detector as our song of the week.... so bloggers enjoy!

Oh and be VERY jealous!

One final word to these gorgeous nails found whilst rambling around cyberspace, how AMAZING are they?? Will have to try them out a.s.a.p perhaps even for my musical date....

S&I XXX

Nebulous Reality

my outlook for '11...

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I love nigella.

Today I embarked on a cake making journey, the out come of which has most certainly added a few pounds to my hips. Alas that is the devilish beauty of a cake, one that I am more that happy to go along with. This is what it was supposed to look like... but ended up looking slightly more like a heart attack waiting to happen. 

I changed the chocolate in the icing for white chocolate, and it has worked just as well. I can assure you, it's delicious. Nigella never lies... 

it serves 10, or 1 with a broken heart. 

S&I XXX

There's a snake in my boot.

Looks like woolgathering has been hit by another western whirlwind, this time however one with a little less drama...

Yep thats right, along with my dreams of summer and the end of exams, comes dreams of a new spring wardrobe filled with all things tasseled, woven, printed and all in varying leathers or suedes. So welcome to my new found love- the wild wild west....

These gorgeous shoes are now possessions of mine after a snakeskin craving, thank you urban outfitters, and are the start of a fatal addiction! Sadly for my bank account, the rest of the highstreet has plenty more to offer, Topshop with its suede shorts and whipstitch hat, All Saints with all manner of shredded goods and beaten metal jewellery and even humble H&M has navajo print scarves to offer. So thats where i'll be as soon as i can, just look out for the girl with leather shorts and a cowboy hat drooling over something that looks fit for any aspiring Calamity Jane or Buffalo Bill...

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A Tale of two feet.....

One shoe post after another i know, but really aren't these just beauts!!

so now you've had a nice look, i will tell you their story...

Once upon a time kurt geiger (wherever he was) designed some shoes fit for the gods and gave them suede-y sides and buckle-y straps and dropped them down to earth with little sale tags on them. So there they lay, until a lonely blonde stumbled across them.... Now usually this lonely blonde would have to pass them by and just keep wishing as she had no money..... HOWEVER she now has the best job ever (working at a little cafe) and had JUST got paid so, she whipped out that wallet of hers and bought them.

The lonely blonde is now no longer lonely and despite being a cliche with new shoes as her boyfriend adds she is happy as though they are gorgeous they are miracles in being perhaps the comfiest shoes in the universe!!

THE END

S&I XXX