The passing of the bank holiday weekend (it was Memorial Day for us over here) marks six months since Mr Ship-Shape and I moved to the States. Six months! I know that I’ll no doubt be spouting the same clichéd comments when our one year anniversary rolls around in November, but I really can’t believe how quickly […]
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Back to Basics
Today I’m talking basics or, more specifically, jeans. Back in the day (the day being when Evanescence were on the radio and Buffy Summers was my idol ) I owned a ton of jeans – bootleg, flare, patchwork, skater, even a pair or two of skinny jeans, paired with ballet flats, naturally. But then I started university, discovered […]
Vintage Florals in Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park is one of my favourite places to spend a Sunday afternoon as it’s closed to vehicles for the day, making it ever so slightly safer to stand in the middle of the road to take outfit photos… The weather has been lovely and warm recently, so taking our bikes and books to […]
LA’s Griffith Observatory at Sunset
Happy Tuesday! I’m back from LA now and even though it’s warm and sunny here in San Francisco, I’m relieved to be somewhere 10 degrees cooler – LA was amazing but too hot for this English rose to handle! We packed a lot in while we were there (photo diary coming soon) and these photos […]
Florals and Chunky Knits at the Beach
This weekend I had one of those ‘pinch me, I live in California!’ moments. It was warm and sunny enough to go the beach with our books and a frisbee for the afternoon, drenched in a sun so strong that we only lasted a few hours before taking our slightly scorched skin home for some […]