Silent Sunday: For Keith..You will be missed

The Gallery: Shapes

As a designer shapes are a pretty important part of my life. I see them everywhere in everything. Last week I was in London and loved indulging in a spot of shape hunting..can you guess the buildings?

The Gallery: Children

For the gallery this week it would have been easy to have taken one of any number of stunning photos of Dodo..but hey you see her all the time! So I thought I would trawl through the family albums and dig out a few gems from my childhood..Please note..I am not responsible for the dodgy hair! That is one hundred percent my Fathers own work, creative man, but clearly insane making a fringe begin in the centre of my head.

I secretly love my fringe! thanks Dad x

I am not an only child, so I will risk incurring the wrath of little brother and Dad and post this beauty!

Note Dad has AMAZINGLY on trend glasses!

Scary that fashion has come full circle and many of my friends are sporting the beardy/glasses look right now! I love the pictures that my parents took in the little flat we lived in, the dining room was so bright and sunny. Great memories and a treasure trove of style influence..I am absolutely getting a spider plant right now!
Get on over to Sticky Fingers and check out the other fab blogs who have joined in this week..

Silent Sunday..Monument

The Gallery: Mother Nature

Monkey bedtime!

After last weeks gallery post, I thought I should tone it down a little with a nice soothing sunset scene! Looks can be a bit deceptive though..This shot was taking a few years ago in Krabi, Thailand. The only way to reach the town from our hotel was to walk through a nature reserve set on a headland. This involved a very rickety wooden ladder and narrow pathway..oh and Monkeys! Lots of Monkeys..Very large and curious creatures who kept trying to tickle (or eat!) the feet of the sleeping Dodo on my back!!!! Was a pretty scary actually but a great tale to tell when she gets bigger.

The sunset was worth the walk

Dodo Slept through the Monkey drama!

Now go and have a look at the other fab photos on Sticky Fingers!

Silent Sunday..Round My Little Finger

Eyeliner and So Much More

Lately I have been slightly obsessed with eyeliner, liquid, pencil you name it and have probably got some on. I go through phases with make up sometimes it's all about the lipstick and then I get bored and move the focus to my eyes. Whatever it is it has to be fast! Dodo is fascinated with my make up and has been known to swipe a lippy with dire consequences. Put it this way she has not got the application technique right yet!
So in my quest for the perfect smudgy black eyeliner I happened upon the Illamasqua shop in central London..make up heaven! Really great colours and fantastic staff who make my hurried attempts at looking presentable look very tame. While I was mooching through the eyeliner choices I found one named S.O.P.H.I.E just what I had been after, black and soft, smudgy, gorgeous!

Really easy!

The pencil is named after Sophie Lancaster, a beautiful teenager who was kicked to death purely because she looked different. Illamasqua have teemed up with The Sophie Lancaster Foundation to raise much needed funds. The foundation was set up by Sophie's mum to create a lasting legacy for Sophie by campaigning for the U.K hate crimes legislation to extend to alternative subcultures, lifestyles and dress.
S.O.P.H.I.E stands for stamp out prejudice hatred and intolerance everywhere. I found this film on the trust website and it is a very moving reminder of what happened to Sophie.