Cravings: J'Adore Too...

Picture from Garance Dore

Garance Dore and her impeccable photography has jump-started another insane craving in me. Thin rings Delicate, whimsical, comfortable... I want them all. I want the "Oui" Dior ring (HAH fat chance!) and the delicate bands with teenie tiny stones.

Googling just made things worse (of course) not to mention unattainable, they're all gone. Sold. Boo!

Above three pics from So About What I Said

Ah well, here are a few I stumbled across on Etsy that are tempting me as they're relatively affordable.

Shades of Grey

I thought of posting something more christmassy, but truth to tell I've been too busy for Christmas, so maybe you'll get belated Christmas themed posts from me.

I know the theme of this post seemed glum, but I swear it isn't. I like grey. It's a great non-colour, not as stark as black or white and it has all the elegance. And lookee grey shoes! Yep, this outfit is matchy matchy and I honestly dont't care!

Just looking at this outfit makes me happy. I scored it at the Zara Warehouse sale. Locating a decent dress for RM50 at the warehouse sale in XS is so much of a miracle that the Zara staff processing my garment went "WHOA! XS! You're lucky!". Which is perhaps why he forgot to remove ALL the electronic tags forcing me to go back and beg them to remove it as I'd already disposed of the receipts. After all, why keep receipts when you can't return the garments? Trust me, check the garments, and always KEEP THE RECEIPTS. Otherwise the evil store people will treat you like you're a thief even when the screw up is theirs.

Operation Shoes #1

Merry CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

So I have a wee bitty space issue with my shoes. And now I have even MORE shoes (thanks to mum, santa, Christmas sales...), I thought I'd better set about finding a solution. I spotted these boxes at RM10 each from Home Fix, they're stackable, pretty, drawers... they seemed perfect. Seemed? Why?

They're too deep for the cupboard. Argh.

Guest Post: Shopping in Bangkok

My co-blogger over at So Loverly, Syen, wrote this great post about fashion spots to shop in Bangkok yesterday and she allowed me to repost it here!


Hello lovelies,

So I'm guessing you would have already seen what I got from Bangkok. And while it's not exactly a big haul... I was rather happy all the same.

I was wandering around pretty much on my own for a couple of days, and getting around via a taxi or their subway or sky train is easy enough. Both are extremely affordable and safe enough.

Just a little note about taxis though. They are supposed to use the metre (insist on it), but I think they try to circumvent that by tipping themselves! So check your change after you pay them. You never know if the taxi driver has helped himself to a lot more than he should.

And as promised, here's a list of some of the places where I had better luck at splashing my cash.

So here goes... read on!

Trenchcoat Dress

I am so incredibly in love with this dress. I haven't had much luck with Nichii in the past, but I forgive the shop for EVERYTHING, for cuts that are too big for my waist and too tiny for my ass, all for this dress. The cut's lovely the material has weight. The tortoiseshell buttons are gorgeously subtle. And it's a double-breasted trenchcoat dress, with pockets. What's there not to love?

The Dye Job

What do you do when you love an RM15 dress but hate the colour?

Dye it of course!

These days there's both cold and hot dyes. Cold dyes are far easier to use as they don't require boiling and all that jazz, but may not take as well. I chose a lovely leaf green cold dye, and two darker hot-dyes just in case the cold dye screwed up.

To use cold dye you'll need...

Ruby Slippers

Sometimes the only way to get over a craving is to give in to it. And I've certainly been hankering for a pair of shimmery red shoes for a very very long time. At least, at RM20 from Brands Outlet, the damage is minimal. They came with ugly string bows which I removed.

Now, is it at all possible to wear these without looking tacky?

Must remember to watch out for falling houses

Tulips all in a row

I love easy breezy cotton dresses you can just toss on for casual and look pulled together. This one had tulips all along the hemline, how could I resist?

Turquoise and black are fast becoming another favourite colour combination, a mix of lighthearted and sombre.

Shopping Around: Cocktails & Martinis

It's time, past time, to introduce you to one of my absolute favourite online blogshops, Cocktails & Martinis. I have this blog on my feed-reader and stalk it religiously. I first fell in love with it when I came across this dress:

Post: Graveyard Book

The prices are reasonable (usually under RM50), the quality if the garments tend to be a cut above most other blogshops and the service is awesome. 

Guest post: Review of Chuck, the Saddleback Leather Satchel Briefcase

Yep, this here blog's turnin' into satchel country and now, we've got us a Saddleback Leather 'un to join the roundup. This shore ain't one 'o them schoolgirl Cambridge Satchel Company ladies here, nosiree bob! This'n here is a-called Chuck, seein as he's to all them other satchels what the good man Chuck Norris be to mere mortals. Pochisan will be givin y'all the low-down in this here review while I'll just a go round up some beagles. YEE HAH!


Say, "Hi" to Chuck, damnit

It was a rainy Thursday evening, just moments after I returned from an assignment in town. The day was shaping up to be an uneventful one, and I was bored out of my skull.

Then my telephone rang in weedy, dispirited tones. On the other end, our office's normally composed receptionist wheezed: "Someone from UPS is here to see you!"

Oh boy! It felt like someone had spiked my Milo with pil kuda – I arrived at reception in two strides.

At the counter was a slightly banged-up cardboard box. My baby's here!

Cheerful UPS dude asked for a cash payment of  RM137.50 in leather tax (there is a 10% tax on importing leather goods) and extra delivery charges. No problem, would've paid him 10 times as much happily.

Bouncing back to the office (don't think that has happened since!), I set the box down next to Kahani, grinning like a deranged hilly-billy. She looked puzzled.

I squeaked "Saddleback", and in a flash she had attacked the box with a huge pair of scissors.

The box opened at last, we were greeted with the distinctive scent of full-grain leather and pure, concentrated badass.

Say hi to Chuck, damnit.

All I wanna do...

Things have been a little tough for me of late. So when a friend of mine, who'd just had a worse week at work than I've ever had in my life, suggested that we get all gussied up and go for drinks dressed to kill my reply was "Hell yeah!".

Film Noir @ BMW Shorties 2010

EDIT Dec 4: Updated with extra outfit pic for Rinnah 

I love dress-up parties, it's something we don't do enough of here in Malaysia and when we do, it's terribly half-hearted. Which is why the BMW Shorties' 2010  awards night theme of Film Noir was just... brilliant. It didn't require much dressing up, clothes look relatively normal (just better) and it worked for work-to-night wear. And to cap it all, they had a great photo booth that let you take pics (with props - the hat's mine, the gun isn't) that they'd make all film-noir. 

What is Film Noir you ask? It's a genre of black & white movies around the late 40s and early 50s that featured a gritty, stylistic view of life. Gangsters, fedoras, femme fatales and mob molls were typical of the genre. Sin City's a modern take on this theme. 

For me of course, the genre is all about the Femme Fatales and their clothes. Dear lord their clothes... 

The RM49.90 pair of Uniqlo Jeans

I finally visited Uniqlo on Saturday (Nov 27) when I happened to be in the area and I quite like the place. No it's not crazy cheap, but they have great opening deals and the quality is excellent. I wandered back and forth and everywhere I kept seeing these jeans for RM49.90. Now I'm a total sucker for cheap jeans - I seldom pay full price and generally buy whenever I spot a good deal. I found them comfy and I love that they're "mid rise" not low-slung so my muffin tops are in check!

Yep, I went all Jeans ad for this one.