Been here a week now...

And I've already come across some odd things that you wouldn't find in the uk, simple everyday things that people take for granted... Like this image of the inside of my elevator.. Notice anything odd?

Also, I've found that when going to restaurants (or what they call here 'restoran') they never seem to bring the food out at the same time for everyone, so 3 people could have their meals in front of them but the 4th person may be want around 10 mins for theirs! Quite annoying....

Big big changes....

So, since I last posted, there have been some big changes in my life.... My boyfriend moved to Kuala Lumpur, He proposed to me (on the day the world was supposed to end last year) on the 21st December in Langkawi... The image below is the next day when the rain stopped! I posted it on Facebook to keep everyone guessing!

After a lot of thought, we decided that I would move to Kuala Lumpur to be with him. So, I quit my job, waited out my notice and here I am now, blogging from the 28th floor of our flat that has views of the tallest twin towers in the world...

Image taken on New Years 2013...fireworks lighting up the sky...

As I'm here on a tourist visa until I marry my fiancé, I'll be focussing all my attention on my upcoming wedding... Which will be this year, so watch this space for wedding blurb....

Spring has sprung

With all the moving in, sourcing furniture and bits and bobs for the flat, the blog has seriously been neglected. I'm glad to say that we finally have a dining table and a bench and some outside seating...

Still awaiting on a few keys bits, so no photos of the inside just yet, so I'm just going to leave you with this lovely image of what I can see from my balcony... and some pictures of blooming spring blossoms

Jumper time...

Sorry all- this is an old post that somehow never got posted!!! So excuse the jumper trending- although, the weather in the UK going the way it is, it looks like I'm not going to be packing up my jumper anytime soon!!!

I have been into knitting for quite a while now, and after getting a few free lessons in knitting with colour and the fair-isle technique (thanks John Lewis!) I made this for the bf last year:

There are a few similar jumpers out there...

Jonathan Saunders

Topshop

Lazy Oaf

This year, I decided to be selfish and knit myself a jumper... seeing as there are a lot of animal jumpers out there this year, I decided to knit an animal, but couldn't find a pattern for a jumper I wanted, so I took a pattern for a regular jumper and found an image online that I wanted on the jumper and created my own, using this very cool free site http://www.microrevolt.org/knitPro/ to create a PDF file. Here is my finished jumper:

Here are some other animal jumpers around:

Joseph Tiger jumper

ASOS Cat jumper

Haute Hippie Horse Jumper

Also, just saw that Topshop have launched this jumper... how freakily close to mine is it?

I wonder what next year's jumper trend will bring?

New flat time!

So... after the disappointment of a few months ago, when we were gazumped and failed to exchange on a lovely little flat in South West London, we've managed to find a new place in South East London!!

We exchanged around a month ago, so were just waiting to get a completion date, which we got yesterday! So if everything goes smoothly, we will be able to move into the flat on the first week of the new year! New year, New flat! I'm so excited!!! :)

If there are any lovely people out there looking to buy us any moving in presents, these are always welcome, from my previous post, but I've found a few more things that I'd love in my new home:

My obsession with all things faeceted has not decreased! I'm especially in love with these set of 3 herb plant pots.

As we have quite a large outdoor space, we are thinking of having lots of lanterns to give it a Morrocan vibe.

And I fell in love with this stool the moment I saw it:

As I love my tea so much, this mug/bowl would be great in the morning:

Of course.. anything from Anthropologie is always welcome like this trivet:

Oh and Happy New Year everybody! I hope that 2012 brings everyone plenty of happiness and love. Will be blogging pics of the new flat once we move in...

Fish nibblings

When the bf and I went to Dubai earlier this year, we saw 'Fisho' the fish spa at the Wild wadi water park . It looked really weird and although I'd heard about it before, I'd never known or seen anyone who has had the experience.

So, a deal came up on groupon (if you've not heard about this site, you have to get on it!) giving 30 mins of a 'fish spa' for £9 instead of the regular £30. BARGAIN!!! :) So I bought it as a treat earlier last month for when we were to move into our new flat because I thought that we would be on our feet a lot and so this would be nice to relax after all the moving. Little did I know that was not to be... oh well... so we went along last weekend.

The boyf's hairy feet ( I call them hobbit feet)

 My prettier feet

Me enjoying the sensation, wearing leopard print shirt from Zara, necklace was bought in a market in Vietnam and trousers are from Berskha

The boyf looking like he's about to burst out laughing! His top is from Uniqlo and trousers are from Urban outfitters.

The initial sensation was quite bizarre- it felt so ticklish, I just kept on giggling! the little Garra Rufa fish (or doctor fish as they are sometimes called) don't actually have teeth (the boyf had images of mini piranha's nibbling at his feet) they suck the dead skin off your feet. The sensation takes a bit of getting used to but it does become pleasant and afterwards we both did feel like our feet were softer, especially in places like the heel.

This is very popular in Asia but at least 14 states in the US have banned it due to safety reasons. So, if you do book a fish spa, please ensure that you go to a respectable establishment! I would definitely go again and maybe have a pedi afterwards :)

Saying goodbye

Went out to a great pub last night- the Builders Arms in Chelsea. To wish one of the girls goodbye- she's leaving head office to work in one of our country stores which is an easy walk to work for her instead of the horrendous 4 hour round trip to central London. Good luck Vikki!

When we got to the table, I saw these great beer mats, so I took one of each. They are just great! I want them framed and put up on my wall! Which I think I might try and do....

Premature post

Typical… I may have tempted fate with my last post as I’ve just heard today- the day we were meant to sign the papers and finalise the dates to exchange keys- the seller has decided to pull out and doesn’t want to sell.

Oh the bad things I want to do to him won’t translate well into words and if I would put it down on the page, it will probably get me banned from blogging!

I think it’s more the fact that our dreams and ideas about the place have just gotten dashed rather than feelings for the physical property itself. Just little things like- ‘lets get a lovely reclaimed wooden table and benches for our dining table’ and ‘lets have a map of the world and pictures of us showing all the places we’ve been to together’.

What’s frustrating, is that we couldn’t have done anything different- it wasn’t our decision or our fault that it didn’t go through because we weren’t in control.

Leaving you with a cheery pic of flowering rhododendrons in Windsor Great park on this wet muggy day….

setting up home....

As we’re sooooooooooo close to exchanging on our first flat together, I thought that I’d post about things that I’m coveting for it! I wasn’t a bit interested in interior design (even though now I do work for a retailer that predominantly sells furniture and homewares) until I started looking at buying my own property. Then I scoured the web for ideas, blogs and images that I could store and use to decorate my flat to be.
I came across a whole plethora of blogs and images, which has helped me in establishing a few ideas, but has also left me with too many design ideas that just won’t all fit in my plans! Oh well... I’ll just have to stick to one and go with it!
In the meanwhile, until we get the keys, here are a few things I’m coveting:



These candlesticks and the plant pot are etsy finds, the ‘hive vases’ are from an American company called ‘west elm’ and they all remind me of when we went to the science museum and had a peek at the mathematics and geometry exhibit...

I also love the marriage of lace and ceramic pieces on a softer, girlier note!




And cake stands... I’ve been baking like mad recently, every week I’ve found an excuse to make cakes, and I’ll blog about them soon, but they would look amazing on these stands that I’ve found:
Unfortunately, the bf says he’s getting a bit of a ‘podge’ (ie his belly is starting to expand!) so I should stop baking sweet things for the time being... :(




And just pretty things:

On a more practical note, here are a few things we need....
A great curved reading lamp, I’ve seen so many different versions of these around at ridiculous prices, but this one from M&S only costs £85, bargain!

A lovely simple casserole pot, I can imagine making nice hot steaming hearty stews and bringing this to the table straight from the oven:

Finally, a nice big comfy sofa to slump on after a long day's work...

Long time no see...

I've been on a blogger holiday for a while now. Not had many excuses apart from age old laziness! There always seems to be other things to be

getting on with, places to go, people to see etc. but the bf persuaded me to give it another go and to try and blog more regularly.

So if this is going to be a fresh start, I thought that I'd change the 'raison d'etre' of the b

log, so rather than making and talking just about fashion, I would blog about anything interesting and noteworthy.

My last post was about knitting so I thought that I'd carry that on and tell you about other projects that I've completed recently:

Teal kimono sleeve cropped cardi. Very easy to make and my first attempt at picking up stitches. Buttons are needed and I saw these cute 'Toile Buttons' from the V&A shop that I vowed to buy a while a go, but just needed a nice enough garment to put them on!

My first foray into knitting with two colours- fair isle knitting- I made 6 of these little sample

squares, sewed them together and stuffed them with 'toy stuffing' you can get from any craft store.

I'm thinking of making a load more for Christmas and have my Christmas tree decorated with various different knitted baubles, what do you guys think?

From making those 'practise squares' I attempted my first fair isle garment- a Christmas Jumper for the bf. I think it turned out pretty well...

It was actually adpated from a Rowan pattern for a woman's jumper! (shh... don't tell him!) and I ambitiously adapted it.

Lastly, I've had this project on my mind for a while now and due to having a spare ball of wool left over from my bro's jumper, I thought that I would amalgamate my love of knitting with my love of making jewellery. It's made using a Chinese good luck knot: