Blistering weekend and Rachel from Annie Greenabelle

Gorgeous Designer Rachel.. looking happy although hot at her sample sale in Bethnal Green.
Although we battled through the Mela that was taking place last weekend on the green,we and a couple of 100 others managed to pick up some gorgeous bargains starting at £10upwards. You bet it was worth it. Her sweet organic cotton prints though might be still available at Top shop if you hurry!

The Westbourne Grove shop is the first of a series of ‘Mary’s Living and Giving shops for Save the Children’

Following the success of ‘Mary’s Living and Giving pop-up-shop’ in Westfield Shopping Centre London last year the charity rumours of a permanent ‘Mary’s Living and Giving Shop for Save the Children’ opens tomorrow! The fashion industry has totally responded and donated press samples and end of season stock for the store launch. All money raised will help save children’s lives around the world. The shop has been designed by the creative geniuses behind Yellow Door interior & looks to create a truly unique shopping experience.
Save the Children is appealing donations and for local volunteers to work in the shop. To donate stock or to enquire about volunteering visit our website at http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/westbournegrove or call 020 7012 6400
‘Mary’s Living and Giving Shop for Save the Children’ 177 Westbourne Grove, W11 2SB

Flaming May brings the elephants!

Although a couple of gorgeous days managed to filter through at the beginning of May, the only fantastic colours are from the flamboyant array of elephants scattered through the capital.



No, I’m not going crazy! Check out my truly smart local one painted by Tommy Hilfiger, located just outside Sheekeys restaurant in Covent Garden. It’s part of an event organised by elephantfamily.org trying to keep the Asian elephant from extinction.

On 3 July they are all going to be auctioned off, but there are loads of events including a meet the artists day on 22 May so visit elephantparadelondon.org and download a route map and timetables.

Talking about the streets and stuff, getting your heels stuck in icky chewing gum might be a thing of the past if Chicza has their way. Available in most health food stores, it’s made from latex from the Mayan rainforest. It’s organic, biodegradable and doesn’t stick. Sadly you can’t blow bubbles but it’s a small price to pay for helping to save one of our most precious resources, the rainforest. The sap is harvested by cooperatives of chicleros and is the first certified organic, 100% natural and biodegradable chewing gum ever made! Visit chicza.com

Karim from Potassium store, potassiumstore.co.uk, not content with having an exclusive with Elle Mcpherson’s fave Laundry Maid jeans, they’ve managed to bag the new diffusion line by Matt & Nat. The pioneers of vegan bags, their back pack Apollo (£105) is to die for (all linings are made from recycled plastic bottles).

I am loving the muse bag and it comes in green and black too! Karim has been delightfully persuaded to extend his 20% discount, when you spend £50 or more including sale items in store and on line. Lasts until 15 May 2010 – Quote ‘Daisy Green offer’ at the checkout both in store or on line.

Did I say vegan or vegetarian? It seems to be the kind of month for both. Check the Beyond Skin bottle top pumps which are now on sale on ASOS exclusively! Also Irregular Choice’s manga inspired, gingham or outer galactic designs in their SS/10 Vegetarian Collection, available in store and online… wicked! Terra plana, terraplana.com, have a fab non-Leather range. £1 from the sale price of every pair sold will be donated to Greenpeace in support of their ‘Slaughtering the Amazon’ campaign.

I am particularly fond of the Marti range which features a Choolips print in light brown. There is a 10% offer on Bourgeois Boheme for the new summer range, check out the cute Sri blue pumps! bboheme.com

Can I extract myself from the whole accessories thing…rather!

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Eloise Grey Summer launch at the The Hepsibah Gallery

Paying a homage to Vita Sackville West.. Eloise's Garden collection is a covetable affair!.. Starting with her Vita garden coat in Hemp at just £490 woven in Romania.
Her Vita breeches the perfect smart summer linen pant from Belgium the material gets softer the more you wear and wash but still retains that classic line and oozes romance! A steal at £180 nicer then jeans any day!
Both her shirts are gorgeous and have a modern Saxon twist very wearable and for all shapes and sizes. Cant forget her shoes, which I tried ,they are in collaboration with CarreDucker the bespoke shoe maker! Winkers and my rather wide feet are a match in heaven! I tried them with the pair of skinny jeans i was wearing and I looked, at least calf downwards a dream of sophistication! lordey lord I really am going to need to get the new plastic card terribly soon. Should I even mention the hats? They are by Jayne Hepsibah out of retirement, do hats make you swoon! Gosh gosh! These do!
What a divine space and collection.. if you're lucky to make it, Eloise will be showing till Wednesday 12th May . Go! and be prepared to try on and spend!!

holland

Its grey again ! Oh my gosh and its raining can I get it together again.

Down to breakfast and treat myself to whole carb fest, sultana bread chocolate

syrup sugary tea is downed quickly to forget the inevitably I am sure I have

said somewhere no rain, no cold , no yuck cloths. Decide to check the flower and

bulb market in the rain, there are some gorgeous neat blooms and every colour

and sized tulip imaginable there is another market nearby selling cloths and

food with cheese wheels the size of lorry tyres do people buy this or do the

cheese stalls just cut off the pieces they need! Photographer hungry again and

wants to try pancake we find the only pancake restaurant in Utrecht and I sip a

tea

and have major bust up with photographer can't do the rain! No not another 57km

Cheer up with a couple of second hand cloths shops not as good as London mind

and I don't spend to much time cause photographer wants to get going

So looking like I am going to the Northern hemisphere I start peddling!

Cycling Holland

We are there its today its 7.30 and I feel sick and I am sure its not with

anticipation its more like flipping petrification is my body going to do this

for me cause sure as hell my mind isn't! And yes its not weird that all business

people congregate in one area on eurostar its just that coach 5 snd14 are the

only ones with power points.Photographer has decided to start casual no pictures

yet thankgod! 2 hours gets you into Brussels midi for train connection to

Rotterdam. Ok first picture taken wish I had decided now on full make up.!But

wearing my NV London Calcutta bag my vintage Palladium boots and Kuyichi jeans,

instead of waiting 2 whole hours for the connection we have managed to get onto

an earlier train, weird being able to do that to another country!Taking a

forced pee stop and first encounter with clean efficient loos for 50 centimes

these are working machines that will take your change and convert to 50 centimes

the stern but friendly staff explain everything in a variation of languages and

signs! Camera man off on pizza hunt ugh this early its only 0900!!

1.45 hours on and we are already through Antwerp gorgeous sunny day and through

the train windows I have taken a peak at the cycling confederation and thank

god they're not wearing lycra, more like cords and flowery dresses but there

does seem to be a code of some sort all very orderly.

After a swap of trains at Rotterdam we arrive 1500 at Amersfoort having chilled

on the train and checked that yes the land is perfectly flat I am brought back

to reality by just the sheer volume of bikes! A quick respite as we re told at

the information bureau its Queens day tomorrow and there are some major

festivities in town! That's more like it and the idea of meeting tulip tour bike

man becomes a hazy reality! Sitting in the middle of lieve vrouwe kerkhof square

sipping a very very cold blonde beer with a slice of lemon and a gorgeous feta

salad I forget totally why I am here. Amersfoort is truly gorgeous medieval town

and the centre has remained more or less intact. A pilgrimage city , an

important beer brewing town and a trading crossroads have coloured its history!

Were staying at NH hotels and meet bike man who runs the company with mieke his

wife and the bikes. Actually. They're gorgeous and I fall in love

With mine the gears work, the sadle is great and its got every possibility of

carrying me through to the end!after opting for every possible insurance we

go on to enjoy queens day evening free concerts and loads of drink! It makes me

feel like a skiing trip!

And for a first day its all good good!