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c a l a v e r a s & m a r i a c h i s

angelika and I headed down to the british museum for day of the dead celebrations yesterday, complete with marching mariachis and aztec folk ballet. we made appropriately macabre skeleton masks with the kind of generous sequin quotient required to put a smile on the face of any self-respecting 5 year old girl. so when [...]

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a n t h r o o p e n i n g

so much excitement for the big event of last friday — anthropologie launch on regent street… this store with its quirky folksy homewares and threads is officially one of the most thrilling transatlantic exports i can possibly think of. the anthro store on broadway @ 16th street was one of my absolute fave stop-offs [...]

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a w e e k e n d i n v e n i c e

emerging from the vortex that is the national theatre… after another two-show saturday of Our Class it’s been a lazy sunday morning catching up on all my favorite blogs, namely, Decor8, Poppytalk, Design Sponge, Oh Joy, Tea for Joy, Wee Birdy and, my new find, India Knight’s Posterous. and, now, an intravenous monmouth through [...]

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• Missed choir practice this week as Mr Eno is out of town. But commiserating by mostly listening to the Golden Gate Quartet rocking God's Gonna Cut'Em Down, or if gospel's not your bag, you may be more taken with the stonking (stomping) Johnny Cash version complete with jawharp on American V: A Hundred Highways
• "Play is the most important element in discovering who you are". This evening, I'm loving flicking through Living Out Loud: An Activity Book to Fuel a Creative Life - Keri Smith's take on reinvigorating your creative child - it's like a turbotronic Artist's Way, with stickers!
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