I love games. I predict 2009 will be the year of playing games in pubs. Quiddler is my new favorite because it travels well. (Much better than dragging Scattegories all around town, as I have been known to do.)
Playing Quiddler is like playing Rummy, but with letters. You have to make up words with your cards. And it's a progressive game...you get one more card each round.
Good times.
Buy Quiddler Now for Only £9.99
Rigby & Peller has changed my life. I don't know what I was wearing before, but nothing has strapped me in and lifted me up as much as the three new bras I bought at Rigby & Peller recently. They weren't cheap, mind you. But I've worn them every day since and have thrown out pretty much everything else in the interim. Ladies don't reveal their cup size, but I will tell you this...they put me in a 32! A 32!
Rigby & Peller Mayfair
22A Conduit Street
Mayfair
London
W1S 2XT
Other converts...
Yummy Cherry
London Bride
I am in lust with Bobbin Bicycles. I can't stop thinking about buying myself this little puppy for my birthday. (Plus a red cape. And a straw basket.) And I already have a bike...and I NEVER ride it. I used to ride my bike in Chicago all the time. Sigh.
Still lusting.
Small Redy. £250.
Bobbin Bicylces
Clerkenwell
Blogs about cycle chic...
London Cycle Chic
Copenhagen Cycle Chic
Oh man, this book--The Secret Life of a Slummy Mummy by Fiona Neill--made me laugh out loud. And I don't have kids. And I'm not married. But I could so relate. Or at least imagine relating. One of my favorite lines? When her oldest son asks, "Mummy, is this a gray area?"
Along with looking in my closet and thinking "Man, do I have a lot of moisturizer," I also sometimes think, "Wow, I have a lot of face masks. A lot of OLD face masks." Surely, I am not alone.
So I used Origins' Drink Up face mask yesterday and remembered how much I like it. It's very wet-feeling. Almost like a nightcream, but you're supposed to wash it off. Truth be told, I didn't. And my skin still loves me.
Have you ever looked at the shelves in your closet and thought, "Man, I have a lot of moisturizer." Yup, that's me. So I'm trying to use it all. As soon as humanly possible. So I can buy some more.
I like this stuff. A lot. It's really smooth and soft and has a nice cocoa smell.
3 tubs for $23.97 at Amazon.com
(Can't seem to find it in the U.K.)
It's no secret that I have a thing for purses. I really can't resist the ones at Bagman & Robin in Exmouth Market. The other day, I went in and bought a bunch of small wallets, just to keep on hand as gifts. (A good hostess always has random gifts at hand.)
Get yours before I make a bat cave joke.
Bagman & Robin
47 Exmouth Market
EC1R 4QL
Tel: 0207 561 9865
I don't know what was wrong with me this weekend, but I was just tired and more than a little homesick, which is odd given that I've lived here for four years and haven't been homesick in ages! To get my mind off my troubles, I decided to treat myself to a facial at the Mandarin Oriental Spa. (If you're going to do it, you might as well do it right!) And oh my. Was it fantastic. Words cannot express. I've already booked a return visit!
The Age Defying Facial (80 minutes)
£150. Yes, you read that correctly. It was painful.
66 Knightsbridge
SW1X 7LA
+44 20 7838 9888
I either get manicures all the time and look fantastic, or my nails are a mess. There is no happy medium for me. This is because manicures and pedicures in London are way too expensive generally. But I'm excited to have found California Nail Bar in Hampstead. For £34 quid, Julie and I got manis and pedis and I even had some green tea. It was lovely. I'll be back.
California Nail Bar
78 Heath Street
London NW3 1DN
Tel: 020 7431 8988
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