Bloggers looking good in magazines.

One of my all time favourite bloggers, Sandra from 5 inch and up (not as smutty as the name suggests), has featured in this weeks Grazie (UK). Its a great piece on her recent work with Diesel and it looks utterly beautiful. Check it out!
     

The Ruby gift guide.

I am not the biggest fan of christmas shopping guides. They always feel like such a huge marketing ploy. And when they are not busy being a marketing ploy I usually find them hard to relate to anyone I am buying gifts for. This however is a mark of how insanely difficult my friends and family are to buy for. They all seem to fall in the category of "those who have everything, and extremely expensive taste". Unhelpful.
         
But if you are lucky enough to have a few easy people to buy for, or perhaps a few Ruby-enthusiasts (like myself), check out this great gift guide.
  

Lookbook Cookbook love.

Right so its a big call, but I think I have just discovered my favorite blog of all time. It combines two of my biggest loves. Food and fashion. Lookbook Cookbook is a vegan recipe blog and each recipe is paired with a sexy model looking right on trend nomming whatever.

The best thing about this blog? Apart (of corse) from the lovely ladies, is that these recipes are great and super simple.

Something old. Something(s) new and nothing blue.

Here is a wee update of the goings on in my wardrobe this season. I have gone a little spot nutty so aswell as a few christmas presents that I totally don't know about, my spot collection grew by one dress the other week (from Dotti). One darn cute dress if I do say so myself.
   

Also new to me, but not to this world is a green stone beaded necklace that was my grandma's. It has been permanently added to my wrist along with this super cool leather band by Pascoes and a silver bamboo bangle! I am never not wearing these.
        

Wedges have forever been a friend to me. What with their ubber height and not so ubber pain, I grabbed myself a bargain at glassons and now own the ulimate summery pair of wedges.
        

To (completely unintentionally) match my wedges I grabbed some cute two-tone singlets from cotton on. I can see these babies being a complete summer staple. When it decides to stop raining that is.
        

Feeling the need for a little (or maybe hugely over sized) sweater.

Considering yesterday was meant to be the first day of summer here in New Zealand I'm surprised at how increasingly nippy its getting! My new two-tone singlets and wedges are simply not enough layers today. I am thinking tomorrow I will dress a little more like this... I am sure I will look totes normal. Of course.

Alexa Love.

I have professed my deep love for Alexa Chung on this blog before, and usually I would only put you wonderful people through a slightly lesbian rant once. But Alexa just looked so damn amazing at the British Fashion Awards the other night I can't help but indulge myself again.

      

First thing first, those shoes are awesome. There is simply no other word for shoes that have little cat faces on them. I actually picked these out on one of my fantasy "if only I could afford to buy these" net-a-porter shops. I am clearly just as stylish as Alexa. Clearly. The understated yet sparkly 60's inspired Christopher Kane dress and with hair with attitude (and sweet bangs) looks amazing.

   

Of course it goes without saying that Alexa took away the British Style Icon award for the night, second year running!
  

Rubbish bag skirt.

Unfortunately for me, the man in my life doesn't like fashion much. He diligently half listens as I rattle on about the goings on in my world of clothes, but only because every time he zones out, I prod him.
    
One thing he did hear however was when I announced my deep love for "paper-bag waists". To any normal/interested in fashion fellow this would seem like a perfectly logical, even agreeable, comment. Not to him. Oh no. He practically wet himself laughing, and now, whenever I go anywhere wearing a paper-bag waist, he declares loudly "oh look, you're in your RUBBISH BAG pants".
    
Great.
    
Hopefully you will all appreciate this trend more as in my opinion it is stunning, fun and perfect for every season. But I would say that, since I just dropped a large wad of cash on this baby.
    

Top Topshop, Skirt Ruby, Bracelet Karen Walker, Shoes Glassons.