Christmas at the Poe House

Peace and Quiet

The best way to stop endless yabbering is ... the ole' two fingers up the nostrils.

Now shut the fuck up.

Outfit of the Season

I so love this look. Slum-Glungingly gorgeous!

image from v.

I love Alexander!

And his figure-hugging, unforgiving, throwback to the 80's stretch dresses of which I bought 3! I call them my Robert Palmer dresses.
One is for Cow, of course.



dresses from shopbop.com

Gift Idea Part 2

Earlier I mentioned granny panties - they make great gifts to pussy-whipped men. Men without courage.

What then do we give the ones who clearly have no balls? Crotch-less panties of course! And the winner of that award goes to a certain pussy who has crawled back to his mommy after just a week.

Of wolves and whips

Jewellery to go with Devil Mood. I could never go back to the delicate stuff.

Black and Beautiful Part II

Lily Allen's hair in Elle UK rocks. I want it.

And if my hairdresser doesn't give it to me, he'll have two fingers up his nose this Christmas.

A Shoe for Christmas

Or for walking all over you.

From Chloe's AW 2009 collection

Baby Julie

Artwork from Art.com

So like a wolf, in more ways than one. We love you and miss you.

Fuck Ballads

Since we're feeling particularly delivish, what could be more apt for the occasion than Smoke City's Devil Mood ? This one's climbing the charts this week.

Revisiting a Classic II

image from Fortune City

image from Ten Gossip

It's got to be Joel Schumacher's 1987 The Lost Boys.

Sleep all day.

Party all night.

Never grow old.

Never die.

It's fun to be a vampire.

Revisiting a Classic

image from screen rant

E and I spent the lead up to All Hallow's Eve in the company of werewolves and vampires. I'm most completely obsessed with John Landis' 1981 masterpiece An American Werewolf In London about 2 American students who encountered said monster during the deep of winter in the English moors. It scared the bejesus out of me when I was little and in some ways it still does.

I can't wait to hit the moors myself - we're planning to go up North this time, perhaps to Wales, where the scenes were actually filmed.

Boo!

I've always wanted a big Halloween party at home. However when the day finally arrived yesterday, I simply wasn't in the mood.
So here's our little homage anyway to my favourite day of the year, apart from Xmas eve.

Poe

Finally after more than a year in the making, The house that Ed built.
She has her own soundtrack: "I'll look Around" by Madeleine Peyroux

That's Two Fingers Up Your Nostrils

" I'd like to you to buy me a piss of rad bigini, or maybe something naughty, like leopard preen, zipbra preen..you know? You can wear animal preens with duck gins, or carkey green, it's okay. Right now I'm studying steel."

Apparently that's how baseline peasantry speak in my lovely country.

Pidgin English? Pigeon English I say!

Embarrassing, to say the least.

The Faraway Tree

Image from Farm4Static

My childhood was made up of butterfly chases, tadpole hunting and tree climbing, no doubt due to a healthy diet of Enid Blyton. 

A favourite of mine is the Faraway Tree series. 

Image by Adairjones

I still believe trees are magic. I have one right outside my house. 

Time Travel

I walked past one of my old homes today. It all seems so fresh still. 

Grandpa. My balsam plants. The backyard where I searched endlessly for that imaginary four-leaf clover. Snowy and Snowball. The paper boats in the drain. My sister's fall which broke her arm.My musical piggy bank the shape of a house. Flossy. 

If only I could.

Image from Farm4Static

Whimsy

I collect lamps. Like most things in my life, they're impractical but do I give a rat's arse? 

Below: Moooi Rabbit Lamp, Titanic Lamp by Charles Trevelyan, Baby Elephant Lamp by SKK.

Images from Surrounding , Mocoloco, SKK Lighting.

Don't Buy Me a Ballad

My favourite song of the moment: Smoke City's little ditty Numbers.

Dark, cheeky, racy. Totally senseless.

Um . Um . Four . Five . Fifteen . Quinze . Seventeen . Seven . Nine . Eight . Sete Cinco Seis . Sete Cinco Seis . Trezentos e um . Thats three hundred, three hundred and one . Three, three, three hundred and one .

Someone I never liked once told me she only listened to music that "tell a story" and proceeded to play me a track from Jerry McGuire, complete with Renee Zellweger's cringe-worthy overture "You Had Me at Hello....."

Ooouerrgghh. (Vomit.)

The Covet List

I couldn't possibly not love Balmain. While I'm certainly no slave to fashion, the past 3 seasons have left me dizzy with unabashed lust. Here are my favourite looks. 

all images from style.com

Black and Beautiful Part 1

My house is an animal farm.

The latest additions are a moose, rabbit, bear, deer, bull, ram and rhino, all taking pride of place at the dinner table.

I got these sexy black pewter shot glasses from Goody Grams. The deer is mine. Cow can be rabbit. And E can be the rhino.

Picture from Heliotrope Home

What I'd Really Like to Wear

To work.

Who the hell dictated that one has to wear shirts, pants and pencil skirts to the office? Look through most employment contracts and there is usually no clause about attire. Right? So if silence means consent, then surely we are not bound by any rules, except unspoken ones.

White tank: says "effortless and timeless chic"

Jacket: says "power broker, career woman"

Leopard print: says "I'm in charge"

Then again, maybe not.

Image from lefashionimage

Sweet Endings

If you made ice-cream, what flavour would it be?

Mine would be honey lavender with fresh blueberries. Mmmmmmm.

I asked E what was missing this weekend, and without a split second's hesitation he said "The Daily Scoop". Spoken like my true greedy other half.

Picture courtesy of Country Living

A Moonlight Fable

One of my favourite pieces of prose is HG Wells' 1909 A Moonlight Fable (aka The Beautiful Suit) which ultimately inspired the art work I recently bought for the home.

"The garden in the moonlight was very different from the garden by day; moonshine was tangled in the hedges and stretched in phantom cobwebs from spray to spray. Every flower was gleaming white or crimson black, and the air was aquiver with the thridding of small crickets and nightingales singing unseen in the depths of the trees."

Fairies Asleep In The Moonlight

"There was no darkness in the world, but only warm, mysterious shadows; and all the leaves and spikes were edged and lined with iridescent jewels of dew. The night was warmer than any night had ever been, the heavens by some miracle at once vaster and nearer, and spite of the great ivory-tinted moon that ruled the world, the sky was full of stars. "

"Die Sternthaler" The Child Gathers Star Money

"The trees cast still shadows like intricate black lace upon the wall. "

The War of The Worlds, The Martians Are Seen to be Working by Night

"Beyond the hedge he came to the duck-pond, or at least to what was the duck-pond by day. But by night it was a great bowl of silver moonshine all noisy with singing frogs, of wonderful silver moonshine twisted and clotted with strange patternings.."

Kexy, Friend of Fairies

"Soft moth!" he cried, "dear moth! And wonderful night, wonderful night of the world! Do you think my clothes are beautiful, dear moth? As beautiful as your scales and all this silver vesture of the earth and sky?"

A Midsummer Night's Dream Act IV Scene 1: Titania and Bottom

All artwork available at art.com

They will be Mine

Brilliant young Brit designer Dominic Jones and his wonderfully dangerous jewellery. I don't think they're available outside the UK yet, a shame...but have a look at his range of vampiric and fetishistic jewellery. A must-have for perfecting the glunge look.

Photography: Matt Irwin
Styling: Katie Shillingford
Makeup: Georgina Graham @ CLM
Hair: Tomo Jidai @ Red Root
Models: Alice Dellal, Lizzy Jagger, Eliza Cummings, Emma Chitty, Billy Howard

Now who belongs to this Claw Knuckle Duster Ring in Rose Gold? Me.