Millet Porridge with Coconut, Dates and Almonds
January was not a good cooking month for me. Unlike some other periods, I did in fact have time for it, but I was uninspired and unable to execute if some meagre amount of inspiration was found. I’m usually a pretty decent cook and while the quality of the r..
Soaps For All Occasions
So, enough about tiaras, let’s talk about soaps. They do have something in common, though: both are old-fashioned concepts. Who buys a bar of soap these days, when one can have the much more practical liquid version? I do, and have made a study of hard soaps..
Why Everyone Should Be Wearing Tiaras
Tiaras are awfully old-fashioned. They make one think of royalty and privilege or beauty pageants, proms and Disney princesses. I usually don’t care much for jewellery and definitely don’t want to be associated with any of the abovementioned things, but I st..
Better Than Star Wars: Saga vol 1
I am not a huge graphic novel/comic book reader – I do get through enough of them to prove that I’m not one of those elitist snobs who disregard comics on principle, but not much more. This means reading mostly Alan Moore* and of course Neil Gaiman’s Sandman..
A Box of Delights: Valentino Couture Spring 2016
The couture shows are coming to an end in Paris – compared to fashion weeks proper, couture takes so little time that I almost miss it every year. But not quite. I love looking at these incredible displays of unnecessariness, season after season. It is for m..
The Smell of a Very Handsome Man (a.k.a. Arquiste Art Deco Velvet Candle)
My sister, who isn’t easily impressed by frivolous luxury products, took one sniff of the Arquiste Art Deco Velvet candle and exclaimed: “Oh, it smells like a very handsome man!” I believe this to be very close to the original premise of the scent – Art Deco..
The Winter Garden
I’m very much with Miranda Priestly on florals: “Florals for spring? Groundbreaking.” Traditional floral patterns in traditional context don’t seem that exciting to me – too predictable, too pretty, too not-statement-making.* Now, winter florals are a differ..
10 Things I Found In My Kitchen Cupboard
One of my 2016 resolutions was to use if not all, then many of the mysterious spices, condiments and liquids found in my kitchen cupboard(s). To get going, I carried out a comprehensive inventory of the edible stuff. The things below are of course not the on..
How to Organise 500 Perfume Samples
I’m afraid this post is going to be of interest only to serious perfume enthusiasts who know what it means to have an embarrassing amount of chocolate boxes full of samples. Or possibly to other obsessive collectors who experience compulsive periods of organ..
The Perfect Casual Lip
As I’m on a self-imposed make-up, skincare and perfume buying hiatus this month, I have no new products to show you. There are, however, a few older ones that I’ve wanted to write about for a while, so I’m using January to catch up.
I almost included the..