asos.com A/W sneak preview!

On Thursday I was lucky enough to go my work's A/W 2010 Press day.

I got to see all the new accessories, shoes and clothing that hopefully will be launched this Autumn!

The space was set up in a basement in Central London.

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The bags and jewellary were definately my favourite, they stood out a mile, they were so beautiful.

I love this small shiney bag!

Stunning presentation.

Menswear collection

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People gathering around the new asos White collection

This was part of a new collection asos will be launcing this autumn, asos White.

I can't wait to see the collection on asos.com

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A selection of my favourite pieces

Happy Birthday

Back in February it was a friend at work's birthday.

I thought it would be a nice change to make cakes for everyone in my office as we normally get a shop bought one. The kitchen in the flat is a really good size so there is loads of room.

There are probably about over 20 of us, but i got a bit carried away and ended up making over 80 small fairy cakes!

Swimming

A couple of weeks ago my boyfriend Milo and I decided to go for a swim one Sunday. We ended up going to Swiss Cottage as it's really close to where we live and they have good facilities. http://www.gll.org/centre/swiss-cottage-leisure-centre.asp

The biggest treat was getting out the pool and realising how amazing the cakes were in the shop, so we stopped off and had lunch!

Beautiful Sky

I live in Camden but also work in Camden. Which is amazing as it only takes me 10 minutes to walk into work and I never have to use any London transport, which is a major bonus!

I work on the 4th floor and there are windows on one side of the building where I sit. I had my camera on me (as i always do) and took these beautiful pictures of the evening sundown.

Peace and Quiet...

Luckily things have been very quite on my estate.

We have had no noisy neighbours and surprisingly no kids have been loitering on the stairwell.

But, as I was walking down the stairs the other day, I did find this piece of vandalism.



It looks like it has been made using a cigarette to mark out the lettering.




As I got to the bottom of the stairs on the notice board with this message left by Camden Council.



Looks like it's not just me the kids have been disturbing!

BANG, BANG, BANG...

Last night my boyfriend and I were woken by the sound of 3 bangs on our big metal door!

We have a 'normal' front door but in front of that for extra safety we have a big, blue, metal door. Someone awake us with their constant banging. Because of the sound against the metal door of someone banging, it seemed so loud and must have gone on for a good 5 minutes! I was frozen in the bedroom, thinking all sorts, was there a fire in the building, police at the door, kids trying to get in... we decided we had to investigate and my boyfriend switched the light on and made his way to the front door. I have never been so scared in my life!



The banging continued, bare in mind it was 12:30am, until my boyfriend spoke through the letter box to ask what was going on. It was a lady who said she lived downstairs and asked us to turn the music down. To which my boyfriend replied, 'we were in bed, we have no music on!' To which she said she was so embarrassed and went on her way!





No apologies for disturbing us and giving me the fright of my life!

Following the antics of 'children' in the stairway

This is my first blog post and ideally I wanted to write and show you my fashion purchases as I am totally addicted to shopping! But I need to start documenting what goes on outside my front door of a council estate in Camden, North London. One so I have some kind of evidence in case I ever need it and two because there is normally something going on!

I have lived here for just over 2 years and I am totally obsessed with the flat. The location is amazing and because I live on the 7th floor the views over the rooftops of London and the sunsets are breathtaking.

Here are a few pic's of the snow...

To be honest it has been pretty quiet living here, until quite recently. There are so many 'kids' that come and sit on the cold steps of the stairwell I guess for shelter and somewhere to go where there can smoke and drink in peace as I am sure they are underage from what I have seen of them. To be fair apart from the mess they leave when they go, they do seem really 'nice' and pretty harmless.

We have had a couple of incidences of a firework being let off inside the stairwell and a glass bottle being thrown at our front door! But hey like the policeman I called to report the incident to said, 'kids will be kids'.

Remnant of a fire that was started with a pile of newspapers...

Colouring on the wall...

Totally redesigning the wall...

Writing on the floor...