Top 6 Picks at Topshop this month

Best 3 Rings at Topshop: Butterfly is ♥♥♥.

Rings are my latest obsession...bought around ten here in Israel?! My three favourites currently at UK Topshop are the blue butterfly, the crown and the golden bug. What else catched my eye is below. What do you think of those black booties? Wanna wear them in autumn soon =) (or so I wish, haha). I agree that the bird cage earrings are rather excentric, but also terribly adorable!! X3

Hippie Summer dress - glamorous^^.

Look at those babies!! Waah! [Black Booties]

Bird cage earrings - crazy, but cool.

Just had three pieces of chocolate cake and now my stomach hurts... should have known better :[ Love,

The Bazaar: Roses, Jewellery and Strawberrys

Hi =)
You see those insanely delicious strawberries here? I bought one kilo (!!) for 1 Euro♥. You get bargains like that on one of the many (oriental) bazaars we visited all throughout Israel! Here are my favourite impressions. In Jerusalem, there were the Shouks in the Old City and the Mehane Yehuda were all the traditional people buy food for shabat. And of course there are the shopping streets in the city centers.
Bazaars are so great! I love the chaos, the people, the many different smells that mingle with each other, so many exotic products and fabrics! The atmosphere is often less touristic, because of all the normal citizens buying there. Imagine the shop owners shouting their offering of the day and the attempt to fight the prices of their neighbours. And there are clothes hanging above you (you never know where to look first, it is just overwhelming!!). Birds in small cages, schoolchildren, stray cats...people playing old board games, women chatting^^.

My favourite fruits (they look like rubies here!).

View into one of the small Shouk Streets.

Adorable jewellery boxes!

Wide range of choices for the religious customers.

Spices, spices, spices.

Fresh flowers, waiting for happy owners.

The City Center of Jerusalem (there was a rock concert that evening).

One day I ate so many pastries that I felt sick afterwards... I am so silly. The next day I went back to buy more.

We have a really though work project at the moment and I cannot promise to blog daily for the next few weeks. I hope to manage every 3-4 days (hopefully that's OK for you!^^). See you again soon and stay tuned for more adventures from the Middle East (including a small puppy dog♥). Love,

Shopping Blues #2

Night blue cocktail dress with black dotted lace.

We just suffered a small electrical power outage and I have been busy all morning to fix it... or at least trying to find the source of the problem. Now it is working again (without any apparent reason from outside...) - the question is just how long... So far to my weekend...it really messed up with my schedule for today!Anyways, it is getting hotter and hotter here every day (we do not have a thermometer at work, presumably because nobody really wants to know the exact degree of torment *lol*). I am still looking for a wedding dress and for other summer dresses. I found a very stylish store called Renoir(?), where they sell all the cute dresses in this post. Let's see what we got:

~ By the way, they don't have mirrors in their (indeed very narrow) changing cabins, so I did my best to catch the design either way. What about the poor fashion bloggers in Israel?! How are we supposed to work under these conditions?? :) ~

Here we have a dream in turquoise with lace and in a very soft fabric - my personal No.1!♥ The jewellery I already bought here would match perfectly.

WOW! I mean, come on, this dress outstands everything that H&M produced this year for the Garden Collection. Beautiful pattern and delicate volants! We want... ♥♥♥

And last but not least I was still looking for a dress with blue roses (like the one here). The reason why I did not initially let them all wrap up and run out of the shop like the happiest girl in the world? Each of them costs between 80 to 100 Euros... and I feel so guilty when I think of all the dresses in my closet (one a rainy Sunday in the future I should take the time to count them... or better not). Sooo, which means that I have some very good options now, but I am still not content. The wedding is next month, so I'll be busy finding something appropriate!
For now, I'll go to check the electricity again...!
Wonderful Saturday to you!♥
Love,

What I'd order right now to complete the summer

Seen by H&M Online

Yesterday I did something very wrong... checking Online Shops while I am out of their delivery range is a modern way to torture girls. And of course there where some striking pieces, which I'd love to get... Now the only joy left is looking at them. Please, if one of my friends at home sees the pink butterfly clip (2 Euro) at H&M, please, please get it for me!!
The light blue blouse with the sleeves would be perfect for working outside here. Already have a similar model, but left it at home, because I figured it would be too warm! Geeeez.

Seen by the Vintage Shop FKids.

And the beautiful blossoming bushes in front of our house:

I feel like I have to do some serious real window shopping. Fashion-addicted, I admit it. And still no wedding dress in sight! See you^^
Love,

Lilly on an urgent Fashion Mission

My mission: Find a wedding dress! I mean: a wedding party dress. Just got the invitation from my colleague M. and checked my suitcase: The only chic dress I have with me reaches to the floor and is white! Bad. Very bad. Superbad. I have like a million dresses for such occasions, but guess where - at home in Europe! In a desperate mission to find something which is not going to ruin my travel budget profoundly, I went to an Israeli brand called 'Golf'. Here is what I found:

I like the colour, reminds me of plum cake in autumn. My roommate D. loves it, she is crazy about everything violett.

Oops! That looked better on the hanger than on me! I feel like a super-sized peach.

Green like an emerald. Makes me think of fairy tales in the woods. (Makes me look fat?!)

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Any suggestions, ladies? Which one would you prefer or should I keep looking?

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The view from our balcony:

(normally you can see also the sea and the mountains...strange weather conditions in this case)
I love to sit outside for breakfast! (Enough green, Diane?)

On an (embarassing) sidenote: During lunch, I dropped nearly the whole content of my pitta bread all over me and my legs: White, salty cream cheese and tomatoes. Luckily nobody commented, but I felt really like I am not able to eat properly. What a food accident!
More news coming soon. Love,

PS.: This is the first shopping/fashion-related post this month... -.-

We promised each other to go only Eyeshopping...

Flower Skirt by Pimkie.

...which means that, when either of us sees something great, the other one is supposed to immediately cover your eyes! Erhm, good plan...but didn't work. I am seeing a lot of my friends for the last time now these days and so I met up with my lovely KV to have a drink at our favourite café. My throat is still a little sore, so I opted for a mixture of cherry and banana juice - try it, delicious! It started to rain like crazy (as common for this month) and we headed off to H&M.
KV found a cute long necklace there with a small swallow ("Schwalbe") and was absolutely convinced that it is a dove :D. I tried to stay strong, but when we entered Pimkie, I saw this skirt. You know what? - It's seriously the first flower print this year that I like. I wouldn't wear any other voluntarily. (And for my excuse, it was reduced about 40%...haha). Took this pic earlier that day:


Isn't there something better than enjoying the spring sun rays in a stylish café with some glossy magazines? Now the sky is all grey again and I am sure that I watched way to many crime series last night. Wearing the skirt right now^^. Love,

Primark Spring 2010 Picks

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Do you spot the lace blazer (left)?!!

I tried on that dress in the middle (cute)!

Luckily, I live close to one of the rare Primark stores in Germany. After I came upon that perfect white lace dress in the collage above, I decided to try to digg it up somehow. Which proved extremely difficult, as the dress was seemingly sold out already. Lucky me, I found two spare ones - one of them in my size!! Yaay. Only problem: Both of them were black as the midnight. Nevertheless, I made my choice and walked out of the store (like hours later *ehem*) with a brand-new black dress^^. (My other purchases will probably be in the next post, combined with an outfit post.)
About Primark in general, it's a pity that the average quality is rather low (as the prices are). So when I am primarking, I pick my choices very carefully to make sure that I do not end up with random purchases that stuff my wardrobe. And I would never buy shoes there! The height of all the heels were like...umm do you want to kill your customers? Another shopping tipp is going there during the week (best: early afternoon, or even before 12 a.m.) to avoid the masses. What is particularly great about Primark is the variety of jewellery and bags! I recommend that cordially. (I found myself mostly buying accessoires - despite of the lace dress of course). Did you ever shop at Primark, how did you feel about it?
Love,

Black rose tea with sugar candy, please!

Lilly wears: blouse only, cardigan street one, shorts hm, tights ca, boots marco polo, hat vintage, rose brooch vintage, ring six.

I found this pretty changing cabin at the Mister&Lady Jeans store. Quite comfortable! I find it still difficult to photograph myself, therefore my stare is a little odd^^. The pink flowers are intended for interior decoration purposes^^. I have no idea how I am able to endure with shorts in this cold temperature conditions - but somehow it works! And there is a bad accident that happened yesterday: I travelled to Hamburg for a seminar and forgot my black rose-shaped ring (the one in the photos) in the ladies room! Such a pity - I loved that ring.

The outfit was kinda inspired by the British Victorian Age (lace and black and roses were major fashion themes back then). I should have worn a skirt to complete the "Gothic Lolita"-Style, but at the moment I prefer shorts over everything. "Gothic Lolitas" (in case you wonder) is a specific style followed by some Japanese fashionistas in Tokyo. The ladies dress like the noble maiden/aristocrats from the Victorian age (there are several labels and shops for that fashion style). More about that another time, I have sports classes now and will be hurrying to get there in time! Ah yes, the shopping finds deserve their own post - more coming very soon.
Love,

Zou Zou Vintage Editorial

This amazing editorial is from Zou Zou Vintage to celebrate the reopening of their Online Shop. By far the best editorial I have seen this month! I agree that there are Vintage Shops now popping out like mushrooms on the forest ground, but in this shop the prices are adequate and the selection is very wide - I never saw so many great Vintage shoes at one shop. ZouZouVintage is a German Vintage Shop, but they also have an English version, which indicates that they are shipping globally. And isn't this editorial just great??! I love the blue-ish atmosphere, the model reminds me of Snowhite and the peacock feathers suit in the scene perfectly.
Now it's back to work for me! Greetings to all you Vintage lovers out there!
Love,

Call me Thrifting Queen :)

Okay, you may think, what is she up to now? Thee-hee, got some ground-braking new thrifted items for my wardrobe, you won't believe it!


This beauty is from French Connection. I found her in a charity shop for less than 10 bucks. In truth, I checked the current F.C. collection and found out that the average blouse originally costs more than twelve times of what I paid. How did this happen? Mere luck? I am not sure, but it seems that the elderly ladies working in the shop appearently never heard of French Connection. An incident that I will come back to later on.


This lightblue jacket was on my wish list for at least two months - but way over my budget for non-necessary, non-basic pieces in extraordinary colours (admittedly they are often the most appealing, aren't they?). Know what? I just stumbled into the shop (Tally Weijl, actually) to find it reduced about 80% of the original price. Yay, spring, I am coming!


Seems like I finally developed the ability to have the right touch when it comes to vintage bargains. Above you see at leather pencil skirt. Ahem...a real leather pencil skirt. Not one of those fake imitations from H&M or Pimkie. It fitted perfectly! But silly as I am, I left the shop (the same where I bought that French Connection blouse) without it in the first place, pondering about whether I should start to wear leather or not (until that point I did not have a single piece of leather or fake leather in my cupboard). My friend HJ set my mind - and the next day I got back to this skirt. Frankly, I have no idea what leather skirts like that normally cost - I got this one also for less than 10 bucks (!) and this strengthens my perception that whoever sets the prices in this charity shop, is appearently not adept when it comes to high brands or luxurious pieces.

What is the conclusion of this, fashionistas? Get yourself up in front of that laptop and give your local second hand/charity shops another try, instead of glancing devoted up to the seemingly unreachable designer pieces on catwalks. You have every chance to hunt down fabulous clothes out there, which keep your wallet from moaning! Happy thrifting, girls! Love,