My new collecting habit: matching pyjama sets.

Wearing matching PJs is highly under-rated, but it is something which I have found VERY enjoyable over the past few months. I stopped wearing matching PJ sets after my old landlord stopped by one day a few years back when I was wearing a Bridget Jones style set and laughed at me. I stopped wearing them then and there... until now.

Thanks to lovely Zooey Deschanel, Taylor Swift and various fashion designers - 'cool PJs' is no longer an oxymoron. I highly recommend it, going to bed looking chic is a great boost for morale, and looks DARN CUTE.

Check out the Elle team wearing PJs to work for Red Nose day - sure wish my office had agreed to this!

A Dream of France

I'm feeling a little obsessed with the idea of a trip to France - and these posters are seriously adding fuel to the fire! 

Imagine cycling around pretty lanes, trips to a the local boulangerie for bread, drinking local wine and eating seafood after a day at the beach.. ahhhh. 

Lo-Lee-Ta

Check out this online exhibition of cool covers from that hipster-staple of a book, Lolita. Yeah, I read it but I didn't like it - apart from the opening line... oh and the covers, some of those are good too.

'Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.'

Come Fry With Me...

I really want that pink frying pan with the polka dots underneath - cute, huh? 

It's £17.50 from good ol' M and S, check it out here!

Misfits

Check out THIS amazing collection of stills from The Misfits. The final finished film by both Clark Gable Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Miller was also involved in the making of the film - the dynamic on the set must have been incredible. 

In my parents house there is a very large framed picture of Clark Gable which I used to gaze at as a child - I've liked him for a very long time, the epitome of 'dream man'.

You Rang M'Lord

Over the past few weeks I have really been enjoying watching You Rang M'Lord - a fabulous sitcom made by the BBC which ran from 1988 - 1993.

It has been the show to get me through these past few rainy weeks of so called summer. The characters are brilliantly developed - thanks to Mr Perry and Mr Croft the legendary sitcom writers of the era (most famed for Dads Army). My favourite is Ivy the naive but sweet maid, played by the wonderful Su Pollard.

The story centres on the tale of the family upstairs - the Meldrums, and the servants downstairs. The tales of the working class folk and the rich, who are all as ridiculous as each other! It can be farcical and very funny, but the mixture of  heart with cynicism is why I love it so much. 

What's more, as the show is set in the 1920s / 30s it hasn't dated, speaking of which - the costumes and set are brilliant.

Jubilee Things!

There are lots and lots of things I love about the jubilee... but I especially like all of the limited edition packaging that's around at the moment. Regular household things are suddenly a lot cooler. I really like the reproductions of the 1952 packaging as seen on kellogs boxes and Heinz tins.