jackyblue

Paris .Paris , I am back tomorrow and I am looking forward to seeing you again .

I saw a ferret race .Drunk a little ciderand had lots of cups of tea .Wore my wellies (but  turned out to be Very hot indedy)

I bought two cakes and entered the little one into a country dressing up show. She won a rosset. I was trying to work out how i could get lots of the village drama societys vintage clothes into my small handbag with out any one noticing. (failed and way too much concience)..I am sure I saw vintage Biba being thrown around in the dressing up tent.watched a tossing of the hay ,and after afull day of  cakes and buns and vegetable contests, came home and collapsed . In a nice way .

All photos by Blue

I’m getting excited about the fall and all the layering.

Heres a photo to get you in the mood ,

Actually ,fall? I mean  good ol’ Autumn/Winter . Im not American .

During my first week at Twitter school I realised that i have become more obsessed with my phone and a secret world that until now ,i didnt really know exisited.

THen I started following Anna Della Russo and had  a looked at her twit pics Then I realised that she has monogrammed everything with her name .

I mean Everything! Amazing . I just thought  monogramming was limited to bathrobes and slippers ….silly me Shouldn’t we all try this ?

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Feel like I need to work that scraped back look -just getting the roots done today & I Forgot how much i loved this song .
Reminds me of the Gardening club too many years ago!
Thanks to Bryan boy

Regular readers of this blog will realise that over the years ,I have got through MANY i-phones. They just had a tendency to slip out of my hands and smash.

My phone is still smashed as I cant bear for it to be sent away . Its still working but it is SOoooo hard to read anything through the  screen

In the meantime , by shear fluke, everywhere I look,my computer seems to be bombarded by i phone case marketing and you know what , I actually LOVE it.Ive looked at their website at least 5 times ,in some kind of fantasy i phone pinup parade . I feel a new Swarovski obsession coming along ..

Who could NOT want one of these blinging beauties?

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Some people wonder what I get up to at the weekend .

Well its usually like this . EVERY weekend I get the landy out of the garage ,pack up my Vuittons and head into the sunset in the West county .Oh you thought it was Africa?  Oh-Has one not been to the forever sunny west of England before?

The wild horses on Dartmoor often hang around in the background so they can get in some shots for the blog( people like that ). I play a MEAN game of draughts with the hubby-to-be and once the luggage has been displayed in coloumn form – the circular one always rolls off damn it -its usually time to head back home in time for X Factor .

The kids? Well they love it in the big Vuitton trunk-they hardly ever need to come out .

Ok its The latest Louis Vuitton campaign .

From tents, lion cubs, sunsets and campfires… Louis Vuitton’s catalogue  2010 Travel collection

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How sad the Corinne Day has finally lost her battle against cancer.

Her photos were always inspiring .

Here is one of my favourite,early , Corinne Day Shoots .

Mr( the other half )has been busy in the kitchen of Maison Blue .Its getting quite addictive .I’ve been’ picking your own’ raspberries ready for tonights Jam making challenge. Any spare jars anyone? Just will I be able to pull it off? hmmm

No this isnt my first self inflicted damaged-due-to-im going to work out this twittering thing

But Ive taped it up and its still going ….I just cant see a bloody thing when writing and viewing . .

So you better get in touch .This Twittering thing is a little bit addictive .Shit .

We are now on twitter .Jackyblueblog

Follow us ….. ( i will give you instructions tonight sis!)

Share the love -dont you love the love too , love?

Love the Roman

Love the Raquel

Love the stomping

Love the car

Love the soundtrack

Love the Shelley in her

Love the New Love .

Yes I did seem to get this first ……How was that ?!

These are some of my friend Zoes’ paintings.

Shes a hugely talented fashion designer and has just started to have a some of her work published . (the perfume bottles are amazing)

You can see more here

I am selling this

Grab a bargain .

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This ones for RDG .

First EVER issue of Another magazine . Supported by Stella Artois dry .It came free with Dazed and confused issue 7( still my favourite cover).Still looks pretty cool and uncommercialised and less gossy . Love it .

Features Tanya Court( remember her…)Rankin,Phill KNott ,Katie Grand,and many more …

Jacky&blue have been thinking a lot about next seasons ideas.

Here we are sharing with you the joys of two established designers sharing their most intimate design ideas with you

…a glimpse of my new lamp .

…before the rain showers .

Well Here it is.

I have a secret I’d like to share with you . I have a secret place that has made my life in Devon a very happy one.

I was very kindly introduced to Holly ,and over the years I have been filing up my house with the treasures she collects and sells in her barn .

Many people over the world come and stop by for a lovely cup of tea and a look in her famous barn  . Most people load up there cars ,and most appoint Holly for her interior design skills

I hadn’t been for over to her house for many months due to busy schedule-so today was a real treat as the barn was packed of unseen treasures.

I purchased a great display cabinet . A fantastic antique lamp that is unlike anything I have seen before and a huge glass jar to keep all my bits and bobs in .

Hollys’ barn is to view by appointment only.

For more information about Holly and her world click here .and here . And to all our oversea readers -Holly will be starting up an online shop soon ( keep you posted)

Hope to see you there one day !

Treasure Box from Gemma Booth on Vimeo.

I love this film by Gemma Booth .
www.gemmaboth.blogspot.com

im loving some of the new campaigns coming out at the moment ,

Heres the new Mui Mui campaign

Yellow and Blue .

And …Just  thinking about the eyebrows. Do you remember when I came to NYC about 10 years ago with them Shaved off?

your a bit like a modern day Toni Hart

For all of you who have followed this blog over the last two years ,you will realise that this whole blog is written by two sisters. Living in two continents and It is once a year we get together .

Well finally we got together .

We will post more .

Then I Realised that the I-pad is great for taking snapshots of films . Whilst waiting for my flight . And pathetically crying on the plane during The Young Victoria (or was that the turbulence?)

The local cool kids shop had a new pair of shoes in the window -and oh look! there are my new ones too..(thank you Miss Mcg)

lined my eyes up with mr french monkeys eyes and realised that the similarity is way too close

happy and sad metros

loving the Palais Royal area .

Got a bit too much into Fashion Tv whilst clicking off for the night.Loving Victor and Ralph menswear..

Have you watched that fashion TV before . Its annoyingly addictive.

And here it is . One of my Favourite , nicest ,affordable hotels in Paris . Hotel Therese. .

Just make sure there is a spare room for me !

PS .Lets thank our lucky stars that we haven’t sercummed to any advertising on this blog as I am sure we would have been majorly sued by now ! Has this been the longest no entries since we started ? I think we have probably left our readers wondering what has happened ….

My little missy all grown up and entering the world of Hello Kitty ,Sylvalian families and Polly Pocket .

Happy Birthday Our  Sweet little Bea !

Dear Camille .

Loved your new photos . So glad you’ve ventured out into photography .

from me .

And get in touch/.Its been far too long …

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Anyway sis . over to la Paris tomorrow – & see you (finally!)  in a few days time !

I saw a Civet today .

Ive never seen one before  – I think it looks a cross between my Tommy and your Brodie.

So cute .So cute .

You were very much missed at the annual Wildacres Croquet Tournament .( but not for your bad, non existant croquet skills. Well mine also! )

The very fashionable Mr Bond has been blogged at Maison Blue whilst wearing a rather fetching neck tie .

J’adore your pinache Mr Bond!

The day started off with some morris dancing

I was quite liking the bells …( on a bag maybe?)

Happy that the skate park was finally opened  felt a bit like wathcing the movie kids.

We all sat and ate a small tub of cockles

Saw and sat in the car of my dreams

At the vintage car rally

A quick flight to Paris . Oh and whos that on my flight ? Yes its Grace Coddington

Let me just say that AGAIN .Grace Coddington was on my flight from Exeter to Paris

Oh la la

Even the graffitti is in English  .

Then it was off to a late night dinner with the stunning Charlie Harrington and ever cheeky Mr Miles

Paris was beautiful and exciting  as always .I will blog more sooon!

I cant believe I mised you by 3 days sis

All photos by Blue

New perfume . Love .Chloe .

May have to purchase a pair of white gloves too just to clean it .

Look at this ,hanging with the friends drinking wine in the evening sun . Got a little chilly at 10.30 ,so headed to the pub 2 mins up the beach .

Perfect -I just hope the weather holds out for you too x

Just found and snapped the inspiration for next seasons shoe research .

No-one has done the laughing boot yet ,have they?

(Mind you, they do look a little like last years All Saints’boots )

(just realised this is my third posting on footwear . )

I soooo wished I was there at Galstonbury  seeing missy Flo in full swing

Did you see all the things that I saw too?

…especially a shiny one .

I would be terrible in the shop though , far to many nice colours to chose from

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hes got it going on !

I feel the need to get my rusty bike rigged up .

I had a dress once that vanished into the pattern cutters room , never to return again .

It reminds me a lot of this one , and im really tempted to buy it . Look at all those nice colours all in row ,with a bit of JM masking tape

From here .

The site is going to bankrupt me .

The worlds most longest tennis match at Wimbledon ,I couldn’t help but get more and more annoyed with whole Ralph lauren thing.

Is no mistake that all the staff at Wimbledon look great , but the ball boys in their navy blue, have the BIGGEST horsey polo logo on their shirts-whats going on(apart from$10 million )?

Why have Wimbledon sold out to a big American company??

Goodness me Burberry,Aquacascutmn,Mulberry – get on the case ! British Traditional Iconic sports = British Design .

Get on it .

Actually ,bring on Westwood next year !

Beas got a new vintage play camera from the charity shop

Im jealous .

I desperately need it to take vintage photos -so i can blog them  .

imagine that . I could try shooting next seasons campaigns on it .

i love this image

i found it ages ago in tumbler

Please drop me a line if you recognise this image and i will credit you

At Otto vintage shop

On the Den

At home with Beatrices’ shoes

Ive called him Bob

Hes my new best friend .

Highly recommended for all types of correspondence.

Not even that expensive . (So I wont feel to bad next week when hewill probably get lost -down the back of the  sofa, in the car, bottom of the of the dirty handbag etc etc)

Ive randomly found a lovely blog today .

I can now get all my tourist fixes without having to get out my passport

Well done Tommy .I like your beautiful things too .

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its been a very looooooong time since the mini meeees .

Have the little ones been having any dramas recently?

We even got our own blog and we were featured in rather a cool online magazine blog .

We are looking rather dusty – im thinking we should dust down  do another feature.

What you reckon?

Me and lauren have a love of hats .

But my hat is now so frayed at the edges, that its looking less chic and more scarecrow .

Im thinking we should bust this look when you come over this summer

What you think?

Im thinking -me in yellow with the Hermes scarf

The pleated trousers too much for you ?

I wish Ben and I could do as good his and hers looks as this one .

(Found some lovely photos on the wall of our hotel last week )