The blessed man's coming in his pants again

RIGHT. I have come to a very firm non cellulitey decision that no longer am i going to be precious with this bloggy business. I want to make it work for me too as well as being highly entertaining to my many, many followers.....Although mr magpie is having an epic identity crisis, i have decided what to use it for which is that its going to be a big WOKKY SAUCEPAN of creativity. As i am having trouble deciding what to do with my WIFE i am going to use it as my very own private BLACK MALE to make myself do the things i love so i can show you all the poems i write, the dresses i make, the fashion that makes me DRIBBLE, articles that are so interesting and self indulgent you wont know what hit you, filams and what not? So the world can see for itself the creative nut i am and i can come a little bit closer to figuring a career of somekind out.
10 things to do on a monday before you have to get the train back to London

1. Get myself up from passed out in sofa and get in actual bed
2. eat eat eat banish hangover sick drink drink drink coke mmm I can feel whole again (avoid satomic kitten outbursts)
3. Paint nails a lovely navy blue and enjoy the shinyness of them - where is the fun in matte nail polish after all?
4. Keep thinking about what i could MAKE for christmas presents and not buy - why do i always imagine initial embroidered things???
5. Find a film for the train.
6.Fight the urge to get a needle and thread and start embroidering initials into anything. no one wants a personalised, grubby remote control.
7. Clean laptop a bit so people on train dont think im a skank.
8. Go for walk in beautiful fields and feel wise/enlightened either or.
9. resist temptation to pull clumpy mascara off
10. mourn eye lashes when I fail no.9

Dirty pretty things that toe the line..

Im getting a lot more girly these days and am increasingly desiring pretty beautiful things. I really want a GIRLY flowery dress at the moment, but haven't yet seen one that i'm willing to buy. Im doing my best to make like Dame Westwood and not buy fashion for 6 months. Apparently we will buy something that we want and love and value it more quite right. Easier said. I did buy a pretty little life size ladybird necklace today but it wasn't too pricey  at all. Not the point i know.

These boots are stunning. Had never really heard of Mascaro till now..... At £295 they're obviously expensive but much nicer than its much more exorbitant and quite honestly tacky counterpart Choo. I think i love high heels but its rare i see shoes that i would buy, these booties toe the line...


Something else rather racy, quite Blair Waldorf and very elegant. £395 Bordelle (coco de mer). Lovely!

hold your horses

Hahahaha hope you had a fun thirty seconds with your head tilted back there, being all hungovery i fucked up the very simple instructions which are that you should in fact stare at the dots for 30 secs THEN close eyes and tilt head back. Worth trying again i prommy promise. Who needs drugs when you can see jesus.

Look into my eyessss

It's sunday. We're feeling sorry for ourselves because we're hungover or because saturday was so shit we didn't manage hungover. This aint no hangover cure but it is pretty cool. If you hadn't found jesus already - now's your chance TRY THIS...


Stare and I mean really stare at the 4 little dots in the middle of the picture then tilt head back and close los ojos for about 30 seconds and then BAM low and behold son of a preacher bobs your fanny
cool no?

Trying my hand at a spot of sartorialism....Cool hunting (cunting)

For my trend forecasting project, I thought i better get out there and take some pictures of real people, real trends and real style. 

I couldn't resist taking pictures of interesting little street urchins that i thought were cool, as opposed to the      more obvious trends - so i didn't take many pictures of nasty, ugly trends unless they were REALLY nasty ugly  trends.

People were mostly happy for me to take their picture and i only fucked up once when i couldn't make the camera take a picture (my sister has lent it to me) in front of these painfully well dressed artiste types.I was more pissed off with myself that i didn't get the picture more than anything. 

I went and had some amazing apple pie sitting outside a cafe - which doubled up as a brilliant launch pad for taking photos.

A rainy day in Covent Garden....

This girl has a very Alice Dellal vibe. 

This picture naturally frames itself, which is cool.The big bulky jacket and jumper is contrasted with 

her lovely long skinny jeaned legs, and then complimented with some Dr Marten Camden copies.

This guy reminds me of those troll dolls. He's very cute and was understandably shy. 

Normally I wouldn't touch the colour tan with a barge pole, but this outfit really works.

I think these two are foreign. They have a bit of an eastern european beauty.

What a lovely picture. Im very proud of this one. Its beautiful, more to the point they're beautiful!

Very cute and awkward.  Reminds me a bit of Robyn only 

more shy and less Swedish.

Lovely brogue couple. There's a whole lot of facial hair between them. They look like very intellectual types that know their stuff when it comes to art and novels. This guys bag is breaking on the left. I told him. Don't worry.

But were homoluminous?!

Last week i went to a reading of Vivienne Westwood's manifesto. 

As expected the night was political and focused on the fact that attention should be taken off the artists and put onto relative art, otherwise we face the threat of losing culture. Active resistance against propaganda. Westwood stressed how throw-away consumerism must stop. It was all very critical.

There was an eclectic fashion crowd, with journalists / arty types.

I have to admit I was a little star struck as the Dame stepped into the small theatre at the tabernacle, Nottinghill.

Vivienne pressed the crowd to ask as many people as possible to sign the princes trust petition we know we did. Help put an end to deforestation and write your name in:  http://www.rainforestsos.org/