Cath Kidston- Heaven on Earth

Before I set off to Europe and the UK one of my best friends, Tam, gave me advice on where I should go and what I should see, buy and eat. One of the things on her list of places to go was the Cath Kidston store in Covent Gardens, London. I scheduled this into my itinerary, but when I arrived, not really knowing what to expect, I was far more impressed than I thought I would be.  

This Cath Kidston store has the most adorable range of all things girly. Its products range from accessories and bags to clothes and costumes, to stationary and household items. Everything has an old fashioned but classy theme to it and although some of the items are a little pricey they are so unusual and adorable that it's absolutely worth it.  

There are a few other Cath Kidston stores around England, but I was only able to visit the one in Covent Gardens. Had I not had a luggage weight restriction and a limit on my credit card, I would have really let myself loose in that store :-) 

Click Here to go to directly to her website to see all the incredible products she has to offer. I've posted a few pics of some of my favourite Cath Kidston gear below.

Cell Phone Cover

Old fashioned dress

Handbag- my favourite

Toiletry bag

Travel wallet

Old fashioned costume

Super classy Umbrella, elle, elle

Wellies- which are a necessity in London

When leaving London I was most upset as I thought that this may be the last I see of Cath Kidston, but when I got home to South Africa I did some research and found that you can buy some of her products from South Africa on Bid or Buy. Sigh of Relief :-)  

Diamonds - Creepy or beautiful???

Our overseas trip was pretty much indescribable...but in the next few blog posts I'll try my best to share some of the interesting and different things we experienced along the way.

While in London we visited the Tate Modern Museum...and what we found in there was awesome, intriguing and a little freaky, all at the same time. It was an art exhibition by a famous British artist named Damien Hirst. I'll be honest, I had never heard of him before, but while watching "Gossip Girl" the other day Blair mentioned him...and so I have decided that he must be something special if the fictional Upper East Side characters know of him. He is reportedly Britain's richest living artist. The focus of many of his art pieces is "death", and these pieces along with some of his verbal statements have caused a fair amount of controversy among the public over the years. 



The Damien Hirst art piece that we viewed in the Tate Modern is named "For the Love of God" and it is a platinum cast of a real human skull, with the original human teeth, covered with 8 601 flawless diamonds and it is worth 50 million Pounds.  

This art piece completely tore me in two directions as one one hand it was really creepy to consider that hundreds of years ago this was actually a real human and now some bling bling has been added to his skull and it is sitting in a lit up glass box in front of me. The other part of me was completely in love with this shiny and perfect masterpiece that stood sparkling under the lights, shining from every angel. 

No longer MIA :-)

OK...so I apologise profusely, as I have officially been the most shocking blogger over the past 4 weeks. My reasoning for the shockingness of my blogging is that I went overseas for 3 weeks with my boyfriend and my lovely friend Shavaughn, and although I had all these good intentions of posting blogs while I was away...the lack of spare time and Internet access prevented me from doing so.

I am back now and have loads of stunning, interesting and foreign  things (if you are South African) to share from my travels...and fortunately for my adventurous side but unfortunately for my bank balance the travel bug has bitten and I'm desperate to start planning my next trip:-)

I spent one week in London with my BFF Sam, who is a London local...so she made sure we got to see the untouristy side of London, while also checking out the all the typical tourist attractions.



This pretty much sums up my feeling about London:-)

After London we went on a 2 week Contiki around central Europe (France, Monaco, Italy, Vatican City, Austria, Germany and Netherlands to be precise), where each country and city that we visited was more gorgeous and interesting than the next.

I landed back in South African last Friday and have spent most of the weekend recovering from the flu, doing washing (OK my mum did most of that) catching up on sleep and missed Greys Anatomy and Gossip Girl episodes and dishing out foreign presents to my family. Now I'm feeling almost human again...which is great, considering that I am starting work again tomorrow and I'm pretty sure being human is one of my job requirements.