It's contagious, and it's official (aka Tiny Little Things That Cause You Irrational Joy)

[giggirl]

I'm liking the black clutch best. Red and pink flowers and pearls. Oooooh. Clutch bags are bliss. I remember buying my first one and it was the most grown up feeling in the world. I was coveting the Lulu Guinness lips clutch in fushia but I went with the Alexander McQueen Union Jack clutch instead and two would have been too greedy. It doesn't hold much and it weighs a lot but I love it. He also does a clutch that doubles as a knuckle duster. That could come in handy.

The shoes are not working for me. I despise trainers outside of the gym. I'll need to google and get a visual - I might come round to them later.

Px

[legalbeagle]

Oh I hear you re the trainers but don't judge me too harshly till you've looked:

http://www.katekuba.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=5912

[giggirl]

No - not really my thang - neither fish nor fowl. What would you wear them with?

[legalbeagle]

Jeans - I'm wearing them now! But I hear you, they are very denim specific.

Can I tempt you instead with my knee high black leather boots with silver popper studs down the sides and spikey heels, purchased in Paris a few years ago?

[legalbeagle]

OMYGODI'MINLOVE:

http://www.luluguinness.com/ProductPage.aspx?productId=LULU0067039055600

[giggirl]

legalbeagle Wrote:

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>

> Can I tempt you instead with my knee high black

> leather boots with silver popper studs down the

> sides and spikey heels, purchased in Paris a few

> years ago?

YES I'M TEMPTED. NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL FOOTWEAR.

[RosieH]

Hmm, I find Lulu Guinness a bit gimmicky. I prefer something like this Alexander McQueen number

But what is bringing me joy today is seeing all my insanely hard work of the past two months come to fruition tomorrow, and it looks beautiful. I actually welled up this morning. Tired and happy. This time tomorrow, I'll be drunk and happy. This time on Thursday I'll be drunk and happy. This time on Friday, I will again be drunk and happy. On Saturday I will be in bed and happy.

Happy happy joy joy. Let the good times roll...

[giggirl]

legalbeagle Wrote:

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> OMYGODI'MINLOVE:

>

> http://www.luluguinness.com/ProductPage.aspx?produ

> ctId=LULU0067039055600

Yes it's heavenly. But I already have this:

http://www.alexandermcqueen.co.uk/uk/en/shop/Womenswear/Spring-Summer-10/Bags/P-UNION-JACK-SKULL-CLUTCH.aspx

It's beautiful. I can't stop looking at it. One Union Jack is enough though.

This is the one I have been coveting:

http://www.luluguinness.com/ProductPage.aspx?productId=LULU0067151055603

But I like the silver one too. And the red.

[giggirl]

RosieH Wrote:

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> Hmm, I find Lulu Guinness a bit gimmicky. I

> prefer something like this Alexander McQueen

> number

>

> But what is bringing me joy today is seeing all my

> insanely hard work of the past two months come to

> fruition tomorrow, and it looks beautiful. I

> actually welled up this morning. Tired and happy.

> This time tomorrow, I'll be drunk and happy.

> This time on Thursday I'll be drunk and happy.

> This time on Friday, I will again be drunk and

> happy. On Saturday I will be in bed and happy.

>

> Happy happy joy joy. Let the good times roll...

Gimmicky maybe but she's also great fun and sometimes you don't want to play it safe - you want something that shocks / surprises / indulges ....

Having said that - I love that McQueen bag.

What's happening tomorrow. Tell us now in case you're too pissed to post tomorrow.

Px

[RosieH]

Actually bought the McQueen one a wee while ago, so I'm glad you approve.

Tomorrow is the autumn press launch for the company I'm currently working for. Biggest press event they've ever done. Ridiculous deadlines, long nights, weekends, and I'm dog tired, but cola and adrenaline have got me this far - one martini tomorrow night and I'm anybody's.

Coveting these at the moment.

[giggirl]

Those are truly fabulous shoes but I actually cannot walk in Alexander McQueen heels - they just don't work for me. I know this for fact because I buy the dresses and they bring you shoes to try on with the dresses and I can barely make it out of the changing room to the mirror without clinging to an assistant for support. But if you can walk in them then buy them with your huge bonus for your tireless efforts and organising the most perfect press launch!

The picture on the website does not do these shoes justice - they are really beautiful in the flesh (so to speak):

http://www.alexandermcqueen.co.uk/uk/en/shop/Womenswear/Spring-Summer-10/Shoes/P-STUDDED-SKULL-FLAT-SANDAL.aspx

I was very tempted but I had already spent too much.

I do like the McQueen bag very much - and it's rare for me to be taken with a black handbag - I ususally avoid them. But it's beautiful and it's sophisticated and it's a classic. When you get bored with it just put it away and when you take it out again it will feel brand new - not like "last year's arm-candy". Classic.

Best of luck for tomorrow and I'm sure that martini will taste like the best you've ever hand.

[legalbeagle]

I'm off for a wee drinkie, but leave you with my latest Choo lust:

http://www.jimmychoo.com/Sandals/Dasha-/invt/093dashamle

[Pickle]

Sorry to interrupt the shoe/handbag loving ;-), but my day has been made today simply because the driver of the recycling truck this morning went out of his way to help me with my mountain of cardboard boxes.

He explained he was unable to fit it in his truck (start of the run for the day, fair enough), but then contacted the recycling centre for me, arranged a pick up later in the day, and drove past later in the day to check that it had been taken.

Thanks recycling man!

[giggirl]

I'm feeling the love Pickle. Such a shame that we're so resigned to people not stepping up to help though. It's great when it happens.

Px

[brum]

Looking out of the window of my north-bound train and seeing fields of vivid yellow.

[Moos]

That reminds me of once passing a beautiful field full of flax, a sea of blue rippling in the breeze quite lovely in itself, but someone had completed the illusion by putting a toy sailboat on a post in the middle of the field.

It was years ago, but it still makes me smile that whoever it was thought of it and did it.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Have I gone mad? Did I imagine it? Are we being censored for digression in the lounge?

[giggirl]

PCG you're digressing. Where is the joy?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

And a page on fripperies is joyous? Stewards please.

[giggirl]

Fuck the stewards a trip to Lourdes

Might give the old fu**ers the power of sight

A fab Pogues lyric. Brings me irrational joy.

What, actually, is "irrational joy". A definition maybe.

Px

[RosieH]

Did anyone notice the sun going down last night?

A bright bright golden sun striking the dome of St Paul's between opaque gunmetal clouds - a thing of glory and wonder. I love bright sunshine on stormy days - creates a strange quality of light, making everything look hyper-real and super-3D somehow.

(and PGC, I apologise for my part in the fripperies - my handbag does in fact bring me irrational joy, not just as a thing of great loveliness in itself, but for all it represents)

[giggirl]

How did it go Rosie? Tell the truth; were you drunk watching that sun go down?

Px

[RosieH]

It was a triumph. I am a triumph. I should be feted in supermarkets all across the land! I am also a broken woman and really need a lie down. And yes, I was just a little bit drunk - I think I may still be now - but it really was terribly magnificent and beautiful.

[giggirl]

Well done that broken woman.

[charliecharlie]

managing to organise you life so you do not need to work full time.... re-bloody-sult!!!

http://www.angeloplessas.com/blog/uploaded_images/Part_Time_Punks-734151.jpg

unite, all you part time punks.... let's feel that smile