Right place, at the right time...God must want me to

Last year H&M did a silver robotic/armour ring that I wanted last year but couldn't find :(

Last week, whilst getting hairbands, last minute before I went out with my friends, I ran past the jewellery but something pulled me back.....the glint of a LONE armour ring in GOLD!!!!!!GOLD!!!!JUST ONE HANGING OUT WITH SOME RANDOM BRACELETS!?!?!...I snapped it up real quick [although it was an Xtra SMALL!?!?]- asked the sales assistant if it was new to which she replied:

"What is that? Yeah....it's new....more will come, more will come..."

Everyday since then I go in after work - I checked in stores ALL around London...NEW MY ASS!!! ALL the staff in all the stores didn't even know how I got the ring because none of their stores recieved them???!?!? SICK or WHAT....don't answer that...the photo below will do that for you ;) [I have just realised this program is not a 30min affair....it's ONE HOUR...I gotta hit tha sack...].

If any of you reading this are followers [that word is so cringey for me today....thesaurus.com time]....er, if you are 'returning readers', you will remember this post [which I have conveniently hyperlinked so you can read this sentence again and "go with the flow" <<<>

ohh but I think it was a return because this necklace is SOOOOOO five seasons back and there are some missing gems :(......I only managed to haggle a 10% deal after the woman said:

"I cannot sell....it's faulty so I will send theesss to warehouse..."

ERRR NAH!!!GIRRRRL *hood chick voice* YOU BETTA HAND ME MY CHAIN!!!!

I still cannot believe how this all happened...right place, at the right time, mine all mine, mine all mine.....

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WHAT THE....Jerseylicious!?!?....why is this FAKE Jersey Shore being allowed on to our TV screens????

Victory Meals ROCK!!!I don't rock all black, heart shaped EVERYTHING!!!

WOOOOOOOO *dizzy spinning*!!! Yesterday, I found out that I got a placement at a magazine!!! It made my day at work go quicker [just about lol] and my mum put together a quick little meal for me to come home to....

I had a roast with stuffing [STUFFING!!! I love stuffing but I hardly ever have it outside of Christmas because it's as exciting as the presents....cringe but I really love stuffing!!] and she baked a beauty of a cake! Although I had a apple & sultana muffin....then a carrot cake for lunch...I proceeded to seek and destroooyyyy this heart-shaped [slightly picked at :O] coconut cake with a hint of lemon.....

If you can't imagine what a coconut cake with a hint of lemon taste like.....DAHWELL!!! LOL! I kinda went crazy as I threw some jelly and custard on to my slice for a makeshift trifle to enjoy my victory dessert to the absolute calorie indulging max!! WOOOO!!!

I also came home to tear the packaging off these vintage heart-shaped Moschino earrings....what I love about these is that the gold peace logo will NEVER EVER go bronze :D another bargain!!*VICTORY DANCE*

Heart shaped cakes and heart shaped earrings make me a smiley shaped gyal...

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Exclusive: Street Talk NYC Edition Ep 4

Street Talk's latest installments see Kevin Lanre letting the 'Street' speak about the recession phenom as he interviews GoodWood creator/jewellery designer, Kerri O'Connell.

FACT: Last summer, I bought these GoodWood earrings, below, and a chain from her at a Sneaker Pimps concert in . Prior to this, me and my friends were already fans of her range and when we told her we were from the UK the cool Miss Kerri O'KindHeart [ ;) ]chopped a few dollars off the price for us! NICE!!!!

WATCH KEVIN LANRE x STREET TALK NOW!!!!

Street Talk NY EP4 Recession PT 2 from Street Talk on Vimeo.

Street Talk NY EP4 Kerri O'Connell from Street Talk on Vimeo.

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Hilary...eat your heart out..."I'm in Bel Air trick"!

I love my new jacket! It reminds me of the fabulously, materialistic Hilary from the Fresh Prince of Bel Air. It also warms my heart to know that it fits nicely [except for the arms which I now have to take a needle'n'thread to......yawning!]. DAHWELL [in my best Fresh Prince voice]!

*This jacket says* "Daddy.......I need 500 hundred dollars."

WOOOOAAAHHHHH SWEETCHILD O'MINE!!!!

Before the end of the year, I did a lil bit of well deserved shopping since I worked like crazy and one of my buys has become a favourite.....you know when you have sumthing that you wanna frame and hang on your wall....well this is it....

There is a funny story behind this jacket....because.....I have a problem with wearing scarlet/cherry/hooker/vamp red. Anything I buy with red on it must be 90% another colour. For instance, ye olde Run DMC t-shirt always has two red lines on it...I'd say it's 93% white....so it passes the red test! Get it? I do this with shoes, nail varnish (deep coral as oppose to red), etc. Well this jacket is officially the ONLY item in my wardrobe that doesn't pass the red test but I had to have it. I am getting over my fear of red, finally!

So, thanks jacket...

.....and my two friends, Athena and Cheryl, who's online store SweetChild Fashion sold me this boldly graphic red piece of art!!!!Their shop is having a HUGE sale which ends January 31st [even though their stuff is already so low priced!!] SO GO SHOP NOW!!!!!!

I actually helped out on the shoot which features vintage clothing from their travels Stateside and Europe.....and I erm 'modelled' for 'em too so my unexperienced mug will pop up here and there haha!!!

I suggest that you add their site to your favourites because there is going to be even HOTTER stuff when they start their 2010 collection......I will keep you posted but you will have to stalk the site just in case I get caught up in buying stuff LOL!

"Git yo ass to the nearest PC and buy yo self some hotness at SweetChildVintage....I know I did....and if you don't....im gon' cuuuuut you" ;)

*I AM* HOOD and ARTSY

Kick-a-Licks: Nike Air Tech Challenge Hybrid

"Broker than a joker but I had to get these trainers,

But I got 'em on a discount - forty percent to be particular,

Should I get da white or black - both are so hot,

But the black is in nubuck, like leather, it's so soft."

[I rap on the weekends lol!]

My trainers have been getting rewinds like all the time since I bought them last week - I can't stop wearing them! I think it's cos I have a thing for shoes/kicks that are nubuck/suede. It just feels so good when you can run your fingers over 'em and they feel like a freshly, shaved cat or something [errr the cat was the first thing that came to mind].

If my kicks called talk they would probably sound like Barry White when he was on the block macking on all the hoodchicks......that kinda hoodsmooth that girls just love.... yea....THAT'S how smooth these are....
Oh - remember that rapper, Smooth......no.....okay! I used to really like her song, 'Strawberries', when I was a lil girl....I was in love with the beat so much. I now know that it was because of the Patrice Rushen sample she used.....dahwell...the 90's had heaps of sampled/original songs that are way better than the trash I hear nowadays. Enjoy and Goodnight/Goodmorning!

Hmmm....I have to think about what I will wear to a meal @ TGI Friday's tomorrow [YUM - JACK DANIELS SAUCE!!!].....I gotta remember to wear something that will hide my stomach well so I can shovel loads food into my pie-hole!!!

*I am* Angry my early morning Scrubs is not on cos of Big Brother and Proper tired

Another day.....another dollar[less]

Me and my friend went out shopping today [Oh?....what a surprise, Kara...] and decided to go all over Camden town and West End. This is like my third time around those ends in the past few days - NOT GOOD - I'm already struggling to lower my spending....it's like throwing a rabbit in front of race dogs....they can't help but to run dammit!

Luckily, I only bought three things [I think] , an orange dress and men's shirt from Primark and some sunglasses from Aldo [whoops - forgot to take a pic of me in those.....back in a jiffy.....]

Okay my skin is overly-oily today [like most days haha] and I'm sorry if the beam from my forehead interrupts your daily routine.....

Sunglasses - £9
Shirt - £7
Dress - £5 [Bargain Bob!]

I think that I did quite well ....luckily the £70 shoes I picked up in Zara didn't leave the shop with me.......and these £35 pound Blue Suede are coming home with me very soon....

I'm so sick of the shops making blue suede shoes.....it's personal now because my penchant for soft blues and furry shoes is being abused! ABUSED! It's like these shops KNOW I like blue suede so they make the shoes in this colour or black......I've already got a pair of black suede heels.....NEXT....damn...those blue suede fringed sandals I bought - I still ain't posted em up yet have I?! My room needs sorting out tommorow so I will post those and my other bits I got last week... [I'm currently torn between watching Scrubs and the Finland entry on the Eurovision Song Contest....both are extremely funny......one, more so than the other....]

Talking about sunglasses made this song pop into my head......I love the strings and the lil dance in the beginning......even though Mark Ronson's 'Ooo Wee' rinsed the hell outta this track, it's still good.....

Random: Lady Gaga's 'PokerFace' was on the radio and that part where she goes 'p-p-p-poker face (m-m-m-more)...' made my Mum go, "Hey - she stole the adlibs from a Boney M song......don't you remember?", [as if me and her grew up back in the day haha]. Here is that Boney M track.... and at 0:50secs you will here the m-m-m-more bit....

*I am* Going off Chicken flavoured Super Noodles coz I've eaten them for too long and Proper switching to Scrubs because I can see someone is about to play an accordion on the Song Contest......

Victory!

Okay, I am officially happy!!! Wooo!!!! I finally got my blue suede Unique shoes!!!I posted about 'em a while back!!!! First, I got the 'Essex girl' white snakeskin pair coz they didn't have the blue pair and I needed a backup......

...then I phoned a few Topshop stores and found the blue pair......even though I really want the new green pair now....lol! I dunno if I'm making sense cos I'm typing and talking on the phone about all the gossip from my end of Uni ball/rave etc whateva they called it.....I got loadsa pics to post up from that night of madness with ma uni peeps....soon come....I'm proper tryna multi-task at the moment but it's floppin'......Okay I'm off the phone now....here are some photos...

I got some more blue suede shoes last week.....some fringed sandals.....I can't find 'em right now cos it's under a heap of other clothes I bought.....I went a lil mad last week.....so mad that I left one of my shoes somewhere in London....either in a shopping centre or on the tube.....I can't remember :(......it was these shoes......

but.....as bad as it sounds.....I'm going to buy them again [I KNOW I'M NOT RICH BUT THEY ARE TOO NICE MAN!] anyways just in case the 'Lost and Found' dudes of the London Underground or Westfield shopping centre don't have my sick-ass shoes, I'm buying 'em.......by hook or crook....I might enlist the help of the new and improved thugged out MJ to rob a pair for me ahahaha [I don't encourage crimes of any sort guys.....honesty brings prosperity...]

New Shoes!

Two months back, I bought a pair of magenta suede shoes from New Look for a friend's birthday but whilst putting them into a gift box, I started to realise I was never going to hold them again. They weren't my shoes.

As I sat and watched the shoes being unwrapped, everyone at the table groaned, "Awwww - those are so nice! I'd definitley rock those!". I totally agreed and had a brain chat.....'Yes I would rock those too....but they were the last pair in the shop I got them from....now I've missed my chance....'.

So the next week, every New Look in London got a visit from me and I frantically searched online. I was also told there was a blue pair.....A BLUE PAIR!!!!! Now I am obsessed with blue suede so I was even more upset.

Fast forward to this week, my friend who goes to uni in a far away land outside of London [and always keeps her eyes open for things I want] FOUND THE MAGENTA SHOES!!!!! I couldn't believe it....my size was the last pair.....then she told me they even had the blue pair!!!!!AND - wait for it...they were in the SALE!!! WOOOOOOOO!!!!!

She asked which colour I wanted and a mental reminder of the past two weeks popped up: two new shoes, a new pair of kicks, earrings, a t-shirt, restaurant bills, library fines, unpaid rent....'Hmmm, which ones should I have......[cue photos of me in pyjama bottoms....]

...BOTH, please!'

*I am* Angry I didn't do any work today and Proper

She tried to play me, I got all crazy and things just wasn't the same: Sentence-Word

Someone's auntie tried to boy me today!...Actually, she DID boy me! [for those who don't know 'to boy, is to disrespect' ;)]

As I proceeded to drag myself to the till point with some trainers, a swimming costume and a weird polo dress, something familiar caught my eye.....someone's auntie had picked up these brilliantly-trashy Moschino leggings I wanted!!!

So I said: "HEY - those are the leggings iiiiii wanted!" [obviously]


I stalked nearby, as you do, and watched her movements.

She look at them like,*African Voice* 'Hmmm okay....maybe these will be okay for me I'm not sure...'. [You know that face your auntie does, kinda like a fish or Ciara's dancing mouth, when she's checking out whether the real leather Fendi bag in that 'Asian man shop' is actually real....yes - because they would really sell Fendi in the 'Asian man shop'].

So these leggings are now being abusively, stretched to see if there is enough give for her auntie-legs and I'm like, "Okay this is getting too ridiculous now - she obviously does want them that much if she's pondering and stretching!"


Anyway, ignoring my shyness, I decided to SWOOP down on her like a security guard and blurted out:

"Excuse-me-are-you-buying-those-for-definite-cos-I-want-em."

If done right, it should sound like one word, 'sentence-word', here's why:

• Because it's all one word the urgency sounds intimidating your voice should be as sweet as candy


• The multi function of the 'sentence-word' means they can't get a word in edge ways and you will sound a lil crazy so it gives the impression that if they say 'oh but I really want it', you won't let it go and probably start crying whilst, slyly, taking refuge in the left leg of the leggings to wipe away the tears....


• Sentence-word all sounds more like a statement so the person usually gets confused, as to how someone could be so brass and step into their personal shopping space


• Whilst the brassiness of the opening line marinates the person's mind will wonder 'what shall I say that will make me sound non-bitchy/empathetic/genuine


• As they think about this answer they kinda forget why they wanted the item in the first place - NOW YOU'VE GOT 'EM WHERE YOU WANT 'EM!


• The person will start to feel a slight guilt for holding something that now means nothing to them because they have no valid reason for wanting to steal the retail joy from your heart. YES that is what they are now doing...they are STEALING what is rightfully yours!


• Now, as they give you a measly, indefinite answer to test whether you will leave them be, stare intensely in their eyes as if you are the human lie detector....
  
• It usually gets easier from here....they WILL hand over YOUR goods...muahaha...like taking candy from a-

Auntie: "Oh no sorry - I'm buying deesss one"

Me: "But I really want it!?" [alternate plan : Do sad-shocked face]

Auntie: "Hmph - [she does the auntie laugh where they shake off how much you want something - like when you wanted to go to that party...and they don't care who's 'child is going cos you're not GOING!]

Me: "I really do though so if you're not buying it-"

Auntie: "If I see another one [she reverses her trolley away from me] I will let you know."

Me: "Erm?!?" [I look at my friend , confused as to why auntie has walked off when I have finished what I planned to start]

Auntie: "Oh look - anoda one!"

Me: "Awww thanks!" [auntie hands over the new one she found and I continue to thank her...]

Auntie:"No - wait - is that one I gave you too small?

Me: "Huh? [auntie then takes the new one she found from my hands and throws me the one from her shopping trolley - I look at the label ] This is a size 8....[I look at the label again] So what's the one you have?

Auntie: "This is....TEN" [she tries to move swiftly from me, again!]

Me: What! [my friend laughs at me as we both realise that auntie tricked me because she saw that the new one she found and gave to me was bigger!]
Auntie: "But you are young - you got young body [she stretches the leggings with force] this is much better for you [she looks over her shoulder to reverse away from me] its much better..."

Me: "But-"

Auntie: "Ohhh alright! You wait - here - if it doesn't fit - you can have deess one okay?"

Me: "Okay....."

So she boyed me again whilst she shopped for another 15mins whilst I innocently, followed her and tried to shout out 'look at this bargain!' here and there, hoping she would see something in my hands that she liked....that didn't work. I ended up hanging around the changing rooms screwfaced: "THIS IS LONGGGGG! Why is she acting like she's trying dem on? She's got like FIFTY auntie-type clothes she's trying on and my 'young body' leggings....she's only doing this cos she can see that I wanted em!!! She's probably going to wear them for 'yam and plantain' shopping! Why is she BOYING MEEEEE! I'm soooooo-
Auntie: "HEY - You! Here take it!"[standing at the entrance of the changing rooms, with her top halfway on, she hands me the leggings and customers look confused as to why I would want what auntie has]

Trashflash:

The Moral: Sentence- word mate, sentence-word. Never fails.

By the way, I'm sorry my photos always look budget. The uni surroundings are dead and I initially took this to send to a friend as a text message haha! It looks better on the left but hey!

I got this jumper too....and the black bag hanging in the back trying to get some of my attention....I plan to pay off uni fines this week so I don't have no mo' cashmoney woes!

*I am* Hood and Laughing at my superhero/cliched poses

Don't Step On My Blue Suede Shoes

As I have been snowed under (literally and figuratively) over the past two weeks, so I had to keep my shopping habits to a minimum. I did this by purchasing this lovely denim peplum skirt and these blue suede/patent black shoes, from Miss Selfridge as shown above.....oh and over a hundred pounds worth of other items. So, yeah - I was a VERY happy bunny....but then I left them at a friends pyjama party [FUN TIMES] along with the cardigan I was wearing when I GOT there, like a top scatty, loser! And NO...I wasn't sloshed - I was drunk off cake!

Anyway, I LOVE all things blue and suede so when I saw these Topshop Unique heels I went slightly bonkers....

...at 90squid they are sooooo WORTH IT! I was sold when I saw the abstract heel design but the blue suede was the cherry on top! I browsed for a hot minute on Topshop.com because I knew if I spent too long I would be tempted to use the last of my neverlasting monies and came across some stuff....