When you smell lavender

Who are you reminded of, when you smell lavender?

You are not imagining if you think you can smell the beautiful flower. That's because dried lavenders have really been adoringly kept and thoughtfully sealed inside this heirloom dove grey silk and lace trimmed ring pillow. Proudly presenting my newest creation. And, three stems of lavender (I made extensive research online and looked at many photos before creating a lookalike) made with Japanese glass beads (each piece requiring over an hour to finish) are there to witness the moment when you become man and wife...

J'adore...

This ring pillow is now listed in my Etsy shop. Bring it home before any else does it!

Inspiration

Above: HRH Crown Princess Mary of Denmark at the christening of Princess Isabella

Below: HeadGirl Mary (Available now at Bonanza) 

I was never someone who loved fashion. 

I only bought my first fashion magazine ELLE in the summer of 1994, the year I went to university, because I was getting something from a supermarket and the magazine happened to be on a rack near the cashier. I just took it down and paid thinking that it would make me look stylish.

I stopped reading for many years. Then after graduation, I became a journalist and I was assigned to do court stories. 

It was ELLE again, when the black-and-white, life-and-death situations at court darkened my perspective on life and almost drowned me. They were hiring beauty editor, so I wrote a letter. However, a twist came and I ended up working for a buying office that manufactured quality hotel robes for casinos and five stars hotels around the world. I haughtily but secretly considered myself a "fashion person". (Oh did I mention that we did sleepwear for name brand clients too?)

That was when I began reading extensively fashion magazines from around the world.

Life took on another unexpected path and this time I landed myself a temp secretary job at a real local fashion magazine. 

I met a lot of people there, a lot more colourful and fashionable people than the newspaper or the clothing buying office.

However, I never met anyone that truly inspired me. I always thought, if they could not inspire me in any ways, pleeeeeease, wear something nice and enlighten me....fashionably! 

I was dying for inspiration until I finally "met" HRH Crown Princess of Denmark, née Mary Elizabeth Donaldson, on HELLO! Magazines. How can people have words that are suitable to describe her? Her style is impeccable. She reminds us of the bygone grace and elegance. She is herself, and she is style.

I am in love with everything she wears, every style she manages to carry. 

And thus, the creation of HeadGirl Mary.