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.

Summer is

Summer is also when flowers look at their most stunning 
Featuring La Jardin de Victoria - available in assortments of colours (available soon)

Yeah, I know I know. My summer is ending. Yes, "MY" summer. Summer is when I do not need to shout and ask if homework's done, or if revision's completed. Summer is when I do not have to deliver lunch and  drive from day to night like a chauffeur.

Are your darlings ready to go back to school? Mines are probably still thinking they have some two more months instead of two more weeks.

To make myself feel better, at least I will not sweat that much once the cool breeze sets in.

Dream

From left to right: Blushing Rosemary, Catherine, Denise and Marie from the Blossoming Spring Collection (Selected items available now) 

I woke up today from a dream, at the break of dawn, suddenly realising my girls are so grown already.

I miss terribly the time when I could just pick them up single-handedly. 

I was those annoying ones who would like to "disturb" them when they were asleep: whispering in their ears how much I loved them, kissing them until they brushed me aside in their deep sleep, or simply scooping them up from their crib (when they were still tiny) and let them sleep sweetly and soundly in my arms until they blinked open their little eyes.

Those were the days...