Granny chic? Embroidery just got cool. - Etsy Edit #2

You make me happy - £14.93

I'm so very close to buying a sewing machine and I'm blaming Pinterest and Etsy for my newfound need to make my own skirts out of chevron and floral fabrics.  Darn.

But before that, I'm still on the hunt for some artwork for my room and as I was scrolling (terrible for my repetitive strain injury) through Etsy and new type of art kept catching my eye.  Enter embroidery hoop art - colourful creativity in a circle.  As well as the cutesy flowers and bunting designs I also managed to find some pretty awesome pop-culture references in the form of quotes from Mean Girls, 30 Rock and Harry Potter.  How awesome are these?

Stop trying to make fetch happen - £16.97 // Wingardium Leviosa - £25.80 // I know right? - £12.90
// Shut It Down -£28.51//

Yellow spring flowers - £23.76 // Young Love - £18.00
Be Happy - £27.15 // Golden Purple Wave - £47.52

Mother and baby bunnies - £27.15 //And though she be but little she is fierce - £20.36
Personalised name oval - £33.94 // Blue and brown floral - £23.76

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Marketing Monday II - Audrey Hepburn stars in Galaxy ad

Roman Holiday is my favourite Audrey Hepburn movie so imagine my delight when I first saw this ad from Galaxy featuring a CGI Audrey Hepburn!
OK, it's not completely perfect but it's so refreshing to see a HD version of her.   I especially love that she has retailed her perfect class and the wonderful way that the ad has been written - it could have been so easily cheapened.   From a marketing perspective I would have loved a pack shot or logo with Audrey in the frame but instead I'm just going to close my eyes and sway to Moon River.  Enjoy.

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Our favourite stylists are back! Premiere dates for The Rachel Zoe Project and It's A Brad Brad World.

Our favourite guilty pleasure television is FINALLY back, and all on one night!  

The Rachel Zoe Project season 5 starts Wednesday 6th March at 9/8c on Bravo followed by It's A Brad Brad World at 10/9c.

I can't wait to see what they both have in store, especially if Rachel is styling Anne Hathaway's awards season and Brad is brand stylist for my favourite store, Kate Spade. I think the million pound question is: who would you want as your stylist? After much deliberation I still can't decide who I'd choose.  Rachel has the contacts and the amazing vintage and jewellery and Brad has a flawless way with colour that I covert myself.  The pressure is too much! 

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The Reading List - The most inspirational video ever, the guys from Mean Girls and Twitter attacks a NYFW show.

Cara finally got a Vogue UK cover and it's amazing - hurray.

♥If you only watch one video this week, make sure it's this one about a 35 year old inspirational woman with terminal cancer living her dream in Paris.  Get some tissues.

♥ Tumblr page of (mostly) animal gifs is addictive and mesmerising, especially the ones from BBC Africa.

♥Just in case you were wondering, this is what the guys from Mean Girls are up to now.

♥Note to self: don't show an unfiltered Twitter feed as a backdrop at new York Fashion Week.  I feel REALLY bad for Rebecca Minkoff, not so much for her marketing department..

♥It's the Grammy's tonight and I am definitely not OK with Chris Brown attending let alone performing.

♥The Mindy Project is a surprisingly very good TV find for me this year, here's two reasons why you should watch it (and then tell me how much you love it).

♥A vending machine that dispenses rare books for $2?  Get me to Toronto pronto.

♥This week my mother told me three times in the space of 2 hours that Ryan Gosling has amazing eyes (we were watching The Notebook).  Here's an open letter from the women of the world to Ryan Gosling.

Now for the videos..

If you haven't seen Beyonce's SuperBowl performance you should be hanging your head in shame!  Watch it now silly!

And finally, I love marketing and social media so I was very excited when this video was shown in my E-Marketing lecture this week.  Social Media is huge, scary and exciting at the same time!

(If you're following me by email, you'll have to click through to my website to watch the videos.  What are you waiting for? Click!)

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Style Inspiration - Introducing.. Jaime King

Jaime King is currently starring in Hart Of Dixie on The CW (Really Channel in the UK) as Lemon Breeland - a traditional 'Southern Belle' in Alabama.   Prior to this, she has had small parts in many TV shows and movies and is most likely remembered for portraying Nurse Betty in Pearl Harbour (the nurse that died during the attack on the harbour).  Before her acting career she also modelled for publications such as Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.

Here's Jaime herself talking about Hart of Dixie and her character. 

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Marketing Monday - Starbucks Monday Latte Campaign.

This week marks the start of a Starbucks campaign to brighten up that dull Monday feeling for UK customers.  The promotion, running every Monday before 11am between 7th January and 18th February, cuts the price of a tall (small) Latte from £2.10 to £1.50 for all customers.  Members of  'MyStarbucksRewards' will also receive additional offers such as free iNewspapers and 50p off breakfast foods throughout the campaign.

Source: Starbucks

What I like about this campaign

• The simplicity of the advert - the unfussy and clean layout is very easy on the eye and to understand.
• Creativity - Starbucks could have easily produced an ad in one of their stores using employees and actors but have decided to think outside-the-box with the use of clever animation.  Extra marks for their 100% use of Starbucks products such as napkins, straws, cupholders and of course the Starbucks cups. 

What I dislike about this campaign

• Although the link to the universal Monday dull mood is a fantastic idea, I can't help but wonder whether this campaign would have still gone ahead if the Starbucks reputation hadn't have slipped following their UK Tax avoidance reveal late last year.  
• Only a tiny creative point - the use of a napkin as a a duvet in the first shot of the advert gave me a few connotations of homelessness and living on the streets when I first viewed the advert.  Obviously this was before I realised that the whole advert was made up of Starbucks products.

Rating - 8/10

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Downton Abbey is BACK! - Season 3 release date and full trailer

The new season of Downton Abbey starts Sunday 16th September.  

I haven't been this excited since Kate Middleton visited Leicester.

Here's the trailer..

I have too many feelings about Matthew and Mary.  The Christmas episode made me smile for about a month.  Here's 6 and a half minutes of Matthew and Mary bliss for those that also have the excitement jitters for next Sunday.

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The Carrie Diaries - Release Date and Trailer!

Exactly a week ago The CW announced it's show line-up for 2012-2013 season.  There was lots of good news as Hart of Dixie (watch it over the summer if you haven't seen it!), Nikita and Gossip Girl were renewed and The Carrie Diaries was picked up!

However, there is some sad news, there will only be 10 more episodes of Gossip Girl (sob) due to the cast contracts ending and running out of people for Nate and Serena to randomly go out with... probably.  We're not going to talk about the awful finale.

ahh Dair.. I miss you so.

The Carrie Diaries will begin 14th January 2013 on the CW channel at 8/7 central. when Gossip Girl has ended.  Hopefully this means that it will have 22 episodes and will also keep us all entertained through the TV dry-spell in the summer.

Here's the trailer!  (

CW - The Carrie Diaries - Trailer from will warne on Vimeo.

It looks very different from the first book in The Carrie Diaries series as Carrie doesn't end up in New York until the last few pages.  If it doesn't live up to it's expectations I'll probably cry over my Gossip Girl DVDs. 

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Incoming! The Carrie Diaries start filming.

The synopsis from Hollywood Reporter reads "The Carrie Diaries is a coming-of-age tale set in the 1980s, asking her first questions about love, sex, friendship and family while exploring the worlds of high school and Manhattan. Sarah Jessica Parker played an adult Carrie on HBO's Sex and the City from 1998-2004."


My synopsis is "OMG this is going to be amazing!"

Yep I need the 'C' necklace!

So here's some facts for you

• AnnaSophia Robb is the starlet playing our favourite Carrie Bradshaw
• Eric Daman is the costume designer and worked with Patricia Field on the Original Sex and The City and is also the amazing costume designer on Gossip Girl (he's a very busy man!)
• Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage are on the executive producer team and also worked on Gossip Girl (and Chuck and Hart of Dixie).
• Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City and Carrie Diaries also joins them.
• Freema Agyeman (Martha in Doctor Who) also joins the cast as Carrie's mentor.
• At the moment a pilot is being filmed for The CW channel but I can't see many things stopping this from being on our screens in September!

I spotted the Sex and The City 2 companion book and The Carrie Diaries in a local charity shop window and paid £6 for the pair yesterday - a good cause at both ends of the transaction.  

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Style Inspiration - Rachel Bilson on Hart Of Dixie

Hart of Dixie started on The CW in September and I've fallen in love with it.  It's basically about a New York doctor (Rachel Bilson) who has inherited a GPs surgery from the father she didn't know she had in a town so countrified, they have woman dressed in hoop skirts called 'Belles'.  To say she doesn't fit in would be an understatement.

Rachel Bilson is perfect for the role and I have fallen in love with her character's (Zoe Hart) style. 

But maybe not this one..  (she's dressed as a 'Belle')

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And the award for best dressed at the SAGs goes to..

Emma Stone in McQueen!  Yay!  I love this dress because it's a different length for an awards show, Emma looks SO happy and it's so pretty!  (It also reminds me of the dress I wore to A's engagement party!) 

Honourable mentions for..

Jayma Mays (Glee)

Ariel Winter (Modern Family)

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Sequins and Bow-ties - Brad Goreski has got his own show!

I got addicted to The Rachel Zoe project at the start of December and immediately fell in love with her assistant turned style director Brad Goreski.  His nerdy preppy style is amazing (I love a good bow-tie) and makes me want a gay best friend just like him! Whenever he cries I end up in tears like when he realised he was going to the Oscars with Anne Hathaway.  After leaving Rachel Zoe behind to go solo in the styling world he picked up his own show - 'It's a Brad Brad world' which is currently on Bravo.  Obviously the show follows his styling career but also his homelife with his boyfriend and his adorable adorable doggies!   I'm totes jealous of his style and he's a guy!

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The Made In Chelsea Boys Visit Disneyland! (Happy Monday!)

It's 10am on a Monday and I am wide awake! I just had to post this picture of some of the Made In Chelsea boys visiting Disneyland Paris as it randomly brightened up my day! I think it was Hugo in Minnie Mouse ears that just makes this photo!

Don't forget to watch Made In Chelsea tonight at 10pm on E4.  Don't forget the drinking game I posted a while back to help you enjoy the show a little more..*

(*Drink Responsibly Please)

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"Who's That Girl... It's JESS"

I can't stop singing this theme tune.

I can't stop watching this show.

I can't stop recommending this show to everyone I know.

I can't wait until E4 starts showing New Girl so everyone can stop thinking I'm weird for singing this song.

I'm sorry for getting this song in your head.

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Fall TV - New Girl

It's finally time for all of our favourite US TV shows to come back into our lives! Yay!
Today I'm previewing the new show that I am most excited about - New Girl.

Zooey Deschanel (500 Days Of Summer) plays Jess, a recently heartbroken lady that is moving in with three guys.  Jess is zany, sings to herself and watches Dirty Dancing on repeat whilst she mourns her breakup.  TV critics love it and it is said to be the most anticipated new show this year.

I've been a huge fan of Zooey Deschanel since watching 500 Days Of Summer and I'm so happy that I'm going to get a weekly dose of her to brighten the week.  Also, it's being shown in the US on the same day as Glee so it's going to be a great day! For those in the UK, E4 have already bought the series to help fill the huge gap that Friends left so it looks like we will be seeing a lot of this show in 2012.  Let's all start praying that it gets more than one series and doesn't get cancelled like lots of shows last year.

Here's the preview video for you to fall in love with..

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