Random unrelated thoughts that escape any real need for individual posts.

Photograph: Anne Combaz, The Beauty Department/Anne Combaz

I love everything about this model. Her bone structure, skintone, hair, lips - her face is striking. Such delicate features create such a beautiful salient effect on such a simple makeup look. What's more, Anne is a wonderful photographer with some really interesting work at various different fashion shows, focusing mainly behind the scenes.

Where would the world be without Thai food? I can't remember my life before it. Although my bank account is empty until pay day this coming Tuesday, I found it perfectly acceptable to transfer money from a pitiful savings account twice this week in order to afford a Thai banquet, despite the free fully stocked fridge at home. Tom Yam Goong soup is my favourite thing to order. It's pretty much a clear spicy broth, consisting of chilli, lemongrass, lime, coriander, prawns, onion, cherry tomatoes and mushrooms. One of the best things on the planet.

Right now I'm working on a new project, a website/blog (wordpress this time!) where I plan on featuring cafés and coffee shops in Dublin that offer a decent cup of coffee; no brown flavoured water. I'm starting this tomorrow morning, initially for 8 weeks to see how it pans out. There isn't much on the site to look at right now but I'll link it when it's up and running and it may be useful to somebody.

Paperchase diaries are great. In fact, everything and anything Paperchase is great, and so darn cute. The diaries are incredibly useful, more so than the abundance of stickers, mini highlighters and ladybird board pins I recently and pointlessly purchased. And why might these diaries prove useful? Each day gets it's own page. The diary is small enough to fit in a handbag and although thick enough to resemble a small novel, a day's events don't need to be written in tiny illegible lettering in the usual tiny box allocated, for fear of sprawling one day's appointments into another. The diaries are also incredibly nostalgic, as they reek to high heavens of school textbooks.

I lost my old blog template so this new one will have to do..until I figure out how to change it, my right sidebar has now become a footer. The more I look at the state of it now...raging!

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