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Fashion and Fluffballs : Let's Monkey Around

8.2.16

{Fashion and Fluffballs illustration: Let's Monkey Around © Shell-Sherree}

Happy Chinese New Year !

In a vague, half-baked effort to bring you something journalistically intelligent, I looked up the attributes of those born under the sign of the monkey. Congratulations if that's you, because you sound rather charismatic!

You are quick-witted, intelligent and bright, cheeky, curious and innovative. Apparently your gentleness and truthfulness win you eternal love. Good for you! On the downside, you are capable of nicking someone's sandwich. But you'll easily charm them into forgiveness and offering you another.

My research interest waned by the time I read the 'good luck/bad luck' tips for the new year. In brief, if you happened to have cleaned your house on Sunday, extra bananas will turn up on your doorstep. If you did the washing today, you might need to watch out for the peels. And on that note ...

Happy Year of the Monkey to you !

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Fashionable Friday : Let it Flow

5.2.16

{Fashion and Fluffballs illustration: Paris Frenchie to the Max © Shell-Sherree}

If it's cold, let it snow. If it's hot, let it flow.

For those ennuied with summer or winter and wearing Season Fatigues, Paris in the springtime is a good idea. Behold the flat sandals, so teeter-tottering is a ticketable offence. I've had enough heel-to-hem near misses in maxi dresses to accept defeat. For today, at least.

So come, let us stroll with insouciance and partake in pâtisseries. Our clutch bags shall unfold into pique-nique blankets when the sundial reaches baguettes-et-fromage o'clock. Just wait til you see what they become at cocktail hour. Who knew grand pianos travelled so light? And on that note ...

Happy Fashion and Fluffballs Friday to you !

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Fashionable Friday : Agent Violet and the Venetian Mirror

29.1.16

{Fashion and Fluffballs illustration: Pink & Gold Puppy Tales © Shell-Sherree}

Agent Violet checked the view and re-checked it twice. That made it a total of thrice ~ and it still looked the same. Venice.

It had been a breathtaking 24 hours since she opened the door to her apartment after Sir Percy's soirée and one of the secrets enclosed within the Harlequin Hat Box had revealed itself to her. 24 hours or more. Or less. It was dawning on her that perhaps it was irrelevant. Time as she knew it might never be the same again.

Venice. Mystery and romance shimmered in its incandescent light and her mind drifted back to the last time she had been there. Carnevale. Secrets exchanged with knowing glances. The heady fragrance of tobacco-fumed jasmine and nobility. Her canine looked at her enquiringly and her feline toyed with her ruffled silk skirt. She looked at the calling card still in her hand. Percy. Where are you now?

Did Violet's cape make the journey? Were her canine's favourite chew toys available here? And would The Gondolier recognise her or have they not even met yet? Let us gaze at the bubbles in our prosecco and wonder what they know that we do not. And on that note ...

Happy Fashionable Friday to you !

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Fashionable Friday : Fluffing Around

22.1.16

Fashion and Fluffballs illustration: Wait a Fluffy Minute © Shell-Sherree

{Fashion and Fluffballs illustration: Fluffing Around © Shell-Sherree}

Hello, Friday ! It's officially acceptable for us to spend time fluffing around.

We've already started partying. I hope you don't mind but in this instance, we ran with 'it's better to beg forgiveness than ask permission' as our primary train of thought. All aboard !

So come, the bubbly is perfectly chilled and if our magic carpet rescued you from wintery climes, please check your faux-fur lined capes at the door. Fluff out your skirts and we'll shake our tail feathers. And on that note ...

Happy Fashionable Friday to you !

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Fashionable Friday : Fluffy Pink Petal Pies

15.1.16

Fashion and Fluffballs illustration: Pink Fluffy Petal Pies © Shell-Sherree

One can never be too fluffy or too pink. I have decreed it, therefore it is so.

Let us always keep the company of those who make the bubbles in our champagne take flight. And let us constantly and freely give out love, cuddles and the lightness of being. And on that note ...

Happy Fashionable Friday to you !

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Fashion and Fluffballs : Of Gold Dust and New Years

1.1.16

Fashion and Fluffballs illustration: Pink Balloons, Gold Dust and Kitty Cuddles © Shell-Sherree

Hello, New Year, you bright, shiny, gorgeous Christmas present waiting to be unwrapped one day at a time.

Let us snuggle under sprinkles of gold dust and the promise of pink balloons, and give thanks for the beauty around us in all shapes and sizes. Here's to the dreamers.

Thank you for all the friendship, love and happiness we share. And on that note ...

Happy Fashion and Fluffballs New Year to you !

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