London Again

I am so frustrated right now! I was writing the post for half an hour and it was almost done. Then - click- Something happened, it disconnected and I couldn't believe my eyes - my post was gone and lost! And it was just when I was praising  the Internet and new technology and all the wonders of the modern world! So, what was I writing about? I spent a few hours surfing, clicking and staring at the monitor, in search of a reasonably priced hotel in central London. I was after cheap accomodation, a safe and clean room, plus a good breakfast to start me going in the morning. I don't want to spend a lot of money on accomodation as I need a room just to sleep in. Finally, I found a good one, I hope. I will tell you what it's like when I get back.

One day, when I grow into a woman of money and style, I will stay in a small boutique hotel in East London called 40 WINKS. It has only two bedrooms and it is owned by a designer David Carter. So, this down there IS NOT the bedroom I booked for my visit to London this year, but it is on my wish list for the years to come.

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London Calling Again

As you can see, I love alternative colorful markets so Camden Lock Market is on my itinerary whenever I take the group of pupils to London. We always take a walk from Regents Park along the canal and spend a few hours browsing, enjoying the lively atmosphere and staring at funny looking creatures. The girl dressed in a boring, normal outfit in the last photo is Filipa, my daughter.

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London Calling

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Što šopingholičarke, moje vrste, trebaju  obići u Londonu pogledaj
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London Calling

 London

I've been counting down the days to my trip to London. Actually, I 'll be attending a seminar "Creative Methodology" at the Pilgrim's course in Canterbury. Six days in Canterbury, plus a few days in London. I've already been in London a lot of times, taking schoolchildren on sightseeing excursions, but this time it will be a wholy new experience. For the first time I will be completely on my own, with all the time in the world on my hands to see and visit whatever I choose. Therefore I have already started to create my own itinerary.  I have decided to stay away from all the tourist sights I usually have to cover when going with a group. This time it will be a time travel down the memory lane as I intend to visit some places I used to worship back in the 80s, when I was working in London as an au pair.
So here are some things I will certainly not miss this time:

Fashionist

Dressed to lay the table

A little fashion corner
by
Filipa the Fashionist

So my thoughts are.... that no matter what you are about to do (wash the dishes, lay the tabe) or where you are going (yoga class/ the gym/ take out the garbage)
                                                                "DRESS UP"! 

That can mean anything. But my first rule is whatever you put on (the piece of clothing, the particular color or an accessory) it MUST FEEL "RIGHT" for you. Check in with yourself and be honest..."is this what I want to feel like; is this what I want to present to the world as ME today?" If not, change, take something off, or add another layer or accessory. Don't THINK too much. Let your eyes and your body lead you and trust it.
TAKE all BLACK clothing and put them in the rear of your closet...use BLACK as an accent. It really works as an accent, it adds depth...also WHITE adds expansion!
Most of all have fun and play.

Tea

This is going to be the longest scroll of photos ever. All the photos have been taken in the last two years by Tea herself. She's got this thing with the mirror and the camera as well as taking the photos from above ( her arm must be aching after each photo session). But she certainly has her own style. By the way, is there a person who is a bigger narcissus?

I want

I want this dining room and I want this table in my dining room! 

And guess who should have it in her weekend house! 

Courtney Novogratz, the lucky one in the picture.

The mother of seven and the lady of high style.

She has got what it takes!

And look at this...

You Will Never

 .... be on this list.
Today we are starting our old magazine feature again. It's called: YOU WILL NEVER... ( have, you will never be, you will never buy, you will never understand, you will never get, you will never visit.... and all the other variations on the topic). The subheading could be: Eat your heart out. ( Or, maybe not. We are not that mean, miserable and jelous!)

This feature in our magazine has been about 35 years old, so we were pretty clairvoyant at that time, aware of our limitations, knowing very well what things we would never .....

So today, the feature brings you the list you will never be on. It is the list of most successful + the wealthiest women in the world of showbiz and wider. 

 Read about them

You know about them, but they will never know about you.

They can do most of the things you can, but you cannot do what they can.
And, what is it?
What they can do, and you can't is
to earn millions on their talents.

OK, they are talented, but their greatest talent is a know-how to produce money.

I have just tried to imagine having a small chat over a cup of coffee with anyone of them. Then I realised I wouldn't like to chat with them at all. Then I tried to imagine anyone of them being my close friend. I failed again. Is it just me? 

Would you like to have a super powerful, rich, beautiful  and successful friend? How would you feel? Intimidated by her success? Comfortable in her company? Feeling small? Feeling you are just out of her league?

Wish you were...

Have you ever wished you lead someone else's life? Have you ever been a little bit envious about someone's life which has been, from your point of view, idylic or exciting, or just simply more interesting than yours? I don't think I have. It's not that I think my life is great, on the contrary, there are so many ways I would like to improve it. I would like to work less, have more money, be younger, slimmer, live in another town, have more interesting job, travel more...But so far, I haven't met a person whose life would be so perfect that I would like to trade it for my own. Until yesterday.

COLOURS

The weather today is wet and dreary. The weather forecast is below zero temperatures and more cold days in the next week.  The conversation among people has become very British, everybody has been complaining and blaming it all on gloomy weather. The favourite sentences these days have been: I feel a bit down these days, it must be the weather. I am so tired and sleepy - it's got to be the weather. etc.etc.
We all crave for little color and some bright, sunny days. So here go some wonderful pictures via Modish. Enjoy the colour on your computer screen, if not outside, in nature.

Chairs

Apartment Therapy

My Desk

If you have been wondering where it all takes place and where the main office of the chief editor of COPY PASTE magazine is, the secret is revealed in this issue. The title is not exactly correct, My Husband's Desk would be more appropriate. Why? Well, this is the only piece of furniture that he has actually chosen and bought (during our 17 years of marriage) and the only thing in the house that he has forbidden me to change or replace. I've been talking about painting it white, or maybe dark brown, since he bought it (10 years ago), but he gets really stressed out and annoyed whenever I mention anything like that. So for the time being it is as it is - ugly solid oak colour - but not for very long.

The photos behind the desk need rearranging and I've been thinking about getting rid of the moodboard alltogether. Yes or no? I am a bit hesitant or do you say indecisive? Or maybe not?

Anyway, look at this lovely desk down here.

This would be an inspiring workstation for me.

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But, for the time being, I will have to settle with my old one...

Door

WHEN DO YOU OPEN A NEW DOOR?

Today, a friend of mine told me that she is about to change her life. She is going to  leave her job, leave her friends, pack her belongings into cardboxes and put them in friend's garage, move to another city, actually - move to another continent. She is 55. She is divorced and her only son, who is 32, moved to another side of the world a few years ago. He found a job there, got married. She visited him a few times and she liked it there. She doesn't speak any English, although she has been trying to painstakingly learn some phrases. She has no savings and her son doesn't have a steady income or a secure job. But she sounded so enthusiastic about the whole thing, not a bit worried or scared. She has spent her whole life in this little town of ours working as a hairdresser, and now she is ready to move on and leave everything so easily. In her thoughts she is already far away, making  plans, looking forward  to the day her son is going to send her a plane ticket. She said she had always known that eventually one day she was going to leave this place. And the moment has come, she says. So, she is going to close the doors of both her hairdresser's salon and her tiny flat, ( and btw return the keys to the landlords as she doesn't own neither of these places) and she is going to open a new door somewhere else. Behind the door, I wish her to find something she deserves, something to make her happy.
Anyway, it got me wondering when is the right time to leave everything behind and open a new door? Some people never have courage to do that.

MUST HAVE - A CLOSET!

The last day of February and the first day of sunshine in weeks, that have been rainy and gloomy. I am getting fed up with brownish and greyish woolen skirts and cardigans, turtlenecks and tights. I can't wait for the time to put all my winter clothes into plastic bags and tuck them away, into the attick closet. Not that I like the actual activity of  storing away clothes, in fact, I abhore it. For years I have been emptying my wardrobe and putting away my winter/summer/autumn clothes into plastic bags and getting summer/winter/autumn clothes out of plastic bags and into the wardrobe. The same goes for my kids' clothes. So, when I grow up, one day, I will have the ultimate dream of all women throughout the universe:  A WALK IN CLOSET (5m x 5 m) where all my clothes will be nicely stored, according to colours, or maybe seasons... There will be a huge mirror, an ironing board and an armchair or two. And a shoe closet, although I am, luckily, not a big collector of shoes.
I am so sorry I didn't find the place in my house for a room that could hold all my clothes. So, I am stuck with about 10 metres of wardrobe lenght all around the house, which just makes your life difficult when trying to locate your summer/winter/autumn/spring clothes, belts, scarves, gloves, hats, bags and all the other accessories.
                        
                                                                             

 

I don't think I would like to have doors in my closet.

I don't think I would like to keep my smelly shoes together with my clothes.

How could possibly shoes be so clean inside and outside...? Does she walk or fly? 

TELEPHONE

Slika ovog telefona podsjetila me je da i mi imamo sličan, Filipa ga je prefarbala u ljubičasto.
Sada ponekad služi Tei i Filipi kao rekvizit pri njihovim foto sešnima.

KEEP CALM

 

 

keep calm

 

debi

Catharine Kolebrook

And there is more...

You Will Never

 ... have this kind of energy!
How energetic should you be if you had 7 kids under the age of 13, including two sets of twins? How organized should you be if you changed about 7 houses in New York, moving into a new house with every new child? How cool should you be to turn your life into a profitable business making a reality show out of it?
And how should a lucky couple look like after going through all this ordeal? Well, here they are .......

 

 the incredible Robert and Courtney Novogratz 

They have been all over internet, magazines and TV programmes, so I could copy paste some information about them, in case you haven't already heard.

• They renovate derilict houses all over New York and then sell them for a profit of a few millions.
• They live in a newly decorated home and then sell it, to make profit, moving all their possesions and children to another house.
• Neither of them was trained as a designer or an architect. They are self-taught designers who have been doing this for 15 years. They have done 9 buildings in New York as well as many other projects.
• They have written a book "Downtown Chic" about the whole decorating thing.
• They have 7 kids and they live a hip, glamorous life in a fabulous, spacious, art-filled house, which has magically uncluttered surfaces.
• They have their own reality show, just to show how all this is possible.
                                               

                                                    And here is the whole family

How should a house with (goat mother and) 7 kids look like? 

Full of toys, scattered clothes all over the floor, 

some baby trolleys or prams in the near vicinity? 

Well, here is the kitchen...

 

and daddy working at a tidy, uncluttered desk....

  

and some of the kids playing nicely at the same desk...

and a baby playing with some well designed toys on a rug in the living room.....

well, there are no kids in the nursery...

They must be gone for a walk. Or they might be in another playroom?