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Bangle – Lovisa. I’m on a roll with $5 finds there right now. |
Currently at SSG Manor, we are embracing blue and bold prints.
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Blouse- Uniqlo, pencil skirt – J Crew. |
Preferably worn together.
Toddler SSG wearing legging as pants. He’s only just young enough to still get away with it. |
It was Toddler SSG himself who set the forecast. He was happy with the blue striped T I chose for him yesterday but not so much with the khaki shorts I’d chosen for him. Instead, it had to be his crab print PJ leggings.
I bought my first bottle of Premier Fig in Dubai way back in 2012. It was at Bloomingdales at the Dubai Mall. I’ll always remember the way fragrance defined Dubai for me on that trip. Heady citrus, amber and wood noted perfumes would waft past me on a regular basis as immaculately dressed locals sailed past me. Because everyone seemed to sail rather than walk or run.
Perhaps it was the obsession with creating an oasis in the desert that gave everyone a fluidness to their movements. No one ever rushed.
With the temperature regularly hitting an inhospitable 40C or higher, life was best and most comfortably lived indoors. Where you barely heard the traffic 20 or so floors beneath you as it swarmed down six plane carriageways alongside the slightly Star Trekian trains.
There were man made tributes to water everywhere despite the desert location.
And luxury was often not too far behind.
Something that made me smile was seeing how much Dubai embraced American institutions.
A Magnolia Bakery more spacious and inviting than its big sister back home.
And a Dean & Deluca where you didn’t have to jostle with crowds for a table or service at.
Melbourne has also left its mark in Dubai in the shape of a Brunetti’s.
All this remembering of favourite trips and cities and given me the travel bug again. Something to think about over the weekend.
Take care and have a lovely Australia Day!