The average person spends 90,000 hours at work over their lifetime. If you haven't already jumped out of the window on hearing that fact, it's probably time to take a little look around at your desk, and work out if it's really the sort of place you want to be whiling away roughly ten and a half years of your life... Home office decor has been a bit of an obsession of ours for a while now, evidenced by the fact that our Pinterest Home Inspiration Board is probably about 80% beautiful workspaces...
I've done the best glam up my work spaces at both home and in the office, so that sitting in front of my computer for hours on end is as pleasant as possible. Home office....
Office office (a work in progress)...
I've mixed in basics from Ikea and Muji with eBay finds (mini balloon animals and metal initial) and a couple of DIY bits and bobs (orchid in an old Diptyque jar and a free printable calendar from Jasmine Dowling). My latest new desk decor obsession though, is Danish interior design company, Ferm Living, which sells a gorgeous range of clean, contemporary Scandi pieces with a retro twist. When I started my new job I went on a little spree and just glancing through the new season collection has got my credit card twitching again. Browse the below at your peril... Ferm Living Letter Tray €42
Watch yourself happy go lucky Spring fashion, because you're about to get spiked! Summer is well and truly on its way meaning it's time to say au revouir to flirty florals and bonjour to sultry spikes - don't ask me why i'm coming over all French on you, I just am! Spike clad clothes, shoes, bags and jewellery are hot right now and us Mice are all over this tough-luxe glamour look. So much so I've actually adapted my look to embrace this trend...
No! That's a step too far even in the name of fashion. Instead we've all been busy purchasing a few choice spiky warrior pieces to toughen up our wardrobes. Check out our top buys below...
HK Mouse...
If you like your bling with bite this Mawi ring from the Punk Rajah Collection is the perfect way to spike your summer look. Chunky with some seriously menacing spearheads, this is a statement piece that's guaranteed to give everything a little extra edge. Yours for £220, but cruise the Mawi website with care, there's just too much amazingness on there...
Kitten heels with razor sharp claws - these Zara studded slingbacks will punk up your 9-5 uniform and get the office gossip going. If you'd told us we'd be wearing mini heels this time last year, we'd have laughed in your face, but these bad boys just seem to work. Bag a pair for a bargainous £39.99!
Middle Mouse...
Pack a punch quite literally with this MFP MariaFrancescaPepe dainty little knuckle duster, trust me it will take an eye out so wear with care! This rose gold beauty also has the ability to double up as an eye catching necklace, string it on a chain and wear away. Snap up on MyWardrobe for just £44...
Get your kicks from these punk-rock Office sandals - they're guaranteed to redefine power dressing! Snakeskin leather straps with brassy gold spikes and buckles - the perfect festival footwear. A snip at just £35, I have a feeling I'm going to wear these ragged this Summer...
Mini Mouse... This Zara purse is as bold as brass and has been known to bite back when you go to open it after a 4 hour shopping stint in Topshop! Priced at just 19.99 you can't go far wrong...
Take a walk on the wild side with these fierce and fabulous Sam Edelman peep toe stilettos! Sporting a cluster of gunmetal and diamante studs and spikes these works of art are sure to shake up any look. These Lorissa heels come in an array of colour option in both leather and suede, purchase the black leather style at MyWardrobe for £200.
This week I finally move into my brand new flat so I'm a little obsessed with all things home decor. The new flat has space for a desk, so for the first time ever I'll have my very own little office area where I can happily blog away in peace and quiet. With a whole new room to furnish I've spent hours on the ever amazing Pinterest gathering a bit of dream office inspo...
Images via: www.pinterest.com
Suitably inspired, now all I need to do is shop...
And.... over in HK there's another reason to be happy... homelessness has been averted! Woo hoo! This time last week, my lease end date was a week away and I'd seen roughly seven hundred horrifically awful flats - I was pretty convinced that what I wanted just wasn't out there, and I'd just have to settle... And then BAM! Out of nowhere, along came the flat of my dreams! Within 24 hours I'd signed on the dotted line and now all that stands between the present and happily ever after is a day of packing all my things in boxes and shuffling them across town...Oh and seventeen days of momentary homelessness living out of a suitcase and sleeping on a blow-up mattress until my real estate Prince Charming is ready to sweep me off my feet - what can I say? True love waits...
That aside, this week the Mice have mostly been...
Welcoming a brand new A-List Mouse to the gang... Step up Posh Mouse... VB Tweeted a snap of herself leaving the Vogue Festival last weekend and baffled the media by adding a pair of mouse ears to the shot. It's been speculated that Victoria added the ears to show that "she's not a cow" (well duh, she's clearly a mouse...) and that she has a sense of humour. Both great theories, but let's face it, we all know the truth, VB just wants to be in our gang...
Daydreaming that we're dainty enough to don a tutu, tights and pointe shoes and join the Royal ballet! This week Daddy Mouse kindly gave us London Mice tickets to go see La Bayadere at the Royal Opera House. Ballet for us is something very special, our childhood was full of racing from school or very early morning wake ups to attend modern, ballet, tap and jazz lessons. Every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday we changed into our leotards and ballet shoes and pranced around dutifully pointing our toes extra hard.
You and I worked at John Lewis or Topshop as our Saturday job, but not Mummy Mouse, instead she decided to dress the Royal Ballet dancers before they went on stage and then as a hobby painted them whilst they danced. As you can imagine this is how our love was born...stories and paintings littered our years of growing up, not to mention the extra special family outings 'all the way up to London' to watch the ballerinas in action.
We decided to make our Wednesday extra special and stop by Balthazar beforehand for the famous duck shepherds pie and a Hendricks....
Suitably full off we trotted, having not visited the Opera House for years we made a quick pitstop at the beautiful champagne bar...
Before we knew it the bell was ringing and it was time to take our seats....
La Bayadere is a beautiful love story set in India, the choreography and orchestra are fantastic in demonstrating the plot, a three hour performance whizzed by with utterly compelling scenes. I am not one of those artistic people who instantly connect with a story, therefore I made sure I read the plot beforehand and at each interval and as a result followed the scenes all the way through and thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience. The costumes were simply beautiful...full, embellished stereotypical ballerina tutus to compliment scenes true of every little girl's dreams. Row upon row of frothy tutus, in precise lines executing perfectly in time sequences...simply breathtaking. I won't give too much away in terms of the story but definitely a night not to miss. By the time the curtains came down, both Middle Mouse and I vowed to become full time dancers with the best six packs seen to man!
Seriously considering getting a head of dreds on the offchance it might imbue us with a fraction of music goddess Valerie June's nonchalant cool. We've been super excited about the release of June's new album, Pushin' Against a Stone, ever since we heard Workin' Woman Blues earlier this year. And on Monday, it's out! If you can listen to Can't Be Told without tapping your toes you clearly don't have a rhythmic bone in your body... Can't Be Told
