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Zara leather jacket (old) and bag
Mango boots (old)
Kate Moss x Topshop jeans (old)
H&M jumper
Asos belt
House of Harlow ring c/o Shopbop

I wish you all a wonderful long weekend for those of you who have Friday of as well. I am still unsure what I am going to do with myself apart from work and read a lot. I have brought so many great books at the moment but tehy have all sadly been neglected.

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Thank you for all your kind words on my previous post. I couldn’t start replying to all of your individual comments as it would probably reduce me to tears but I did want to share my deep appreciation to all of you – new and old followers. Thank you to those who share their stories with me, it means the world to me. I hope you all had a wonderful mother’s day!

Outfit post to come tomorrow.

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Very rarely do I share my private life on my blog. I believe in keeping my private life, just that; private - and yes I realise how ironic this is coming from a blogger who shares parts of her life daily. But that is just it, I share ‘parts’ of my life, I decide what I want to share with you and what I would rather keep to myself. However, after a bit more than two years on the ‘blogging scene’ and about hundreds of emails later – promoting Mother’s day/yearly - I have decided today to share with you one story that has affected my entire life but also made me the women I am today.

The reason I want to share this story with you is a simple one but a very valid one; YOU. Yes, my readers are the reason I both, want to share this story but also have the courage to do so. Every day I get emails from readers thanking me for a variety of reasons – something that still takes me by surprise today. Some of your stories have brought tears to my eyes. So I thought that maybe my story of how it took me a bit more than 10 years not to break down and cry every year on mother’s day would be one worth sharing with you.

Today, I write to you as a young 26 years ambitious freckly red-head who looks just like her mum. I have her hair, her grey/bluish eyes, her temperament, her ambition, her fun and caring attitude – or so I would like to think – and her passion for clothes. I do not have her math’s skills, her ability to work with prints and I probably dont have the courage she had when battling Cancer. However, the confident person I am today took years, a lot of tears, good friends and an amazing father. Someone, I think she would have been proud to call her daughter .

As I grow older, I have one constant fear, the fear of forgetting; forgetting what she looked like, sounded like, and simply was she was like. I have often found myself wondering if I would remember her today and then it hits me just how stupid I am to worry about forgetting. The memories I have of her and us will only fade if I stop remembering, which is something I have never done and will probably never do as she is a huge part of who I am today.

If you have lost someone that meant the world to you, there is no wrong in remembering and breaking down, all you are doing is bringing your memories alive and allowing for the memories of that person to keep on living, and there is nothing wrong with that – quite the contrary, it’s a lovely thing to do if you ask me. It took me a lot of time but I finally realised that my fear of forgetting had no sense. Indeed, there is a fair chance I will never forget as I am the person I am today because of her. I actually discovered the joys of ‘online’ shopping thanks to my mum, well in those days it was phone orders from catalogues. Some of my fondest memories were sitting on the edge of the bed, going through the hundreds of pages of La Redoute and other clothes catalogues and choosing what would go in our basket – our order – and then patiently waiting for our order to arrive. Not to forget, keeping the orders hidden from my farther, which was never a big success Unconsciously, when I shop online today and fill my virtual baskets it brings me back to those days and the memories of my mum and I smile as I like the silent company. Come to think of it, she would have probably loved this blog and any fashion blog out there.

If you do feel like things will never get better, this is a small message that things do have a tendency of getting better and life really does go on and please what ever you do never think you are alone.

Happy mother’s day to you all, make the most of it.

Edit: A huge thank you to Sophie Carré PR Agency for giving me the perfect mother’s day gift idea for my Dad! He is absolutely thrilled with it

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//WEARING//
Levi’s jeans
Zara jacket, jumper and bag
H&M two toned boots (previously worn here)
Cuff c/o Philippe Audibert
Swatch watch

A quick outfit post as I come back from hitting the gym at 6h30 this morning, now that his commitment to a summer that doesn’t look like it’s coming any time soon. I have to say I have been sticking with these Levi’s jeans lately as I am getting a bit tired of the whole ultra skinny jeans lately. I also, wanted to wish all my European readers a belated Happy Europe day, it is important to remember once in a while why we create the EU and why it was so important.

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//WEARING//
Zara swater (old) and bag
H&M jeans
YesStyle top
Asos belt
Mono & Me and Philipe Audibert bracelets c/o PA

Something new and something old, oh and something very blue. The new – I finally got my hands on the perfect ‘tribal’ print belt and I found it on Asos. The old – I am not very good whee it comes to switching my jewelry around, I tend to keep it all very minimal but I do like myself a big statement piece once in a while and Philippe Audibert (the french equivalent to Dannijo) does some of the most amazing cuffs I have ever seen. The very blue – I have had my eye on this zara cabas since the first model came out more than a year ago in black, but for some reason something always got in the way. So when Zara came out with a whole new selection in a series of bright colours, I just couldn’t resist.

A huge congratulations to the winners of the Blog awards last night – which I unfortunately didn’t make.

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1. Our new chairs, now just waiting for the sofa  2. The fun JPG x Coca Cola Light bootles c/o of the Coke team  3. Nothing like a good Swedish lunch at Ikea  4. The Topshop sparkling boots are out  5. Home made fondant au chocolat  6. My new watch c/o Southlane  7. Me and the fluff ball  8. M&M pretzel  9. and you thought Greenpeace wasn’t  a lobby group  10. home made chocolate chic cookies  11. Waiting for summer  12. The perfect floral dress  13. “oh my how you have big ears”  14. new Asos earrings  14. new aztec belt from Asos  15. This will brighten up my outfits – Zara bag  16. sweets, lots of sweets  17. Books I ordered, especially looking forward to reading Clay Shirky’s novel.

//My top three articles of the week//
1. Fashion blogging is creating a new era of influencers by The Next Web
2. Geek chic: from bullied to fashion icons by The Next web
3. How tech is changing college life by Mashable

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//WEARING//
Zara (old) boots, tee and bag
American Apparel hooded sweatshirt
H&M coat
River Island jeans
Watch c/o Southlane

A casual Saturday outfit, simply the best – jeans, ankle boots and a loose tee. You just can’t go wrong. Plus, in these shots, you get two red heads for the price of one, now aren’t you a lucky bunch. For up-to-date news and pictures be sure to follow me on Twitter but also on Instagram (username/thefashioncloud).

p.s: If you are on the look-out for new exciting TV series, I strongly recommend Scandal, along with Awake and Touch.

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A quick preview of tomorrow’s outfit post featuring two new items – the zara snakeskin print bag and my new watch c/o Southlane . After, the success of my little green bag – as seen previously here – and discovering the usefulness of a small bag, I couldn’t resist and got its ‘sibling’ in black. I also have a new watch to ad to my ever growing collection. However, this time I tried something a little different and new, yet still very me.

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Mango has succeeded in making go from longing for summer to longer for Autumn and wear wide black trousers, leather boots, black and burgundy, aviator jackets, parkas and more. This collection will be available in July and personally I will take one of each, making my morning rituals much easier. This being said their actual collection is pretty perfect as well, I guess I am just more of an ‘Autumn’ kind of girl.

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I brought this crazy Zara floral dress a couple of weeks ago. I actually can’t wait to wear it, if and when the weather will allow for it. The colours are magic and the print looks it might just have come out of a kaleidoscop. After opting for the orange trousers, I thought I might just gives this one a shoot. In preparing for today’s Google presentation, I came across this Article - from Mashable - written by Sam Laird, which asks the question whether our Connected Generation is not actually the Alienated Generation?

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