shopping london style

time to shop!

be sure and forget the addresses of all the shops you are looking for because then and only then will you stumble on to a fabulous place like this (when you are thoroughly lost)


lets take a look inside


a creepy cool church crypt with a disco lighted art instillation





we met the artists and got some directions, still took a few more stops and starts but we found the shop:


thanks diane! this was a real treat and i drooled enough for both of us!


we headed to liberty (no photos) and sorry to say, as cool as that place may be, the staff thought our "casual" look wasnt worth their time. i call it the "tiffany" or "cartier" treatment. if you dont look like you have a ton of money (i admit while traveling i wear casual comfortable clothes...actually i always wear casual clothes! but by no means dirty or unkempt, well maybe my hair, anyways!!) the staff was pretty rude to us. i would never have been able to buy some fabric (even as i swooned over piles of it) as the staff walked by me repeatedly and helped everyone around me with wide smiles. oh well! their loss, i was over the moon for a 100 dollar bottle of perfume, who knows? with the right salesperson i could have been convinced i needed it, ha ha! we shimmied out the back door and went to toy stores instead (hi emily and lizzie!)


some cool fence details along our long haul through london today.


on our way to dinner at wagamamas, lots of interesting art through hyde park.


dinner was so good, we are thinking of having lunch there tomorrow. i highly recommend eating here if you are in london. tomorrow we will go to bermondsey flea market, westminster abbey (this is my 7th time here, wow 7! and i have never been inside it, always closed for some reason) and then covent garden for more shopping, oh and a visit to carnaby street for sure... xoxo to chris, emily and lizzie, miss you guys like crazy!