Fancy Girl
Step outside your money comfort zone and splurge on these majorly luxe treats. If you can’t fork over the cash, you can at least “pet the pretty things” as Alex would say. Dreams can come true, but until they do, pretend you’re Cinderella for a day. Prada or Manolo Blahnik just might have a glass slipper out this season.
Tick Tock Couture Florals
In Los Angeles floral shops are a dime a dozen although the prices definitely are not. Unfortunately, high prices don’t equal quality, beauty or often delivery which means you could easily spend a small fortune on a small, non-memorable bouquet.
When my best-girlfriend was having a birthday and I wanted to send flowers to her work [...]
Compartes Chocolatier
I love chocolate. This statement I know is one that a majority of women make but it’s not always that easy to find a specialty chocolate shop. Coming from Europe my love of creamy decadent chocolate is not always met in LA. That is until I found a Chocolate lovers haven hidden [...]
Bountiful
As a young girl I often dreamed of living in a massive store with knooks and crannies everywhere. Every turn would expose more and more unique antique furniture and tucked in some loft spaces would be my living quarters, which would change depending on the inventory.
Sue Balmforth made this dream real when she created her [...]
Hotel Casa Del Mar
When I arrived at the hotel and was dealing with valet, a man bumped into me as he hurried by but stopped to pardon himself. It was Tom Hanks. I realized at that moment that this hotel was going to be something special.
Sitting right on the beach in Santa Monica, Hotel Casa Del Mar screams [...]
Prada
We wouldn’t have known what the store was (it’s unmarked and has no window displays) had we literally not tripped into it (there’s mannequins in the ground which you walk over and can be quite alarming).
But once inside, there was no mistaking that this was Prada; the designs, the colour, the prices. But more stunning [...]
