Covet Love: Liberty Prints, Statement Jewels and Luxurious Scents

For those of you who are permanently on a tight budget, I’m sure you’ll appreciate how pleasurable/painful it is to make a list of things you love without thinking once about how much your wallet is going to suffer. I don’t often indulge myself in this sort of activity because I know once I start it’ll be extremely difficult to rein myself in! Needless to say, I could have filled my quoter of covetable items three times over while I was writing this, but here are my top choices to be going along with….

Even the most simple outfit can be transformed by a good piece of statement jewellery. The Zizi Petalwork necklace from Anthropologie fits the bill perfectly. With just enough sparkle to cross from day to night, this beauty also happens to be in my current colour crush- zingy yellow.

Alex Monroe is one of my favourite jewellery designers. I’m lucky enough to own one of his iconic bumblebee necklaces and I’ve been coveting another piece for years. I would definitely have to go for the Big Daisy ring, an amazingly detailed flower head in a mix of silver and gold. I doubt I would ever take this off once it was on my finger!

Ok so I may need a few of these Cambridge Satchel Company bags! I’d like a classic tan one, a bright red one, but for now I’ll start with a sunny yellow one please. The 13inch Classic Satchel is just the right size to fit all the essentials, plus iPad for days when I work away from home.

My fail safe choice when it comes to dresses is the nipped-in waist and full shirt of a 50′s midi dress. Mrs Pomeranz is an incredible boutique specialising in this vintage shape, using stunning fabrics and colours. I could take my pick of any of these pretty frocks, but the Anna boatneck dress in powder blue is particularly gorgeous.

I LOVE Liberty prints. I have precious little scraps of their tana lawn fabric stashed away in my sewing box which I have promised myself I will turn into a quilt for my daughter one day. For myself I have always wanted a silk scarf. I have more scarves than I do pairs of knickers and I would love to add the Christelle square silk one to my collection. The only problem is that it’s a little too small- I’m a giant shawl kinda girl! Seeing as this is a list of pure self indulgence, I’m going to go wild and have four of them, stitch them together and back them with a luxurious plain silk. Problem solved! I’d be positively drowning in Liberty print, how blissful!

My list of covetable perfumes is as long as my arm! This was a really tough decision, there are so many fragrances I would love to own but in the number one position is Frapin 1270, available at Bloom Perfumery. Frapin is a prestigious cognac producer in the Grande Champagne region of France, but they have also collaborated with talented perfumers to create a range of perfumes based around the delicious and multifaceted aromas encountered at all stages of cognac production. 1270 is a gourmand perfume, with notes of candied pineapple, cocoa, gaiac wood and vanilla. I absolutely adore it, particularly in the winter when it is a snugly, comfort scent. In summer it is boozy and sultry, perfect for warm evenings.

Staying with the scented theme, I am seriously craving the incredible Thé Rouge candle from Phaedon. With notes of black tea, pomegranate, patchouli, raspberry and tobacco, these gorgeous candles have a much more potent and intricate scent than your average home fragrance. I visited Bloom (see above) last week and they have a really good selection of candles to choose from, including this line.

Mount Royal Mint is a sweet little Etsy shop that I came across a while back. It features adorable little handmade animals and I particularly love this bear (8). I could tell you that I want them as ornaments for my daughter’s bedroom but that’s simply not true. I want a whole collection of them to live on top of my old oak bureau, with the little bits of dried flora and painted pebbles I’ve amassed over time. They are just exquisite.

I could go on and on, really I could. This has been a dangerously fun piece to write, now to start making a list for the next one….

Love Susie x

Every Friday lunch time, we share a ‘Covet Love’ feature from one of our team members - a list of just some of the things we’ve been lusting after when we’ve not been swooning over beautiful brides. We thought you might appreciate the ‘it’s nearly the weekend’ distraction from weddings and work.

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