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[21 Aug 2010 | No Comment | ]
Canine Couture at Pet Fashion Week!

Move over puny humans!  No it’s not an April Fool, this year nipping in before the excitment of New York Fashion Week is another event, this one featuring fashion for creatures of the four legged variety… yes it’s Pet Fashion Week!
OK now first of all, have you ever heard of anything cuter than Pet Fashion Week?  The name alone conjures up images of pooches strutting their stuff on the, well, catwalk – and with the whole thing being in New York you just know it’s going to be ultra stylish!
While …

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[2 Jun 2010 | 4 Comments | ]
Freudian Slips – Quality Vintage Shopping from Home

Wasting time on the internet does have its advantages, especially when you come across a fabulous little find like Freudian Slips Vintage.
We here at So Darling! are self confessed vintagephiles and have travelled the length of the country to visit vintage shops and antiques markets in search of a perfect vintage find.  Of course, endless trips around the country on a whim quickly become costly and in recent years searching online for vintage has become much more accessible.
In the past we’ve always been a little dubious of  searching for vintage online though …

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[17 Apr 2010 | No Comment | ]
Get a Free Hermés Kelly Bag (kind of…)

As you might have seen yesterday, here at So Darling we’re still buzzing from our recent visit to the Grace Kelly: Style Icon exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Well, while browsing the web we game across this fantastic little find: an official pattern to make your very own paper Hermés Kelly bag!

Simply click here to download the template, print off a copy and get crafting!!

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[12 Apr 2010 | One Comment | ]
We’re in Love with Barry M!

I have many cosmetic addictions but I have to say that eye shadow and nail varnish are two of my biggest.  Despite several makeup bags full of varnish – and my nearest and dearest regularly pointing out that I’d probably need to change my nail colour 5 times a day for the rest of my life to wear all the nail varnish I own – I just can’t stop buying!!
In fact when it comes to my appearance, people always comment on two things; my wacky choice of nail varnish and my …

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[1 Apr 2010 | One Comment | ]
So Darling Get’s Busy With the Fizzy!

Despite today’s obsession with retro there are plenty of things that should stay left in the 80′s where they belong; Bros, dayglo scrunchies and Fat Willy’s Surf Shack t-shirts immediately spring to mind.

One item however that we are very happy to see back on our shelves is the one and only Soda Stream! For those who don’t, or are too young to remember, Soda Stream caused quite a stir back in the 80′s as the only way to make your own fizzy pop (as we called …