I am lucky enough to be offered a lot of things through this blog, but none have excited me as much as the offer of participating in a private graffiti workshop. When the kind peeps over at Graffiti Life asked if I’d like to do it, my inner b girl body popped and did a windmill. Being somewhat obsessed with the early years of hip hop and films such as Wild Style and Beat Street, becoming a master graffiti artist has been somewhat of a childhood dream of mine. And the workshop did not disappoint.

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This past weekend I very randomly ended up in Paris running the half marathon. When my good friend Candie text me last minute asking if I’d like to go, I figured hey, cheering my friend on in a race in Paris – what better way to spend a Sunday? During our journey over, we discovered there was a spare race place going, so, knowing how Candie gets nervous before races, I offered to pace her through. It would be my second time running the Paris Half Marathon, last year I ran it with my first gang of Team Bangs on the Run girls. This time around, those 13 miles taught me a lot.

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Due to my love of high heels, I’m often asked how I mastered walking atop such stylish stilts. I thought it was about time I put together a little guide, so I made that the topic of my latest Style Tribe post for Glamour.com. Head on over there and check it out.

Do you have any tips you would add?

Just because.

Wolford SS12

They’re beautiful. And they’re mine.

*dreamy sigh*

When you’re as crazy about footwear as I am and someone asks you if you’d like to design your own shoes, it’s hard not to jump up and down on your bed like an excited teenager. At the end of last year, that’s exactly what happened to me when Upper Street Shoes invited me to do just that. Naturally, everyone imagined I’d go for a killer pair of heels, but I decided, with all the running I’m doing, what I really need for my rest days is a sensible pair of ballet flats (what is happening to me?!). Wanna see ‘em? Check them out below.

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People, let’s talk about affairs of the heart. I mean let’s really get down to the nitty gritty of it all. Specifically, when they don’t go so well. The internet has a way of letting things live on, exposing stuff you’d much rather have kept private. Last week online, a site posted a stream of text messages a girl sent to a guy she’d dated a couple of times, wondering why he didn’t want to see her anymore. It was painful, cringeworthy reading. Clearly, the girl did herself no favours and the guy involved is most likely contemplating a restraining order. So, when things don’t quite go according to plan, how can you get out with your dignity intact?

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You know, I like to think we’ve come a little ways as women. What with us having the vote now and everything, we’ve made some significant changes. Hark at all the opportunities we now have! Ones that our grandmothers would’ve loved to have had available to them. So when I saw Marie Claire tweet last week that women are apparently tricking rich men into having their babies, I couldn’t help but wonder, are we taking three steps forward and two steps back?

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I met up with two of my blog buddies, Sarah Akwisombe and Dewbien last week. We meet to have a bit of a round table, exchange ideas and the like and a number of interesting topics came up. One of which was about ‘hating’. Funny how the idea of simple jealousy has snowballed to such a heavy-laden word as ‘hate’, but alas, that’s where we find ourselves. As we all know, the internet has brought this particular trait out strongly in some. What we found ourselves discussing at this lunch was how to recognise and control it in ourselves.

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Valentine’s Day is one of those days that people either love or hate. I’ve always felt that if you love someone, you shouldn’t need a special day dedicated to expressing it. But hey, with the world the way it is right now, we could do worse things than celebrate love. I’m no expert, admittedly, but through my many failed relationships (both real and imaginary), I know what love isn’t. So I thought I’d share those little nuggets with you today.

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Do you do a lot of web-lusting? I do. Web-lusting is the term I use to describe the hours I spend online lusting after various things, mainly clothes and accessories (lately, particularly Alexander McQueen Jewellery). I go on total Pinterest binges – pinning everything in sight, adding them to my ‘want’ list. The imaginary lifestyle I’ve got going on in the land of Pinterest is all the way awesome. The subject of many-a-pin recently has been Farfetch.com – you know, the site that brings together all the world’s best boutiques and lets you shop all the awesomeness under one roof? Yeah, that one.

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