Moments and Musings /006
Notes on manifesting and the importance of mindset; the blue button-up shirt reimagined for spring 2025; storage inspiration for early May days; a few beauty staples to stock up on, and much more...
This letter arrives to you from a café in Marylebone—our Scottish interlude having folded back into memory as we returned to London Monday night carried home by the falling night. The city pulses differently now—German voices mingling with American accents in streets that seem to have swelled in our absence. We stand at the threshold of some new chapter, watching its contours materialise before us, simultaneously observers and participants.
The heat here feels deliberate, oppressive in ways Scotland's northern latitude never permitted. There's something transformative in the simple exchange of wool for linen, boots for sandals—surrenders to season that telegraph larger transitions. We've taken to improvising meals from M&S containers—tabbouleh salad, and king prawns balanced on knees in squares of manufactured wilderness tucked between buildings—these green interruptions in urban geometry where one can lose oneself for a while.
Saturday promises a temperature correction, a return to spring's tentative nature. Until then, we exist in this curious suspension—awaiting news, decisions, next steps—a state that might once have felt like anxiety but now registers as something closer to patience. There is a particular clarity that comes with living in limbo, a stripping away of the inessential. We've learned to recognise these intervals not as voids but as spaces where possibility accumulates, quietly, like morning light collecting on windowsills.
This edition of Moments and Musings includes notes on manifesting and the importance of mindset; how to wear the blue button-up (again); and perfect storage inspiration for late-spring days; the eternally chic trench; a few beauty staples to stock up on, and so much more.
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STYLE FILE /the blue button-up shirt
The blue button-up shirt was never really about fashion. It was about ease. About a kind of order—crisp collars, clean lines, something you could shrug on without thinking.
It’s back again this spring, although it never truly left. Some are oversized, some whisper-thin. Some striped like a memory of summers that may or may not have happened. The good ones look as if they were borrowed—off the back of a boy, or a girl, or found folded in the corner of a drawer that still smells faintly of soap.
There is a reason it endures. A blue button-up resists interpretation. Preppy, romantic, offhand. A little schoolgirl. A little seafarer. A little defiant. It can be tucked, tied, half-buttoned, or worn loose against bare skin. It gives just enough, never too much.
This spring, the best versions seem almost careless. They move when you move. They look better at the end of the day than they did at the start.
It is a season for clothes that suggest rather than declare. For old ideas made new simply by being worn differently. For the kind of style that slips by unnoticed until it doesn’t.
DÉCOR /storage inspiration 001
Our latest storage inspiration via Pinterest features elegant solutions with a warm, sophisticated aesthetic. Wine bottles displayed neatly in a row on an open shelf alongside stemware; and beautiful arched wooden bookcases with glass-panelled doors. Both combine practicality with aesthetic appeal—perfect examples of storage that deserves to be showcased rather than hidden away.
