Adventures of Barbarella

Follow the heart balloon. Photo Diary

 

Moustache

Equipment shirt (here, here, and
see it in Rosewood, Khaki, and Camel,
all great basics to go on top of anything. LOVE these shirts! (I got an M, for those asking. It's big on me but I like it that way. I'm usually an XS)
All Saints Aria dress (similar here and here)
Alexander Wang booties (similar from Dior)
Lanvin bag (here is a nude one (US), and a coral/blue. ALSO WHY NOT A SHELL??? I want this so badly)

Jewelery:
Great Frog skull bracelet
Phillippe Audibert spike bracelet
Monica Vinader fiji bracelet
Swarovski tennis bracelet
Roberto Cavalli ring

 

Presents from Waitrose

(Waitrose is a British supermarket chain)

Yes indeed. You'll be wondering. What the hell is this about Diana? I sure hope you can tie it back to leather and rose gold jewelery. NO, no frivolities today. I have recently taken up the sport of ordering my food online - suuure I'll post my shopping list for everybody's amusement later on -.  Probably the best decision I've ever made; saves you from a lot of walking around with shopping bags/trolleys and the website is efficient, unlike the kind of websites I used to encounter years ago.

Aerial

Makeup GARAGE SALE - updated photos

Happy New Year!!

Sushi Nights

Well ladies and gents, this is one of my camera adventures...1.take camera 2. take pictures. We had THREE photographers there and produced a total of THREE HUNDRED PICTURES!

Can't get no

Giveaway Winners

I'm waiting for Sabina to contact me about the Tracy Anderson Mat Workout DVD! Email me with your address girl. (dianaanastasia @ gmail.com)

I also realised I have a repeat cardio DVD so I did another raffle and that one went to Yaerin! Please contact me with your address

There is an explanation for my repeated DVDs, I ordered a set that I thought was different, and it was basically the same two DVDs I had already ordered with a different covers. Careful with that if you're ordering online. 

Quotes of the day

 

 

 

 

Some guy just tried to mug me right outside my house!!!

Transcription:

"WHAT THE FUCK are you doing. OH MY GOD, ARE YOU TRYING TO GET MY STUFF?? FUCK YOU! YEA, RUN! I LIVE RIGHT THERE! ME AND MY FRIENDS ARE GONNA FUCKING COME AND GET YOU!"

I am so scared to go out right now.

It was a black guy with a baseball cap and a bowler jacket on a bike. Opportunist most certainly, but watch out London people. This is one of the reasons why we shouldn't have bikes on pavements, it's so easy to grab something from someone on a bike. He was pulling until he fell off his bike and that's when the [transcription] happened. There was another guy (on foot) waiting for him on the corner. I've reported it etc...

I'm paranoid because I've never gotten mugged before, and it's one of those things you don't think is gonna happen to you, in the middle of Kensington.

 

Flat adverts - Euphemisms

I've been looking for flats these last few days (Angel/Shoreditch, if you know of anything!) and it's a total nightmare, there's plain and utter crap mixed with things that are decent but far away. And I am super picky. Yesterday I was shown one for 495 a week that was old, spacious, and the wood floor, to be brief, needed to be changed. The wood was broken and black with dirt. Now, do you think I'm gonna pay 495, or one dime, for a floor that needs to be changed?? and if i had that kind of money, which I do not, wouldn't I spend it on travelling the world or something with actual value?

These are just some euphemisms I've found to be true. I believe I made a similar post two years ago when I moved to this place. 


ultra-modern = Doesn't have a bathtub

"in the heart of" = between two stations, not close to either

"close to" = not in 

"lots of storage space" = has a wardrobe

"vibrant neighborhood" = traffic noise 

newly refurbished = received some repairs in the last 10 years

short walk = 30min walk

Feel free to add your own

God, how fabulous is she?

(Newsletter from the London Academy of Burlesque, that I had the pleasure to attend and that has truly shaped me forever)

BEAR WITH ME

I need to reduce clutter and I'm changing things around. Hopefully I'll have a clear, easy to navigate page in a few days. Meanwhile, patience. x

Halloween Inspiration pictures.

I'm having a love affair with a new camera this afternoon. I love it, it's just incredible on skin.

While we're here, I might aswell caption the pictures. This is a leather mask:



One of those "oh this will go with anything!" buys.

Spot the little girl

Wow it's still proper Summer in my world.

Christening lunch- What we all wore and an Unlikely present

I'm slowly coming out of this bronchitis and it wasn't the most appealing thing to go straight into a family lunch, but what can you do.

I'm wearing: Dirty hair as it falls, and an adlib dress. Miss Dior aubergine bag. I was the photographer = no good photos of me.

LFW another day another 4,534,853 parties

Hair was set with rollers, dress is Topshop. In retrospective, although I love the look of this dress it was a little warm to dance like crazy in.

Nailpolish: a Ciate, Dangerous Affair I think. Love this polish

Makeup: Laura Mercier Natural Beige, MAC Patina on eyes, lots of mascara, thin YSL liquid eyeliner, Bobbi Brown Tulle Brown on lips. I later changed to YSL Le Rouge #1 on lips.

More pics of the night to come. It was full of photographers, hopefully someone will send some pics my way.

EDITED: 23 September. There we go. Pics from Jenna from the Somerset house designers party! (Jenna is the girl with platinum white hair) (c)Jenna

 

This is me very happy because drinks cameras make me really happy:

Here's tim getting papped saying "stop the photos now, stop the press" and Charlotte is in a state of blissful contemplation. Yasmin is ready to attack with her iphone, and I am flaunting my grecian goddess nose.

 


and finally this is one that I took. I am an awesome photographer as you can tell:

 

 

I'm back from Ibiza!

I need to go through all my pictures and see what we can get...They are all blurry because I didn't realise I had put my sunscreened fingers on the camera lens and so, it gives this pretty retro vaseline effect.

I'll do a breakdown of my everyday face for you in the meantime:

Laura Mercier Mineral Foundation Natural Beige
Laura Mercier Cocoa Velour creme eyeshadow
Dior Extase mascara
Bobbi Brown Tulle Brown lipstick, MAC Stone lipliner

Today was leggy

If you look closely you can see the chords to "Michele". Note to self: playing "Michele" with a major distorsion is a stupid, stupid idea.

An article on the UK riots I wholly agree with

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2024284/UK-riots-2011-Liberal-dogma-spawned-generation-brutalised-youths.html

It was fun. It made life interesting. It got people to notice them

(...)If you live a normal life of absolute futility, which we can assume most of this week’s rioters do, excitement of any kind is welcome. The people who wrecked swathes of property, burned vehicles and terrorised communities have no moral compass to make them susceptible to guilt or shame.

(...)The depressing truth is that at the bottom of our society is a layer of young people with no skills, education, values or aspirations. They do not have what most of us would call ‘lives’: they simply exist.

There are so many branches in this discussion now though...it's not only the gangster teens from poor illiterate backgrounds that started it..it's not only the professional thieves who joined afterwards, their causes and their motives, it's also the middle class that were stealing stupid things just to make their lives a little interesting. It's ALL PARTS OF SOCIETY. It's not anybody's fault, it's our society. It happens on a lesser scale, everyday. There are no manners, there are no shared aspirations, we have no respect for ourselves, let alone for each other.

 

Nena

My little cousin is getting soo pretty. She's 12. It was her first time in London. She asked me to "do her makeup" so we moved her hair a little bit and then did some eyeliner and Bobbi Brown Tulle brown on lips and cheekbones, which is all I was carrying in my bag. I had to take some pics.


Hypnotised looking at the tv



You can see me in the mirror

Ibiza July 2011

I could watch these glimmers for hours

MacBook Pro stolen!

SO. I lost my laptop (currently writing from my old one) and I am just destroyed because that computer has all kinds of things, work, photos and stuff in it and, other than the fact that it was hugely expensive, I haven't backed it up in at least a month.

I left it on a tray at the security point in Ibiza airport at 2.30 am (after going through security), called an hour afterwards and nobody had seen it or knew anything about it. I can only imagine someone must have taken it with them on a flight. And there were only two flights at that time for the rest of the night, but of course no one will disclose the names of the passengers or look into it.

Long shot but I'm posting it here because I'm posting it everywhere. If anybody has any ideas of what I could do (already been to the police, and airport security has not seen it) or is working for apple and can track it down with the serial number it would be a lifesaver.

I am offering a reward which is more than they'll get from it or its contents

It was a

15.4 inch MacBook Pro

serial no. W894582B642

Carlota's graduation

My sister doesn't like making appearances in my blog so I'm forced to keep her pictures to a minimum. Shhh...

First a goofy one:


Carlota is in Pucci /Rodo bag/Dior shoes

This is mom. Mom is wearing vintage sunglasses and a Chloe crotchet dress that's quite stunning




See?








I got her this Lara Bohinc bracelet (I have one too) in rose gold.




This is a chignon



This is me drinking apple juice:




I'm wearing a Halston Heritage dress, it's just like the dark platinum one I have, but in cocktail length and in gold. It's actually my sister's. I'm travelling, I don't have anything with me. I should have-would have-could have brought appropriate jewelery and shoes but I had two minutes to pack and I didn't

Face shot. Alexander McQueen ring




Edit: Makeup! It was very minimal, I wanted it to be really natural because it was humid and boiling hot. I'm wearing:
Laura Mercier Mineral Real Sand Foundation
YSL Touche Eclat
Laura Mercier Loose Mineral setting Powder on the nose and in between the eyebrows and under eyes
Guerlain 4 Seasons Blondes bronzer under the cheekbone
Chanel mat black eyeshadow - very sheer wash on the lid
YSL waterproof eyeliner pencil in brown dotted on the lashline
Dior Extase mascara in black applied lightly
Bobbi Brown Heather pink lipstick patted on the lips


profile that I am only posting because you can see the dress:




The bag I'm using is my mom's, it's a vintage gold loewe hard-case clutch. I LOVE IT! so authentic, such a great object of fashion history.

Shoes are miu miu but dad thought it unecessary to show them, at all.

EDIT:
Here is Caroline with her clutch, she's had it forever

Birthday Celebrations

The Birthday Dress

The Park

 

The Dinner

 

 

The many faces, on a Harley

We found a gorgeous bike on the street and I couldn't help but hop on it. These were taken in succesion by my amazing friend Philip and are un-edited.

"Okay 'nuff messing around. I'm gonna get this thing running"

Liberty hanky,
All Saints Walker Leather Jacket(with an AP bra underneath. Go me)
Siwy shorts
Sendra boots
And the nudest tights from Wolford. Individual I think they're called.

i got some drumsticks in the mail today?

Things I love about Ibiza

The coconut ice creams.

The sea. Even on a rainy day

The loud splashes of daisies amongst the wilderness of a sidewalk

The humour

The freedom to go practically naked, anywhere!

my yoga/pilates space

The Ad-Lib fashion

The unpretentiousness, dirt and all

The recycling bins!

The food.

The blinding, blinding white, LIGHT.

The fields. The energy

the peace

 

"Diana's favourite inventions of all time" by Austin (Illustrated by Diana)

1. The tea kettle

2. The hot water tank

3. The synthesizer

4. The guitar

5. Fabric

6. Headphones

7. Soap

8. The bikini

9. Yoga mat

10 Pencil crayons

 

"vintage photos" 2005-2008 style

Can I just say...I miss my natural blonde highlights! need to move somewhere sunny

 

As the toffee nut seasonal latte shortage begins..

I need advice from other professional Starbucks drinkers. What to drink?? I am blocked. What does everyone here order when there's no more toffee nut syrup? The horror

Sent from my iPhone

I don't think I've ever gotten so many texts asking me "what's going on tomorrow?" on the 30th of December! I see we've all been pretty lazy about getting a plan together.

Memorable quote, on the 29th "I still don't know what I'm doing. Do any of you guys feel like going to the Caribbean?"

Carrousel!

Sent from my iPhone

Armani's ride, getting ready to

Armani's ride, getting ready to board

Just kidding

Sent from my iPhone

music season - update

So I'm not in glasto like everybody because I have to see Paul McCartney tomorrow. I'm a huuuge Beatles fan. As long as I have access to the Beatles catalog, I'm a happy girl.

Paul was never my favourite Beatle, I found him rather annoying but he's grown on me, and has possibly now taken shared favourite position (along with Lennon of course.) My heart belonged to Ringo for a long time - I just thought you couldn't get any more fabulous than having Star as your surname- but then through My Sweet Lord (best song ever?) I discovered George was a star himself. Hard to choose, I tell you.

I'm all Paul's tomorrow in any case.
 



I regret not taking any pictures of my outfit today (i got invited to Bon Jovi- i just came back) but I didn't have a free moment before or after. It was quite predictable (MIU MIU CLOGS). Tomorrow I will be wearing shorts, my purple bikini, and possibly avene thermal water! aaah freedom.

Mmmmm frozen yoghurt with oreos,

Mmmmm frozen yoghurt with oreos, coconut, blueberries

Sent from my iPhone

It's my Birthday! + Chelsea Flower Show

I thought I'd post pictures from the Chelsea Flower Show to celebrate. It was spectacular. The variety of roses was my favourite part.

 

My exhusband

He plays the piano beautifully and other things

Sent from my iPhone

me and Alex

We're having a Chai Tea Latte in Starbucks

my valentine's flowers

 
Powder pink and fuchsia. they are the most beautiful roses. ever. I can't stop looking at them.

  

Halloween in Vancouver

 

London Fashion Week 2009!

 

 

Bryce sent me a gorgeous invite. I had the pleasure to model for him at his studio a few months ago, for an exhibit that is happening in a few months.. He's great, i really liked his collection. This is one of the covers he's provided wardrobe for:

 

 

ATTN: MEN. Just FYI

Friends do NOT suck on their friends necks. They also do NOT spoon

Agents do NOT describe their clients buttocks as "juicy"

Exboyfriends do NOT tell their ex girlfriends they are terminally ill to get a hug

Boyfriends do NOT say haha after forgetting to call their girlfriends for days, weeks, months...

Dads do NOT add their daughters on facebook

Friends' dads do NOT ask the dad for a dinner with his daughter. That's WEIRD

So funny!

I had to take it home
 

UPDATE: This cup has been STOLEN from Unity studios where I was working : ( If you find it, GIVE IT BaCK to me

My flat is really lonely and I'm sitting in the bath soaking, sulking and thinking. This is what i call, giving my laptop a bath. I was reading February Marie Claire earlier this evening - the article about the woman who finds love at 43 and gets married and lives happily ever after (if there's life after 40. All the successful people i met this week are 22) and even though it's meant to be positive i cried, because it's sad to be lonely for so long. I'm not sure I could make it that long by myself. But it's hard to be with someone, too

I've always thought of relationships as being as easy as free love: I like you, you like looking at me, let's go. Then we'll keep it going by having sex every day. I get the attention -i thought- so all there is to do now is choose one. WRONG. Relationships have nothing to do with love and sex! They have to do with timing, respect, tolerance, lots of patience and other terms that are irrelevant to me. As you get older, they have to do with culture, baggage and lack thereof, brutal honesty but careful exposure of truth...All while juggling the delicate balance of emotion, and invariably sex.

It's all so new and disheartening.

I am fascinated by the txt language of some people. How is hqe = hope? Or keepup = keep you? Tmaro = tomorrow?? Tomorrow has always been tmr, or tom if you wanna be special! Seriously. I'm all for cause = cos and other understandable funny phonetics, but tis takin mi ages 2 dcphr thees

 Bad grammar on purpose is missing the point of language.

My agenda appointments is an unclear MESS. This is how it looks:

Monday
- period came today?
- David Audition arts club 12:00

Tuesday
- Oli playing today or tomorrow.
-Period came today?
-get tickets for saturday
- whitechapel 8. Jess 6

Wednesday
- Alan might call
- call David apologize for not going to audition
- get tickets for sat
- private party simon

Thursday
- Katya returns from somewhere. Call
- TICKETS SATURDAY!
- Find envelope with money

Friday
- bf is back? call him
- call katia Saturday
- Fly away to spain

Yea that's me

Excerpts from my diary

First items in my to-do list for today read

- Write landlord about fixing landline/internet.

- PRAY

 

i'm on my second suitcase.

 

The dancing shoes, kitchen utensils, and outerwear (Armani coat, Paul & Joe coat, Balenciaga jacket and Mcqueen jacket) didn't make it on the first one. SUCKS. And i don't know whether i want to take trousers...do I?