I was absolutely gutted that I simply ran out of time to write for the 2nd year anniversaty issue of Fashion 156. Guy Hipwell the editor, was the first to spot the blog very early on a few months after the blog started and I've written in every issue since...except the current one!  Gutted actually doesn't quite describe the feeling.....

It is just as well that I'm losing out on time because of course there are plenty of people who are more than capable of writing a Fashion Spy column and for this issue Simran Kaur has taken on the job and looking at her recent blog entries on the Fashion 156 blog, it seems ingenious DIY is in her blood.  I was floored by her beautiful face-lace pieces that she attached with eyelash glue.  Why shouldn't the face be adorned in the same way as the rest of the body?  I'm thinking eyelash glue is probably more comfortable on the face than it is on actual eyelashes too.  Well Simran, I'm not quite letting go of the baton yet as I'm determined that I still get into the Fashion156 pie but thank you for giving a different twist to lace for this season because lord knows we need it what with the lace onslaught I feel we're going to be bombarded with. 

On an unrelated note I really am turning into an old battle axe who is feeling her blogging 2 and a half years... my newcomers and upstarts list has grown beyond ridiculous and they just keep on coming... to the 'older' generation of the fashion blogging world out there, do you ever get a bit overwhelmed by it all?  Let's sit on a porch, sip some iced-Ovaltine and have a chat about it shall we?