Hello dear friends, hope you are well.
I had quite a busy week. My grandson just turned two months and I thought it was high time to introduce him to my extended family. BC (before COVID) times, they would just roll up at the hospital the next day after his birth bearing gifts, flowers and best wishes and it would be all. Now, with the restrictions limiting the number of visitors to just two at time and the time that the mother and a new born stay at the hospital is shortened to the necessary minimum, some of them didn't even have a chance to stop by. Then my daughter didn't want to have anything till his first vaccination, then there was Pesach closely followed by Easter and at long last, the date was set.
Traditionally, it's the young parents who would host such an occasion with the help of grandparents, of course, however, unluckily for me, my daughter wasn't interested in doing anything at all which I kind of understand, what with looking after two children under school age and all, so I took it upon myself to take charge and have it at my home.
I prepped, chopped, sliced, marinated and cooked loads of food for twenty people (eighteen of mine +my two in-laws). My husband took a rain over BBQ while I was playing a role of the hostess with the mostest 😋.
We both felt totally exhausted by the end of the big day but everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves judging by the number of phone calls and messages I received from my guests afterwards thanking me for having a good time. Mission accomplished👍👍👍.
Although the Australian summer season is officially over, the days are surprisingly warm and we can still wear our light clothes. Speaking of light clothes, this summer season the most commonly worn fabric on the fashion scene was linen.
I have never seen so many women dressed in linen smocks or men wearing linen shirts and shorts since my last trip to Italy. I wasn't going to jump on this wagon until I saw these black cropped linen pants from Pingpong.
The problem with having too many black pants is that quite often they look almost identical unless there is some distinctive feature that will tell them apart. In the case of my new trousers, it was the presence of white pearl decorative buttons that set makes them look different that caught my eye.
This outfit is rather obvious, a never failed old time favourite black and white combo from head to toe. The blouse is from Reiss that I previously modelled for you here, I like the striking contrast of these two colours: white blouse against black pants punctuated by the big white pearl buttons all the way dawn to my black&white LV sneakers. Even my off-white Furla handbag comes with a black trim around it 😀.
Hopefully the weather will hold a little longer so I can give my new purchase a whole run.
Till the next post, dear friends
Anna
xoxo
