Sweetness, smiles and summer nights

Lots of sweet summer days dresses are arriving in store at the moment. These little lovelies are short but sweet with lots of candy colours, baby florals, and flirty shapes. 

Plait Inspiration

On trend and an easy way to add a special touch to your everyday look - plaits are fun, easy and suit just about everyone. You just need to find your plait inspiration!

Overload of Delicious

Delicious beats out the diet!

 If you want to really impress your friends then this is the meal to make!

We found this totally decadent pasta pie recipe on the noble pig blog and gave it a go! Needless to say we enjoyed it immensely! 

So go on have a crack it really is worth it - calories and all!

http://noblepig.com/2009/03/when-the-moon-hits-the-sky/

Beautiful Belle Stars

Our beautiful belle stars have arrived in a delightful range of summer colours!

The yummiest muffins ever!

Discovered the recipe for these truly amazing nutella stuffed breakfast muffins on babble blog. They are utterly delicious (just don't eat more than one or you might have a nutella stroke). You absolutely must give them a try they are so easy and yummy!

Visit 

http://blogs.babble.com/family-kitchen/2011/04/07/nutella-breakfast-muffins/

for the original post!

Christmas Inspiration

The first really hot weekend of the season got us thinking about Christmas again - so here are some rad gifts ideas!

Amazing fashion in Solange Knowles Losing you Video

Our office is going absolutely crazy for the awesome new Solange Knowles (yes B's little sister) video clip for her beautiful new track "Losing You"! Her outfits are totally rad!

Retro Inspiration

 We got bitten by the vintage bug!

 

Beautiful new belle starr dresses arriving online any day now! 

The office was total pink/peach mania last week! Spring is in the air so black is now banished to the back of the wardrobe and our current crush on pink lemonade is taking over.

So we set ourselves a challenge of eating all pink for one day! Here's my menu:

• Breakfast was a strawberry smoothies with raspberry garnish.

• Morning tea was hibiscus and pomegranate tea with pink sugar cookies.

• Lunch was pretty pink smoked salmon with with cream cheese and capers and a frothy glass of pink lemonade.

• Dinner was Borsh or Beetroot soup which much to my surprise was delicious (remember to add a dash of sour cream right at the end) and was then followed ice cream with rhubarb!

Wonder if I'll turn pink tomorrow?! 

Amazing Creatures

Amazing Creatures

I came across this amazing little creature last night! It's called a Glaucus Atlanticus and despite my initial disbelief that it was a real living creature Wikipedia tells me that this beautiful little creature is not only real but can be found right here on Australian beaches and is in fact a sea slug of all things! 

Here is the Wikipedia link so you can check out this little beauty for yourself! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaucus_atlanticus 

Lovely Lace

In love with lace

Being that we absolutely love lace here at Mombasa we were totally over the moon when these beautiful Chantilly lace dress arrived on our doorstep! The colours are amazing and the style has a very vintage feel to it! So go on and indulge your girly side and feel like a princess!

Strawberry Cupcakes

Sweetheart Cakes

Found these lovely cupcakes through pinterst last week and had so much fun making and eating them that I just had to share the receipe which I found at 

http://www.instructables.com/id/Chocolate-Pudding-Cupcakes-with-Strawberry-Centers/

Ingredients:

1 package cake mix, chocolate
1 package strawberries, cleaned and hulled
1 package pudding, chocolate
Fresh mint sprigs,optional but awesome

Directions:

1. Prepare cupcakes according to package and let cool. Using a paring knife, core out a well down into each cupcake, for your strawberry to fit into. Prepare your pudding according to the package. Let set until nice and pudding-y (solid - wet gloopy pudding will ruin the cupcakes, so don't be in a rush, let the pudding firm up!)

2. Stick the strawberry pointy side down into your cupcakes. Take the piece of the cupcake that you cut out, and place it on top of the strawberry, after you push it down into the cupcake.

3. Top liberally with pudding in leu of frosting.

4. Add a sprig of mint if you like.  I think it adds a certain something, and my neighbor had some growing in her kitchen and shared…but don’t go out and buy some.

5. I cut each cutcake in half and set it on a plate, because presentation is everything with these suckers. They are DELICIOUS and super easy!

Spring in your step

Here at Mombasa we are loving the feeling that spring is just around the corner. The autumn winds are here but there is definitely a touch of spring in the air with cardigans being shed all over the office!

To celebrate the warm days and cool nights we had a new model come visit us and boy did she look absolutely gorgeous in our spring inspired pieces!

micro piglet on bed

The Garden Closet

Take a wander down the garden path with these gorgeous floral pants and jeans! The colours are outstanding and the cut is a very flattering midrise! This is one of our favourite trends ever! XX

 

Flying saucer sherbet lollies are amazing and our fashion inspiration at the moment! 

If you don't remember these amazing little pods of fizzy fun then you'd better run out to your local lolly store and buy some - they are seriously fun!

Plus you'll look totes cool eating them in your sherbet coloured jumper!