{"id":5826,"date":"2011-08-12T10:35:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T18:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/?p=5826"},"modified":"2011-08-23T16:33:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T00:33:00","slug":"london-accessorize-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nycupcake.com\/?p=5826","title":{"rendered":"London Accessorize Haul"},"content":{"rendered":"

One night after a nice dinner at The Platform Bar & Restaurant in London (which I highly recommend), my husband and I walked across to admire the beautiful view at the promenade.\u00a0 Unexpected to me, sandwiched in-between was a large shopping arcade.\u00a0 I peeked into the store’s windows wishing the shops were still open (Boots, a cute British bookstore, clothing boutiques, and Accessorize<\/a>).\u00a0 The next morning was a race to reach Coventry at a decent time so it would not have worked out =(.\u00a0 I also didn’t want to seem petty and kept quiet about this; after all we were on holiday, not a shopping expedition.\u00a0 I knew that the last leg of our trip would bring us back to London before our flight home.\u00a0 I secretly hoped that we could visit this arcade again and felt that if this was meant to be, it would happen. \u00a0 My wish came true when my husband announced he wanted to tour the HMS Belfast (which was practically paces away).\u00a0 Accessorize, as its name implies, is an accessories shop similar to our Claire’s or The Icing in the United States or New York with equally charming and inexpensive bits and baubles.\u00a0 My husband didn’t have to mention it twice when we walked by that day so I raced in.\u00a0 These were my loveliest of finds…<\/p>\n