Cherries on Cupcakes and Icing on Cookies High-heels on Pedals and Skirts sat on Brooksies Baskets with Flowers and Ding-Dong Bell rings These are a few of my favourite things… My love affair with cycling, fashion, coffee & cakes is more than apparent on my blog, but when someone decided to pick-up on this and create something beautiful from it, my heart skipped a million beats at once! I was rather excited when Alyssa Ramsey of Arcobaleno Jewellery Design contacted me about designing two bespoke pieces. The only clues were they would be related to the blog & my personality: I wasn’t told what they were going to be, so […]

So, I don’t get to say very this often: I was recently invited to feature in a Photo-shoot about cycling & fashion in London! I was contacted by Internationally renowned Photographer Horst A. Freidrichs, to feature in a book he is working on which focuses on the fashion culture of cyclists in the City. To say I was excited would be an understatement! The First thing on my agenda: decide the outfits. With it being June and there was blazing sunshine last Saturday, I’d decided on these for a summer-cyclist feel: Vest Top: Topshop Floral Hot Pant Shorts: Topshop Ballet Pumps: Topshop “LadyVélo” Name Necklace: Tatty Devine Earrings: Chanel Vest Top: Dorothy Perkins Wide Belt: […]

A fantastic opportunity came up for Vélo-City-Girl… I recently took part in a Bloggers Conference to interview World & Olympic Cycling champion Victoria Pendleton. After having watched her win Gold in Beijing 2008, this was a very exciting chance to be given! I was invited to the conference to speak to Victoria about Cycletta: a series of cycling events created to encourage women to take up cycling, have fun doing so and build up confidence on two wheels. As the primary ambassador for Cycletta, Victoria is committed to inspiring more women to take up cycling as a meaningful lifestyle pursuit. This was a brilliant chance to ask Victoria about her thoughts on the event for the more leisurely rider, […]

Yesterday morning took a very happy turn (I have a rotten Cold & Asthma issues at the moment) when the Post Man knocked on my Door. I wasn’t expecting a delivery on Wednesday, but those girls at Tatty Devine are pretty fast indeed.  This is my awesome “thank you” present for being Customer of the Month! I’ve wanted this Dinosaur Necklace for ages, so thank you very much TD for asking – amazed I got it 🙂 Expect to see the debut of Dina the Dino on my Pashley soon. And I have to say, this made me smile when I saw it on Wednesday afternoon: Front Page joy for […]

Now, I’m guessing most of you may have realised I am a massive Tatty Devine fan & have been collecting their pieces for a while. Their beautiful jewellery features very heavily in my style & pops up frequently in my “Bike Wardrobe Remixing” posts. So, it’s an absolute pleasure (whilst squealing like an overexcited Seal Pup) to announce that Tatty Devine named me their “Customer of the Month” for May!  I was absolutely over the moon when I received an email last week from the lovely Sonja at Tatty Devine to say that I had been chosen. It was a total joy to answer the questions, and a challenge to myself to […]

It’s Day 2 of the Barclays Cycle Hire Scheme, and I had the pleasure of interviewing one of the newly registered members of it! Meet Tyla: she lives & works in London and is an enthusiastic and rather chic cyclist, which is exactly what we like to see 🙂 Today was Tyla’s first time using the Scheme. She tells Vélo-City about her initial experience using the Cycle Hire Scheme in London… *What was the nature of your journey today? The nature of my journey was leisure & to commute back home. I hate changing at Green Park as it’s very crowded and stuffy and I nearly passed out the night […]

A few months ago, I did a cycle-interview with the rather cool Bianca for a project that she was working on… this project has now come to fruition in the form of the excellent Inside My Locker – a blogazine for women who like to mix style with sport. It’s always fabulous to see fashion & cycling together – especially when the message is being promoted to a wider audience & reminding girls that you can look good while on two wheels! It was lovey to be featured on their Bicyclette Edition in this interview. I totally recommend checking the site out – I know I’ll certainly be keeping my […]