Cheryl Marie Cordeiro

A light yellow, old cushion cut diamond with a large culet, weighing ca. 1.9 cts.

When I first got interested in diamonds, I started like everyone else on the 5Cs of a diamond – its cut, clarity, colour, carat weight and certificate.

Questions like, which of these Cs are more important if you’re working on a budget was also part of the learning process and a practical question to consider when buying a diamond. And for the longest time, I could not weigh the importance of either of the Cs with each other. I wanted all of them in my stone ranked as high as possible, meaning I wanted best colour, best cut, best clarity, biggest carat and most definitely certified, in the budget!
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In the previous post, where I was wearing the Grey Miu Miu coat, I wore these shoes.

There’s a pair of shoes that you can see in the previous picture that I’m trying out with the grey coat – a red and black patent leather and snake skin heeled shoe.

There are many interesting details in this shoe – almost overwhelming in detail actually from:

• the petal open toe front
• the black patent
• the contrast red patent
• the snake skin print along the sides
• the duo tone fading from red to black and black to red
• the studded heel
• the shape of the heel from thick to thin, not like a standard stiletto or a chunky stacked heel.

I was almost considering going for this pair of shoes but after some more thinking some I decided there is such a things as too overwhelming by details and struck it off the list to my husband’s dismay. He loved these shoes!

Check out the Miu Miu flats in the background, worn by the very helpful and patient sales girl. Now those ballerinas are CUTE!

Still in London, Bond Street…

I spotted Miu Miu just across the street, somewhere down from Pringle of Scotland. I’ve been looking for a red coat FOREVER – literally, a few years now. And I’ve been eyeing THIS schoolgirl kickpleat red coat from Miu Miu.

The entire Miu Miu autumn collection was inspired by school uniforms and I thought it ideal! I love girly lolita style clothes and school uniform inspired items suited me perfect!

I donned this coat with enthusiasm, only to find that again, it was too large. It was in size IT 38! Which was indeed the smallest they had.

I began to realize that this was not my day indeed. I was truly disappointed here too because first, I love Italian made clothes and second, Italian sizes are what actually FIT ME in Europe. They are all I ever go for when shopping in Sweden because all other cuttings are just that wee bit too large. I think you can see my disappointment in my eyes in the mirror.

A practical consideration. I noticed that the sleeves on this coat did not cover my wrists. This means that it’ll be a cold coat. I do like coats that have a longer sleeve length because I can just pull it that extra bit over my gloves during winter for that extra bit of needed warmth.

And I thought I could’ve worn them with these Miu Mius I have. Disappointing.