Miu miu cats and make up bags

I was just going to do a little post about how much I love the Miu Miu cat print, and how much I want this bag to put my nicest make up in:

And of course, then I was going to moan about how I couldn't possibly afford it, and if I bought an expensive designer clutch I would never actually use it as a make up bag. But then I read this post on the excellent Imwashingmyhair where they talk about the miu miu cats and then suggest a brilliant alternative cat-print by Paul & Joe. Love it!

Even better they have discovered that you can get nail files in this amazing print! And there is a mint green one! Yet more things for me to covet.

The print reminds me of those incredibly naff birthday cards you could get for about 20p off the market in Leicester, which always featured a sickeningly cute cat with impossibly large eyes and some glittery flowers. My great-grandad would always buy me one like that for my birthday, and give me 2p to get a chocolate bar with. He never believed in all that inflation nonsense. The cats also remind me of an updated version of the Tom Kitten character by Beatrix Potter. Ahh I love cats. Even the colour palette of the print is kind of similar to the Ladybird book covers:

I came across imwashingmyhair while I was, ahem, researching Lisa Eldridge rather intensely. It's a brilliant blog full of beauty news and reviews and they do it much better than me with much better pictures.