The Wonder List — Issue 9
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Time to read 3 min
Hello lovely people,
This week has felt surprisingly solid.
Not in a fireworks-and-manifestations way. Not in a "my entire life changed overnight" way. Just solid. The kind of week where you catch yourself on a rainy London afternoon and realise you're actually happy to be here. Present. Interested. Curious about what's next.
🔨 On building things
A lot of my time recently has been spent building. Wonder continues to grow quietly in the background — Pinterest impressions are climbing, search traffic is climbing, and I've spent much of this week working on custom tools that make the site feel more and more like the platform I originally imagined.
There's something deeply satisfying about building your own tools. Even when they're imperfect. Especially when they're imperfect. Version one shipped. And now version two is already calling.
👟 On an imaginary collaboration that needs to exist
Speaking of things that probably didn't need to exist but absolutely should…
I've spent an unreasonable amount of time this week imagining what would happen if Chanel and Nike collaborated. Not a celebrity collaboration. Not a hype collaboration. A real one — the kind where both brands stay entirely true to themselves.
What would an Air Jordan look like if Coco Chanel had discovered basketball? What if Jordan Brand's performance heritage met Chanel's house codes — the tweed, the quilting, the pearls, the unapologetic glamour?
The answer, apparently, is that I now desperately want a bouclé Air Jordan 4. This is not a problem I expected to have.
🛍️ This week on Wonder
🤍 The White Dress Edit
I live near a town hall. This week, I kept catching glimpses of brides — and every single one of them looked extraordinary. There's something about a white dress that stops you in your tracks. It doesn't have to be bridal. It just has to be right.
I've been quietly building out a white dresses edit on Wonder, and this week felt like the right moment to lean into it properly. From a cotton poplin minidress to a silk-satin gown, it's a collection for anyone who's ever walked past a bride and thought: I just want to wear white.
→ Explore the White Dress Edit
🍅 The Tomato Butter Dish
The Bordallo Pinheiro Tomate Ceramic Butter Dish is one of those objects that makes absolutely no sense until you see it in person — and then you can't imagine your kitchen without it. Handcrafted in Portugal, shaped like a tomato, completely impractical in the best possible way. It's the kind of thing you buy for yourself and tell people was a gift.
🍽️ The Plate Set
The Bitossi Ciao Mondo Set of 4 Porcelain Plates landed on Wonder this week and immediately felt like the most joyful thing on the site. Bold, graphic, Italian — the kind of plates that make even a Tuesday dinner feel like an occasion. If your table needs a personality transplant, start here.
🖍️ Piece of the Week
The Crayola Water Bottle.
A completely ridiculous object that somehow manages to be practical, nostalgic, colourful and strangely delightful all at the same time. I've long suspected that some of the best things in life sit somewhere between useful and joyful — a beautiful notebook, a great white T-shirt, a perfectly designed lamp, a water bottle disguised as a giant crayon.
You don't always know which objects are going to capture your imagination. Sometimes they simply do. And that's part of the fun.
→ Shop the Crayola Water Bottle
🕊️ Peace of the Week
A rainy London afternoon.
No breakthroughs. No dramatic revelations. Just feeling calm, present and quietly grateful to be alive.
One thing I've been thinking about a lot this week is how much easier life becomes when you stop treating the world as something happening to you and start relating to it more creatively. Not controlling everything. Not forcing everything. Just recognising that the stories we tell ourselves shape the way we experience the world.
I've found myself feeling increasingly open to possibility lately. Not because I know exactly what's coming — but because I don't. And for the first time in a long time, that feels exciting rather than frightening.
Sometimes that's more than enough.
Until next week,
Lola 🖤
