Vintage Weekend :)

Hello lovely blog followers :) Its 1st August... where has the time been going?

(image: All Gigs website)


I had a truly wonderful weekend and I hope you did too. Yesterday, Sunday 31st, I went up by train to Southbank which is right in the heart of London near the London Eye, Big Ben and by the River Thames, hence its name. While I was walking over the Jubilee bridge with my good friends and sister, all I could think was how beautiful the city looked in the sunshine, the water glittering as we passed. Yet that isn't the only good thing because....


I was on the way to a Vintage market!!! For the past few years, I have been following vintage fashion mainly clothes of 1950s and some 1930s/40s accessories, for example, beautiful hand mirror sets. Some of my older followers may remember me buying a 1930s hand mirror last year. Anyway, so we went down into the market which was part of the 3 day long Vintage Festival. Our friend was working at the Cath Kidston stall and had her hair done in 1940s style with red lipstick, she looked fab!


The market was packed with vintage clothes, bags, shoes, jewellery, hand mirrors, even a manual on How to Make a Wedding from the 1940s! There must have been about 50 stalls and it was bustling. So exciting. I bought a ring with a little teacup on it and a long pocket watch floral pendant which I am wearing as I write this blog. The image below is very similar to the ring I bought.

(image: Jelly Button Jewellery)


So as we wandered through the stalls listening to music of old, climbings over piles of vintage holdalls, furs, hats, gloves... it was lovely to think of bygone eras and know that they havnt really died but in many ways are being relived through our generation. That was a nice thought!  


What did you get up to this weekend? Have a great Monday.


PS. I really want to go to the new Tracy Emin art exhibit here!

Remember to say I Love you...

"It's getting impossible to hear you" said the young girl from her bedroom in Manhattan. "I'll holler if I have to" said her friend from his bedroom in the Sixth Borough...


'The string between them grew incredibly long, so long it had to be extended with many other strings tied together: his yo-yo string, the pull from her talking doll, the twine that had fastened his father's diary, the waxy string that had kept her grandmothers pearls around her neck and off the floor, the thread that had separated his great- uncle's childhood quilt from a pile of rags. Contained within everything they shared with one another were the yo-yo, the doll, the diary, the necklace, and the quilt. They had more and more to tell each other and less and less string.     


'The boy asked the girl to say 'I love you' into her can, giving her no further explanation. 


'And she didn't ask for any, or say, 'That's silly' or 'We're too young for love' or even suggest that she was saying 'I love you' because he asked her too. Instead she said, 'I love you'.  The words travelled the yo-yo, the doll, the diary, the necklace, the clothesline, the quilt, the birthday present, the harp, the tea bag, the tennis racket..


'The boy covered his can with a lid, removed it from the string, and put her love for him in a shelf on the closet. Of course, he never could open the can because then he would lose the contents. It was enough just to know it was there.'

(from 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close- Jonathan Safran Foer)


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Raspberries, Tents, Allotments and Summer :) x

I've had a lovely day today:


*walking in the sunshine with my sister and looking at the gorgeous allotments near us. someone was growing raspberries which has made me crave them even more!


*visiting my grandparents and reminiscing about the war, coupons, rationing, evacuation, and their holidays. i love my grandparents!


*seeing a friend and catching up after 3 months and having deep, philosophical discussions (and some funny anecdotes of course).


*trying my first ever cup of chamomile tea!




Right now I am craving:

Raspberries 
(especially with white chocolate- yum!)








I am wanting to go camping in this Cath Kidston tent:

  


and I am wanting to go for a summer trip with my friends and look at the stars.


What are you excited about this summer?


xo


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I want to be here....

Dreaming of beaches..... fun times with friends....

Hope you are having a happy week!

El xxx

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Fun Trips...and Pre-Weekend Joy.

a lovely pub i visited in windsor

windsor castle at night!

images: flickr via google.

Hi everyone.

So last night I went with my friend Anna to her friends birthday in Windsor (home of windsor castle and all things royal!). I hadn't been since I was much younger, and after driving for nearly an hour as the sun was setting, we arrived.

Windsor is so beautiful, full of green, open spaces :) We went to a little pub called the Two Brewers which was filled with black and white photos, wine corks covered the walls, the ceilings were low and it was a little, homely, traditional pub. I loved it. Was great to meet new people too! The pub is right by Windsor Park, and we previously walked through it at dusk to get there.

Had a wonderful evening, and now I am preparing to go down and stay with friends in Wimbledon with my sister. So I must be off!

What are your plans for the weekend?

Have a lovely one.

El xxxx