La,la,la,la,la,la LIFE!

Wow where does time go when your, erm ...living it?! 'It' being that funny thing known as ahem, 'Life'. Well I do have photo's to post about time after such a long break from blogging! I have recently bought 4 beautiful 60s dresses, resulting in me not daring to look at my bank account!

I hope you all had a lovely fathers day for those of you in the UK, I miss my dad very much so I just try and get through the day as quickly as possible to be honest!

This week I am desperately aiming to increase the amount of exercise I do! Wish me luck! Desperately trying to avoid the 30yr old spread....only 6 mths til the BIG 30!

Ok, walking to work now in the sunshine, and as a parting gift...check out these shoes from topshop - I haven't been so impressed with high street shoes such as this for a long time! Way to go topshop! What d'ya think? PS On a sunny morning Bob Marley tunes are the best, but you knew that? Right?
x

High necklines and short hemlines

I love and have always loved high necklines and short hemlines...always been a leg rather than a breast kind'a gal. Just classier I think, and shouts back to the 1960s. That is all!

Inspiration...

Hello there Brian!

Controversial, I know...the life he led but oh what a beautiful boy...

Happy 2011! birthdays & resolutions

Well it came at last didn't it! 2011?

I hope you all have a lovely year ahead of you! I'm in talks with a couple of new shops to stock my jewellery (will post pics), I've already began the year as I mean to go on...trying something new! So far I have scaled a 12 foot wall - I went indoor climbing with one of my best friends, it was fun and I think I may just be a natural haha so I am completing a three week climbing course now :)!

In the summer I am beginning horse riding again :) cannot wait!

More travelling, places TBC :) and lots of work and life ideas, plans and adventures!

I have three professional courses in the next three months and so much more to come!

I am, 29 next week....oh my goodness there I said it, deep breath - think I need a cup of tea, when, how, what on earth?! When did I get that old? :)

This is England, yer get me?

More to come...on this topic in the mean time google the film maker, Shane Meadows. Makes me proud to live in Nottingham. I'm really liking the androgynous skin girl look at the mo' just damn cool.

Going to bed with Keith

1967

If you haven't bought his autobiography which came out earlier this year, then please do so on this recommendation - it's fantastic. So far I have missed two stops on the bus I was so engrossed reading it, and it's my new bed time read hence the title of this blog post. I don't want the book to end, so I'll just take my time...

Goldielocks, Rapunzel aint got nothin' on her

Marianne, may I please have your hair?

Riding pretty, flying around on a bicycle made for thought

I want to ride my bike, all carefree yet deep in thought...I need a beautiful old bike in my life in 2011. Lovely Bridget! x

Love is real, real is love

Love is real, real is love,
Love is feeling, feeling love,
Love is wanting to be loved.
Love is touch, touch is love,
Love is reaching, reaching love,
Love is asking to be loved.
Love is you,
You and me,
Love is knowing,
We can be.
Love is free, free is love,
Love is living, living love,
Love is needing to be loved.

As is life!

If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals. -Lou Holtz

Snow day, duvet day, hat season!

I patiently awaiting the postman to deliver the newest addition to my family of hats...a beauty from the 1960s of course. Brown faux fur beehive hat with string under the chin and pom poms!

Other than that days have been spent working evenings dancing to northern soul with suited and booted mods, and pretty 60s girls. Sleepless nights have been had...trying to decide where to go in life.

Do I?

a) open a shop (I have no funds, but little debt) which will open late have a jukebox and records playing, selling tea, coffee and serving the healthiest vegetarian food in the day and selling beautiful vintage pieces and interesting books. A twist on the 60s late night mod coffee bars.

b) begin a fully funded ( 3 year!) social work degree

c) study nutrition (4 year) degree

d) study TEFL (teach English as a foreign language) and go travelling the world, and save money by working in Asia

e) continue in the city I'm in making jewellery, selling on vintage fairs and paying the bills by doing part time office work (I dislike traditional office work, dislike probably not a strong enough word) and continue with my counselling qualification

I am the most indecisive person I know. Any action is better than none, and today is a Snow Day! I can't get to work...so let the action begin! now to decide?!!

Porcelain Doll Vintage Store - opened today!

Hello all,

Now it's far from perfect but if I wait for perfect I will never get it started so - here goes! Here's the link to the very beginnings of my online vintage store. I need to improve the photography and update with a lot more stock yet - but thought you may like a sneak preview...it's very basic but I will continue to work on it so it will be looking prettier soon!

In the mean time please leave comments or ask any questions about the few items that are currently on there! Oh and 10% off if you're a reader of this blog! ;-)

xxx

It aint' what you do but the way that you do it...

Understated elegance. Grace by name, oh so graceful by nature.

Ode to the humble Pyjamas (in times of illness)

What do you wear when you have the flu? you need to keep extra warm but also need to feel nice, ok pyjamas are a good choice! I'm a big fan of 1950s style pyjamas floral ones, and crisp looking cotton striped ones - like from the colgate adverts! Not exactly sexy but oh so cosy who wants to go to bed being cold in a flimsy silk negligee?? Brrrr not in British winters, thanks!

Once upon a time whilst still a student I nipped to the shops in my pyjamas but not now! I desperately want some vegan chocolate ice-cream to soothe my throat, that I can eat in bed...but I'm still sat in my pyjamas...

I dream of Jeannie's dresses part two

Ok they are a little cutesy for my taste, but even so - such a sweet 60s look! Like a little 60s Barbie Doll.

Walk the plank, oo-argh me hearties and all that gibberish!

Ok, we had a housewarming party this weekend, at my friends who happens to have a bar in her new house, how cool? yes it's in the basement! Randomly she and her flatmate have named it Fillipes'. No reason. No reason needed, haha.

Only the coolest bar in town, I'll have you know! The theme for the party was pirates - Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow unfortunately could not attend. However giggles were had by all!

My outfit was quite rubbish haha last minute rush - I have my eye patch round my neck, see?! if it wasn't for that I didn't really much look like a pirate...! Hehe.

My head scarf is knitted and about 35 years old, it was my nana's cute huh? must wear more often...it's the perfect shape to tie round your head...really nicely knitted!

Little Ol' Tea Drinker me...

I'm trying to take some time out. I'm trying to stop chasing excitement quite as much, as it's tiring! Ha,ha maybe a sign of age? I'm trying to cut back on the shopping, make time to breathe and enjoy the simple things.

I'm enjoying making my jewellery without any pressure. I'm enjoying cups of fruit and herbal tea, on a Sunday in the cosiest little teashop ever. While I'm watching my pennies I'm staying in the city I live, most weekends -and I feel I'm rediscovering it all over again, almost - with fresh eyes.

Everyday I'm writing a fresh to-do list. I've finally realised life is about experiences, people you meet and what you create with them. Life is short - duh of course it is!

Getting lost helps you find the things you're looking for, that's why I can't wait to go travelling once more. Next post will be my hit-list of countries.

I'm making porridge shortly for breakfast, it's raining outside - yet I might still go for that jog - or maybe not?

Life at the moment is tea drinking, reading good books, dancing with friends for hours at weekends until our feet ache and living ever day whilst noticing every moment. I hope to make some candles in vintage tea cups in the next few weeks...

The music I'm listening to so much at the moment is soul...sweet, sweet soul - going back to my mod roots ;-)

Hardly rock n roll but I'm enjoying this stillness.

Little ol' tea drinker me x

My mum met the legend Jimi Hendrix, and all I got was the story

Jimi Hendrix amazing artist, gentle, gentle soul...softly spoken - or so my mum tells me, who met him in the mid sixties and sat on a bench talking to him for a good while - I love the story, I'm terribly jealous of her for getting to meet him - but in the nicest possible way of course! ;-)

R.I.P Jimi. And can you believe the photographic evidence of my mum and Jimi sat on that bench together got lost in a record sleeve that my dad lent to a friend in the late 1970s. Fail!

I think he's beautiful....and someone somewhere has a random picture of Jimi with a blonde, young woman with a beehive looking a little similar to me, and on that day next to that fine young man, likely to be looking very SMUG. Where are you photo? x

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