Rural idyll!

snow day

These are just a few pictures of some of the snow creation that we made a few weeks back during the snow!

The lady above is a  Hundatwasser/Klimpt-esque styalised in snow lady,

and the following is the snow pig and the last one was the most forlorn skinny snowman!

little girl little red letter

a recent drawing maybe inspired by the ducks!

cold bus morning graffiti

I love these large graffiti pieces that are on the road coming into Cambridge this one above reminds me of the style that Jamie Hewlett, The designer behind  the illustrated band The Gorillaz and my favorite Tank girl!

This one reminds me of the the Character Lol from Shane Meadow's film and television series of the same name, This is England.

The girl here just looks so wistful and beautiful in an urban anarchic way much like Vicky McClure's Character.  It's a weird combination that I captured from my freezing cold top-storey bus ride that da, the silhouetted body builders above in the top left corner, to me remind me of how strong she is but in a fragile monochromatic nostalgic kind of way.

Friend of the animals

These are some recent shots of me with the pretty Shetland ponies that we found one Sunday whilst walking in the countryside!

also some pictures of ducks and pigeons in the park.

sugarlumps?

Love for The Like

The Like are a great band that I listened to non-stop when I brought their first album (are you thinking what I'm thinking?) Just the opening track June gloom gives me shivers and the best bit is that they are still great! I just brought their most recent album Release me,  and can't stop listening to it.

Its quite different, a lot more 60's garage-girl group sound and they have refined themselves into a gorgeously attired mod-shaped group worthy of the finest acclaim in my humble opinion.  I think at the moment my fave track from the new album is in the end.  It also reminds me of The Raveonettes in some ways, another band that If you like the Like's new incarnation of themselves I'm sure you'd rate too.

So as a little tribute, and so that you can all lust over their poppy brightly coloured, monochromatic twiggy-esqueness here are some of my favorite photos that I could find.  Enjoy!

aren't they just achingly cool and gorgeous?!

The lovely Raveonettes mirroring the Motley banner!

Blondie in bubbles

a dreamy look

Glitter, polka dot make-up

I was just messing about with my glitter pots and make-up.  There was a time when I used to wear my hair and make-up like this every day, now however I find that I'm busier and have less and less time on my hands  so I save it for my days off work.  Thought I hadn't posted a Make-up post for a while so ta-da!

My inspirations are Vintage, Egyptian eyes, Alphonse Mucha ladies, D.I.Y Riot grrl attitude, punky 80's pop stars, fantasy and rave.  So quite mixed!

These below are from some while ago that I meant to post before.

1960's Blue and silvery sparkles.

These were with my old camera which as you can tell wasn't as good.

Birthday Bounty!!

Recently I have had a birthday, I know, I know its near to Christmas and no-one needs to consume vast amounts of choccies and receive any more presents but I am one of the lucky ones who gets to stretch out the festivities.........

anyway, just a little post of some of the amazing goodies that I was given.  I've also had an I idea to include another page/section on here to catalogue some of the best examples, and my favourites from my ever growing powder compact collection.  I thought that as I enjoy looking at other peoples blogs and particularly antique, vintage and retro bits and bobs, perhaps people might be interested to see some of the gems that I have aqcuired over the years, since beginning my collection when I was four after finding a Vogue lace design compact in a jumble sale for 50p that I was immediately enchanted and captivated by.  So any thoughts/feedback and compact related anecdotes would be great from fellow collectors.

This is the gorgeous little guitar (I've named her Lady Penelope, because of her colour) that I was given as a gift to replace my other black Fender acoustic that I had a few years back.

I'm debating whether to paint some blood red hearts onto her, perhaps if I get a spare moment.

All things sparkly!'

Here are some sparkly, glittery photos of recent times!

1920's flapper inspired look

All of the shoes above are from the irregular choice brand.  They are all exquisite and have inspired much shoe envy amongst my friends and myself!!

sparkly spiders we still have them dotted around the flat since Halloween!

Decorative boxes, tins and things. (part one)

Gorjuss tins

I have an accumulation of interesting tins, (and things!) which I thought I'd document ages ago by photographing them incase at any point in the future I needed to get rid of some stuff then there would always be a photo record.  Anyway basically to cut a long story short I thought that this would be a good series of posts to follow.  All of the items are from jumble and car boot sales, charity shops auctions etc. or were given to me.  I hope you all enjoy my various odd boxes, ornaments and general vintage tins!