Hi all!

This week I was supposed to be visiting my brother this week but on the day I was supposed to travel, I was not feeling well so I didn't end up going. Instead I have spent my week lounging around in sweatpants and marathoning Star Trek or catching up on Welcome To Night Vale.

I am going to the induction for my Masters course in about a week and a half, so I've been trying to get some advance reading done. I still have to decide on a project, but my research is not going well! Today I am visiting the library at university to check out some books so I can try and find some ideas.

I decided on this comfortable vintage-inspired outfit for today. I have a couple of these modern vintage-inspired skater dresses - the material is very soft and stretchy so perfect for days when I can't be bothered.





How about you - are you following Welcome To Night Vale? It's a podcast which can be downloaded free from iTunes and is perfect for fans of slightly strange horror, along the lines of Tim Burton or maybe Edgar Allan Poe. (For the uninitiated, by the way, you can access all of Poe's poetry and short stories on this wonderful website. I have read some Poe before but I'm trying to get around to reading the rest.)

Hope you are all well, and see you soon.

Around the end of May/beginning of June time, I visited Lush and received a full skin consultation. I came away with several of their products which I hoped would be better for my skin than the ones I had previously been using. I have been a customer of Lush's for around the past 6 years or so by my count, and I will certainly continue to shop there. Since most of their products contain very natural ingredients, I feel like I am putting better things on my skin. Their products also smell amazing and are cruelty free - always a bonus in my books.

When I was staying in Oxford I couldn't turn down the opportunity to visit some of the vintage shops and do a bit of shopping. I didn't manage to get round all of the vintage shops while I was there but I did at least manage to make it round the following:

Uncle Sam's Vintage Clothing

25 Little Clarendon St, Oxford



Unicorn

5 Ship St, Oxford


There is plenty of vintage eye candy to be found at Ballroom Emporium with pieces dating from the 1920s onwards. I spent a long time looking around as there were lots of beautiful things to see. They stock both menswear and womenswear as well as accessories. I bought two pretty scarves while I was there but I would have loved to come away with a new dress! The website for the shop can be found here.

Way back in February, Emileigh from Flashback Summer wrote two Teddy Girl posts (1, 2). I was inspired to put together my own Teddy Girl outfit as well. At the time I seem to remember it was really too cold here to wear the outfit that I'd chosen and after that, despite my best intentions, I just never got around to getting anything done.

The last couple of days I have been trying to sort out some of my clothes, and I was reminded of my aim to get this outfit photographed so my brother and I went for a walk to the old railway track to take some pictures. Most of the railway structures have long since been removed, including the track, but there are still a few interesting things left.

The outfit (or possibly a combination of my outfit and my brother's somewhat rock and roll style of dressing) attracted a lot of attention while we were out and about. Someone even leaned out of the window of their car to stare at us.. I hope we didn't cause an accident.