While I didn't bring much vintage on holiday with me, I did travel in my 30s style dress from Lady K Loves teamed up with my newly completed Date Maker cardigan. Well, semi-completed. Actually I still have to crochet round the edge and add a belt buckle, but I really wanted to wear...
Here is an assortment of photos from the first week of my recent holiday in the Scottish Highlands. While I could have done without two weeks away in the middle of my research project at university (I won't go into the reasons that it happened, it's too long and boring), in a sense...
225g plain biscuit crumbs 100g melted butter 225g crunchy peanut butter 50g sultanas Mix the ingredients together until blended. Press into a greased 25cm baking tin. Chill until firm then cut into squares. The original recipe for this appears in Classic 1000 Cake & Bake Recipes by Wendy Hobson. It's supposed to have...
Dress - Peacocks (few years old) | Denim jacket - Tesco (old) | Shoes - high street Today I have to go and work in the lab at uni again so my choice of outfit is influenced by that. I usually like to wear something simple and comfortable so that it's practical and allows...
These photos are from an outing I had with my family a while ago. We visited a nature reserve with a lovely reservoir and miniature railway, then moved on to a different reservoir for a picnic. I got real Swallows and Amazons vibes from these houses. Not sure if people actually live in...
Back in about April (I think, time does fly...) I modelled some of a new line of 50s style dresses made by a local company called Honey Bee Corsets. Anna who runs the company also makes bespoke corsets (as I'm sure you guessed), wedding dresses, ball gowns and the like. These new dresses...
Jumper and skirt - Primark | Underskirt - Matalan | Stockings - Ann Summers | Shoes - Deichmann Hair flower - can't remember, high street somewhere | Brooch - gift A couple of weeks ago the roses on the rose arch started blooming but to begin with there were only one or two...
Lazy day hair: curl with a curling iron, grab and pin in the back until it kind of looks like that was what you intended to do in the first place. I need to buy about 20 new coats, definitely a medium/light weight black one since that is what I seem to need...
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