I See You Standing In a Weird Red Light

Here are some more pics from last weekend's trip to Ludlow.

They don't call Shropshire the garden of England for nowt.

Nothing like a spot of gambolling about in the castle ruins.  Please excuse my hair in these pics.  My attempt at a messy french knot didn't quite work out and it sort of ended up resembling a depressed pony tail.

I wore:-

Dress and beads - charity shop
Sandals - Dotty P's
Tote - Gift from Edie

The church was quite something

I couldn't resist tinkering with these pics to embellish how awesome the light looked blazing through the stained glass

Tomb of Henry VIII's older brother

I found the charity shops for the most part were ridiculously overpriced, so I didn't buy an awful lot.

Except this vanity case £4.99 Oxfam

Already seen and commented on (thank you ladies) in my last post

I thought this was going to be my only thrifted find until I turned a corner and found the Cat Protection League.  Run by a  group of eccentric cat loving ladies, it had some fabulously priced treasures

Alfred Meakin tureen £3

A big table full of fabric remnants all 50p each

These vintage 50's and 60's edition children's books were between 20p and 50p each.  As opposed to round the corner in one of the hospice shops where very similar books were in the "collectables" section priced at £8 apiece.  Yeh right!

I know charity shops exist to make money and it's all for a good cause but when you can buy new items for the same price or less than goods that, often do not warrant the tag 'vintage', it doesn't inspire you to spend more money than you feel you need to.

I take my hat off to the women of the Cat Protection League!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend everybody


Lucy x

Red wine will stain, remember

Here's what I wore on Tuesday night when Mr N and I decided to try out one of our local restaurants.  It was a spur of the moment, lets take advantage of a child free night thing, and as is often the case with spontaneity, it turned out to be great!

We sneaked across to the park over the road to take some pics before it got dark.  As it happened, the light was perfect. 

Wow, my feet are interesting!

Strike a pose there's nothing to it

Is anyone looking?  Quick snap me now!

And here's what we ate (and drank)

My apologies to the vegetarians and recovering alcoholics out there but the steak was gawjus and so was the wine!!

I snapped a picture of the church across the road before we went home

It just looked so pretty

I wore

Dress - vintage
Vintage vanity case as handbag - charity shop
Sandals - Dorothy Perkins

Got loads of thrifty treasures to share when I get around to photographing them!

See you soon

Lucy x

According to Betjeman...

"...Ludlow is probably the loveliest town in England."

My sister used to go on and on about Ludlow and how we should all go for holidays.  "Yeh great" I'd say, and then forget about it.

Then she decided she liked it that much that she moved there

And we went to visit for the first time

1.  Vintage leatherette travel bag £1.50.  2.  Directions and supplies.  3.  Soundtrack to the weekend.  4.  Alice in Transit

And I got to see what the fuss was all about 

Yes it certainly has character

And rows of pastel colour Georgian town houses alongside treasures from the Tudor period

Streets with bunting

Good food

And ice cream

Bubblegum and Black Cherry & Kirsch, mmm!

Pretty much everything you could ask for really

It was a beautiful place and we had a beautiful time.  Particularly as the weather was awesome.  Yes, you heard it right, we had a summer's weekend!  Unfortunately we've just got back and I am too tired to try and put together a coherent narrative.  I will try harder tomorrow

Nite!

Lucy x

A Pop Art Parcel of Joy

Look what I received in the post the other day?

It's only a riot girl themed bundle of loveliness from my fellow desperate housewife, blogger and weirdo the immensely talented and beautiful Edie Pop!

Look it's me!!

Isn't this tote amazing?  As well as this fabulous personalised 'Lucy' bag, she sent me some beautiful earrings and the cutest little postcard of her own illustration all wrapped up in ribbons and bows

It was just the pick me up I needed after 2 weeks of not being able to wear any makeup and avoiding going out cos of a horrid yukky skin outbreak.

It inspired me to dye my hair

Paint my nails in primary colours

Apply at least 2 weeks worth of make up, including haphazardly affixed fake eyelashes

And clown around taking overexposed photographs!

Skirt and beads - Charity shop

Blouse - Supermarket

Cardi - M&S Outlet

Brooch - Primark

Tights - New Look

Shoes Office via Ebay

Oh, and did I mention she also sent me this fabulous Courtney-esque babydoll nightie....

...which was begging to be put on and photographed at the earliest opportunity! 

 

Check me out with my Edie Pop original

How well she's got me sussed with this number.  Remind you of anyone?

But with blonde hair and smaller booboids:(

And of course I needed some vintage Hole at full volume!

Edie, I can't thank you enough for thinking of me and putting so much thought and effort into these lovely gifts which had  me jumping up and down and squeeing like a school girl

'Violet' is just for you

Have a great week everybody

Lucy x

UPDATE : Linking up with Lakota as I think this is definitely worthy of a Ta-da!