Red Boots & Golden Years

Before I begin I should quickly state that yep, I'm still pregnant.  Due this Saturday but as you know time and dates mean nothing to the littluns.  Just trying to enjoy my last days of relative freedom and sleep.

On Saturday afternoon I went to a vintage 50's tea party in celebration of my parents' 50th wedding anniversary.

This is me trying to discreetly pose for some outfit shots with my cloudy lemonade while everyone mingled around with their Pimms punch.  I kept getting collared.

As you can see I didn't go with the 50's theme.  This dress has been seen on the blog before because I have practically lived in it these past few months.  It's about as much effort as I can muster at the moment.  Plus I wanted to wear my new babies which match it perfectly...

These bad boys

I got them for a song on Amazon.  I think it was a pricing error as they were advertised as a size 7D as opposed to a standard size 7, which were about £25 more expensive.  I took a gamble and it paid off.  I handed over my £46 and they arrived at my house the next day, a standard size 7 not a 'D' in sight.  Turns out Dr Martens don't even make a 'D' fitting.  Go figure.

I also lacquered my nails with several layers of turquoise glitter

Dress - Asos Maternity
Boots - Dr Martens
Owl bag - Ebay
Cardi - supermarket
Brooch - charity shop
Typewriter necklace - Etsy

My niece organised the party and it was held in the very pretty house she lives in with her mum and step dad.  She stepped in and organised it within a few weeks after the idea we'd had of a big kick butt rock n roll themed party fell through due to my health issues and inability to organise it.  She did a stellar job.  A relatively small affair with close friends and family.  Everything looked so dainty and charming that I couldn't resist walking around snapping a few pics before everyone got there

I really wanted to play in this outhouse but it was temporarilly home to an old bathroom suite

The weather was glorious, spring was in the air.  The music ranged from The Andrew Sisters to Little Richard with a little bit of The Inkspots thrown in for good measure.  There were sandwiches with no crusts, tea and fairy cakes - perfect.

Gonna try and blog again before I pop but if I disappear for a while you'll know what's happened

xxx

New Toy

You may or may not have noticed from some of the shots apppearing on this blog recently that I have been tempted by the fruit of another... phone!  Yes, that's right, I have taken a bite out of the apple and have become the proud owner of an iPhone.

I resisted for so long, I really did.  I thought the world of Apple was a snooty, exclusive home for gadget-geeks and spoiled school kids, but I was eventually enticed by, among other things, the promise of so many quick and 'arty' photo apps.

Such as Instagram, oh yes!

and various other photo apps that are probably aimed at 13 year old girls!

I can now just snap away this week's charity shop finds with my phone

Clay coasters

Pastel tea set

Orphan saucers

Pan stand

And I can download apps full of Hello Kitty pics and waste my time oohing and ah-ing at them

Psychadelic Kitty

Candy Kitty

Pastel Kitty

...little ball of fur!

Great huh?

Well, that's my dirty little secret well and truly out!  It's all downhill from here... ;@)

Lucy x

Your Baby Blues Would Flash and Suddenly a Spell Was Cast

When my sister asked me if I wanted this tea set, of course I nearly bit her hand off.  Baby blue - check, vintage and pretty - check, free - bonus!

I was amazed to find out that they actually originally came from Dunhelm Mill and are not vintage at all. - who'd-a-thought it!  I'm still chuffed to bits with them and they match my kitchen perfectly.  I can just imagine serving afternoon tea in these along with a fresh homemade Victoria sponge on one of the dinner plates. So very British and refined.  Like Miss Marple and Dolly Bantry!

I just thought I'd share!

Here's what I wore today

Nautical style dress - Next sale

Cardi - M&S outlet

Tights - New Look

Boots - Tesco

Bag - Charity shop (adorned with scarf also from charity shop)

Vintage hand painted wooden brooch - Ebay

Bangles & Bracelets - mostly Primark

Necklace - Accessorize, better view here

See you soon

Lucy x 

Dance This Mess Around

Today started out rather emotionally fraught.  I overslept, one thing you should know about me is that I adore my bed and need to have it forcibly removed from my back some days.  The inevitable rush ensued when I realised I had 50 minutes to get myself dressed and Little Miss 4 breakfasted and ready to leave the house!  One of those days where I would have killed to stay in bed, eat chocolate and watch my Sherlock Holmes box set all day with the curtains drawn!

Oh Jeremy... you've restored my equilibrium on so many occasions!

But for some reason the weather, in a rare display of perfect timing, remembered it was the 1st March and produced some glorious sunshine.  It seemed churlish, after returning from the school run looking like a greasy haired bag lady, not to make an effort and try and bring my mood (and my appearance) in line with the weather.  

So I did my roots and freshened up my colour

Then I put on a dress and some lipstick

And posed for outfit shots in my postage stamp sized back yard which is next on the list for beautification, probably in the summer 

I put my Ipod on shuffle, turned the volume right up and tidied the livin daylights out of my house

Then I went out charity shopping and bought these 

and these

Weird crochet dress thing - £4

Blouse £4

Vintage Pyrex tea set £1.99

Scarf £1

Vintage children's books 50p each

I wore:-

Vintage dress - Ebay

Cardi - Sainsburys sale

Vintage cameo - Ebay

Belt - Primark via Ebay

I would love the weather to be like this all the time but then I would yearn for mist and fog and dense snow covered landscapes.

Sigh... I am so many contradictions!

I hope the sun was shining where you were today.

Lucy x