Some of you may have already noticed, but I was recently gifted a new pair of glasses from
Swag & Stare! If you haven't previously heard of them and are a glasses wearer then please do check out their site, they have such a cool collection of beautiful, vintage inspired frames! My old, cats-eye style were actually from Swag and Stare to! This time though, I went for something completely different and got a very light pink, rounded pair.
These photographs were taken on my last day in Devon over Christmas, over the weekend I had two nights at home in London before jumping on a plane to Aberdeen where I'm currently spending the week! Last night to celebrate the new year we went into Stonehaven town centre to watch a truly unique "fireball" display in which locals competed by swinging handmade balls of fire for about 20 minutes as they walked up and down the high street - sorry, I'm terrible at explaining things but it was essentially a parade with fire....? I was stood right at the front so did worry about loosing my eyebrows a few times - I will get some photos up for you when I'm home!
After the fireballs,
which you can read more about here if you're interested, we watched a beautiful firework display before heading home rather hurriedly to get into the warm! I hope you all had a fab new year's eve, got to celebrate with your loved ones, and are looking forward to 2014! I would really love to share my new year's resolutions with you but I'm afraid I'm still deciding on them.... there are far too many things that I want to do with my life so feel I should narrow them down a little so I at least have half a chance at succeeding by 2015! Bare with me....
TOPMAN HAT
DR. MARTENS SHOES
Over the weekend two very special friends from Devon visited. As they arrived late on Friday evening we stayed in and ate Mexican food whilst drinking mojitos and playing a ridiculous(ly funny) game called Cards Against Humanity, then on Saturday we went to some exhibitions in Chelsea. Theres a fab website called This at There, which tells you what's on in London - there are so many amazing free exhibitions, so it's worth checking "TAT" regularly to find out what's happening where!
First we went to the Tower of London to see the beautiful poppy installation; thousands of ceramic poppies have flooded the tower's grounds in memory of those who died during the First World War. Eventually, by the 11th November, an amazing 888,246 poppies will have been placed. It was a stunning sight, there are just so many, but it also eerily looks like blood seeping out of the tower.... you can find out more, and even buy one of the poppies, here. We then headed West to the
Saatchi gallery where we saw an interesting installation called New Art from Africa and Latin America, and also went to the Private Apartment of Mademoiselle Chanel exhibition on the second floor. It was very interesting of course, she was a fascinating woman with a fascinating life, but I couldn't help feeling a little down afterwards. The gallery space and photography itself was very dark and gloomy.... very much like the end of her life apparently.
On a brighter note, we then popped to Chelsea's
Proud gallery, where they're currently exhibiting old images of Jane and Serge. I find their love affair so inspiring and these images, which were taken by Jane's brother Andrew, are so full of life and character, it's definitely worth going to if you can make it before it finishes on the 26th October. I wore my favourite tartan dress by Mod Dolly with a grey jersey funnel neck underneath, and a check jacket from Zara. As anticipated, I've been wearing my
Jigsaw pixie boots* nearly everyday! They're a great alternative to my DMs and I wear them when I fancy looking a little more sophisticated!
TARTAN JACKET FROM ZARA
