WE WEAR OUR PENGUIN COSTUMES MORE THAN OUR EVENING DRESS

 A photo diary from this weekend which was spent in London. Today was the last day of work experience and it has been really lovely and fun and I have spent my days playing with kittens and miscellaneous baby animals. Going back to school again is going to be a total shock. I have been spending my evenings going for long walks around the cementary and suburbs and reading.

 So anyway, I was really intelligent and attempted to stand in the middle of a fountain which obviously resulted in me getting soaked and laughed at by tourists whilst carrying a Lisa Simpson rucksack. And le parental unit kindly photographed it.

 This rucksack was probably the best 20p I have ever spent. Taking novelty rucksacks to school is my main way of remaining sane (lets ignore the fact that none of them can hold more than a few packets of gum, a Sweet Valley High book and my fountain pen.)

 The Southbank is probably my favourite place in London. There are always art installations and exhibitions and little airstream cafes. Most of my pictures have confused looking people in them (random observation.)

 The book market. 

 Some really exquisite notebooks in a shop. I kind of wanted to buy one but I have piles of unused notebooks and it is getting stupid. There are so many I'm saving for a point in my life where they are relevant and things are too messy and confusing to use a beautiful notebook for angsty ranting. 

Old fashioned sweets and tins and things. 

Me by a wall in Brick Lane. I kind of look like Tumblr personified.

Beanie my mum knitted, Bohoo t-shirt, hand me down dungarees, H&M tights and Doc Martens from my aunt.

Foxes. 

So anyway I'll probably be taking a bit of an internet break for a while (again, I know) in order to catch up with a few things and get my brain sorted out before summer and hopefully be back again with something vaguely interesting to say.

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BUBBLEGUM POP QUEEN

 Today I was kind of thinking about this rad prom couple and this picture of Marina as well as Courtney Love; aka plaid, tiara and pastels.

 Tiara from Dayzee, Topshop dog collar, unicorn necklace from Etsy, vintage t-shirt, thrifted skirt and belt, H&M socks and bracelets I was given.

 Not much writing today because I'm panicking about work experience which is tomorrow, although the car boot I did this morning was fun and I have listed a ton of new stuff on etsy and SORRY ALL MY RECENT POSTS HAVE BEEN RUBBISH.

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FAKE PLASTIC TREES

Summer, lawns, rollerskates, vinyl records and suburbs. Sources all unknown (let me know if you know any.) 

 Today was spent at a vintage fair and I have to get up at 5am tomorrow because I'm doing a car boot, so I haven't taken any decent pictures but have some pictures of me with a cow in the new forest a few days ago.

 I was wearing fake Doc Martens, tights and a shirt stolen from my mum, 25p shorts from the cats protection  and my 20p thrifted rucksack.

GOOD NIGHT INTERNET xxx

PRAY FOR THE PEOPLE INSIDE YOUR HEAD

Last weekend I turned the top of my wardrobe into a sort of shrine to my childhood with a lot of plastic ponies, tiaras, baby barettes from Miranda, fairy wings, Barbie clothes from Fiona, random jewellery and Sweet Valley High books. I was basically a juvenile prom queen when I was 6 and used to wear homemade tiaras, fairy wings and a pink tulle dress from a car boot nonstop so I guess not much has changed. A few weeks ago I hung out with (and explained the basic concept of feminism to) my friend's little sister (who is six) which freaked me out a little because I acutely remember being her age and I don't feel any different now to how I did then. I'm happy to not be six any more but I still miss some aspects of it, so I've been trying to record them and to keep hold of some of the stuff which mattered to me then. My life when I was six summarised: glitter pompoms, watching Pink Panther with my brother, taking plastic horses to the park, crying over Spirit (the dumb movie about a horse), stuffed dogs, plastic bugs, my Power Puff Girls trainers, crying because I wanted a puppy, Cartoon Network, bubblegum and wearing lace petticoats. So yeah, this shrine kind of articulates it all. Aesthetically I've been thinking about dusky pinks/purples but without the kitsch, childhood element. Like Marina and the Diamonds, Arvida Bystom, Princess Chelsea and Courtney Love.

 Probably a screen cap from The Virgin Suicides, unknown.

 Unknown source. 

 Courtney Love's diary which is so perfect and heartbreaking.

Unknown source. 

 Probably from someone's Etsy?

 Unknown.

 Screen cap from something?

 Sissy Spacek in Three Women. 

Unknown, Arvida Bystrom. Hopefully I will take some spooky kitsch prom queen pictures.

xxx

there's glass in the park

Haiiiiiiiiii. Yesterday my friend Katie came over and we spent the day making industrial quantities of popcorn, had a movie marathon and wondered around the streets looking for interesting houses and decorating trees with ribbons and then stayed up talking about our futures.

 There is some kind of writing on pavements with chalk in my area at the moment and this was one of the things we found.

 Katie tying ribbons on a tree in my flower crown. 

 Tree decorating.

 I wore my favourite thrifted dress, shorts I made, random jewellery and a homemade flower crown. My bad is getting more covered in patches which is always good. 

 Streaky hair. 

Katie again. 

And this morning Megan and I went rollerblading (and nearly broke our necks quite a few times) and then went off in search of some kind of Enid Blyton style adventure and ended up getting pretty lost.

 We explored all the oldest parts of the graveyard which is actually a lot bigger than it looks (also Megan is a stalker and I didn't realise she took these.) Some of the older graves are pretty much neglected so we left ribbons and fake flowers on them.

Tonight has also been spent taking my rabbit for a walk with Jemima and doing more rollerblading with her. THIS IS MORE SOCIABLE THAN I NORMALLY ARE IN THE ENTIRE HOLIDAY.

vodka and candy from FlowerViolet on 8tracks Radio.

Finally, this is a mix I made which will probably have more tracks added to it eventually.

xxx