tears of a clown.

i love mimes.

well, they creep me out a bit on person, with the staring eyes etc, but i do quite like the way they look.

the pale face, the gorgeous stand-out eyes, the gothic-but-in-an-understated-way black lips, the cute monochrome outfit complete with shakespeare-esque ruff & a quirky hat; it would all be a bit colourless for me if it wasn't for those lovely rose cheeks.

one of my favourite quirky jewellery giants, tatty devine, have created some extremely cute pierrot (clown/mime) inspired beauties for their A/W jewellery collection.

oh, how adorable is this brooch.

i love these earrings too, the little hearts give these boys a cute twist.

these ruff-patterned hearts are also winners in my opinion.

i wish i had the patience to wear rings, but i always tend to sit there fiddling & twisting them round my fingers. this ring almost has me converted.

this is by far the cutest necklace i have (possibly) ever seen!
the heart comes with a choice of colours too, pink or blue.

another of my favourite classic tatty devine designs, is this wizard of oz inspired delight.
they are just divine, i just wish i had a pair of glittery red shoes to match!

time to stock up on the jumpers.

it's been an oddly sunny & warm day today, probably the last one for a while as we head deeper & deeper into winter.

still, winterwear can look pretty chic if you wear it right.

i can't wait to get the long cardigans & the thick woolly hats & scarves out, but i think i need to buy a few more jumpers & a couple of pairs of thick tights.

on a quick browse of topshop, i discovered this rather beautiful jumper - which is a collaboration with arthouse neurotica.

i have quite a penchant for grey sweaters with quirky illustrations, and i love the little-girlish image on this piece.
heart shaped balloons are also a favourite doodle of mine B)

i read the news today, oh boy.

happy beatles day everybody!

in case you haven't seen the many documentaries or the many, many articles in many, many, many papers, you may have missed the fact that today, on 09/09/09 (because 9 was john lennon's lucky number don't you know), the beatles' remastered albums & the beatles rock band game - which i soooo want to play! come out!

can i get a woop woop?

oh, look at them.

how sweet those moptops are.

champagne all round methinks.

*this post is dedicated to john lennon (RIP), paul mccartney, george harrison (RIP), ringo starr & the excellent george martin, without whom the beatles may never have acheived such incredible success. also to yoko ono, dhani & olivia harrison, giles martin & all the people at harmonix*

eco can be cool

a bracelet & 2 brooches i bought from the eden project in cornwall.

they're made entirely from organic, eco-friendly, pesticide free etc etc felt which is gorgeous, i love the colours so much.

it took me about 20 minutes in the shop trying to decide which colour combos to get, in fact i went back several times & swapped!

the red flower i decided would be a present for my mum on her next birthday, cause she loves bright colours (like mother like daughter) & eco-friendly things.

car boot sale

during my stay in cornwall i visited a couple of car boot sales & picked up some rather lovely stuff for pretty darn cheap.

this necklace was only £1.

it's lovely, very woodstock meets 1940s cameo necklace i think. but that's just my opinion!

sadly the chain is broken but i'm pretty sure i'll be able to fix it.

this cameo necklace was £5, but i do think it was worth it because it's such a gorgeous colour & i've never seen a flower cameo necklace before. although that could be suggesting i need to get out more.

this was only 50p & i love the way it looks like a cross between something tacky & something quite expensive looking.
a bit like me i guess haha!

love the deep red colour of this necklace. i prefer silver jewellery over gold usually but i think this is rather cute.

a sparkly brooch of a girl with a hat & a parasol, how could i resist this beauty?

i also managed to find some records for pretty reasonable prices.
i got an elvis costello record for £5, i don't really know much about his music but i like punch the clock which is the album that my dad has so i think i'll probably like my aim is true as well. hopefully!

the eddie cochran record is apparently quite rare, although i managed to sweet talk the guy on the stall & got it along with the john lennon record for only £7. a bargain? yes i believe so.

the man on the stall was rather lovely & i sort of befriended him slightly (his name was phil) and he told me about this everly brothers greatest hits picture disc which is meant to be really rare. despite that, he gave it to me for £10! i love records, you can buy rare ones & they still usually come out as less than you would pay for a cd.

cornwall

gosh it's been ages since my last post!

this isn't through lack of things to post about (in fact there have been loads), just a total lack of internet access!

we had a really long drive down to cornwall, it took us 8 hours in fact!

glastonbury, my spiritual home!

the, erm, entertainment at the local bar.

port isaac, where they film doc martin!

the doctor's surgery in doc martin; if you don't know the show you won't really get this, but this was a huge moment for me!

we also went to westward ho!
this was all down to me, basically i just wanted a picture of the sign because it is the only place in britain with an exclamation mark in its name.

we also went to land's end.

after that lighthouse, there's nothing but sea until america. pretty cool i thought.

the cherry parking zone at the eden project.
they were all named after fruit, very cool indeed.

the eden project, so spectacular.

how cute are the lantern hanging things?
i really wanted to buy some of these in the gift shop, but i couldn't find any :(

this was a display thing in the wall in the mediterranean biome which i though was amazing!
it's just some white flowers in a clear tube, but the effect is really pretty.

my attempt at doing a bit of cool photographyness.

major fail!

the groovy rainforest pond thing

i love this quote, ever since i read it in about a boy (by nick hornby).

cool fountain thing.

these flowers are beyond pretty, in a weird way they remind me of some floaty blouses i've seen in topshop.

the secret bamboo maze that me & my brother found.

the other passage we found, this one was really beautiful, like something out of a fairytale. sadly my picture doesn't really do it justice.

apologies for the long post about nothing in particular, things will return to normal soon, i just had to get all the cornwall stuff out of my system!