Mothering Sunday

Well I hope you all had a lovely mothers day, I had a very stressful one as I was cooking dinner and making pavlova (which isn't as easy as it looks).
The reason it was so stressful was because I rose early, half past seven in the morning to be precise, and went straight into the kitchen to make my pavlova and when I had made that I began work on my second pavlova... because the first looked like this...

As you can see it's rather over cooked, my second attempt was much better though.

It doesn't look fantastic but it tasted rather good.

As I said, it was a stressful day, I think I must have spent a solid 7 hours in that darn kitchen!

Here's a quick shot of the flowers me and my sisters got my lovely mother

After the chaos of dinner we got dressed to go watch Bethan perform in 'A Night Of Musicals (a Hopper production).

I couldn't decide what look I wanted to go for so I just threw some stuff together and I ended up looking like so strange kind of Doctor Who.

The following photos where not taken by me but taken by Mr Kevin Ho of Kevin Ho photography.

Enjoy

 

They sang songs from Cabaret, Hair, The Book of Mormon and Rent (plus many more I can't remember) and put on a great show that I'm jolly well over the moon they will be performing it again very soon!

It was such a brilliantly performed and produced/directed show and I would just like the congratulated everyone involved (especially David John Hopper as it was his first production).

My Family (minus 2)
 and here's a few vain shots of me looking dramatically down, or rather up, my staircase.

Till next time folks,
Laura Lou x

Apologies

Dear readers I must apologies and most sincerely for I have completely neglected you and this blog.
I've just been so busy with work lately that I've had no time to do anything vintage inspired :( and to tell the thruth after a hard days work I often can't be bothered to do anything but sleep.
Naughty Laura Lou! I know.
In fact I'm so busy that I even have to miss out of 'Judy's affordable vintage fair' this Saturday and I can tell you it's killing me. I mean the words 'affordable' and 'vintage' in once sentence and I have to miss it?!? are you kidding me?
Well sadly I'm not but I do promise to try and blog more than I have of recent times because frankly the way I've been going on is atrocious!
My sincerest and heart felt apologies are all virtually sent to you (for give me?).
Well since I'm on here I may as well share with you the outfit I wore last night.
My boyfriend Pablo cooked my Spaghetti and Meats balls and boy were they delicious!

You can't tell in this photo but this dress is rather old and raggy. It's not vintage, I've just worn it that much that it has holes and rips everywhere.

I must say I'm loving having shorter hair right now, it makes pin curls look a lot more authentic. Sadly my hair has grown quite a lot since I got it cut in December so these curls didn't hold for more than a few hours.

My parting words to you all shall be... go on eBay! They is some great vintage on there at the moment.
Till next time,
Laura Lou x

My Birthday Week

Last Sunday Jessie Grace and Sarah Lou took me to York for a little pre-birthday vintage shopping trip.
As the weather was so deceiving we decided to wear dresses and spent the whole day complaining about how cold it was but never the less we had a lovely day.

 

I may have been cold but I looked darned cute I can tell you that!

 

You can see how we were so easily fooled by the sun, it looked so warm!

 After a long car journey and a humorous bus ride we arrived in York.

I had completely forgotten how beautiful a city York is, it's like being transported into a Dickens novel.

 

 I was tempted to 'borrow' this bike to ride around on and re-enact the Sound of Music.

 

 Me posing in front of York Minster.

We took a stroll through the very cold Shambles.

Stopped for a spot of lunch

and of course did some shopping.

There were so many vintage shops, most of which were closed with it being a Sunday, but we did stumble across one called the Inkwell which had this wonderful sign outside

and we couldn't resist! I came out with a bag full of things and only spent £10!

 We came across this random sight. A man play old war tunes on his piano.

A beautiful sight.

I was so tempted to buy this cloak and I would have if I hadn't just spent a small fortune on a bottle of Jo Malone. If I could have turned back time I would have.

Me trying on more things that don't belong to me :(

And that was the beginning of my Birthday, I don't have many snaps of my actual Birthday so I'll skip right to the end, a delicious Chinese meal at the Imperial with all of my favorite people.

 Till Next Time Folks,

Laura Lou x

 

My Valentine(s)

Well although it's a little late in coming here is my Valentines Day blog post!

This year was the first year I have actually had someone to spend actual valentines day with and what did I do? 

I went to see Train instead!

 

Now for those of you who don't know who train are shame on you!

No I'm kidding but I do feel sorry for you, they sing amazing songs such as 'Parachute', 'Drops of Jupiter' and 'Hey Soul Sister'.

It was an incredible show even if Pat did have a bad throat, the opening act didnt even let them down.

I usually hate having to sit through opening acts at gigs but this one was a top class act.

Gin Wigmore

 

Her songs were, the only way I can describe them, kick ass and her band? They know how to play!

Here's a link to one of her songs so you can check her out for yourselves.

Anyway Sadly all the photos I took that night didn't turn out well so I wont bother sharing them with you, apart from these ones anyway.

 

A special Valentines Kiss for Sarah Lou

 

Just a little look at my hair and makeup for that night.
Victory Rolls

The outfit was neither here nor there so I won't bore you with pictures of it.

 

I received roses

a teddy bear (aww)

and a pearl bracelet

 all from (and I hate to be soppy and romantic but hey) probably the best boyfriend. In the world :)

I hope you all had a wonderful day too weather you spent it with a loved one, with friends or just on your own.

Till next time Folks,
Laura Lou x

(Finally) Warm This Winter

As I told you in a previous post my all-year-round wardrobe only consists on summer clothes... Well not anymore!

Since I purchased this jumper some weeks ago I have acquired two more snugly warm items of clothing. 

It's true that three winter garments wont be enough to suffice through these long cold months but there are just so many pretty dresses out there that need buying, like this one for instance...

which is a Lindy Bop dress from eBay for only £29.99.

But anyway I believe I was about to show you my winter warmers.

This lovely jumper can be found at George at Asda for £14. I've only had mine a week and I've worn it to bit already, it's just that toasty!

my third item was given to me by one of  my mothers friends.

It's a vintage faux fur coat.

 

It's so big that I feel like a 1930s gangster when I wear it.

I'm not sure on the year but at a guess I'd say (just judging from the label) it might be from the 1970s.

Well, till next time folks,

Laura Lou x

I'm back

I must say I feel awful, neglecting this poor blog for over 2 weeks. I should feel ashamed of myself and I do!
The truth is I've been so tired this last month that I've been hard pushed to do anything never mind update my blog.
But anyway enough of the self pitty Laura Lou tell the readers what you've been up to.
Well a few weeks ago I was invited to Jessie Grace's for a delisious low fat Italian feast!
We dinned on butternut squash and sweet potato chips, garlic green beans and the scrummiest roast vegetable and pepperoni flatbread pizzas... All home made I might add.

For the occasion I wore a land girl inspired outfit but because my laptop is out of use for the next few days and all my pictures are on the darned thing you'll just have to wait to see it. I suppose you may be wondering how, if my laptop is broken, am I blogging this? Well I'm using a handy little app on my idevice, yes I'm finally getting to grips with the technology. About time I know.

Well hopefully my laptop will be back in action soon so I can post some outfits and links, till then though...
Laura Lou x

Here's the pictures of our feast ;)