weekend purchases

Hello, welcome back to the working week, I hope you all enjoyed your weekends.  I had a lovely time with my uni girls up in Birmingham, not quite sure if I've recovered from lack of sleep yet but hey ho. Unfortunately I didn't manage to get a photo of of us all (too much chatter made the days fly by and I forgot) so I thought I'd share my purchases with you instead.

We went charity shop shopping on Saturday and I found this gorgeous platter to display my jewellery on.

I also found this book which is so beautiful.  It's all worn and faded with yellowed pages, I love the New Forest too so had to get it.

This dress was from Urban Outfitters, it was in the sale and was one of those instant 'i'm going to buy this' purchases which doesn't happen an awful lot with me.

So that's it, thanks girls for a fun filled weekend and to Becky for being such a great host.  You looked after us well!

 

Oh PS spot the bird, remember  Claire Coles who I mentioned in this post.  Well she and I swapped treasures, the above bird brooch for my Aztec Ring.  I love mine and attached it to my bag straight away.  I hope you like yours too Claire.

xxx

The amazing beautifulness of Claire Coles

How amazing is this work from Claire Coles.  To steal a phrase from her website "Claire Coles offers a new approach to wallpaper design. Stitching vintage wallpapers together of various textures and patterns Claire creates one off intricate and ethereal wallpapers, illustrations and accessories."

It is truly beautiful and would look soooo good in my dream home (which currently only exists in my head). 

I could go on forever about Claire's work, I find it so exciting and is totally 'my thing'.  I urge everyone to  check out her website as there are loads more inspiring images to ohhh and ahhh over.  

Has anyone been lucky enough to see this work in person?

xxx