Clothes, fairies, felines and teacups.

When I should be working, this is how I often end up spending too much of my time - if you haven't already explored Pinterest, it's really worth a look! Finding groups of images put together by people whose interests and taste you share is great, as is being able to store images together without stocking massive files on your computer. This virtual site has now become one of my happy places - so mauch inspiration at my fingertips.

Come and have a look!

http://pinterest.com/lostthings/

We subscribe to all the best journals

'If you don't mind my asking, Sir Wind,' said September after a respectable time had passed, 'how does one get to Fairyland? After a while, we shall certainly pass India and Japan and California and simply come round to my house again'.
The Green Wind chuckled. 'I suppose that would be true if the earth were round'.
'I'm reasonably sure it is...'
'You're going to have to stop that sort of backward, old-fashioned thinking, you know. Conservatism is not an attractive trait. Fairyland is a very Scientifick place. We subscribe to sll the best journals'.

Sometimes, books are so good and so beautiful that they find a way into my world and, most likely, into my wardrobe. 'The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland' is one of those, and on a library day I took a little bit of mustard and amber eyes with me, and added a good dose of studenty reading outfit. Increasingly, my wardrobe is filling with tan, mustard, and good old loafers. I always did want to dress like a librarian...

Now I'm off to dream of dragons and flying into fairyland on the back of red dragons...

Shoes and lovely 40s style trousers - River Island
Shirt - thrifted
Cardigan - Vero Moda via ASOS
Brooch - New Look

Welcome the book nerd...

Or at least that's what I call the me that comes out when I get the chance to spend a day doing all my favourite things, which is just what I got to do when we went to see this at the Bodleian Library in Oxford:
http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/news/medieval-romance28-01-2012

This amazing exhibition wis entirely worth the visit - full of gorgeous medieval manuscripts, of the kind that make you stop and stare when you realise the incredibly precise handwriting and brand-new-looking gold foil was put there over 600 years ago. And, on top of that, there was the first page of Wind in the Willows and artefacts from Tolkien, as well as pictures of Harry Potter! I was immersed in my favourite world of books, and stayed in there all day.

This was followed by lunch in a tiny, lovely pub which has pictures of the famous Oxonians C. S. Lewis and Tolkien on the walls, ages spent delving in the children's section of my favourite bookshop, and watching Narnia when we got home. Heaven.

And, it turns out, my favourite feels-like-being-a-girl-again, Addams family, Wicked Witch and Narnia inspired outfit was perfect for the day. I now have a Tolkien and C. S. Lewis obsession which has left me dreaming all week...