The hundred dresses

I have been participating in Style Imitating Art over the last couple of months but haven't always remembered to post about it.

This week, Jen  chose an illustration from 'The hundred dresses' by Louis Slobodkin as her inspiration. I'd love to read this book as Jen talked about it being a really good book that deals with the issue of bullying.  

I chose to use an outfit I'd worn the previous Saturday for my friend's wedding.  The background of the illustrations have a lovely sketchy pinky effect which I felt reflects the colour of my dress.
The dress was from Dorothy Perkins a couple of years ago and I discovered it went quite well with this old favourite summer hat.  I added a pearl and rose necklace from Accessorize kids and some pearl bracelets.

In between the wedding and reception, CBC and I headed to Valentines Mansion and park, the place we had our own wedding reception. It was a beautiful, hot day and the gardens were looking glorious! The lavender beds are my favourite place in the whole park.

We ate in the Gardener's cafe and then wandered the gardens.

It brought back some wonderful memories of our wedding and the happy times almost 2 years ago.



After the gardens were locked at 5pm, we went and lay on the grass outside the mansion where we saw a couple having wedding photos there!

As I tried to take photos of the Mansion, CBC kept photo-bombing with a piece of Lemon Verbena that I had plucked from the kitchen garden.



I always love coming back here to Valentines and how fitting, I was there for another wedding!

x

Through the window

I finally got around to joining in with another Style Imitating Art  with Jess at Animated Cardigan.
This beautiful stained glass entitled "Spring" was the inspiration piece, designed by John La Farge.
Let's stop to admire it! Isn't it beautiful. So bright and detailed.

The colour  of the background was an instant outfit creator in my mind.  That shade of, let's say it altogether... TARDIS blue, put me in mind of a real favourite dress of mine.

Here's my interpretation.


I adore this Dorothy Perkins dress which I wore for my orchestra's Peter and the Wolf concert last year (as my role as the bird)- I've worn it in a similar way but with different items excepting the dress. I can finally wear this dress at school because my previous headteacher also owned this dress so I was careful not to wear it to school in case we inadvertently matched! Embarassing, right?

The dress is, of course, self-explanatory as to the reason for choice, as are the Irregular Choice shoes.  The cardigan was an attempt to pick out the dark/turquoisey green hues in the background.  The necklace was a nod to the life and vibrancy of the picture- it was a leaving present from the Academy from my lovely work colleague Nikki! Finally, a flower in my hair

How would you have interpreted this painting?

Feeling a little lonely tonight. CBC, who is now on holiday, has travelled up to Northumberland, via Derby and Manchester to visit friends. My holiday doesn't begin till the weekend.  It's amazing how used you can get to living with someone. 5 years of living alone,  I was fine. The house now seems empty! It's probably all in my mind.

Hope you are well.
xxx

Linking to TARDIS Tuesday with the fabulous Maricel

Captain America!

Hello!  How are you?

It was Style imitating Art with the lovely Salazar of 14 shades of grey.  This week's inspiration was the superb Captain America by Alex Goss!  Have you seen his paintings?  He painted loads of heroes and icons from TV programmes onto vintage canvasses! I find them hilarious!!!!
We all had a lot of fun with it but I tend to think anything incorporating red, white, blue and/or polka dots is always going to be great!

(Outfit is:
Dress- Dorothy Perkins, Cardigan- Monsoon, Necklace- handmade by me, flower behind ear (part of costume for Bali arts festival), belt -vintage shop in Notting hill, shoes - Cath Kidston)

I don't need to say much about it, you probably get what I was trying to do!  I think I got a bit excited with the sun on Sunday so wore a dress with bare legs! More about that in my next post!