Sunday, June 7, 2020

Photoshoot: Mysterious Mauve



This bracelet is in some of my favourite colours and I love the subtler slide of the colours, one in to the next.  It isn't finished though.  It's clasp is on it's way but it might take a while, given everything going on right now.

The candle at the top left is one I brought from a stall at the local Healing Light Festival.  They have all sorts of sellers there, including craftspeople.  This candle smells amazing and I have kept a lot of the wax that is left. Part of me doesn't want to finish burning it.  Unfortunately, I have no idea now of the stall name that made these.

Just in front of the candle is a little Lego figure of Luna Lovegood from the Harry Potter stories.  I am more than a little bit of a nerd and I have a few Lego minifigures in my print case on the wall.  Luna is one of my favourites, she is just such a good character and she was wearing the right colours....

Beneath that is a bit of my mouse mat.  It has a galaxy print all over it and I love galaxy print.  We have galaxy print curtains in two of our downstairs rooms and my mouse mat pretty much matches the lounge curtains.  Our house is a terrace and we have huge windows.  There were not many curtains that were cheap and ready made and not white that were long enough.  Amazon came to the rescue though and I love my curtains and my husband came round.

The bowl is a vintage ebay buy and I really love the undulating shape of the pink glass.  In the bowl we have some vanilla marshmallows by the Happy Mallows company.  I brought a bunch to try because gourmet marshmallows are so much nicer than mass produced and I had a real craving for them during lockdown.  These marshmallows did not disappoint!

The mug was from Jamie Oliver's Fifteen restaurant in Cornwall, sadly now shut.  They did a lot of good work there.  It was a little expensive for us most of the time but we saw a lunchtime offer one April.  We had a lovely meal and it was a beautiful warm day so we also had a great walk along Watergate Bay.  I am really glad I have this little piece of memorabilia of somewhere that may be gone, but won't be forgotten.

The notebook was another amazon purchase but the pen was part off my adoption package from the Cairngorm Reindeer.  Many animal attractions and charities are struggling with costs, so if you have been thinking of adopting an animal, now is a really good time to do it.  I won't tell you the name of my reindeer, because he is mine, but he is so cute!


The scarf on the left is my favourite winter scarf.  One really wet day, we decided to have a day out in St Ives, out of season, when it's so much quieter.  I brought this scarf in Hudson Art which is one of my favourite shops.  They sell all sorts in there. They used to sell beautiful African prints by Tony Hudson.  I am not sure why they stopped.

The necklace at the back is a design by Jill Thomas of GJ Beads called Maryke and I used bright pink miracle beads to give it a real pop of eye catching colour.  I made it nice and long so I could tie a knot in it.


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