Jump quietly

I'm in Dallas and the contents of my suitcase are entirely weather inapporpriate. Not looking forward to wearing things with sleeves - scissors are looking prettty tantalising right now. On the upside the vintage shopping is gooood, I'll post some pretty things tomorrow.

Jumpsuit: vintage Laura Ashley

- Nadia

Bringing them to the yard

As I'm sure you've by now read on other blogs, the yard sale was a stonking success. On arrival, I found the tables awash with an abundance of brightly coloured goodies - a veritable feast for the eyes and inevitably, the wardrobe. To my wonder/ horror the other girls had created banners, blog tags, and lo, even PRICES for their wares. Feeling inadequate on the professionalism front, solace was found in John and Steve's delicious homemade lemonade. It later turned out that my business skills weren't so shoddy. My 'marketing' ploy to entice the punters by hiding my suitcase in a corner on the floor worked marvelously and I was soon struggling with arithmetic and change with the best of them.

Susie, wonderfully hospitable, organised and surprisingly calm, tackled the sale of her exquisite lot whilst simultaneously ensuring everyone had everything they needed and generally exuding charm. As for Tommy's famous satay chicken with peanut sauce, I eagerly await the recipe - all other food is now bland.

Shini was a star attraction in herself. A moment arose where there was sheer panic at the realisation that she had, in fact, disappeared and I found myself fending off increasingly aggressive 'where is Shini?' demands. The lovely Vic Riches also caught everyone's attention as she churned out masterpiece after masterpiece throughout the day, capturing personalities and character in swift strokes.

It was a pleasure meeting Kit, Fiona, and Alice and to see the ebullient Imogen again. Many thanks to Zara for the idea and of course, to Susie for executing the event so immaculately.

- Nadia

Things and things

This is late coming. I blame the unprompted, cruel death of my laptop, the length of earth days, the weather, undone shoe laces, chimneys, grapes and pretty much everything else that counts as being 'under the sun'.

Susie from Style Bubble is holding a yard sale in London this Sunday and you're invited. A handful of other bloggers, of whom I am one, will be selling their wares and I hear rumours of gems amongst the inventory. Not my inventory, mind you. I recently had a huge clearout so my contribution will be the pile of 'what were you thinking?' in the corner, to which you are most welcome - all my clothes will be a tenner or under.

The delicious Quentin Blake-esque scrawls are the work of Victoria Riches, she'll be at the sale too, armed with a bit of graphite and a lot of talent.

(Wish I could remember where I picked up the hooded image from, the site was full of pretty anatomical things - contact me if you know).

- Nadia

P.s. Fiona is going to be holding a charity raffle on Sunday with proceeds going to the victims of the Pakistan floods. If you're there, you know what to do.

Honey-heavy dew

September is shaping up to be pretty darn hectic. I cannot wait. I feel as though I should write more here, but I shan't. Instead, I will leave you with the joys of AA slouchiness on summer days.

Hat: vintage

Top: American Apparel

Skirt: ebay

Boots: vintage Wrangler

- Nadia

Besieged toile

Talk to me. My brain has gone sailing so I might respond in a nonsensical/ oddly sagacious manner.

Edit: Except twitter appears to have caught wind of my intentions and promptly died.

- Nadia

Sipping on the soup of the soul

Life is throwing some awfully nice bits and bobs my way of late. You all make my list of wonderful things to appreciate.

Top: vintage

Shirt: ebay

Skirt: Urban Outfitters

Hat: vintage

Boots: ebay

- Nadia