Plenty Busy and Some Pretty

Somehow I seem to have grown a social life which is lovely but really bad timing as I have also started regularly going to the gym and a new job! This means I am pretty much exhausted all the time! It probably isn't all that much but it feels like a lot since I have been so 'in my shell' (and curled up on my bed) for a long time. I have had some big weekends but usually very quiet weekdays, and yet at the moment it feels like I am barely home which is great. I want to adapt to this busyness and then keep adding to it. For too long there has been a divide between how I want my life to be and the life I am living and I finally feel like I am moving along the way for bridging the gap.

Anyway, here are some pretty pictures of Orla Keily and Lena Horscheck's new collections......


Taken from the lovely Sally Jane Vintage's site because that is where I saw them first!

These pictures below are my favourites from Lena Horscheck's Spring-Summer 2011 lookbook but the whole thing can be found here. I got these pictures from Q's Daydream Vintage, and the runway pictures can be viewed in glorious detail here.

Blog Name Change

I don't know how much it affects things but I am now Polkadots and Petticoats in honour of the my new red dress!!!!!

New Year, New Start and New Dress

So things have been changing...or rather things haven't changed so much as my attitude has. Must be all the positive thinking coming from blogland! It's probably not breaking news but the concept that things are not naturally happy and shiny but must be made so has taken quite some time to filter through to me. I am determined to work towards what I want to get out of life and that I get to decide that, not the words or opinions of other people.

In other news here is a picture of the dress I will be wearing to a wedding tomorrow:-
Anyway apologies for the long silence, I'll make no vows since I broke the last one but have missed my little spec of the internet xxx

Fall Dresses

The weather has been pretty miserable and changeable for the past few weeks, switching from bright sunny to black clouds and pelting rain and back again. The weekend was spent with Violet and was glorious. Since then...not so much. Anyway, the blogs and photography make me dream of a crisp autumn with bright foliage and orange sunny days so here are my Modcloth dream dresses for fall:-

Am I Becoming A Tourist?

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy. -Anais Nin

All the things I love and get geeky seem to be about are the stories that people tell and the journey those stories take to be told. For example a few months ago I listened to the musical Spring Awakening for the first time and to say it affected me would be an understatement, it got put on immediate repeat.

This it turns out it just the beginning, I am now a huge fan of the people who created the show and acted in it and it feels like tumbling down a rabbit hole trying to keep up and find out all the other things that they have been involved with. It continues to be a fantastic way of finding new music and stories and lives being lived but as much as I have connected to it and to other people through the Internet and am so glad it exist it has caused me to question something. How much this enthusiasm for something such as this is actually a stunting force in my life if I find it has become something that is not shared by those directly in my life? And is the observance and admiration of people and their work only beneficial if I take that energy and enthusiasm and fuel it to do something myself in that field? Can you get so lost in the joy of something created by others that you lose the opportunity to do something yourself?

Do you find that enthusiasm for something brings you together or sets you apart? If you find your ecstasy in the deeds in others is it merely an opiate for what if clear headed you could achieve yourself? I chase the creeping shadows of my depression away with the stories of others but does it leave me with no story of my own?

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Skeletons

Last night I went to a movie with my friend M, it was called Skeletons and I knew next to nothing about it except that he really wanted to see it. It was interesting, a gentle, slow but involving film dealing with the secrets people keep. If you get a chance to see it, and as a result of there not being many prints available the odds may not be good, I think you should.

Photo from here

My Humblest Apologies For Being A Bad Blogger

There was a horrible creeping moment when I logged in and saw my last entry was in May AND that the lovely Nicki has left a comment telling me she had done a wonderful, kind thing for me! (Thank you so much, I am so sorry I have been so remiss as to not be around to appreciate this in a timely manner!)

I don't know what happened, I was working on a review post having watched Taking Woodstock and it just never got finished. Time went past; I went to work, I did some sewing, I went to Glastonbury, I went to see my friend, I watched movies and went walking in the glorious sun (that lasted all of 2 weeks and now the sky is full of rain) and I stayed away from the computer. The reasons I started doing this are still here and the blog world is still a part of how I want to grow and change, I know I'm very new at this and I know I'm not doing the best job but I am back! Thanks for sticking with me x