Day Out in St John's Wood

 Hello x

So today I went to St John's Wood. Yesterday I went to the V&A with my mum to visit the Menswear exhibition. The exhibition was really good actually, very interesting. They had loads of interesting things on display and loads of paintings as well which were really interesting. Anyway, it was while I was in charity shop on Kensington Highstreet yesterday that I had the idea to go to St John's Wood today. St John's Wood is a really nice area to brows the boutiques and charity shops and grab some lunch.

I picked up Kate Atkinson's Case Histories in Oxfam. I was looking for it in my house this morning but could not find it and just concluded that we had given the book away, so yeah it was lucky I picked it up in the charity shop because I wanted to read it next.

Then I browsed another charity shop and tried on a dress but was not quite sure because I thought it made me look quite pale. Anyway I thought about it over lunch (ice coffee and a feta and spinach pastry from a deli) and decided t buy it. I also picked up some really cute crystal bowls in the shape of flowers, I only picked up two but there were twelve there and I really regret not picking up more than two because it turns out my mum actually collects these bowls. I did think I recognised them.

The bowls are 1960's Dartington and I paid actually a good price I paid £3 for each but yeah I should have got four because they are really cute. The dress is really gorgeous it is a silk slip with lace. I paid more than I like to admit for the dress (£24) but to put it into perspective one might pay that on like a bad quality fast fashion dress. I know I will wear this.

Then I went to Regents Park where I had some raspberries and a drink. Yeah it was really chill. I walked down to Marylebone where there are more charity shops. I was soo tired by that point I was sort of done with charity shopping.

I then headed down to oxford street because my sister wanted me to look for a particular dress for her at Urban however I couldn't find it. Honestly it was so chaotic in there and soo warm.

I also popped to a haberdashery because I wanted to look for some bias binding. So I was making a top out of some fabric last week when I realised that I would have a lot of fabric left over, so therefore I decided to make two tops but as a result I wouldn't have enough fabric to make the bias binding. Therefore, I was looking for some bias binding in a solid colour but somehow I managed to leave the house without my fabric swatch and yeah I just could not find a colour that would match. I will go back again with the fabric swatch and hopefully there will be a match. It was a really lovely haberdashery, although I felt a bit intimidated because there were lots of studenty, fashiony people looking at fabric.

I apologise for that boring explanation. Here is a picture of my very nearly completed tops- they do not have the straps which is made from the bias binding. They look really adorable, one is for myself and one is for my sister if she wants it. I am planning to make a few more things this summer (weirdly all tops) so if you would like to see a blogpost of my sewing plans and/or my completed garments, let me know. 

Anyway, yeah I had a really lovely weekend. I definitely enjoy doing that charity shop route (St John's Wood to Marylebone) if there is an occasion I need to buy a dress for- you can pick up something for a good price and the likelihood is it has only been worn once before (there have been surveys on Christmas Party Outifts and statistically most outfits are only worn once).

See you later x