IDOLS CRAVING BALLERINAS

So I've had a Saturday job since the summer after my GCSE's, basically just over 4 years. This means that I miss out on a lot of shit. Mainly I take Saturday's off for holidays or protests & that's about it. Now I work four days a week & my first day off is Sunday it's kind of sad when everything is closed. You'd think in 2012 we'd have got everything open 7 days a week. But no. Charity shops? No. Post office? No. Bank? No. So I generally spend the day moping around or possibly braving town. But this weekend I had Saturday off! Yay!

So rare was this occasion that me & my mum decided to make the most of it & seek out some quality charity shop stalking ground. Basically I find if you look for the poshos that's where you get the best stuff because it's good quality & barely picked over. So we headed out to the Costwolds, Tetbury & Cirencester to be exact. Tetbury is where Prince Charles lives & as well as having one of the best countryside hospitals (luckily we didn't have to visit it) it also has a whole street of antique shops. Seriously. It also had some amazing charity shops, & a lovely bookshop simply called "Old Books" where I got this Faber & Faber copy of Ariel (not so old) & this amazing anthology/history/encyclopaedia of Knickers! I'm not too big on history but underwear's history intertwines so much with that of women & feminism, plus it has some beautiful pictures & the author is a keen collector so she keeps off handedly mentioning this perfect pair of Biba french lace knickers she has etc... It's basically amazing.

Then in Cirencester we found an awesome upholstery fabric shop that has like discount "designer" fabrics. I got an offcut of this epic silver fake leather (I know, but trust me) plus some sort of starburst flocked fabric. I'm thinking A-Line skirts in the style of my post below, hold on for follow up photos. Cirencester was a little rubbish to be honest. There was a really nice little bookshop & one of those "gift" shops that actually had unique stuff. But it was their Oxfam bookshop (as it so often is) that threw up this little jem of a Penguin Classic. I'm developing a little collection of these along with some I picked up in bookbarn a year odd ago. Actually one of those is my tumblr background. I might have to change it to this. Because it's just so fucking amazing. Plus the illustrations inside are beautiful! I also want to print them onto fabric but feel like that would have some major copyright issues...

How was your weekend?