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i own a little vintage shop on the south coast by the sea, or at vintagepersempre.com. im married and we have a beautiful baby girl. i like going for walks on cold sunny days and trashy reality tv. i love small boutiques, markets and big city centers. im slightly dyslexic so you'll have to ignore my poor spelling, and i rarely use capital letters. my music taste is so varied, from country to screamo, oh and musicals. i love song lyrics, pretty photographs and modern art. i have many guilty pleasures and im really not very cool. im obsessed with drawings and tattoos of birds, but im genuinely terrified of real life ones. i guess you can read on to find out more (:

Saturday 26 February 2011

one of my favorite books

The Velveteen rabbit is one of the most amazing stories I have ever read,
It is a children's story written from the toys perceptive.
My favorite extract:


‘What is REAL?’ asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. ‘Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?’

‘Real isn’t how you are made,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.’

‘Does it hurt?’ asked the Rabbit.

‘Sometimes,’ said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. ‘When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.’

‘Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,’ he asked, ‘or bit by bit?’

‘It doesn’t happen all at once,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.’

‘I suppose you are real?’ said the Rabbit. And then he wished he had not said it, for he thought the Skin Horse might be sensitive. But the Skin Horse only smiled.

‘The Boy’s Uncle made me Real,’ he said. ‘That was a great many years ago; but once you are Real you can’t become unreal again. It lasts for always.



Thursday 24 February 2011

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(we heart it)

nothing but your t shirt on

i've got a thing right now for t shirts;
pretty patterns, massive logo statements, baggy ones & of course the favourite band tees. 
love love love. 





(river island)


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also think inspiration from peyton sawyer one tree hill (:

Tuesday 22 February 2011

let us runaway




inspiration.



so i've spent the last few days thinking of what to blog about.
and for some reason there has been nothing to inspire me.


i mean okay i spent sunday in spittlefields and fell in love with tapestry.
(bought a beautiful green tapestry skirt - pictures to follow)
and also refound my love for b & w t shirts with random words/ doodles on - ha i bought two (:


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i spent spent hours yesterday on we heart it and of course stalking the cherry blog for the millionth time. 


but something somewhere kept bringing me back to the idea of faith.
thats faith in yourself, your partner, your family, or possibly having a faith. 


weither you have none or all of these, no matter who or what you believe your god is, i'd recommend this song to anyone. its stunning. 


lifehouse - storm (acoustic)


i know you didn't bring me out here to drown.
so why am i ten feet under and upside down?
barely surviving has become my purpose,
cause i'm so used to living underneath the surface.

if i could just see you,
everything would be alright.
if i could see you 
this darkness would turn into light.

and i will walk on water,
and you will catch me if i fall.
and i will get lost into your eyes,
and everything will be alright.


im not preaching, truely. 
i really dont know what my own beliefs are.
i just know that this song helps, even if it only gives me a little inspiration. 




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Monday 14 February 2011

i guess i should write about love.

As its valentines day, this is my really really long list of 100 things i love (:

1. Big sunglasses
2. Crazy old fabric
3. Thomas
4. One Tree Hill
5. Having my neck pierced


6. Wearing loads of jewelery
7. Old books
8. Disney films
9. Tattoos
10. My own pillow.
11. Jack Daniels & Coke
12. Skittles
13. 50's dresses
14. City & Colour


15. Meeting random people in pubs and actually holding a conversation with them
16. Seeing brilliant bands live
17. Spittlefields
18. Sixty Million Postcards
19. Alice in Wonderland (the book/ film/ new film - all of it!)
20. Randomly painting something new in my room.
21. Old photos
22. Red lipstick



23. Roses
24. Playing loud scary music when i drive a matiz
25. markets
26. biker boots
27. Sketches &  tattoos of birds
28. Rose wine
29. blogging
30. Patterned tights
31. Durban in South Africa
32. People with unnaturally coloured hair
33. Louise Dear

34. Jane Eyre
35. Brilliant friends
36. Song lyrics
37. Clothing companies that are part of the ethical trading standards committee (:
38. Brighton
39. Sparklers
40. Oversized warm cardigans
41. Geeky glasses
42. Memories
43. Anything personal
44. Sunflowers
45. Wearing too much black



46. Feeding the ducks
47. Getting the giggles
48. Writing lists (had you guessed?)
49. Old records
50. Band t- shirts
51. Ribena
52. Certain female artists that its actually a little lame to listen too (:
53. Brogues
54. Picnics, with real picnic baskets
55. Fancy dress parties


(The mad hatter & the queen of hearts!)

56. Surprises
57. Sex & the City (tv series)
58. Keira Knightley
59.Head Scarves used as bows
60. Cute pets
61. Really great films; the changeling, the duchess, atonement & the black swan. 
62. All sweets
63. The beach
64. Marmite
65. Stars on a clear night
66. Candles
67. Frank Usher
68. Girls that wear pumps with white socks and cute dresses
69. Scorpions (well, i want a tattoo of one - urban myths & all that)
70. Piano players & ballet dancers


71. Quirky shops
72. Old furniture
73. Pretty vintage bunting
74. Aphrodite beach in Cyprus
75. Spending a day doing absolutely nothing with someone you love
76. Going for walks
77. Walk in wardrobes - i need one.

78. Attractive couples
79. Hand made amazing jewelery/ hair pieces etc


80. Pretty pictures.
81. Big cameras that look awesome
82. Nicknames
83. Vintage buttons
84. Doodling song lyrics
85. Cafe rouge
86. Black nail polish
87. The Velveteen rabbit
88. Greetings cards
89. Cranberry juice with a wedge of lime
90. High waisted skirts
91. Christmas Jumpers
92. Old couples that still hold hands

93. Zippos
94. Quotes from skins -  'i don't care if you think you're odd, because i feel like singing when I see you'
95. People that are really really good at photography.
96. Dresses covered in beads & sequins
97. Cute girls name; Hettie, Dora etc
98. Peacock feathers
99. Rome
100. Love




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Saturday 12 February 2011

i couldn't live without you.

not as romantic as it sounds,
 this is actually the top ten favourite songs of mine.
you know the ones that you can listen to a million times and still not tire of.
love it (:
there's not really an order to these - always depends how im feeling (:

Jimmy eat world - Kill
Bethany Joy Lenz - Elsewhere
Johnny Cash - Man in black
City & Colour - Day Old Hate
Mumford & Sons - White Blank Page
Paloma Faith - Sexy MInx
Pink Floyd - Great Gig in the Sky
Arctic Monkeys - Corner stone
Augustana - Boston 
City & Colour - Sleeping Sickness

Turns out when I started thinking there are tons more, CKY - close yet far, Breaking Benjamin - Diary of Jane, Dashboard Confessional - The Best Deceptions, Florence & the Machine - Girl with One Eye etc.

So many lovely lovely songs (:
I recommend everyone to youtube them.


Monday 7 February 2011

hats. hats. hats.

watched the duchess the other night
- i forgot just how amazing the hats keira knightly wears are.




i also think everyone should see this film at some point (:

Wednesday 2 February 2011

first piece of press.

So it may not be vogue (yet!)

but our bournemouth daily echo had a full page all on Vintage Per Sempre.

how excitinggg!




To read the full article click the link below (:

Tuesday 1 February 2011

tattoos

i really love tattoos. im just so scared of the pain and how perminant they are.

but i really want a few.

i like tattoos of lyrics, trees, birds, something that means a lot to someone.

i love on the city & colour (check this band out - beautiful) website loads of fans have uploaded their tattoos in dedication of such beautiful music. 


i also have a hugeee amount of love for kat von d. shes brilliant.

just working on what im gonna get ....