I finally found a way to wear the leather skirt I bought after the end of the Season Ten of Project Runway when I was obsessed with everything Melissa made. I decided that I too needed some leather in my wardrobe, bought the skirt and then promptly hated it. It went to the back of a shelf as a little bit embarrassing. The sign of my Project Runway stupidity. It's a weird fit and didn't seem to flatter me at all. It's high waisted but also clingy so it does nothing flattering to my belly. However! Now that it is the season for jumpers I can pull them down over the awkward bit and it actually looks kind of good. I even wore it to work this week with a baggy top so once I got it out
You may remember my post about London being so loud and me being desperate to leave. The city was just getting me down and I wanted to go visit my parents in Yorkshire. Unfortunately the train fares were so expensive I couldn't afford to, and I was a little down about the whole thing. However my parents then decided to visit me, with their car. And so they drove me out to some countryside in my own area without having to go to Yorkshire at all. It was beautiful. It's nice to know that there is all this around. The thing with having no car is I tend to only go where trains can take you, so it was beautiful to have this little trip around. I also found lots of amazing mushrooms to photograph! We were actually about to head off when I found the beautiful red ones, so I called everyone back and then we saw more everywhere from that little bright patch. Maybe ten different types of mushrooms.
I also wanted to say thank you for all the words of support on my last blog post when I wrote about my assumptions about feminism. It is really comforting to know that other people care. So thanks all.
And now for the forest!
I am so happy to have spotted these. Such a rare sight.
All the trees in this one area were covered in the yellow lichen and in the bright sun were shining and glowing.
We actually had a massive storm the day before this walk, with windows rattling, trees down and all the London train stations closed. I wanted to take a few photos of the wreckage here too.
All the fairy mushrooms
This little shroom pushing it's way up pressing the soil as it comes was amazing.
This one was about the size of my foot.
We then managed to fit in a quick visit to a small local castle as the sun was setting.
Sorry for the long delay in blogging. I have been incredibly busy so had no time at all.
I did however have a fantastic party. It was rather belated for my birthday as folks had been occupied at the weekend.
I spent aaages making my costume for it. It was themed on 'things you would find in a forest' and I spent ages on the planning. I went for a walk in the woods with my sister and gathered sticks and things and wild feral apples and put them in jars around the room. I bought beautiful lights disguised as cherry blossom and then wound plastic ivy around the window bars and dotted playmobil trees and unicorns around the tables. It looked so beautiful and atmospheric.
Here is a picture of one of my friends in costume, looking 'atmospheric'. :)
Thinking about planning the party with my sister, I have just realised that having a sister is kind of unusual for a superhero. I think the heroism works for them in the comics because they are all 'an only child'. So much angst.
I'm trying to imagine batman with a big sister. She wouldn't have stood for all that emo nonsense with dressing in black and going travelling to 'find himself.'
Or imagine if Spiderman had a younger brother who caught him flexing his muscles in the mirror. A little brother would have just laughed at the skin-tight outfit, although probably been quite jealous.
The only ones who had siblings were heroes in teams, I think without them people like Iron Man can only think of operating on their own. (Although I suppose he had friends who helped but shhhh)
I think it is similar to how in children's fantasy novels the parents have to conveniently disappear. They are always orphans. Although it is something that I really like in the Doomspell books. The kids there have parents, worry about them and try to protect them from the witches and so forth. Really really good series actually.
But anyway I do have a sister.
I dressed up as Princess Mononoke for the party. Finally linking back to my first bit about spending time on the costume. I went on a little tangent there.
So here are some photos:
Notice, still wearing a mask. :P I love costumes so very much. I really want to do a 'wolf suit' from Where the Wild Things are one day.
