Summing up the Dam

Well, there you go, I might as well put my hand up and say ‘I blog, therefore I am’ because from a trip that was supposed to be a ‘break’ from blogging, I have managed to get three posts worth of blogging material from it.  Perhaps there lies my crux.  So conscious I am of blog-worthy material that my camera automatically appears without my even thinking about it. 

So at the Episode vintage store near Waterloopein market, I nearly squealed ‘Snap!’ at all the crazy leggings.  At 7 euros each or 2 pairs for 12 euros, these are clearly the cheapest way to relive late 80’s horror prints.  I call it horror but somehow, those squiggly lines, random triangles and swirly whirly patterns are looking mighty appealing. 

I have never been tempted by printed wellies but when it was bucketing down like it was on Friday where the words ‘drowned’ ‘rat’ come to mind, I was going to hand over 75 euros for a pair of these cuties.  Then the silver lining came out.  // It’s good to make a memo note to yourself when on holiday and this picture reminds me that I need to order in a whole range of trimmings, fabrics and other bits and bobs because I have many many DIY projects planned (the category of DIY is getting seriously mouldy but fear not as my willpower is finally galvanised!)

These inspiration collages tacked up at a cute vintage store The End (where my friend was hyperventilating after scoring two pairs of boots for 50 euros – unheard of/impossible in London) on Nwe. Hoogstraat 29, serves as a second memo to myself to stick together some collages as ideas in my head seem to get lost and become an incoherent mess.