Beach Weekend
I wish it was still the weekend! I always have that feeling after a great time away. So the weekend just gone I traveled down to Hove where my lovely friend and her fella live to have a general relaxed (away from the election in London) sort of weekend. As usual I had to visit my usual haunts before setting off to a different beach for the Saturday.
As some of you are aware, there is one particular shop I always have to pop my head into, called 'Keep it Vintage'. If my home could look like this I would be soooo happy, it really is the #homegoals everyone references on Instagram. It has everything from tables, chairs, pots, jewelry and plants!! What more oculd a girl want. Although this time I didn't buy anything, I will go back for another peruse the next time I am in Hove.
You can see why I love the place. It obviously helped with the sun pouring into the shop, it attracted almost everyone that walked past. After falling in love with the shop I think it has turned me into a serial collected, BUT also a mad perfectionist. Everything now has it's own place that can't be moved. Its an unhealthy obsession boarding on is OCD - I need help.
Another annoying quality (not sure if I should call it quality) I have developed is taking LOADS of photos of practically everything and then end up deleting half of them just so I can get the right shot. When I was at my friends this was something I started to do, even with her things because they are so cute. She has a great selection of treasures and trinkets. The pictures above and below are both from charity shops in Brighton and aren't they just brilliant! Little envious of her lovely old school desk too, that is lovingly stocked with arts and crafts in her living room. I need to stop thinking about buying similar things because I simple have no where to put them! ha!
This is the view from her home above all the rooftops in Hove. And what a view! Behind the little glass window there is a house with solar panels and currently living in between the panels is a small family of seagulls. They are cute, noisy but cute all the same. I am sure I have taken the same photos and told you the same stories before on this blog but I really can't get enough of her neighborhood.
I will get to the point of my blog soon ha ha (the day out). So after we visited (dragged my friend) 'Keep it Vintage', had a coffee and a chat at my friends lovely home we hoped on a bus to Rottingdean. We took a fully loaded picnic and sat in the sunshine with prosecco and nibbles waiting for the tide to go out.
We obviously planned incredibly well (not) for a bit of rock pooling too! All the children around us of course had nets and buckets but we had bare feet, bacon and a lunch box. However we got lucky within the first ten minutes or so of looking for crabs. We were unsure whether they would like bacon and apparently they do!
So we caught TWO crabs, one tiny little thing and another quite sizable beast. As you can certainly see from the images below, I was not ready to pick that baby up! My friends however had much more confidence than me, I was quite happy to watch especially after one of them got a rather sharp pinch.
We also caught some sea snails (I say caught they weren't exactly speedy ha ha) and popped them into our new aquarium (adapted lunchbox) with our crabs. You can see from the photo below my friend getting that nasty pinch from one of the beasties, He really does look like a whopper and in all fairness we were putting him back so there was no need for the nip ha ha.
As some of you are aware, there is one particular shop I always have to pop my head into, called 'Keep it Vintage'. If my home could look like this I would be soooo happy, it really is the #homegoals everyone references on Instagram. It has everything from tables, chairs, pots, jewelry and plants!! What more oculd a girl want. Although this time I didn't buy anything, I will go back for another peruse the next time I am in Hove.
You can see why I love the place. It obviously helped with the sun pouring into the shop, it attracted almost everyone that walked past. After falling in love with the shop I think it has turned me into a serial collected, BUT also a mad perfectionist. Everything now has it's own place that can't be moved. Its an unhealthy obsession boarding on is OCD - I need help.
Another annoying quality (not sure if I should call it quality) I have developed is taking LOADS of photos of practically everything and then end up deleting half of them just so I can get the right shot. When I was at my friends this was something I started to do, even with her things because they are so cute. She has a great selection of treasures and trinkets. The pictures above and below are both from charity shops in Brighton and aren't they just brilliant! Little envious of her lovely old school desk too, that is lovingly stocked with arts and crafts in her living room. I need to stop thinking about buying similar things because I simple have no where to put them! ha!
This is the view from her home above all the rooftops in Hove. And what a view! Behind the little glass window there is a house with solar panels and currently living in between the panels is a small family of seagulls. They are cute, noisy but cute all the same. I am sure I have taken the same photos and told you the same stories before on this blog but I really can't get enough of her neighborhood.
I will get to the point of my blog soon ha ha (the day out). So after we visited (dragged my friend) 'Keep it Vintage', had a coffee and a chat at my friends lovely home we hoped on a bus to Rottingdean. We took a fully loaded picnic and sat in the sunshine with prosecco and nibbles waiting for the tide to go out.
We obviously planned incredibly well (not) for a bit of rock pooling too! All the children around us of course had nets and buckets but we had bare feet, bacon and a lunch box. However we got lucky within the first ten minutes or so of looking for crabs. We were unsure whether they would like bacon and apparently they do!
So we caught TWO crabs, one tiny little thing and another quite sizable beast. As you can certainly see from the images below, I was not ready to pick that baby up! My friends however had much more confidence than me, I was quite happy to watch especially after one of them got a rather sharp pinch.
We also caught some sea snails (I say caught they weren't exactly speedy ha ha) and popped them into our new aquarium (adapted lunchbox) with our crabs. You can see from the photo below my friend getting that nasty pinch from one of the beasties, He really does look like a whopper and in all fairness we were putting him back so there was no need for the nip ha ha.
Ah, it was such a great weekend with the beautiful weather, food and friends made it completely worthwhile. We all slept so well Saturday night after all that excitement, but I definitely have to do it again maybe at another beach. The last photo I took that weekend is of the sun setting before we all conked out on the sofa, lovely............I'm already planning my next trip!
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