skulls

Happy Monday kids! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend. I thought I'd start the week with this georgous ring. I'm really obsessed with skulls right now and this delicate silver ring is at the top of my wish list. What do you think about wearing skulls?

Ring by Daisy Knight

tattoos

I've been thinking for awhile now about getting another tattoo. In fact, I've been thinking about for the past two years! It has taken that long to decide what I want and now that it is settled in my head, I've been looking around for inspiration. I love the idea of simple tree and think these tattoos are so pretty. Would you get a tattoo?

richard III

Yet another perk of living in London? Seeing the one and only Kevin Spacey perform live at the Old Vic theatre in Richard III. The husband has just been outdoing himself lately and organised another(!) date night. We met at Jubilee Gardens in front of the London Eye for a delicious picnic (many thanks Melrose & Morgan). Then walked our bikes to the Old Vic where we watched (in the most amazing seats EVER) the 3.5hour production.

Sam Mendes (of American Beauty fame) directed and I have to say, it really was one of the best performances I've seen. Shakespeare is sometimes hard to follow on stage but this production really came to life with the set design, an interesting use of new media and incredibly dramatic live music. It was almost like being in a cinema!

If you can get tickets, I would definitely recommend seeing this. But be quick as they are almost totally sold out!

Richard III, playing at the Old Vic, The Cut, London SE1 8NB

london in black & white

I'm not sure what the weather is like where you are, but in London, we are experiencing torrential rain showers. The weather makes lunch outside impossible, so today I decided to check out London in Black & White, a photographic exhibition at Tower Bridge.

The exhibition is shown across the two pedestrian walkways at the top of the bridge. Suspended 42meters in the air, the views you get of  looking east and west over London are amazing. The photos are mostly from the early 1900s and show life on the river as well as a history of the Tower Bridge.

I forget sometimes how spoiled I am to have so much rich history on my doorstep. To be able to pop out at lunch and take a tour of this amazing bridge is really quite spectacular.

It almost makes the rain worth it!

Tower Bridge Exhibition, tickets are £8

folly for a flyover

If you live in East London, you’ll know about the vast amount of regeneration we’re experiencing in the run up to the Olympics. Various projects have taken over our streets and for the most part, they have made East London a better and more interesting place to live.

One such project is recently opened Folly for a Flyover. Created by Assemble, this not for profit collective made up of East London artists, architects and designers won £40,000 in March to create a cultural and artistic space in the gap between the east and westbound traffic of the A12.

Working with local volunteers, they spent more than a month building a cinema by hand. Materials were sourced locally in Hackney in addition to using refuse from the nearby Olympic Park. Now complete, the Folly will host a café and workshops during the day with (the most exciting part!) being films, light shows and performances shown at their cinema at night.

The project runs until the 24^th of July after which the cinema will be broken down and the supplies will be reused again elsewhere in the community. Information about what’s showing when can be found here. I’d make an effort to get East quick as many shows are already sold out.

Folly For a Flyover

happy fourth of july!

For all the Americans out there - Happy 4th of July! I saw this super cute cake on one of my favourite blogs and thought it was perfect for today. Hope everyone is enjoying BBQs, eating hot dogs and burgers and spending time with friends and loved ones. Now if I could only find somewhere to watch the fireworks...

Via Cup of Jo from Glorious Treats

the secret consul

The husband has been busy. He has been busy organising a date night for tonight! I am probably more excited than I should be, but it's not often I get to spend a whole Friday night alone with him. And that's not even all. The husband has managed to find something I'd not yet heard about. Hidden somewhere in deepest Limehouse, we will be seeing The Secret Consul. This site-specific, guerilla opera will be performed by theatre group The Wedding Collective and features a cast of up and coming opera stars from around the world. I can't wait.

Tickets available here.