It was Style Imitating Art with Salazar of 14 shades of grey. This week’s SIA inspiration is “Illumination” by Colette Calascione: Aren't I silly, I feel a bit silly putting up a naked lady picture, even though she'd covered in flowers and has nice wallpaper, shawl and crocheted chair! In retrospect, I could have gone with hairflowers, floral crowns and pearls but ah well!!!
I bought this blouse from a vintage shop in Nottinghill gate in February and at the time, I kind of regretted it because I didn't try it on and was suddenly aware I looked like a bit er- like I was an octegenarian! Combined with these White Stuff tweed shorts, I didn't mind it so much! I love it in summer where I can wear my collection of straw hats- this one was from TK Maxx a long time and was one of the Mum's wedding hat quartet! The floral brogues don't really photograph very well but never mind! I have very pale legs. However, not even that will convince me to try fake tan- no way!
This afternoon, I unfortunately didn't get to teach music as the year 5 teachers wanted to do a Greek food afternoon. I was a little miffed about it as they've missed music lessons for 2 weeks now and I am on another trip next week so they wont have it again. I had got all my resources ready and didn't have the time to go through the lesson. Plus, I wondered why they used today to do it but anyway, such is life. However one of the activities was tasting Greek foods. Each pair of children had a plate with Greek olive bread, olives, feta, dolmova (the vine leaf thingies), marinated peppers, and a tomatoey dish and a aubergine dish. It was really funny because apparently, the other class were all saying, "Urgh, it's disgusting!" and being complete drama-queens (one says it and the rest follow suit). Whereas, in our classroom, they were a little more open-minded and tried everything and saw it in a positive light and liked most of the items and were raving about them. We had various 'hoover' children who went round and ate up all the scraps of their favourite item. A adored olives and ate all those up for grabs, J loved the vine leaves and happily munched his way through them, U loved the peppers and swiped those and the majority ate the lot. Everyone liked the feta! I told them that they obviously had more sophisticated taste-buds than the other class! They liked that!
Hope all is well with you and thank you for the recent spate of kind comments! Welcome to the lovely new following people as well- tis so kind of you to visit my little ol waffly blog!!!
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I love the short and the blouse, though I couldn't pull off either - I don't have the legs for shorts and I'm not girly enough to pull of the blouse! I think it looks great on you, and you don't look like an octogenarian, haha! I like to be pale and pasty - no fake tan for me either!
ReplyDeleteThe Greek food afternoon sounds great, even if it did ruin your music plans!
I love the blouse, it's so pretty xxx
ReplyDeletei love this blouse on you, and that belt is adorable! and your legs look miles long in these shorts!
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like the most delicious lesson ever. Can you please invite me next time you're doing something with feta and vine leaves? :) xxx
ReplyDeleteThe top and shorts are lovely, the belt pulls it all together nicely. I'm pale too, I dabble with fake tan but rarely get good results, I should just give it up really!
ReplyDeleteThe lesson sounds delicious, I wish my lessons had been like that at school, what a shame you didn't get to teach your class though.
That Greek food sounds yummy! That blouse is so pretty on you. x
ReplyDeleteI love this picture, thanks for introducing it to me! I like your interpretation, the blouse is very pretty! I hated olives as a kid but nowadays I can't get enough of them so hopefully their tastes will change! xxx
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