The dream skirt

It's Inspiration Monday with Mrs and Mrs Bird (!)  AKA Twobirds (congratulations to one-week married Megan!).  This is quite a sweet look. I love these lacy shorts.  I don't own any but I do own this skirt, which is white and short and cute.

When I worked in HE administration, I dreamed up a skirt I'd like.  It was broderie anglaise and embroidered with coloured butterflies.  It would have a rainbow-beribboned waistband.
And then, bizarrely enough, I was wandering in Marylebone high street in my lunchbreak and I happened to go into Whistles, a higher-end high-street UK store and saw this skirt on a rack.  It was still about £70 but it was like my dream-skirt (without being Broderie Anglaise).  However, a) that was too expensive and b) not in my size. No Whistles stores in London had a size 8 left sadly. I actually ended up buying the sarong and dresss in the same range- but they were print not embroidered.
Fast forward a couple of years and for some bizarre reason, I did a search on Ebay for Whistles butterfly skirt and some darling person was selling one for a mere fraction of the price!  That was a happy day when I finally met my skirt! (That sounds like something that Daniel Cleaver would say in Bridget Jones!)


Today, since I was teaching Javanese gamelan to children and would be clambering all over the floor, I obviously didn't wear the skirt for school but I did wear the other elements!
This WILL be the last time you see my stomach!  I don't like tying my shirt up but it does look cute on people, it just makes me a bit self-conscious!


The skirt is Whistles via Ebay, blouse- H&M, necklaces (whitestuff and birthday gifts), shoes- Cath Kidston, denim headband and bag-Primark.

I was a little nervous about today as I was teaching gamelan to children on a real gamelan for the first time. I've taught adults and university students and children on normal percussion but never on the real thing with children!  I knew it would be fine but I still find the unknow a little unnerving.  We managed to get there and back safely and in time, the teaching went well and the children seemed to really enjoy it.  They really enoyed sketching the instruments as well, which I got them to do when they weren't playing.  Definitely, a trip to repeat! Thanks to my Mum who came along to help too!





Hope you are well xxx