This is a picture of Esme and me on our last appointment at Alternative Arts tattoo shop. Esme is going to a new shop next month with one of the other tattooists at Alternative Arts. I think it’s been about 2 years I’ve been going pretty much every month to see her to get my ink done. Can’t wait to see the new place. 🙂
Thought I’d play with some of the filters on the camera.
My try at home selection arrived from Cubitts has arrived. They’re all so gorgeous. But I can only buy one pair. Here are some photos I took of me wearing them.
This is the box they arrived in. The packaging is lovely.
These next ones are my favourites. They are called Agar with the agate coloured frame. They have 9 different colours of this frame available at Cubitts.
These following glasses are called the Bidborough with the agate coloured frame. They have 10 different colour of frames to choose from. They’re quite heavy but I noticed on the Cubitts website the Bidborough sunglasses with the black frame was very cool looking.
These next ones are the Wollstonecraft frames and the amber coloured frame. There is a choice of 4 colours to choose from at Cubitts.
Finally these are the also the Bidborough glasses with the quartz frame. I was torn between these and the Agar frames.
I was in London today for the Save Our NHS march. I went on my own as a) nobody at work had heard about it and were busy and b) I prefer to do these kinds of things on my own. 🙂
So it was my first weekend off in over a month and I was really looking forward to going to London. I’ve always liked going there and I did love living there many years ago. So I was quite excited on the train. The great thing about how I look is how it dissuades most people from either sitting next to me or speaking to me. I view this as a positive 🙂 The dreads, facial piercings and the tattoos definitely keep most at arms length.
So I arrived at Euston and found hundreds of people gathering for the march. I mean hundreds. So I picked up with the CND crowd, they had cool placards.
There was a lady handing out old style surgical masks with a hands off our NHS message printed on the front. When I was walking along with the mask on some guy jumped out in front of me and took my photo. Weird huh?
At the end of the march I saw this cool drumming group and there was this older lady who was dancing along to them. She was really shaking her money maker. Really cool lady.
It was a pretty cool day. My feet were killing by the end of the day. But I had such a great time.
It’s my birthday and I am not working. So we are off out for a drink and a meal. I cannot wait.
Pre-drinks:
Post-drinks: 😀
I don’t drink much, in fact I could count on one hand the amount of times I drink.
Crikey I am in my 6th month of my dreadlock journey! Still loving my dreads. 🙂 Have to find another person to carry out my maintenance work though as the last two have moved. Is it me?
My lovely instagram friend @thamo_is_craf.t made me this beautiful dread band. It really is lovely and ties at the back. Thamo is an amazingly talented person. You should take a look at her instagram site and check out her wonderful creations.
I have had some more colour added to my arm yesterday. Feeling happy but sore. I have been adding the usual savlon and aloe vera to it which helps.
I had some dread maintenance done a few days ago. I’ve been having problems with tension bumps around my neck and ears the last couple of weeks and approached Nadine (@dreadedmousse) to tidy them up and see if she could provide some advise. She is brilliant and if there is any dreadies in the south of England who are looking for some dread help then I can’t recommend her highly enough. My dreads feel lovely and light and look so much more tidy. I can tie them up again without the pulling sensation at the back of my neck. 😀
Here are a couple of pictures of how messy my dreads were before the maintenance.
And here’s my dreads today, looking a damn site better. Although there is a little fuzzy bit on the side there that is a left over from when the first maintenance when Angie cut my roots as they were merging. So I have some short hair on the top that will probably continue to work its way loose until it’s long enough to lock with the surrounding dreads.
Dreaded nurse 