Dreaming of Vintage Treasures

Hello, I'm back in the garden with my pot of sunflowers again !  I just love them. J ust  looking at them makes me so happy. My mum never used to be fond of sunflowers and now she loves them  too! I'm collection the seeds once the sunflowers die and I'm going to plant them again. I wore this outfit a little while ago, when I went out for lunch with my uni friends. We're all teachers and catch up whenever we have school holidays. It's great to keep in touch and talk about our different experiences in our classrooms and what we've been up to in general. I bought this leopard, satin skirt not too long ago at a market and this was my first time wearing it. Apparently, animal print and satin is trendy at the moment. That's okay, because I can stock up on leopard print, snake skin and satin pieces of clothing before fashion trends quickly move onto something else. I've liked these styles long before they were declared trendy, promise!...

I'm really lucky to have a four day weekend this week! I've got Monday off to write school reports and Tuesday off for Melbourne Cup Day.  I spent Saturday starting the reports and spending some time at the cemetery to celebrate the day of the dead which is something   I'd never experienced before my Baba passed away nearly two years ago. Now I'm familiar with the different times during the year when Macedonians gather at the grave site of loved ones to celebrate their lives with food. I think about my Baba all the time and am always happy when she pops up in my dreams.  I wore a casual navy outfit - turtleneck and flare jeans, with my beloved snake-print boots I bought a few years ago.   I didn't take any outfit photos on the day so the above is just a collage of screenshots from a  Instagram  story I posted the other day. A day for the dead might sound really morbid, but it's actually quite nice t...