Skylark, have you seen a valley green with spring
where my heart can go a journeying
where my heart can go a journeying
over the shadows and the rain
to a blossom covered lane?
to a blossom covered lane?
Faint as a Willo The Wisp, Crazy as a loon
Hat - The Vintage Festival
Sunglasses - Camden Market, with flowers added by me
Dress - Reduced from £20 to £12.75 in Sainsburys. I adore the button detail
Bangle - Second To None
Casket Basket - Ebay
Shoes - Ebay
It's a great feeling when you mention something obscure to a friend and it turns out they love it too. This is what happened with the wicker lunch box, which was just a prop in Sherlock Holmes - The Red Headed League. Both Em, my spooky bitch partner and I had clocked this gem.
The Red Headed League - The Jeremy Brett Sherlock version is absolutely perfect. The production values in that series makes Downton look like Acorn Antiques
39 comments:
You look an absolute dream! We should hijack Vintage Life and get you on the cover, bunting, picnic hamper and all.
I can't believe that frock is Sainsbury's, the finish is superb ( can you tell I've just watched The Great British sewing Bee?)
Finished to perfection with that fabulous second To None bangle and your beatiful looks. xxxxx
You look fecking gorgeous.I could just sit down there for a bit of lunch. I'd bring my own basket of course! That is such a lovely frock. Love it all.
What spooky find will we have next?
xxxxxxx
Ooh, someone should do a Downton-Abbey-as-Acorn-Antiques spoof (Victoria Wood, obviously...) We could be in it - you can be Miss Babs and I'll be Miss Berta, new owners of Downton, running it as a country house hotel and antiques fair venue.
Ahem. Got carried away.
I would never in a million years have thought that gorgeous frock was from Sainsbury's, it's sooo pretty, beautiful print, and you look delicious in it. Perfect with that lovely bangle from Second to None, the picnic basket, and your newly-trimmed fringe! You're looking especially fetching peering out from among the bunting. That sounds like another Victoria Wood sketch...
I'd love to have a picnic with you, darling, lashings of bubbly and a snooze on the blanket afterwards, huzzah! xxxxx
You are a friggin vintage fox if I've ever seen one. These pictures are beautifully soft. Your dress is playful and girlie and your wicker bag a perfect pairing. tell me is it full of chocolates and your favorite lip gloss.
I love that the sun has finally arrived and you are out in it! Why let's take the dogs out and have a lil picnic? Stay beautiful sweetheart!
XXOO
miss simmonds these photos are delicious. my favourite is the first one. i love your dog. and the sun isn't it so great to feel it on your skin. what a bargain your dress is . the fabric is beautiful. love lucyx
Am I sleeping or waking? This photoshoot is dreamy, what a beautiful atmosphere, each photo is so beautiful that makes any Downton Abby's set look dull and squalid. I love the dress and the sunglasses, you look beautiful as a wood nymph, I can imagine deers joining your picnic eating candies from your basket!
Love xxxxxxxx
LOVE IT! So has spring sprung?!
Now I've got that song stuck in my head, but that's OK. I will think of the vision of you in your floral splendour as I warble it all day!
x
You look so beautiful in that gorgeous dress. I love anything with vibrant florals like that, such a perfect picnic look. Sainsburys have some beautiful dresses at the moment. Xx
I love the floral dress, your straight bangs, and the sunnies!!!! You look so pretty and totally effing cool. I want to go on a picnic now.
Becky :)
Oh I love these summery pictures of you looking like a brown eyed angel! How lovely to have a spring picnic with your knitted blanket and Ruby dog. Did she see any squirrels? ;)
I thought for sure that was a 1940s dress! Unbelievabubble! It really is lovely, great find Miss Simmonds. xxxx
Havin' a picnic with yer perty self. You look gorgeous, I want to watch the movie you star in!
Love love LOVE this.
You look beautiful!
xx
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That dress is awesome. I wish supermarkets here sold pretty dresses, then maybe I'd like doing the grocery shopping. I love the flowery sunglasses and the hat too. Is this the hat you weren't sure how to wear? Because I think it looks great like that.
Ohhh pretty pretty dress.
You are a bloomin beauty!!!
How beautiful and nymph-like you look here- awesome pretty dress!!! I have two of those wicker baskets- one houses hats and the other, scarves!
x
"Here I am babbling away about my own troubles and I haven't asked about your husband's car crash".
"Oh he's dead Miss Babs".
Could you get any more gorgeous????? Holy feck you're a sight for my bleary morning eyes, now I'm ready to face the day with gay abandon!! Picnicking with Jeremy Scott on a beautiful sunny day with your absolutely GORGEOUS rose frock, knitted blanket, pooch and those amazing sunnies - you are scrumptious darling, positively DELISH!!!! xoxoxoxoo
I take it Sainsbury is some kind of crap store, never heard of them, but that dress is a treat. Thanks for showing us the pretty back.
Gorgeous <3
Thank you for providing a soundtrack to your post. It's perfect
You are so fecking fabularse! Isn't Sainsbury's a supermarket?! Good gawd, why can't I find dreamy frocks at my local supermarket?!
I frigging love that first pic, where there's all that radiating light...is it coming out of yer arse?! Bahaha!
Bunting and picnicing RULE!
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Super dreamy post....you look beautiful! Xx
I loved this post you look gorgeous love your dress and your photo's are just fabulous. Picnic basket, rug and bunting role on summer :-) dee xx
Love the dress - very summery!
Liz @ Shortbread & Ginger
Such pretty pics. I love the effects you've used. That dress is a beauty. It is hard to believe it came from Sainsburys! I love it that you love Jeremy Brett as much as me. Don't you just love the scene where Holmes and Watson crack up with maniacal laughter when Jabez Wilson has finished telling his tale of the Red Headed League! Priceless! :) xxxxxxxx
What a gorgeous vision you are in your floral frock picnicing in the vale!!! LOVE it!!!
I adore the Jeremy Brett Sherlock series!!
So, so, so sweet you look a dream in these pics and one particular with your face popping out through the buntig where you're looking at the camera is especially gorgeous.x
Hey Claire, you look gorgeous!!! the dress is adorable indeed and it fits you like a dream!
The casket basket - well, it does bring back memories... All the kids in my primary school brought their thermos with their lunch in one of those. I always wanted to have one... but as my grandparents lived 5 minutes away I always went home for lunch, so the dream of having a basket as well never came true. Now I want one again!
The photos are lovely as are you in the pretty rose covered dress!
You look so lovely, Clare, and your frock is super pretty and girly - it looks more vintagey than grocery! I love that the weather has been nice enough to have a picnic with a basket like that ... So romantic. :) xo
You look so absolutely lovely.
You look so summer ready!! Such a gorgeous frock. xx
I came here and was overcome by how beautiful these photos were, so now I'm back to comment properly.
So, yeah, I'm overwhelmed by how beautiful your photos are!! This is a dreamland. I see your moonbeams at white dawn, m'dear.
I would like to see the Holmes version you speak of - I have just been reading the series for the first time.
Aren't you lovely my dear!
I love the dreammy atmosphere you have created
Your dress is a delight dear Clare
Ariane xxx
Sweet Clare do not ever get rid of that dress, it is a dream on you!!!!! truly so so so very pretty........
Loveliness.
Love V
You mix styles in the best way! In this look, you are beautiful as a spring day.
just beautiful claire! you look like a rose yourself in this lovely dress having a picnic in the garden. i so would love to join you and your dog, well with one ore two bottles of french red wine maybe;)
wish you a wonderful week!
Love and Kiss,mary
I LOVE that dress. What a find! M x
Ooh look at you all picnicky and whimsical!!! Sarah xxx
Aw - I need to find a basket like that and go on a picnic! I love these photos - you are such the foxy pinup :-) Absolutely gorgeous dress!!
xo Marisa
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