I love this white, romantic skirt from Lakeland. It was bought in the beautiful Lake District of England, whilst holidaying there in 2007, by my dear Mum (and the green top was a Christmas present from my Mum – from New Look in the UK). Looking back on these Wardrobe Wednesday posts my Mum is a great contributor to my wardrobe!
Photo taken by Sophie, age 4, of me sitting down – a rare sight indeed (I sat long enough for her to take a photograph and then made a dash to pick up Alice, who had just toppled over from standing):
When I put on this skirt I feel like running barefoot across meadows of endless pasture (well perhaps skipping a few merry yards to a picnic rug laden with summer fruits is a more tantalizing day-dream).
I tried to create this dream in my photographs today – but in my dream there isn’t a cat ready to pounce on my skirt the moment I lie down…
Or a baby trying to crawl up a slide…
In my dream I am alone with my thoughts, food, a sketch book and pencil, a good book… My peace is momentarily disturbed by the welcome presence of my husband, who comes laden with a posy of freshly picked, wild flowers. We lie together watching the leaves on an old oak tree rustle in the warm summer breeze.
But after a while we hear laughter and the innocent play of children. In reality we grow quickly bored of our idle interlude and delight in playing with our children. Because however nice it is to have some time to ourselves, it is such a rare event that it would probably take a while to get used to (though it would be awfully nice for just an hour or two… sigh).
Go check out some other Wardrobe Wednesday bloggers at Clare’s blog, ‘Green Valley Crafts‘.
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Lovely post, Sarah 🙂
That skirt is beautiful on you – very summery & dreamy. Perfect.
Cute skirt! I agree, I dream of a brief interlude of alone time too!
Lovely, Summery outfit. And yes, I’m in the dreaming club too. A few moments of complete peace, with no housework/sewing etc calling my name, would be heavenly.
Lovely dream. 🙂
What a gorgeous post!! Your outfit, your mum, your dream, your children…. maybe not your cat?! 😛
bless your mum
like the skirt and the top
Thanks for stopping by my blog! You’ve got a lovely happy blog too! I think we’ll definitely be trying the bucket of water and brushes activity sometime soon. It should be fun over the chalk, which is still going strong with all the sun. Thanks!
Your white skirt looks just like one I was wearing in one of my past Wardrobe Wednesday posts..and that vision of running barefoot through a meadow as it gently floats around you…I’m there baby! I have that vision everytime I wear mine too!
Love the outfit… and the cat! 🙂
You look like a Goddess!
Namaste, Nicole
Just such a lovely post…the pictures say it all and we enjoy every moment looking at them…roll on Summer we say but then again we have a few months and more for that now!!….however the leaves of Autumn are beautiful and we have bagged many up now as we approach Winter here..the seasons are good in many ways and all beautiful in their own glory.