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July 7, 2018June 30, 2018 iolantheviolet

Glossing over it

June 9, 2018May 29, 2018 iolantheviolet

Lavender blue dilly dilly

May 7, 2018 iolantheviolet

Current Rouge

April 18, 2018April 14, 2018 iolantheviolet

Mid-Year (ish) Empties

January 20, 2018January 16, 2018 iolantheviolet

Constance Craving…

December 30, 2017January 8, 2018 iolantheviolet

Fairy sparkles

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Sailing off into the weekend. Well, less sailing more gently chugging. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Happy Friday! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #canal #boats #canalpath #water #uk
I’m struggling a bit with this book. I am a devoted #thursdaynext fan but I do seem to find #jasperfforde ‘s other adult books trickier to get into. And I don’t know why. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The writing is still excellent. His turn of phrase and syntax still clearly Ffordian and he world builds in a way that works for me. But it’s just not Thursday Next and maybe that’s the problem. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I’m not hating it, but I’m not running to pick it up.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I miss Thursday Next stories. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Are you not hating but not totally loving anything at the moment? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #books #read #reading #literature #bookstagram #fiction #paperback #flatlay
It was a recommendation from @dahlia_shines that got me to buying this Botany palette from @glisten_cosmetics and I’m really glad I did. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The greens (especially that one at the top right) are lovely and just the right side of cool for me. And that green just below it is the same colour as my plant Spinderella (she sits behind me when I film). ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The only thing it’s missing is a really beautiful deep green like an aspidistra leaf. 🍃 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #green #botanypalette #glistencosmetics #indiecosmetics #flatlay #palette #makeup #cosmetics #beauty #mint #eyeshadow #uk #vert
This is the back end / reverse / rear end of the Adam’s building which belongs to the college building the thing with the pointy crane from last week. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Before it was part of a college it was a lace factory / warehouse. Designed by #ThomasChambersHine for Quaker industrialist Thomas Adams (clearly that was *the* name in the 1800s). It’s grade 2 listed and is beautiful. As a #tchine fan I think there are more particularly lovely examples of his work around the city, but this is probably one of the best known. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Also like many Quaker entrepreneurs of the 19th century (were Quakers doing anything else than opening chocolate, oat and lace empires?!) Adams looked after his staff more than the average employer. The building had a chapel, canteen and washrooms. Which we absolutely take for granted as things we’d find in any modern workplace (maybe not the chapel) but were regarded as some kind of socialist nonsense by many an industrialist, and frankly the law. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #nottingham #building #history #adamsbuilding #nottinghamcollege #19thcentury

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