A Santorini Wedding

Last week my dear friend Malin from back home in Sweden got married at the beautiful Island of Santorini in Greece. It was a real fairy tale wedding and we all cried our eyes out watching her getting married to her Jonas. 

The ceremony took place on a roof garden with a magnificent view overlooking the sea and the volcano island. 

 Afterwards we where taken to a remote beach where they had their reception at a taverna with hundreds of lit candles and a big traditional Greek buffet.

It was an absolutely amazing day! Here are some of the pictures I took on the wedding day.

Håkan the father of the bride walking his daughter to the alter.

 Malin ♥ Jonas making it official 

Me and Ben

My oldest friend Sofia and her Staffan

Sara and George who met 10 years ago when we worked a season in Zakhyntohs and their super cute little twins Alice and Adelia. ♥

The theme of the wedding was aqua so here we are in our matching outfits.

and with all the boyfriends..

                                                                 

Fellow Londoners Jennie and Constantine.

Fancy face ♥

Pretty ladies Sophia and Hanna.

 

Such a perfect day...

Footballers wives display

Here's some pictures from the most recent display I've done in Beyond Retro's Soho shop.

Welcome to the wonderful and tacky world of FOOTBALLER'S WIVES !

Celebrating trashy popular culture in a store near you..

Pictures..

On my way to work in Portobello Market

 Home ware display I worked on this week with the other VM's

 Flower child

Tiny Easter forest

 

Mum and Dads new puppy Cilla..

Home made cards

Last week I made a couple of birthday cards for my mum's and grandmothers birthday. It's always a bit sad when it's someone's birthday and you're far away that you can't be there to celebrate with them. 

So instead I try to make personalised cards instead of  buying them to put that little bit of extra effort in to show my family that I love and miss them..

 I covered my grandma's card in a bird print fabric and used a ribbon to hide the edges, and  then painted a small tree branch white and sewed it on. 

And for my mums card I used orange and eggshell paper and glued on a left over piece of  this 1970's printed wallpaper which I had left over from the doll house that I'm doing up, and then glued on  two Victorian scraps. 

I hope my home made little cards will find there way home to Sweden and my loved ones..

Last week in pictures

Here's some instagram pictures from the past week...

Hard at work merching in Dalston with Kristofj Von Strass and Casey.

  King and Queen of berets..

Beautiful antique patterned moving image plates.

 Victorian doll house inspiration at the museum of childhood in Bethnal Green

The not so well known but well worth a visit Cinema museum in Elephant and Castle.

Anniversary spinach/feta pie. I ♥ B

Great 1970's hand painted chest of drawers. Love, Want, Need..

That's all from the world of instagram for today xxx

Ophelia

Here's some photo's from the current Beyond Retro in store theme "Ophelia", inspired by the pre Raphaelite painting Ophelia by John Everett Millais.   

I really enjoyed dressing the mannequins for this theme. For the Red head mannequin I also drew inspiration from the traditional Swedish Hammerdal folk costume that my mum wore for her wedding. I wish I had a photo to show you, I will look for their wedding photo next time I'm home to show you what it looks like.

Over all when I was creating these look a big source of inspiration was my friend Kelly-Marie aka A Harem of Peacocks amazing sense of style who was the VM in Soho before me. She's moved to Bournemouth and I really miss her, but I keep track of her and what she's up to on her blog which is a wonderful vintage affair.
She's a real life Ophelia ♥

"Ophelia"  picture by Tate,  all other photo's by me.