Today it has rained non stop and this weekend I'm hiking for 12 hours, lovely.
So anyway out of laziness I'm not going to take any outfit pictures, so I'm just going to tell you about my volunteer job. Basically I had to volunteer for an hour a week somewhere for my D of E and out of the 7 other charity shops in my town, I chose Banardos. Which happened be a brilliant choice because about a month after I started a new manager took over. What she then did was turn the upstairs (used to be mens) into a vintage shop. It is such a gorgeous place full of; bunting across the ceiling; an old wardrobe full of beautiful clothes; postcards stuck to the walls and about a million gorgeous scarfs. What makes it even more wonderful though is that it has all been donated, it is proof that you can find all this in a normal charity shop.
So far with my staff discount I have bought a sleeveless cardi and a book. The book was £2 and at the front of the book there is an adorable letter wishing someone Merry Christmas from 1935. I decided to cut a hole in it to hide my friends birthday present. Think about it afterwards I searched it on the internet only to find it was on ebay for £30, am I stupid or what? Take my advice and don't cut a first edition book from 1935. X

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One last picture to show you of my visit to the country side; this was on the last day, we went on a little walk to some stepping stones and had the most amazing ice creams. I have to admit really liking this photo, the way the dress blows and the square mountain in the background. It was taken by my grandad and in the background you can just see my brothers, trailing behind as usual.

Now onto the hat, I don't think you've seen it before but I have, along with my boater, been wearing it all holiday. I found it deep in the topshop sale for only £10 which for topshop, is good. The only problem is it says on the label 'Not for wet weather conditions' some advice here, should I risk it?  I live in England, it always rains! I also wore it when I volunteered at Bananados all Wednesday and a couple of people complemented me on it. One lady said ' that hat looks good on you, your just the right age to pull it off', another one said 'All dressed up are we?' and a few people said something around I like the hat. It all makes my day, I love volunteering there because of this ability to talk and meet all these wonderful people, even getting mistaken as their hairdressers daughter, which doesn't happen everyday. XX

Wearing: Hat & dress- Topshop, Jacket & bag- vintage, Shoes- Office, Necklace- DIY.

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Bonjour, just been writing my French speaking assessment and now I keep having the urge to writing in French. And well I really don’t think it’s that healthy. So anyway I’ve just got home from volunteering at a charity shop and I’m trés happy as I have found out I get staff discount. I bought a kind of hideous skirt and am going to make it into a gorgeous dress. I will post pictures of it when it’s done. Also I was wandering around tesco, as you do and found a pair of trousers (not sure what there called) but they only had 3 sizes too big. So I am completely demolishing them then I will sew them back up smaller and take some pictures for you all to see. Au revoir X

Photographer- Chloe