the end of the week

This weekend will be full of visiting markets, a bit of shopping, endless reading, and some jobs for me! I almost feel as if I'm packing a week's worth of things into two tiny days! I've been awfully busy this week with castings, but it paid off by working today and also three days straight starting Sunday. I'll end up being a bride each three days, which is always fun for a girl!

What will everyone else be up to this weekend? Trying anything new? Back in my hometown, the annual Biscuit Festival will be taking place on Saturday. Quirky little festivals like that always make me smile!

If you're in a blogging mood, check out the link loves of the week below!

1. A tumblr completely about models on their phones.

2. A spectacular video of Hong Kong.

3. Holly Golightly's Apartment (Breakfast At Tiffany's) Teaches Us 9 Important Lessons.

4. Terry Richardson for Valentino.

5. New On My Wishlist: Whatever You Think, Think The Opposite - By: Paul Arden.

6. The perfect summer NARS shade.

7. An End to Gendered Book Covers.

8. Mocha Coconut Fudge Recipe.

9. A story of the real-life Mowgli - Link One & Link Two.

Also, please take a moment to pray for a dear friends mom, Cynthia, who was recently diagnosed with Stage 4 Rectal Cancer.

vintage brides

"You'll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and 

new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. 

You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things."

-Jamie Tworkowski

Apparently, Georgia and I seem to have a few similar features - enough so that if we go to some castings together we're asked if we're sisters a time or two! It's usually pretty fun with us, since we only met two short months ago - and luckily clicked on the first day we met.

Today, we did our second shoot ever together! We had to take a train down about an hour South of London to Surrey, where we were dressed up all days as vintage brides. We did everything from the 40's to 70's and also threw in a few 'themed' dresses, such as Grecian.

I'm starting to think the Universe is sending a few signals my way, because I shot as a bride today and will also be a bride three days next week as well! Total joke though - there's no wedding anywhere in my near future.

image: two pairs of shoes worn out on the train (geo and mine); georgia's hair piece; some beautiful peonies; one hair piece of mine; georgia and I together; an absolutely lovely rose bouquet.

polly mann s/s 2013

"The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before."

-Albert Einstein

Last Sunday morning I took the train to Brighton for the day to shoot the look book for Polly Mann S/S 2013. Her collection was a series of images showcasing three different looks of dresses with their matching personalities.

For my 'personality' there was a paragraph description as follows:

"She is a carefree spirit. She can dance freely and be herself, she is relaxed and spiritual which draws men to her. She appears angelic, fun, and playful. She is intelligent and knows how to draw men in , although appears ignorant to this. She has a hippie, 'free-love' attitude."

So in essence, everything I am on a daily basis right? Hehe, right.

The shoot itself was incredible, mostly thanks to an amazing designer and team! And I'm wishing all the best for Polly and her designs in the seasons to come!

image(s): final images shot by Kevin Mason for Polly Man S/S 2013

mother's day

"A beautiful woman is a beautiful woman, but a 

beautiful woman with a brain is an absolutely lethal combination."

-Prabal Gurung

Mothers are always the proudest of you as you’re growing up and experiencing the ups and downs in life. They each have the same, too big grin on when you’re walking across the stage accepting your college diploma as they do when you rush in to the house in your early toddler years showing off the first full, bright spring flower that had just popped up into the garden – complete with the roots and dirt along with it.

Mothers teach you everything as you’re growing up and becoming the person you are – what true, simple joy is, what to do when you’re passing through those truly awful teenage years, and what it means to love yourself and your life above anything else. She knew how to deal with your first broken heart – and the second, and third – knew how to roast a chicken, and taught you to understand that you will mess up in life, but pushing through that is what makes life what it is.

Moms always have a few tidbits of advice to pass along, mine always taught me:

• How to give and love with selfless generosity.
• There's absolutely nothing wrong with a 'do-nothing' day.
• To believe in grace.
• That I'm never alone, even if I'm thousands and thousands of miles away from my family.
• To do what makes me happy, even if no one else around understands.
• That it's okay to get (insanely) angry, but in the end the best thing to do is forgive and forget.
• After a long, hard day the perfect antidote is a spoonful of peanut butter, your best girl, and a chick-flick or two.
• To never worry or doubt, but always trust Him who leads me in my path through life.

My mom has pushed me to become more than I ever dreamed I might be in life. She fought for me on days when I could hardly lift my head, and cheered for me on days when I felt I was on top of the world. Far above anyone else in life, I have her to thank for supporting me in every adventure I've tried to accomplish. She has quite literally given me life, and given me the world. Without her, I’m not sure where’d I be, but because of her I know who I am, where I’m going, and that I have massively huge shoes to fill when I one day become a mother as well.

Happy Mother’s Day Mommy – I hope your day is full of endless blessings and love.

I love you to the moon and back.

weekly links and fierce new hair

I've hardly been around at all this week! Which is terrible, and I apologize a hundred times over to everyone - I've simply been overly busy with school, castings, work, and exploring. Plus, I did an insane thing today and had my hair bleached. Oh yeah, my entire head. Bleached. Which you can see below -

Takes? Anyone? Well, I'm madly in love with it. I'm amazed I've never thought to do it before - you shall never see brown hair on me again. I don't care if Prince Harry himself tells me how in love with me he is, but only with brown hair. I'll say, 'Oops, sorry. My hair trumps love.'

Maybe.

I'm leaving for Paris in two weeks and now I believe I have the right amount of edge to push myself more into the market. Hopefully it all plays into my favor!

If you're bored with my endless hair adoration, but in the mood to read a bit more then here are my usual Link Loves for this lovely Friday...

1. Photographs of McDonalds customers - so in love with this.

2. A perfect summer dress from River Island.

3. Sun Dried Tomato, Basil, & Brie Spread.

4. Eight Lessons Learned From Our Mothers.

5. Make It Count - YouTube Video.

6. Drusy Drop Ring in Rosegold.

7. Models Off-Duty.

8. Which Religion Cares Most About The Homeless?

9. Needle Head Crafts (via Etsy) - The cutest shoes that my daughter will own.