The "Trip" on Instagram

I freakin LOVE instagram!  

These are a few of my travel snaps I uploaded while pounding the pavement...

< View of Millenuim Stadium from Cardiff Central
Train Station - London Here I come.

> Angela's Emperors Crown Tea - How Pretty!

< Monument Outside St Pauls Cathdral

> St Pauls Cathedral

 < Window for a random Candy store in London Regent St if I remember - I love lollies ;-)

> Street art down Brick Lane in East London.

 Vintage Shopping is INSANE in East London - Particularly Brick Lane

< Wall 'o' bags in East London Vintage Store

> High Tea at One Aldwych

< Perth Train
Station.

> AWESOME
shoe store in
Glasgow

 I love this picture - Street art in Glasgow

 < Highland Band Buskers in Glasgow!            Isak (the band) in "The Only Student Bar In Perth >

Above: New newy newness - could'nt resist taking a snap of my recent aquisitions.

Left: Window for this insane Bakery in St Andrews Scotland "Fisher & Donaldson"

Below Left: View of Edinburgh from 
Arthur's Seat

Below Right: The Awesom foliage (and booze) at "The Dome" in Edinburgh

 < The Stand Comedy Club - Laughed my ASS off - how awks ;-)

> The Stand - Stage, very intimate.

< Vegetarian Burger with Haggis spices - 
@ The Stand Comedy Club.

> Me and Ange's room in Edinburgh - The Purple Room @ Randolph Guest House.

< View from Inside Edinburgh Castle

> Dolly the Sheep - First Successful mammal clone @ National Museum of Scotland.

So did you enjoy the trip?

I'm going to be posting about this trip for the next month so I sincerely HOPE so ;-)

♥ Paula Shoe Fiend.

Bristol Street Art

So I was in Bristol the other weekend for the first official Bristol Jazz & Blues Festival.  My partner and I were there primarily to see Ginger Baker, an amazing jazz drummer and former member of the super group Creme (with Eric Clapton) on Friday night but it was going all day Saturday and Sunday as well.  While they had paid acts in Colsten Hall they had free acts performing in the Foyer so everyone could get their jazz on.

< < Band playing in the foyer
They had an awesome chick on the baritone sax

 While we were there we spent time wandering around Bristol, a city known for it's cosmopolitan population and amazing street art.  Banksy is a Bristolian!

Banksy - on Park st, just down from the Bristol Cathedral.

Ginger Baker's Jazz Confusion.

Drums: Ginger Baker

Percussion: Abas Dodoo.

Tenor Sax: Pee Wee Ellis

Double Bass and Electric bass: Alec Dankworth

These guys were EPIC.

 

Bristol Cathedral

City Hall

 The Llandoger Trow

Can you tell I'm obsessed with medieval building's?  This is Welsh (pronounced Shklandoger)

 An amazing public house steeped in history and reputed to be the inspiration behind Daniel Dafoe's Robinson Crusoe.  I had a burger and fries ;-)

Another Banksy - the suit pouring the paint.  One of my favourites.

Other things to do in Bristol are:

*Take a river cruise - they have regular boat tours.

*SHOP - The shopping in Bristol is pretty insane, one of their shopping centers:

Cabot Circus:  has all the usual suspects (and is HUGE - like 4 stories).

Then there's the St.  Nicholas Market - which has 3 vinyl stores!  And Park Street/Queens Row has high street mixed in with second hand stores and unique boutiques!

*Check out any of Bristol's many Maritime attractions - the SS Great Britain, the first giant ocean liner built entirely of iron (as opposed to wood) a true engineering marvel.

*Pub Crawl - Bristol is a mecca for the enthusiastic drinker ;-)

I got so carried away purchasing second hand vinyl in Bristol that I didn't buy ANY shoes, accessories or clothes!  That has got to be a first!  So sorry, there's no eye candy in this post - Stay tuned for some epic finds from my week in London and Scotland.

 Gratuitous picture of the Bristol sunset over the canals.

Bristol is also the home of the TV series Skins - nuff said.
 

New necklaces!!! *sort of

Do you have any necklaces lying around that you don't wear?

Are they an underwhelming color?

Not quite what you need?
♥♥  Never fear!!!!  ♥♥

Paula the-endless-font-of -creatspiration (not a word) is here to show you how to

TRANSFORM that necklace into a shiny new-ish masterpiece!!!

Ok so this post started off a little goofy, but CHECK THIS OUT!!!

Take one underwhelming necklace: New look

And some nailpolishes in the colors of your choice
 
< < The Inspiration via Jseverdayfashion        Apply generously to the beads you want to color > >

 And Voila!

 A totes exciting new Necklace for your collection!!

 I chose an ombre effect.  Starting with dark green and moving down to yellow!

 Now I just need a new dress to wear with it!

And she does it again...

                 Paint the beads white first.

 

 Then Red (to give a deeper pink) then Pink.

 Then I added a coat of glitter polish to add some sparkle and shine.

    

 And it's as easy as that!


 You can do it with any necklace!!  A few tips I could give you are: 
1. Do a coat of white first if the beads are a dark color.
2. Take your time and let the polish dry in between coats.
3. Use blu-tack to keep round beads still while you apply polish
4. Add a top coat of glitter polish for extra sparkle!

Some of my other projects:
 

 Formally a boring black beaded necklace - I was inspired by Dannijo's vibrant collections.

I did this one last year when Neon was first cropping up but wasn't available in many stores
Oh how times change...

What do you think of this... 
Will you be taking to any of your accessories with nailpolish?