Our Visit to Portmeirion - part 1.

If one post from me today just isn't filling your Porcelain Agaric appetite then pop over to By The Lock where the lovely Chloe has posted my vegan Peanut Butter Sundae Hair Mask recipe. Her blog is an ecclectic mix of crafting, cooking and wonderfulness in which you will find plenty to make your eyes happy.

Back to our camping adventures, it turned out that our campsite was right opposite the estuary to Portmeirion. This amazingly, strange place was designed and built by Clough Williams-Ellis in 1925-1975. He bought the site in 1925 for around £5000 and based it on a typical Italian city. I loved visiting here so close to finishing Elijah's Mermaid because some of that was based in Italy so it really immersed me in the feeling of it all.

 

This place is just so strange to walk around, its all so contrary in a way, very beautiful and quirky though. If you are in North Wales it is definitely worth a look around, you can easily while away most of a day there immersed in all the candy colours and fresco-esque buildings. We even caught up with my aunty and uncle there and spent a lovely few hours wondering around and drinking tea. I took a lot of photos here so I will be sharing more of these when I need a camping fix in the week. 

Hope you have had a fantastic bank holiday Monday <3 

Much Love

xkx   

Washing Away a Grey, Chilly Monday.

It has been a cold, icy, grey Monday. Ed and I had to do grown up things like house work and drying the washing, then we had awful service at a local cafe whilst we were waiting for the washing to dry. So when I got in and had made the tea I decided that a pink bubble bath was necessary to put some colour back into the start of the week. Lucky enough I had a couple of bubble bars hiding in the bathroom, Ed bought me these from Lush a while ago and I had squirrelled them away for when I needed them most. 

The top bubble bar is Creamy Candy and the one below is is called The Comforter. I just couldn't decide which to use for my bubble bath, so I broke them both in half and mixed them up.  

What a wicked, decadent way to revive a week that had lethargically smothered the weekend. I am soaked, scrubbed and ready to race towards the bank holiday weekend! 

Hope your Monday has been pink and bubbly too.

xkx