Oh you pretty things

Apologies for keeping the updates to a pretty pathetic all time low lately.  Work is busy.  Life is busy. 

Sleep is busy.  No really, it is - I had this crazy dream last night. 

I was visiting Australia (details are rather sketchy as I'm writing this at least six hours after I awoke from my slumber) and I had only one bag, M's laptop bag, which was apparently my luggage.  Aside from all the awful impracticalities of trying to pack all your clothes into the space of a laptop bag, it had gone missing.

In every single room I looked for it, it wasn't there.  It was a pretty awful dream actually.  You know when you've put something down lost something and you're absolutely convinced it's in that one place - then you can't find it?  Imagine that for a good solid dream session and that's where I appeared to be last night.   

In the end I convinced my sleeping self that someone must have stolen it and I would be reporting it to the police as soon as I'd woken myself up.  Thankfully once awake I realised it was allllll just a horrible dream.  Phew. 

This week's lovely jewellery post feature type thing (see this post for clarification) is brought to you by the letter P.  P for presents. 

I'm trying not to indulge in any more jewellery whilst I have such a vast and wonderful collection of things at home - but when someone gives you a belated birthday present, well, I class that as having something new by no choice of your own; double hoorah for the person who can never have enough jewellery.

So, a few weekends ago, my very beautiful friend Hels gave me an amazing Russian doll locket for my birthday.  It's from MISI - which I've never heard of but it seems to be like Folksy and Etsy.  It's made from recycled parts and I'm totally in love with it.

  This is the front, isn't it pretty?

  Enough space for some pictures or dried flowers

(please say I wasn't the only mad keen dried flower maker)

or a ticket meaning something, anything really.

Lovely lovely lovely.  Thoughful presents are the best. 

Speaking of jewellery, I keep seeing things popping up about the Royal Wedding and I must admit, I'm a little excited by it.  I can't say why, presumably it's just that I like a happy ending - it can't be the day off, I don't flippin get one! 

I'm not overly impressed with the merch that's been released so far.  I saw the Royal Worchester beaker in Debenhams last week and thought it was just ugh, and blimin expensive for a mug, despite the gold thing.  I really don't like that picture of them - it looks like Wills is doing that 'i've got something stuck in my back tooth and I'm going to pick it out with my tongue' face.  Very odd.  

However, and getting to the original point of this paragraph, I adore the new Royal Wedding inspired pieces from Hoolala. 

 This red letterbox necklace is super cute. 

I could actually see myself wearing this Golden Carriage.

I wish she was going to the church in this. 

Like a proper princess.

So, in conclusion - there is a piece of Royal Wedding memorabilia for everyone.  And this whole thing isn't just a gimmick to get everyone to part with their hard earned cash.  Maybe.