A Super Sunday

On Sunday the Vintage Mafia celebrate the birthday of our fabulous thirties filly Gemma. We started the day at her AMAZING 1930s pad which was a tennis retreat and has retained its original features. You can see more about it on Gem's blog here. We arrived to a yummy spread of crumpets, tea, bubbly biccys and cakes, all served on the most beautiful art deco china.

Claire,  Lena,  Bethan and Naomi

Gemma was a domestic goddess and the food just kept appearing. Here she is creating cucumber sandwiches. Yum!

Then we gave her her pressies. Here she is enjoying her setting lotion. I think she may need a little help with the application ;-)

This may be my favourite photos from the day. After exploring the gorgeous corridors and running around like children in a hotel, we did some posing in the superb gated lift.

We then said goodbye to Lena and Claire and headed to meet Fleur at All Fired Up, a pottery painting cafe. I have to say, I got a C in my GSCE Art, and I'm not very good at painting. I tend to spend alot of time trying to be a perfectionist, when actually its kind of pointless because it will look like it took me 2 minutes. Here I am concentrating on my masterpiece

The finished piece! Well the underneath of it anyway. This is the Vintage Mafia version of Bro's Before Ho's. Every vintage girl should have this as her mantra.

Artist hard at work!

The pretty finished piece!

Forget the pottery, look at Bethan's Ballerina Swirl dress!!!

Quite rightfully, the artistic Birthday girl showed us all up with her beautifully painted Clarice Cliffesque bowl. She's a clever girl is our Gem! I have good news...I have got a new job! Yay for me! I won't be leaving my current workplace though, which is good because I am very fond of it indeed, but more money, which means....more frocks! Yesterday Girl made it (just) into the UK's Top 10 Vintage Fashion Blogs here. I'm not sure how it's calculated, through some sort of data collection that I don't understand, but either way I'm thrilled! Cheerio.x