It's too early in winter to start saying I miss summer isn't it?
Ah well, timing was never my strong point. I want to do a shop update but I've been struck down by that stupid virus everyone's going on about, so it might be a few days yet. I want to do a lot of things...
In the meantime here's a new London winter post up on HiP Paris by me and two good films I watched this week (one very summery; one very wintery) while being a sickly person at home:
No correlation between the two except FRANCE: Everyone's shagging everyone, basically, right?
{Am considering doing a Films For People Who Can't Be Bothered to Watch Them review of La Collectionneuse in the same vein as the Claire's Knee one. But you should. Watch it I mean - it's good.}
Back in March, I took the first photo below on my Canon AE-1 during my last lunch in Venice at L'Arco. Then probably somewhere between Marco Polo and Gatwick this happened. Eventually I got the camera fixed and set to using up the film here and there over the past month or so. I wasn't sure if the film was ok, and couldn't remember what type was in there. By the time I came to develop the film I couldn't imagine what was on it, apart from the last shot of my neighbour's poppies that I took the other day. The poppies are over now, but for a little while at least, the spot at the end of our gardens was an enchanted poppy forest.
The below pictures have no particular theme, except welcome back AE-1, my old friend...
I've been having some slight technical issues with my Canon A-E1 recently...
The winding on arm has disappeared. Where it is, I couldn't tell you: at the bottom of the grand canal, on a plane, buried in the sand on a Dorset beach? Wherever it's jet setting, it's gone. So I bought a back-up Canon AE-1 body for cheaps on ebay to strip for parts and... you know how the winder on arm is not SUPPOSED to come off? I can't get it off the camera. I do not have the correct implement.
Until I can find someone who does, a random assortment of inferior picture taking devices will have to suffice. But as a wise woman once said to me, a picture is a picture.
An entire roll of Portra 160 I took in Venice and Trieste has a thin red line through every picture - oh well! (Top tip: Portra 160 + Venice = perfect.) I'm going to take it back to the lab since I don't see the line on the negatives and it's not a light leak - hopefully it's something that happened during processing and can be re-done. So annoying because I really want to show you those photos...
The upside is that I realised none of the photos worked if I cropped them and cropped the line out - so my composition skills must not be too bad!
{Hydrangeas in Trieste after a Monday rain shower. (I retouched out the line on this one, but life is too short to do that 36 times.}
On the first morning of Capsule in Paris last October, after moonlighting as Nina of Family Affairs' slightly cackhanded steaming expert and early morning coffee companion at her stand, I made a beeline for Colenimo's.
I'd already had the honour of being Colenimo's first ever webshop customer, when I bought my lovely Amelia jumper, but I wanted to get a good look at spring/summer 12, which I loved. I didn't know until just now that it's inspired by Paper Moon, one of my favourite films of the 1970s. Set during the Great Depression, directed by Peter Bogdanovich and starring real life father and daughter Ryan and Tatum O'Neal who are both amazing in it.
Love that scene. They were so good together. And then later in life... not so much.
Colenimo very sweetly let me choose one of their polaroids of the lookbook - I took the one nearest to the centre bottom in the photo above, with the sun.
A couple more pictures I took of the collection at their stand. As always, liking the detachable collars.
And a couple of pictures from the lookbook, which you can see in its entirety here - I've got a feeling the Colenimo webshop is going to be getting a hasty order from me for the faded indigo shirt (above left) for starters.
{Clip from Paper Moon, first 3 photos by me, lookbook photos by Jenny & Lee}
New year's tasks: writing everyone's birthdays in the new moleskine (I always have this red one) wearing my Family Affairs Good Spirit dress just seen on the right and repairing clothes - mostly sewing on buttons etc but I finally sewed elbow patches on my old fave APC cashmere jumper that my pointy elbows had escaped from after five years of almost daily wear.
Items: I was given some money for Christmas, which my bank account swallowed whole for some horrifying/semi-bankrupting expenses - but I've managed to choose some lovely necessities as well. Rose Day Cream Light is so good for my red, sensitive skin - it makes it all velvety and calm - so much so that I feel like I can go out without make up, which I hate wearing. When you have a problem with redness, make up almost makes it look worse, or like what you're attempting to cover up is worse than it is. And Anabela's Dreamcats Calendar - I can't wait for these daft adorable kitties to help me remember what day it is every day...
Gold arrow bracelet: this is my little Christmas gift to myself - for protection, to remind me to go forward, stay moving in the right direction - and because I like arrows.
The January daylight situation. This is how light my bedroom is for a few hours a day before it gets dark again. We shall overcome.
