things I like.

I like… taking photographs, collecting pictures, old movie stars, dressing up, going to the cinema, magazines, bookshops, spending all day in an art gallery, wandering around foreign cities, white clean sheets, finding out the photographer who took a photograph I’d had as unknown for years, faded colours, nostalgia, old fashioned things, reading, playlists, old Hollywood glamour, art history, fashion history, coffee table books, making moodboards & collages, writing, peter pan collars, fairylights & candles, French interiors, Paris, Sofia Coppola, vintage postcards of icons, reading old magazines, escapism…

Listening to random peoples conversations on public transport, long summer days, the English countryside in the summer, laughing so hard you can’t breathe, when you look at your friend & you both laugh for no reason at all for ages, empty main roads, cities at night, Lula magazine, getting a new book, the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s 80’s & 90’s… also the Tudors, historical fiction, dystopian fiction, wearing my boyfriends clothes, slowly remembering the night before, ringing friends after a night out & going over events & hysterically laughing, cuddling up to someone, fantasising about living in the 60’s & people playing with my hair & playing with my boyfriends hair.

Dreaming & when you can’t remember what was a dream or reality, firsts, lists, post-it notes, putting on lipstick, remembering songs you had forgotten about, listening to a song & instantly falling in love with it the first time, the feeling of butterflies in your stomach, floorboards & fluffy carpets, new book smell, sarcasm, waking up because the sun is shining & instantly being in a good mood, curling up with someone & a film on winter nights, going on holiday, being carefree, anticipating a text, people watching, street style, drunken nights with best friends, old memories, trying to hide a smile in public, velvet, lace, leather & black, long mermaid hair, lashes, eyeliner, 60’s style make-up, being alone in the house, dancing to music alone in the house, wearing just a big t-shirt/shirt & socks, bed, my boyfriends flat, movie nights, being inside while its raining & high heels (especially miu miu’s).

Procrastinating, summer nights, festivals, having a tidy room, seeing live music, day trips, Pre-Raphaelite art/women/hair, boys with tattoos, boys with facial hair, vinyl, high waisted lacy knickers, new underwear, stockings & suspenders, lingerie in general, train journeys, looking out of car/train windows, boys with strong arms & big shoulders, having ridiculous daydreams/fantasies as I walk around, ribbon in hair, lying on my bedroom floor, having everything in common with someone, holding hands with someone, feeling little, nose kisses, surrealism, pretty dresses, mary janes, ballet flats, loafers, a finished sketchbook, kissing the person you like, black & white nails, french braiding my hair at night, getting to know someone you really like, bony wrists like my mums & going to the ballet/theatre.

New pjamas, the satisfaction of having done lots of work, pale skin & red lips, hipbones, collarbones & back ribs, keepsakes, songs that bring back memories, pre-drinking before a night out, shameful getting ready music, Agent Provocateur underwear, being kissed on the neck/ears, getting tingles, bruises, being bitten, wearing all black, dressing up, ballet & costume design, boys that are a foot taller than me, breakfast food at all times of day, the thrill of anticipation, being in love, coffee shops, macaroons, cakes & pretty treats, scrapbooks, good comedy programmes that put me in hysterics, drunken taxi journeys, phone calls in bed before you go to sleep, scruffy looking boys in smart clothes, making playlists & re-decorating my bedroom.