Festival season is still in full swing so I thought I'd do a little post about a couple that I've been to this summer.
First up was Secret Garden Party Festival back in July. I went technically as a trader offering weaving workshops making festival headbands and friendship bracelets. I shared the marquee with vintage traders Second Hand Rose and Minimum Mouse so had good fun watching people enjoying the fun costumes for sale.
It was a surprisingly massive festival with amazing treats for the eyes such as a giant straw fox, a sunken shipwreck - complete with attacking octopus, walkways of colourfully lit shrubbery and jellyfish paper lanterns. It was like being in a dream!
The food selection was amazing with almost too much choice but as it was quite a long festival we managed to squeeze in quite a few culinary treats.
Here are some general pics for you to peruse.
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| My little craft area. |
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| The King! |
The stall next to us sold nothing but tails so of course me and Clare decided to try some on for a laugh. They were actually really well made but definitely purely a festival accessory!
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| Disco in a shed! |
One of the highlights, as it happened to be a heatwave this weekend, was being able to swim in the lake to cool off. It also was a big help for those early morning hangover headaches!
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| Lissie performing. |
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| Celeb spotting! We spotted Proudlock and Francis Boulle from Made in Chelsea so had to take a sneaky pap shot! |
Another of the highlights was embracing my crafty side and booking in for a Moccasin making workshop. We got to choose our own leather or suede and then we set to work. The suede I picked was so super soft and it makes the perfect cosy house slippers!
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| Ta dah! |
We had some fun times and some not so fun times (being kept awake until 6am by thumping Yacht Club speakers!) but we had a good time and started festival season with a bang!
Next up we headed off as normal festival punters to Leopallooza in Bude in Cornwall. We went with Tom's brother Henry and his fiance Sarah and it was their first ever music festival.
The journey down was interesting as it was the first time we had travelled with 4 of us in our campervan Ratty. It was a surprisingly easy journey with a couple of stops for breakfast and ice creams before hitting Cornwall about lunch time. The sun was shining so that was a great start!
Here's our little camp for the weekend!
When we first arrived we set up camp and cracked open some cans. As the sun was shining we decided to chill out for a bit and have some fun people watching. This guy was our favourite in his skin tight leggings and no top! We saw him a couple of times over the weekend in different leggings but still topless!
Here's Tom and Henry fooling around on the cool surf board benches. A great idea for reusing old surf boards but they were completely wrecked by the end of the weekend.
Leopallooza is a super cute little festival, a stark contrast to Secret Garden Party, and is set in a beautiful forest setting. The best bit was that we'd paid a bit extra each to have VIP tickets which made much more of a difference than we thought. We had access to the backstage area which had it's own bar, sofa area, DJ tent, loos and showers (although these broke halfway through the weekend).
We saw some great bands and live music with an eclectic mix from hard rock to mellow acoustic.
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| Straight Lines |
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| Bebe Black |
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| Albert Jones |
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| Eliza and The Bear |
For such a small festival the food choices were great with a very unusual fresh fish stall selling mussels and various fish. Not your normal burger and chips! The crumpets from this lovely stall were delicious and very handy in soaking up all the cider!
We met some crazy people!....
So much fun was had by all and I'm looking forward to going again next year!
