Back from Paris...and Wales

Last weekend Robert whisked us off on a surprise romantic trip to Paris last, a lovely drive there - albeit getting slightly lost and on the way back we 'denied' a lift to a couple of backpackers, then made jokes about them all the way home, I still feeling a bit guilty now, sorry backpackers but romantic trips do not include hitchhikers.... We stayed at the Hotel Amour (http://www.hotelamourparis.fr/) just off 'Rue des Martyrs' - its lovely but NOT for children!. We did not do much really apart from walk miles, eat & drink and wonder around the very quiet (August) flea markets. I found some lovely things as usual, including a c1923 headdress from the Moulin Rouge, amazingly scull / helmet shaped and encrusted with paste stones....beautiful. Back in the new office now, bustling about with the to-do list and my new assistant Charlene Lim - Welcome aboard Charlene! Charlene is working on the new website - making look a hundred times better and sorting the showroom out too...xx We had a visit from Maggie today, she's looking for some 1950s & 1970s mens' suits for the TV show, 'Being Human'. Always a pleasure to see Maggie - she made a personal purchase while she was browsing our rails too - a 1940s crepe leaf print dress with lovely panelling down the bodice and very a flattering cut. The weekend just gone was spent in rainy Wales with a few family members, it was a rather awful trip, almost from hell, a van slid down the hill and crashed our tents (luckily no one was inside them) and then me and my mum had a 'spat' the next day. I said something horrible like "I am never coming camping with you again". It was a full moon though so I will blame it all on that....aside from the camp 'vibes', me, my brother and little Robert surfed at least twice a day and the waves were excellent. More soon! Love Samaya & Charlene xxx