Vintage Girl Running

After 10 years, why am I putting myself through the grow out pain? I've had my hair short for almost 10 years... It's seems crazy to think that it's been that long, but even in the couple of years before I went super short, my hair got progressively shorter. And now I plan to do that in reverse. If you watch as many grow out videos as I have (and trust me I've watched them all) you get pretty familiar with other people's horror stories... "Grow out your pixie cut is a horrible process" is the general consensus. But these people cut their hair and for the most part hated it. I, on the other hand, have loved my short hair - I've grown up with it and grown into it. For so long it’s been a symbol of who I am. I’ve said before that I don’t get much choice on whether I stand out and for a while I wasn’t entirely okay with that. Put simply, I am now. I have accepted that and embraced it. So why do it now? Why grow out my hair? I have two....

Welcome back to Vintage Girl Running and another year on Planet Earth! To say it's been a while is a bit of an under statement...  About six months, but who's counting. I've been back at work for about two weeks and I'm find my way back into it after not even two weeks off at Christmas. Christmas, what's that again? We'll have to wait another 11 months to find out. A lot can change in those 11 months and in 2019 I'm going to try and make them changes for the better.  I feel like I floundered a bit in 2018 ; somethings got good, like really good and others less so. Is happiness or enjoyment of life one of those spider web diagrams where you can only have an average value of happiness, but the parameters that make you happy can range wildly in values? Some are top notch and others are less than mediocre. But in the end they average out to a middling, happy-ish value. I moved for work last year and have kind of been using it as an excu...

This month's eBay antics and charity shop trawling. I started this blog with the intention of writing about both running and all things vintage, but as my fiancé (it’s still weird calling him that…) pointed out at the weekend, I’ve done very little running in the last few weeks. Things have been crazy and I’ve been kind of lazy.  Oh, hey there :) I’ve spent a lot of time watching YouTube;  in particular Rachel Maksy .  I came across her channel, The Pinup Companion while searching for vintage inspiration and now I am hooked! I think I may have watched ALL of her videos. She has such an eclectic and engaging mix of videos on making vintage accessible and how to thrift and charity shop your way to a vintage inspired wardrobe among other things.  This post is really about how I have implemented some of this and how the purchases I have made recently fit into my collection.  I’ve bought things from eBay, charity shops, Primark and a charity shop speci...

I'm going to take a slight detour away from vintage and running kind of this week and share with you the most exciting news because its all I can think about right now. But we can work some running into the story and possibly even some vintage inspired bling...So I know I am relatively new to this whole thing, but for any of you out there who actually know me or my partner, will have seen our social media explode with well wishers over the weekend. All because he asked me a simple little question. My hand has never looked so elegant But let's rewind for a wee minute. We met 10 months ago to the day... (I'm writing this on Tuesday and this will go up on Wednesday). On Tinder of all places, but what a whirlwind it has been since then. I moved away for work a couple of months after we met, but we have muddle through the distance, going from strength to strength. And I have done so many things in that time I never thought possible, all because of him. Well because of...

Hello. Welcome. Bienventue. I've been thinking about starting a blog for a wee while now. A creative outlet in my otherwise very scientific and routine lifestyle. As a kid, I used to love writing in my diary and this gives me that new diary feeling. Although hopefully with less angst and definitely less boy drama. I'm hoping to combine my two favourite things in life: vintage fashion and running! An odd combination, but we'll make it work. Much like my style, we make it work. You tend to raise eyebrows when you turn up for work at a power station dressed like a 50s housewife. Such is the life of this engineer.  I can't get enough yellow at the moment I've recently been seconded away for work and my partner has taken up axe throwing in my absence. Odd, but he keeps winning me T-shirts so I can't complain. But it's off the back of this that I have been inspired by him. When we met, he lived and breathed running and the gym, but since then he has...