Autumn Butterfly

I've been a bit of a poorly bunny lately and you can probably tell my eyes are looking very sleepy here! My voice was nearly non-existent for a few days but I'm doing better now. Yesterday my parents took me to Shugborough, a local National Trust property which has appeared in blog posts a few times. These photos are at the Doric Temple in the grounds, but my favourite bit is the farm!
I love visiting the animals, especially the guinea pigs! It was even cuter than usual because three have recently given birth! I saw one lot of three babies about two weeks ago along with two very pregnant piggies. Now there are 11 cute babies in total! The second lot of three came a few days ago and the rest had only been born the night before. The oldest three were tempted out along with the mummy pigs by grass and the rest stayed inside in a huddle of cute. Here are couple of pics from my compact camera to squee over:


Back to my outfit: I was tipped off to the presence of some rather lovely floral garlands in my local Topshop sale and I love the butterflies on this one! I've been finding myself drawn to orange more lately, which is good because there was a lot of it on the catwalks at London Fashion Week!
I thought it would look lovely with the colours in my new Motel Rocks skirt. Then I decided to try out my oversized lace Topshop shirt tucked in, normally I leave it loose or belt it. I put a green Topshop vest underneath to bring out the colour of the leaves as well as a green leopard print H&M scarf. My tights are also H&M and my shoes are River Island. Then there's my beloved Vivienne Westwood heart bag.
I won my sweet little Battenburg cake earrings in I Love Crafty's blog giveaway last week, the little bow is so pretty!

The sun has got his hat on

Aren't these flowers lovely?

The start of the summer

So Shugborough Esate, my parents favourite haunt while I'm at work on a Saturday and the place which handily provided the inspiration for my last fashion project, recently opened for the season and I was excited to get to see the new guinea pigs today!

Now these two look like they come from the same family as last years and if I am not very much mistaken I can see a baby bulge which means more little cuties are on the way. There was another pair, one with the same three colours and one agute, but though I caught a fleeting glimpse of them upon arrival at the farm they were very shy so I didn't manage to photograph them.

There were also some cute bunnies around:

This one seemed to be alternating boxing with the air with grooming its paws:

This little lamb is called Sean and was a very friendly chap.

These chickens seemed to be burrowing... which seemed a little odd to me but if someone knows what they were doing I'd love to know.

And the daffodils are coming out:

There are some really pretty spots in the garden.

In need of a happy post:

I'm currently having a major stress, time for another happy post!
Lovely Prada shoes help to make it better:
And a lovely Hello Kitty: A surprise present from my parents one Christmas. Yes, I like the word 'lovely'. :)
Tomorrow it's my dad's birthday! =D Time to ice the cake after I've posted this. (shh) ;) And tomorrow we will be going out for lunch and then to Shugborough, a local National Trust property my parents like going to (a lot). I quite like it to, it has pretty gardens, guinea pigs to visit and nice chairs in the house.

There are lots of cute bunnies at the farm. Aren't they cute!

The last of the season

At Shugborough Estate.

An animal photographer's life is not easy..

I took the above photos of butterflies today at Shugborough estate. They were not overly co-operative. =)

But they were very well behaved compared to the dragonfly(s) below. There were at least two, but they would just not keep still! Not once did I see one pause or land. So it was lots of fun trying to get these pictures!