Mum on the Run

My friend is travelling the world with her boyfriend (lucky them!) and I spotted this picture on their Facebook wall the other day. It’s of the Killing Fields in Cambodia. I think the picture looks quite beautiful, actually. The history of the place, however, is anything but!

I think it’s shocking that what happened, wasn’t even that long ago. For anyone who doesn’t know, the Khmer Rouge regime executed over a million people, including children between 1975 and 1979. Mass graves containing almost 9000 bodies were discovered in 1980 after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime .

You can read in more detail about the  horrendousness here.

I fell in love with the Elkin bracelets when I first saw them, and knew I had to stock them at POP The Fashion Store.

They’ve been super popular and look great stacked up with each other or other bracelets. And the great news is that as I’m making space for new jewellery, the whole Elkin range as well as the Kamilla Berg bracelets are now a massive 50% off!

Offer ends tomorrow, midnight so shop before then, especially as there aren’t many left at all. Just enter code: skulls at checkout on the site or pop into the store to say hi to me before 5pm today!

Spotted this on my friend’s Facebook page. Him and his girlfriend are travelling in the States and I think he took this somewhere in New York.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

This is me in our lovely local pub, The Bull, posing with a bottle of skull vodka. As you do… I should probably point out that I didn’t drink any of it though, and was extremely well behaved – for once!

Happy Saturday everyone. Once I get home from the shop, I’m planning on getting under a blanket on the sofa and watching the X Factor as James Arthur is still in.

I came across this in the news yesterday…

“Bolivian Cult celebrates ”Day of the skulls”

A Bolivian cult that reveres the human skulls of close relatives has held a ceremony to close out a religious festival in honour of the dead. Followers believe the skulls have miraculous powers and carried about 300 of them to a chapel in capital city La Paz’s general cemetery.

Members of the cult keep skulls of family members in their homes and decorate them in advance of the annual Dia de los natitas – ‘Day of the Skulls’ – ceremony. They have the craniums blessed at the cemetery chapel, which they believe brings them good luck in the future – from finding a job to helping their favourite football team win. The believers also pay homage to their skulls by offering them music, prayer, food and cigarettes.

Skulls were often conserved as trophies during pre-Hispanic times and used in rituals to symbolise life and death.”