I'm all snuggly

I'm all ready for winter.

I've been doing a lot of shopping ever since work finished, and have been spending (a lot of) my well-earned money buying warm things for the unpredictable British weather and the incoming winter. This has included new boots (yay), new jumpers, and a pair of decent and long sought after legwarmers which I found in the funnest sock shop in Covent Garden (well... as fun as sock shops go).

I hate hate hate having to either pay the odds on the high street or wait for end of season sales, and most of my money seemed to be going to the same shops either way. The more I went out shopping the more freaked out I was at the high street clones that walk in and out of them. Today I went shopping with Mona to find things other than what your average high street junkie is buying.

I love love love Covent Garden. I've been there many times before, but never took the time to actually consider what they had to offer. It's very much for those who have a style which is slightly alternative, or if you just want a break from the monotony of the high street. Me and Mona had great fun hunting down vintage style dresses. We even tried our luck at designer vintage, The Loft (on Monmouth Street I believe) sells second hand designerwear, if you're lucky you'll grab a bargain, but me and Mona aren't into brands so much to be able to recognise them :P

The store we stayed in for AGES was Pop Boutique. It's a small shop, but somehow a lot of things ended up being considered in our hands, it didn't help that everything looked good with the jeans and boots I was wearing today -____-; We also took ages in the sock shop, Tabio. They had such a variety that it became very apparent the possibilities were endless. Their current 4 tights/leggings for the price of 3 didn't help much either.

At the end of the day we swept up in Urban Outfitters, which (much to my chagrin, and my wallet's) had summer things on sale.

When Mona drags me to Camden Market next week I'm leaving my debit card at home.

[edit] p.s. Even though Covent Garden isn't the cheapest place to buy everything, after looking at all the things I got, not one item I bought today exeeded £22 =) [/edit]