{ Festival! }

For my birthday Warren got us some tickets to the Reading Festival to watch Florence and the Machine. And that's happening tomorrow kids. So tonight we are off to a little town outside of Reading - where Warra has booked us into a "boat-hotel" on a river (free bicycle hire and all!). We were at the Reading Festival last year and it was epic. This year, I decided to make Warr a little festival survival pack - which I will give to him when he gets home from work.  In the pack so far - 

Face wipes - because "even though we aren't camping, these somehow feel appropriate". 

Festivals. 

They are dusty and brilliantly-grimy. 

You should always be prepared. 

Yes. we neeed these. 

Obvs.

We also neeeeeeed festival bling. I probably neeeeeeeeed this more than Warren.
The more neon, the more better. (wow that sentence, am i already drunk?)
"for your new purchases" - Warren will buy "festy-glasses".
We know this about him, because of the sunglasses addiction.
Other essential festival survival pack items include - 
a stash of small packs of tissues. Mainly essential for girls. You will need these. Trust me.
Family-size packs of gum.
Snacks for on the train.
Also packed in my bag is:
leopard print
neon everything
gumboots/wellies/rainboots (the dust, the mud, the potential rain - you'll want dry feet at 2am)
and a bajillion rolls of film.

I decided to wrap them all up in magazine pages, because -

• its a festival
• bright and random is the way forward
• magazines are awesome
• i have no wrapping paper

I made a "Reading Fest" gift bag - which was so easy to make even your granny could do it. But more on that another time.

I sealed it with some of the awesome ribbon that was given to me by nametapes.co.za (which you can read about in this post)

We are leaving tonight on a one times train outta here. So very excited to see Florence, The Shins,  Miike Snow and Kasabian headlining and the rest of the line up here.