Vintage at Goodwood

Take a look at this lovely festival I am working for....Im doing promo for them! Can't wait to go! Looks amazing here's the link and here's a poster! Go check it out! and if you happen to go, do come and say hello! x

10 things about yourself ....

I got asked to do this by another blogger! :-) so here goes!

1) I am 29 next birthday and this freaks me out nearer to the BIG 3, 0.
2) I have had blonde hair almost forever apart from when I dyed it ginger circa 1996, now I relaise natural is best and am sticking with blonde!
3) John Lennon is my favourite Beatle, followed extremely closely by George - depending on my mood - I may say John or George
4) I love Marianne Faithfull, how she was in the 60s - she has the best 60s gir look in my opinion
5) I am addicted to Ebay
6) Antiques and a passion for vintage is in my blood, since I was six years old
7) I owned my first record player at 6 years old - I used to like Doris Day on it back then, hehe
8) I have been in love once, and had my hear broken once
9) I am incredibly shy
10) I am pescetarian and dabble in raw and macrobiotic foods (I'm a secret hippy!)

Golden delicious! Mod shoes.

Look at my lovely new shoes....well I think they're lovely - they will go perfectly with my gold brocade, chiffon sleeved 60s dress!

Lovely...!

x

When your strange, people remember your name....

Here's a lovely picture of Jim for you to look at.

Jim Morrison, well how can anyone forget that name, I ask you?

Went to the latest Doors documentary suitably titled 'When Your Strange' (love that song!)

And as for the film, well - Mr Morrison writhing around the stage and bare chested on rocks in his leather trousers, phew - it's enough to get a girl all flustered! There's only one man that can get away with leather trousers in this world, and that was Jim. Boys - don't even go there.

Have a lovely weekend all, and if you get the chance do watch the film - it's rather trippy, the sound track is amazing obviously - and it gives you a little insight into the strange mind of one of my favourite strangest bands.

There's a lot more to them than 'Cmon baby light my fire' and it's so sad when you think of Jim and all those other artists who got taken from us too quickly, to join 'the 27 club' so to speak :-(

Least we have the music, and rock n roll photography to keep tham alive!

Oh, oh ALSO! the film is narrated by the lovely Johnny Depp, another reason why you really must see this!

Happy Friday all xxx

My favourite photo of the lovely M...

M is for More Marianne......!

Lovely lovely dresses from the 60s!

Here are two purchases that I could not resist sharing with you. Excuse the bad lighting particualrly in the second image, doesnt help white on white, and I was too lazy and sleepy to sort it with photoshop.

Are they for me to keep or for the shop?! Well they are my size...so ;-)

Dandelion dreams

Ever have one of those days/weeks where you crave more excitement than you think your ordinary life can give you?

Time to wish upon a dandelion, close your eyes tight and blow.

My 1960s husband

That voice, that face, that impeccable style. I love Steve Mariott one of the most amazing white soul vocalists of all time, and really cool to boot. Definitely one of the finest front men I have ever seen, not that I have ever seen them myself in real life, the Small Faces that is - but I have watched enough footage and listened to enough records to have formed that opinion!

On the other hand my mum met him several times in the 60s, and yes I am very jealous. My mums friend actually was a bit naughty, stole a pair of his glasses and still has them to this day!

Very stylish boys

The face
Steve Marriott in his own words ... "The term 'Face' was a top mod, a face about town, a respected chap! The name 'Small Faces' came from a girl called Annabelle I knew from Chelsea. I didn't know many from Chelsea but I knew this one! Anyway, she signed the hire purchase agreement for my amplifier. We were trying to think of a name and she said call yourselves the Small Faces 'coz she said we were all little and had little boat races. It was great for us because it fitted in with wanting to be faces anyway."

I needed this dress in my life.

Isn't lovely?

Working on jewellery today labelling it all up to drop into Kathleen & Lilys tomorrow!

Look what I bought, I treated myself to this lovely 1960s shirt dress look dapper with white tights and dolly shoes dont'cha think?

Isn't she lovely?

Yes I know I have a healthy obsession with Marianne! Here's some more eye candy. Love her!

Marianne Faithfull - 1965. As Tears Go By.

It's never too late to feel a little more alive

The title of this post I saw as grafitti on a wall and I liked it, thats it. I think it may be a song lyric but I've yet to have a look and find out.

Well a long work, and fun packed weekend lies ahead! Every week without fail I visit a charity shop - I'm obsessed with them. At least one a week sometimes I visit one every day and then there's also finding the time for the specialist vintage stores too, aw it's a hard life! ;-)

This week I discovered a huge two storey charity shop in a random little area on the outskirts of the city. Downstairs all furniture and mirrors and wall hangings and paintings and prints, upstairs vintage, pots, pans sunglasses, curtians, dresses. There's some beautiful mirrors, and some gorgeous 1960s and 70s German pottery I have my eye on!

I bought a mary quant style red pvc rain mac, two gorgeous 1960s swimming suits, and a 60s mod handbag.

I'm still kicking myself for turning my back - for a split second on a mustard taffeta 50s evening prom dress - which a very nice lady bought! Was not happy, but it went to a good home - it was beautiful and tiny and would have fitted me so well! Oh well.

Will upload pics of the items mentioned but to be honest I am loathe to as my camera at the moment is awful and will not do them justice, at all....new camera please!

Last, but not least take a look at the September trip to Berlin I have planned!

Now personally I really don't like the artwork i.e the lady or the colours as it doesn't look mod or 60s to me in the slightest all a little gawdy - but don't let that put you off what looks set to be an amazing weekender!

Look here for more info!

X

Food glorious food! and if music be the food of love!

Food glorious food!
My lovely flatmate the other day whilst we sat having a lovely spanish meal with our friends, told me she thought I was obsessed with food....hmmm I like to think passionate about food! Yup I am a complete foodie, bit of a food snob really if Im honest!

Here's a recipe I did last night gluten free healthy pizza base yum, yum, fast easy and two main ingredients - easy peasy, my kind of food!

I highly recommend this recipe!

Gluten free, healthy pizza base!

300g Buckwheat
Flour300g Butternut Squash
Sprinkle of Italian Herbs especially basil mf favourite!
Minced Garlic

How to:
1. Bake a Butternut Squash for 1 hour at 200c. Allow to cool then peel, de-seed and mash2. Weigh out 300g of Buckwheat Flour and combine with 300g of the Squash and the Garlic and Herbs - this should give you a dough like consistency, add more flour if necessary3. Sprinkle flour over your work surface and then roll the dough into a circle4. Part bake the pizza base for 20 mins at 200c

Prepare your topping, take the base out spread your topping on drizzle with a little olive oil, bake for another 10mins. Take it out sprinkle some rocket and balsamic vinegar on it and ta-dah!

Im taking home made pizza to a friends house tonight mmm,mmm!

If music be the food of love, play on!

On another note 'The Beat Girls' myself and my good friend Tania Gonzalez are due to DJ at Rescue Rooms, Nottingham very shortly - before then we are wanting to have a couple of illustrations of ourselves for the posters!

If anybody would like to do this for us, please get in touch we will repay you with full credit of all artwork and some free Tinkerbella & The Tailor goodies!

Oh and of course free guest entry for you and your friends at our forthcoimg Rescue Room gigs!

Please comment on the blog or email tinkerbellaandthetailor@hotmail.co.uk to register your interest in this project!

Thanks, lovelies x

Food, Music and Fashion!

Ok so first limited edition small jewellery range will be completed in full over the next 1-2 weeks! Woohoo! and will be on sale here





And then we also have a photoshoot coming up! Yup I say 'We' me and my flatmate Tania are hobbyist DJs who dabble do the occassional night and friends party but have decided to take it a little more seriously...we now have a name 'The Beat Girls' * subject to change should we decide it's a rubbish name!





So at the end of the month we are going to a photography studio in Lincoln to have promotional photos taken by the wonderful Nottingham based photographer, Gemma Hughes.





Also I am the curator for the vintage and record fair at BlastOff Festival very excited about this!





The festival was a great success last year, and this year will be even bigger and better! The festival will be taking place next summer, giving me plenty of time to work on my little project! Please get in touch should you wish to be considered for a stall whether you are a maker, musician, record seller, fashion designer, vintage seller, artist, hairdresser, DJ, Make up Artist etc we want to hear from Nottinghams local talent!





And last but by no means least - I'm taking another hobby a little further my love for food - Im experimenting a little more in the kitchen with the idea of selling the goodies I make! But it won't be the usual fashiony cupcakes that are all around at the moment - Im making hippy food stylish! hehe. Yup I'm making raw choclate cake with all natural ingredients, and other natural whole food sweets and cakes! Yum, yum - food can be yummy and healthy! More YumYum Cakes coming soon!

Yummy raw chocolate cupcakes with coconut icing!Yum!

Ban the bomb hippy charm bracelet

Look at this beauty I made up recently....the chain is made a of a large link 1970s chain and the copper charms are small 1960s CND charms. Cute isn't it? and you don't have to be a hippy to wear it! :-)

English preservation society?

Lie back and think of England.

As a young woman of mixed european heritage I'm unsure exactly what it means to be either English or otherwise. But I do love the lyrics to this Kinks song below and the stereotype of Englishness it portrays and that has just about remained over the years.

The aesthetics such as the colours and pattern of a great english fry up on a plate, the red pop of an old telephone box, the London skyline, a bowler hat, british bookshops, tea shops - dated, inaccurate and stereotyped they may be but they do make me smile. Pimms and lemonade, cricket, WI meetings, garden fetes and the like!

Take a break, read these lyrics, lie back and think of England and what do you see?

We are the Village Green Preservation Society.

God save Donald Duck, vaudeville and variety.

We are the Desperate Dan Apreciation Society.

God save strawberry jam and all the different varieties.

Preserving the old ways from being abused.Protecting the new ways, for me and for you.What more can we do?

We are the Draught Beer Preservation Society.

God save Mrs. Mopp and good old Mother Riley.

We are the Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium.God save the George Cross, and all those who were awarded them.

We are the Sherlock Holmes English-speaking Vernacular.God save Fu Manchu, Moriarty and Dracula.

We are the Office Block Persecution Affinity.

God save little shops, china cups, and virginity.

We are the Skyscraper Condemnation Affiliates.

God save Tudor houses, antique tables, and billiards.

Preserving the old ways from being abused.

Protecting the new ways, for me and for you.

What more can we do?

God save the village green.

R.Davies

Summer plans

Isn't she lovely? "Chinese lady' by Vladimir Tretchikoff .

I love this painting, will write more about the lovely green lady, and his other paintings in another post vey soon. I like her so much I have her image on a pin badge!

Oh how much have I loved this weather recently?! Then all of a sudden it's gone!?! but that's not all bad, with the milder weather conditions this weekend I am able to wear some of my lovelier 60s mod dresses, that aren't neccessarily easy to wear in the summer heat. Man made fabrics - mum and co how did you wear these dresses back then without glowing in a ladylike manner just that little bit too much?!

I have some lovely new dresses at the moment a gorgeous brocade mod dress with sheer chiffon long sleeves and gold piping, goodness knows where I'll wear it, Brighton Mod Weekender perhaps....a lovely late 50s tribal print summer dress, and a lovely summer 60s mod shift dress thats turqouise and lilac check. I will put pics of these up shortly...

On another note what are your plans for the summer?

Here's a very, very small section of my ever growing list:

Finish my German course

Go to Berlin to see family, go to Monchengladbach to see where I grew up

Spend even more time rummaging through local record stores trying to find Jimmy Cliffs Miss Jamaica 45 and the like

Have a great success with my Beatles Vs Stone night for Macmillan Cancer

See my jewellery range complete and sales go sky high ;-)

Get my market stall ready for July

Bestival!

Brighton Mod Weekender

Complete the photoshoot for the shop and DJ promo pics with my lovely friend and wonderful photographer Gemma

Get our first paid gig DJing as a pair - me and Tania are still trying to come up with a DJ name for us both....suggestions on a postcard please!

Complete my TEFL course, so next year I get to travel the world

Have a cultured weekend in Paris going to the galleries

Have a catch up weekend going to London galleries I haven't visited in a while

Complete my nutrition course

Visit Liverpool and do the full Beatles Experience

Continue my life long love affair with thrifting and vintage shopping

Enrol on a sewing course

Find a pair of 1960s pilgrim flats

Spruce up the house making it a vintage haven

Visit more carboots

Phew! and thats only a little amount off the list! Hope your all having a lovely summer time....

Dress posts coming soon. Oh and I have just had a delivery of jewellery stock so expect pics of those some time soon too!

X

Kings of Vintage: retro florals for summer-loving gents

Kings of Vintage: retro florals for summer-loving gents

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Lost Connections a project by Sophie Blackall

The following illustrations all tell a true story of a stolen moment and a lost connection.

I want this one for my house ^



I also am planning on buying this one^ love it

I'm not particularly a romantic, no really...ok well maybe a little just don't tell anybody, ok?Just take a look at these lovely images above produced by the Australian artist Sophie Blackall from a collection of her work called Lost Connections. She illustrates with humour and a gentleness as she tells storys of lost connections. A great modern day storyteller, don't you think?.

Sigh, some are so lovely where else others are quite sad and some just make you laugh out loud. Makes you think...lost connections how many have you had, some without even realising?

Polaroids

I love polaroids I really need to get some new film for my 70s polaroid camera! :-)

Listen up!

Think you dont like RnB?

Real RnB I'm talking about, no really...real Rythmn and Blues and Soul. This album is an a brilliant illustration of early soul, r&b from the fifties through to the sixties, a collaboration between Mr Paul Weller and the wonderful DJ Keb Darge. This album compilation is an education for music lovers today, split into two halves one by expert Darge the other Weller, who as Darge himself recognised is not tainted by any scene or record collector bravado - he just plays the songs he loves. This is amazing, go listen! Oh and Keb Darge also has a brilliant collection of rockabilly releases if thats your thing. And look at the gorgeous artwork for the album too! Our household is the proud owner of this gem on vinyl as well as CD!