Handbags at Dawn

I have been waking up super early recently, and unable to get back to sleep without have some sort of anxiety related nightmare.

This morning I thought I'd use the opportunity to list the customised vintage handbags I've been creating recently...

Firstly the mouse bag, which I must admit, I am fighting the urge to keep myself!

It's here if you fancy a look.


And having gone a bit mad on Bluetits this Spring, the Bluetit bag is finally on the website and up for grabs...

You can take a peek and buy it here


I can't deny I'll be sad to see the pair go, but there's more in the pipeline, so keep your eyes peeled!

Handbag lovings

xx

Shop Shenanigans

Lummy cripes I'm tired.

It's been a busy day, in fact, it's been a busy fortnight.

With only a couple of days left til the grand opening of Love From Hetty & Dave HQ, I thought I would give you a sneaky peak of how it's all looking...


Rather fabby I think, although more than one family member has exclaimed it looks as though my brain has exploded in the shop. I'm pretty sure this is exactly what it looks like inside my head!


Mega thanks goes out to my amazing sister who stepped in, just at the right point this evening, to merchandise, before I collapsed with exhaustion. And wowzers, did she do a good job!?!

So, unfortunately due to shop duties, I won't make it to the We Make 'Meet the Makers' evening on Thursday, which I am rather gutted about, but just can't fit in a trip to London. Nevertheless, a pair of severed hands and LOVE/HATE rings are on their way up, to go in my show case.


If you happen to be in the Farringdon area on Thursday night, you must pop in to meet some lovely creative people:


And for all you gorgeous Bournemouth based people, I look forward to seeing you on this Friday between 6-9pm for the opening!


Whooooopla!

Super excited lovings

xx

BRRRRRRING BRRRRRRRING!! BRRRRRRRING BRRRRRRING!!

A while back we got a super smart black GPO phone, from the 40s or 50s. It looked tres cool, but it took a million years to dial a mobile number, and if you had to 'press 3 to bla de bla', you couldn't.

It looked good, but just was not practical, so it had to go. Simple as that.


This gave me the opportunity I have been waiting for since my uni days, when I saw a cheese burger phone in what can only be described as Rochester's Novelty Telephone Shop, and it sold out before the student loan cleared.

So, I got straight on Ebay, and within a week or so, my brilliant cheese burger phone arrived from Singapore and satisfied my hunger for a novelty phone. Or so I thought.


Well, just as I thought you couldn't get much better than a fast food phone, we went car booting on Sunday, and CHECK THIS OUT...


Yesssssssssss, it's only a Pianotel! Amazingness!

The cord that connects the handset is missing, but thanks to good ol' Ebay, there's a black one on it's way. I pray it will work, as rumour has it, you can actually play a tune on the notes when you dial.

I will keep you posted.

Telephonic lovings

xx

P.S. 14/09/10 - The cord arrived today and the Pianotel works! Hooray! Result.

Vintage Holiday Goodness

Last week I went on holiday, which is why it was all a bit quiet on here. I didn't go far, just went up the coast with my Sister, to Lyme Regis, for epic walks and scones galore.


It's such a beaut of a town, with adorable little, higgledy piggledy, independent shops and delicious ice cream coloured houses:


We did a massive walk on our first day, along the cliff path from Lyme Regis to Seaton, which took 4 hours and practically crippled us for the following day, but we managed to fit in some ace charity shopping.



We were in Bridport when I snapped this up for a pound, much to my sister's disappointment at not spotting it first:


Then in a sweet little vintage shop in Lyme Regis, called Sublyme (do you see what they did there?!) I got this gorgeous, gorgeous, GORGEOUS 1950's tea dress for a tenner! I've made a couple of alterations to it, and it is up there in my top 5 dresses now. LOVE IT!


Also, after trying on an extremely overpriced Aquascutum quilted jacket in a charity shop the other day, and seeing all the ace equestrian style stuff in Zara, I couldn't resist this scarf...


Perfect for my winter 'Balmoral' look:


Incidentally, amongst other things, picked this little beauty up in Axeminster for a couple of quids:


And to reassure the boy, I hadn't forgotten about him and the cat, I picked up a pebble from the beach to paint of the three of us on the telly:


And a postcard on the back to him and Jacques Cat...


Anyway, that's all for now... blog you laters

Postcard lovings

xx

Sensual Disco Dancing

Sooo, a couple of weeks ago, after mucho hunting, we finally got our mits on a well gorge Dansette record player. We heart it BIG TIME, and feel all sophisticated and retro, listening to records in the evenings...


In no time, we seem to have got quite an impressive record collection, and for really not much money at all. And after an afternoon trawling the charity shops, the boy came home with 39, 45s which cost a mere 10p each... and this little beauty:


We will be spending the weekend, doing some sensual disco dancing.

Erotic Lovings

xx