Showing posts with label rockabilly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rockabilly. Show all posts

Sunday, 5 August 2012

PINSTRIPED BANGLES

I love how talented my artsy friends are.
Here's two pinstriped bangles I got from my friend Mikael Östling
while I were in Sweden. I gave him these two because I knew he
could do magic with them and he sure did!
He asked me what patterns I wanted and I said "surprise me" and
they turned out better than I could ever imagined.
I'm truly beyond pleased!



Wednesday, 11 July 2012

I DON'T HAVE A RIDE


I would love to go to Dingwalls tonite, spite my social
phobia, to see J.D. McPherson but my man is gigging
and I don't have a ride. :(

Monday, 2 July 2012

SCREAMIN' 2012

I'm such a baaad blogger! I just noticed that I've totally
forgot to post pics from Screamin' Festival!
How did that happen?!
While I'm having a break from sorting every inch of our
house I might as well do it now.
Why I'm sorting? We got too much stuff and we're off to
my native land Sweden soon, we're doing the same trip
as we did last year through Holland, Germany Denmark
and half of Sweden.
We're bringing stuff we no longer require, the plan is to
hopefully get rid off our old stuff at car boot sales and at
Hot Rod Reunion and Rat Fink Reunion.
I feel they need some genuine vintage from London. ;)

I made an album on FB with a taster of a few things that
we're bringing, check it out here.
(This might be of interest if you too are going to any of
the two events.)

Me and my man drinking Sangria and kissin'.

Zack being such a nawdy boy!

Our Dutch friends Roel and Uschi.

Roel and Uschi gave me a bag of salty liquorice (bless you!)
found a peeing boy.

Phil from The Blue Devils, here totally passed out.
What's up with the flower basket?

Me, wearing my own creations.

Every day we brought a snack for Zack, here
he is with some chocolate chip cookies.

WE WON! Best dressed couple, the prize was
free tickets to next years evening events.

Our homies Marcus and Carolina.

Roel and Uschi's collapsible bags.

Roel doing pin curls on Uschi.

Amanda from Los Angeles in her amazing swimsuit.

My man and Marcus at La Fabrica.

Uschi's pin curls turned out well.

LOL! I asked Roel, Uschi and Amanda to stand against the
wall for a group picture. Roel took it very literally.

My man, Carolina, Marcus with our Swedish friends Lasse,
Ulrika and Totte. I'm missing because I took the photo.

My man looking tiny between the Harman brothers.
(From Restless and Space Cadets)

Me and my man.

Me at the car show where there also were a rockers
market type of thing going on. Everything was SOOO
overpriced it was ridiculous.
My total spend was 2 euros.
More about my find further down on this post...

I met Olivia!!! She's such a sweetheart and I wish I had
the balls to speak to her earlier during the festival.

Phil from The Blue Devils, a bit more sober.

Me and my man.
Most of the pictures of me makes me cringe, I'm
almost double the size(!!!) that's how bad I swell
every time we go abroad, I need clothes that are
too big for me at home.

Zack at the jam session.

My man slappin' the wood.

And also beating the wood.

After the festival we had a few days to chill out and so we did
with our Swedish friends Ulrika, Totte and Lars.
We went for fika at the Centric Bar in Calella, Lars treated me
to some strawberry cake. :)

Yum!

OK, here's the story about my 2 euro find.
So I bought an LP with my childhood idols The Boppers.
I'm such a cheesy chick who collect anything pre 1990's
by/with The Boppers, not that I'm a huge fan or anything
but because they were the first band I ever saw.
I was two and sat on my dad's shoulders while they were
playing on a lorry. I also had a crush on the singer, Peter,
and guess who was at the festival, my teen crush!
(Roel and Uschi stayed at the same hotel as Peter and she
told him this story over dinner.)
I didn't get to meet him (for that I'm glad because I would
have been so heartbroken if he was a douche) but Zack's
dad who was a DJ said he could take the LP cover to get
it signed for me, funny thing was that Peter never seen that
cover before (French release) and he wanted a picture of
it and here it is:

Thanks Jane for letting me borrow this picture.

For more pictures, feel free to check out my Screamin' 2012
album on Facebook.

Saturday, 19 May 2012

HEMSBY FINDS

Wow! I'm promising posts and I actually deliver! LOL!
I think you all gave me a confidence boost the other day
to keep this blog alive for a little while longer.

OK, here's our finds from the Hemsby car boot sale.
Click on the pictures for a larger view.

1950's sunglasses, £2.
They are well worn but I don't mind that at all.
If I lose these on the beach at Screamin' it's not the biggest deal.
I hope I won't but the Sangria and the sun does make people go
a bit crazy. ;))

1950's bracelet, £2.
I'm don't wear a lot of pink but this cuff bracelet is too nice for words, 
I just had to have it!

1950's vases and flower pot, £15 for the set.
While me and Rozanna were busy setting up the stall my man
went through other peoples boxes and found these treasures!
So right up my alley! Love, love, love!

1940's/1950's house dress, £3.
My favorite find of the day!
Found this at the stall next to us. The reason it was so cheap 
is because of a lot of fading but I really don't care, I still love 
it VERY much!
You'll only notice it if you stare at it or know about it.

Close up on the pattern.

I just love the pleated sleeves and the little chest pocket!

Friday, 18 May 2012

HEMSBY

As promised! Here's some pictures from my Hemsby
rock n' roll weekend!
For once I had a really good time, too bad I missed a
few people that I would have loved to catch up with. :(

This year we got a pretty nice chalet and I had my gal
Rozanna with me so I was never left alone.
My man knows everyone and always get stuck chatting
to people and leave me all alone for hours, which really
bugs me. It was nice to just have some girl time.

Also the weather was nice, Saturday and Sunday was
nice and sunny, nice to have a break from the rain that
has been pissing down for almost two months now!

I scored at the car boot sale, didn't get many things but
the things I got was awesome!
I will blog about that tomorrow.

Click on the pictures for a better view.

Wesley Karr & The Automobiles
My handsome fella on double bass.

Gene Summers
Legend! Love most of his songs, my favorite is "Straight Skirt"

The Go Getters
Here's my fella again playing maracas. :D

Me and my friend Elaine.
I love when she's hammered! LOL!

My fella and Dave Phillips.
Working on some new material outside our chalet.

Me in my own creations.
Necklace and hair flowers that is...

Dave Phillips & The Hotrod Gang

My friend Rozanna and our car boot sale stall.
She was a real gem helping me out with all this. 
Rozanna has got an awesome Etsy shop, check it out!


My fella and La Dama!
I finally got to meet this sassy lady!
We don't live far from each other and my fella and her hubby are
friends. I really don't know why we haven't met up earlier.

My Fella and Wesley Karr.
I talked them into having a little jam at the car boot sale. :)

Hemsby chalets.

If you want to see more pictures from the weekend
feel free to check my Hemsby album on Facebook!

Thursday, 17 May 2012

THAT'S BANANAS!

Here's another necklace I've made for myself to wear
at the Screamin' (rockabilly) Festival in Spain.

I made it early Saturday morning at the Hemsby rock
n' roll weekender. I'm clever that way, I always bring
a box of craft so I have something to do while others
are asleep.
I will blog about the Hemsby weekender tomorrow.

I purchased the plastic bananas, along with a whole
bunch of other small vintage plastic fruit from the very
lovely Amanda at Little Vintage Violet on Etsy.
(Excellent service! Check out her shop, she got tons
of cute stuff for really good prices!)


Still don't know if I should add any green leaves or go
for just bananas...

Picture borrowed from Vintage Stylez.

I purchased a dress just like this one back in 2007 and
I never really worn it and it hit me earlier that this dress
is just perfect together with both my banana and cherry
necklaces! This is on the list of things to pack. :)

Tuesday, 17 April 2012

LATEST CREATION

Here's my latest creation!
I made this necklace for myself to wear to the beach
parties at the Screamin' Festival in Spain this year.
All charms are vintage and made in West Germany.
I also made a pair of earrings with larger sized pink
starfishes.