MY NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS

So it's the last day of 2009.
I guess many of you have started dolling up
or cooking for your parties by now.
I myself is still in my PJ, flicking through the
three books that arrived today and working
on my last 1940's style tie top of the year.

Everyone rocking is going to Boston Arms in
North London tonight, I hate that place so me
and my lovely man's staying in, making some
nice food and strawberry Daiquiris.
We got like 3 kilos of fresh strawberries in the
fridge, better use them for something, right?



Anyway, little old me was thinking about new
years resolutions, I never make any but since
we're entering a brand new decade I'm gonna
make 3 of them!
I'm not gonna say that I'm gonna loose weight,
stop eating carbs and all that jazz, that never
works for anyone anyway.
I already working on a better health since I
joined the wellbeing centre in November.
OK, so my new year resolutions will be...

* To be more creative, I plan to make at least
2-3 new things a week and finish old projects.

* To be more social (I'm actually pretty shy at
times, especially when I don't feel to good) and
to keep in contact with people I like.

* To make more of an effort.
Use more makeup, work on vintage hair styles,
use false nails and experiment with eye shadows
and such.
I should also start wearing my vintage clothes a
bit more often.

What's yours?

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

NOSE ART

Here's another 1940's tie top.
I finished it last night and it turned out pretty nice.
I really love this fabric, mostly because I have a soft
spot for WW2 military air-crafts and nose art.
It must have arisen after my dad took me to vintage
aircraft shows as a little girl.




Beautiful nose art from WW2.


Pinup's were a very common form of nose art.

I got two WW2 planes with nose art tattooed on my
right sleeve, they are not very well done so pleeease
spare me your negative comments. :))
(The guy was a friend and an apprentice.)

BELATED BIRTHDAY PRESENT

I totally forgot to post about this last week.
There was a knock on the door and a package
for me, from Sweden.
It was a rather belated birthday present from
my favorite cousin and her family.
Spot on! Moomin stuff!
I used to love the stories when I was a little girl,
and I still do, you never get too old for Moomin.
I also think they look like English Bull Terriers.

CLOSING DOWN

I think I cougth some really bad luck lately.
What are the odds that your email stop working
completely in the middle of a very busy period
AND the postal service doesn't give the service
you pay for!
I feel extremely down right now because my
customers are unhappy, it makes me look bad
when all I've done is my best.
I always post items 1-2 days after they've been
paid for, I'm quick in MY service, it took 14-30
days for some to get their items, nothing I can
do anything about, unfortunatley, my job was
done at the post office.
They were very well aware about a possible
delay in the item description, my personal info
AND in my emails (before it died).
I told them that it might take a while since Royal
Mail has been on strike for 18 weeks and have a
bit of catching up to do and it's absolutely manic
before X-mas.

As a buyer I actually read sellers personal info
for news and updates, you never know, they
might get ill or go away on vacation, there can
be a computer problem an allsorts of things.
I keep my customers up to date in my personal
info but no one seems to read it even though
I urge them to in my item descriptions.
I did update my info just before X-mas, that
I've changed my email address and plead them
to contact me.
I'm sorry to say no one did and decided to give
me negative feedback.
So after 6 years as a seller I'm closing down, it's
not fun anymore.
I've heard that Royal Mail plan to go on another
strike after new years so maybe it's for the best.

DEAR DRESS...

I hope you're not lost out there somewhere, just belated.

This dress was supposed to be a gift from my man on our
3 year anniversary the 19th of December but it has still
not yet arrived.
There's nothing I don't love about this dress, it's perfect.


I'm a sucker for fold-over bust...


Sarong skirt with beautiful butterflies...


Elasticized sides and adjustable straps...


It also got sewn in knickers!

Pictures borrowed from Rockin' Ruby's Vintage.

USEFUL?

I still had some money left from what I got from father
in law on my birthday so I purchased these three books
yesterday.
I spent £13 in total, including shipping. (155 kr/$20/€14)
I hope they will come in handy, I didn't do any research,
which I probably should have done.
Does any of you have them and have they been useful?

FISHBOWL

I was looking through some old photo CD's yesterday
and found this picture of my old fishbowl.
I found this huge Brandy Balloon glass at a flea market
in Stockholm a long time ago.
I think I paid like 65 kr (approx £5/$8/€6) for it.
I was told that it used to stand on top of a grand piano
at a fancy hotel in Stockholm back in the days.
It was used as a tip bowl for the piano player.
I'm still amazed that it didn't break during my move to
England.


My two black Moor Goldfish Selma and Wilma.