C'est Bon

So excited I nearly wet myself here at MV (luckily I managed to stop myself). This April's issue of InStyle, one of my favourite magazines, ran a feature called Best of British Talent. In this article was the fabulously stylish and lovely model, Amber Le Bon, sporting none other than one of our Stage of Swag vintage pocket watch necklaces. Amber bought this lovely goodie from MV at PA vintage fair and it seems she also wore her new purchase to the MA catwalk show for London College of Fashion. The Stag of Swag line, for those of you who don't know, is MV's new high end line of unique pieces using antiques and the most special one off pieces. The Stage is proving quite a hit so check out his stylish finds.

Vintage pocket watch on Miss Le Bon's necklace

Here at Mistress Vintage we have been busy little bees and new stock has been sent to Jolly Brown - so get down there if you fancy some new vintage wonders! And more exciting news - Hurrah, Mistress Vintage will finally be opening properly on Etsy. Photography skills finally in check, courtesy of the London School of Photography, MV can now post decent photos which means you can actually see what you're getting! Lovely vintage goodies will be coming to you by the end of the week ready to satisfy all those buying urges. For those of you who have been frustrated by visiting an empty page after meeting at fairs, apologies, but now you can buy away 'til your heart's content!

Goodies available at Jolly Brown and Etsy:

For those of you who want to meet in person, Mistress Vintage will be getting stuck into a new fair this weekend in Essex. Vintage Vogue will be taking place in Brentwood this Sunday 28th from 10am-4pm. With lots of vintage sellers and the new Vintage tea rooms serving scrummy cream teas it shouldn't be missed! http://www.essexvintagefashionfair.com/

NUGGET:

MV was very excited (again) to be asked by the lovely Sonia Allen to lend some pieces for a photo shoot. Aside from being a MV fav customer, who regularly buys us out of house and home, Sonia is also a very talented, qualified makeup artist. Sonia is available to do all kinds of events and add that extra sparkle to your special day. She can be contacted on sonia.allen25@gmail.com

Mistress Vintage Goes Wild

Apologies to all those who thought I was probably lying dead in a gutter somewhere. The truth behind my mysterious disappearance is that I have been travelling to some seriously remote locations with no way of communicating.....nightmare. But the exciting bit is that I've been in deepest darkest Canada and the rainforest in Australia producing a huge and exciting new series with David Attenborough. We had an incredible time flying endless choppers around the Canadian Rockies before heading all over Oz. We boiled in the outback, got soaked in the tropical rainforests of North Queensland and burnt on Heron Island, an island paradise in the middle of the Barrier Reef, but working with my incredible crew and such a legend has definitely been the highlight of my career by miles so far. This is me below with our cameraman wading out with camera equipment to Wistari Reef sandbar (excuse the sweatiness and horribly white legs). The sandbar is exposed once a day, and disappears pretty quickly. We decided to shoot on this tiny bit of sand in the middle of nowhere, where boats can barely reach and there's nothing but water and sharks for miles around!

Now that I'm back I'm pleased to report that the Craftaholics fair was a great success and loads of fun. The other sellers had some unique and beautiful offerings and we kept our spirits up by cooing over all the lovely things and consuming bucket loads of tea. Thank you to everyone who came down to see Mistress Vintage, and to my gorgeous pal Amy was a trooper on the day and kept me from crying by stuffing me with cake when I emerged from the fair to find I had a whopping great parking ticket! Another showbiz lady Anna Popplewell, Lucy from the Narnia films, has joined the ranks of MV fans when she purchased a time piece necklace. Clearly the whimsical feel I try and put into the collections appeal to the ladies in fantasy film!

For those keen to get their hands on new pieces, QettyBangBang, which has now opened its new fabulous website http://www.qettybangbang.co.uk/ and Scarecrow in Crouch End have just taken a new delivery from MV....so run along and check them out...time pieces galore....tick tock!

MV will also be expanding its horizons and joining new vintage fairs soon, so keep tuning in to find out where and when I will next be showing. Hope to see you all soon xx

NUGGET!!

I recently came across an absolute gem of a website called Queens of Vintage http://www.queensofvintage.com/. This vintagetastic website gives all kinds of tips about styling, events, interiors - everything you could possibly want to know about how to live the perfect vintage life. My favourite part is the top 100 vintage queens where people send in pictures of themselves and are judged on how fabulous they are. Also the little queen on the screen videos which show delicious old clips of the ultimate vintage divas is inspiring and if not will just make you smile. So click on and maybe you might be tempted to enter yourself as a vintage queen!

Crafty Times

So much has happened since the last post. I headed to Portugal and then a hen party in Barcelona. I picked up some lovely pieces and whilst the boyf chilled by the pool in Portugal I used the time to work on my new working watch bracelets which seem to be going down a storm!


Before heading off on holiday I did a really exciting photo shoot with the fantastic band Little Joybox. We went for a really opulent, decadent vibe and I took the opportunity to go crazy and heap tonnes of necklaces and gold onto Sara – Mr T fabulous!! Check out Little Joybox on http://www.myspace.com/littlejoybox. They have some great upcoming gigs at places like Ronnie Scotts so go along and go crazy to fab tracks such as Killer but their one minute wonders are just the best! Alan was the lovely and ever patient photographer on the day – have a look at his website: http://www.ajsh.co.uk/




But for me the most exciting news is that Mistress Vintage will be joining the fantastic crew down at Craftaholics fair this Saturday August 29th at the Old Queens Head in Angel – 44 Essex Rd Islington N18LN. It will be loads of lovely crafty fun with a whole range of products and fantastic designers. They have just added me to their blog http://craftaholics-london.blogspot.com/. I hope to see you all down there for lots of shopping and cupcakes!

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So many lovely things in my head at the moment that I could write about but Craftaholics has inspired this nugget. My tip for this post is the artist Daniel Hillier. Daniel does fantastical and gorgeous prints, paintings and ink drawings. They have a really dark, Victorian feel – totally gothic, fantastically creepy and irresistible. I particularly love his use of animals and emphasis on anatomy. His drawing of a stag dressed as a Victorian gentlemen was the first thing the boy and I bought for our flat – very practical I hear you say! Anyway Daniel sells at Sunday Upmarket off Brick Lane and he will be at Craftaholics this Saturday – so another reason to come check it out! http://www.danhillier.com/