Swing For Skin. Ships Ahoy!

I had a fabulous night on Saturday on the HMS Belfast at a The Swing For Skin Charity night organised by DEBRA and the amazing Melissa aka Queenjelly. 

 

I got to wear the suit I made in my dress making class some time ago, it took me a long time and  a lot of effort went into it so it was good to give it an outing! 

I wore the felt hat I blogged about making a while ago, and I must say it got plenty of compliments. 

 

We took the opportunity to look round the ship and this chap scared me at least twice hiding in a corner so I thought it only polite to get my pic taken with him!

 This is me and my friend posing at the front of the ship, it was really quite windy!

There was entertainment from the Polka Dot Dolls  and the Lipstick and Curls ladies were on hand to do your hair and make up and a raffle with amazing prises. As ever I get to carried away drinking and meeting all sorts of lovely people that I forgot to take many photos! 

 

All in all it was a fab night and I got to put some faces to twitter names and meet some bloggers in real life witch is always lovely. There is talk of them doing a 50s night next year and I'll definitely be there. 

 I was also luck enough to be commissioned to make Melissa a hat for the evening and here are some slightly dodgy photos of it I took before I gave it to her. Unfortunately the wind on the night proved too much for it and Mel had to take it off so I don't have any photos of her waring it but she looked lovely all the same. 

Hat Pin

  Thought I'd try and get back into posting with a little show of some things I got for Christmas(i know it's been ages!). So first is the amazing hat pin my mum got me, I spotted it in the window of an antique shop near her house and fell in love and she so kindly got it for me. 

 

The most amazing thing about this pin is the length, its 27cm(10.5) inches long! 

Its really rare to find hat pins this long these days so I was supper exited. 

It's made by Charles Horner and is described as a Silver Chester pin.

Not the most amazing photos sorry, it's so dark at the moment! 

Charles Horner was from Halifax was born in 1837 and died in 1896 and his business lasted until 1984. The designs in his silver work were stunning and it you are interested in learning more have a look here.