A Book Launch and a Hat.

I was honoured to be invited to the Style Me Vintage Book Launch on Saturday evening and what an evening it was! There were so many faces from the blogging world there it was lovely to finally meet them in person. I got to see others that I have met briefly before as well as meeting lots of lovely new people.

 

I mainly managed to take photos of the lovely food! 

There were amazing Pork pie cupcakes and of course actual cupcakes. I have to say they were the best cupcakes I have had in a long time. The Pork Pie cakes were made by Wild Thexton and the Cakes by Restoration Cake.

I went to the event straight from my day job and thought I was organised, I had my curlers in all day and my dress in my bag. When I took the curlers out I realised I had forgotten my brush and lippy! 

Luckily for me Kelly of Hayday Honey was at the launch to save me! 

Here she is doing Glamourologist's hair. 

 

I took some pics of mine once I got home, you can also see the hat I wore in these too. 

I am trying to make me a hat a month this year so I have some to wear out myself.  This is my January hat. 

It was my first go at hand blocking where you only use that block as a base and play with the felt to get shape. 

It was a very glamorous event and there were some amazing outfits going on. There was a photo booth set up by Hanson Leatherby and I can't wait to see the results. 

I have to say a huge Thank you to Vintage secret and The Vintage Mafia for putting on such a lovely night and making me feel so welcome. 

Leopard Print pillboxs

I made some more of my Little Leopard Print pillbox hats last week and put them in The Etsy Shop. I ave always made these hats with red trimming but decided to give some other colourways a go. 

Southbank and A Hummingbird

I took a trip to Vintage at the Southbank today, not to see the bands, I can't afford the ticket, but you can get into the market area for free.

I was going really to show my support for some friends that have stalls there this weekend. 

Lady Go Red and Kate Underdown Millinery are well worth a visit if you are free at all over the weekend.

 

 

Sorry for the dodgy quality of these pics. These are some of my favourite of the millinery delights on offer. 

 This one is by Kate Underdown Millinery you can find her on facebook here. 

 This one Lady Go Red and her facebook is here

Another friend who is there is Frocks That Rock.Who have some amazing vintage goodies up for sale.

I hope the weekend goes well for them all. 

I was very well behaved and kept my looking around to a minimum and only bought one top that was cheap.

I also wanted to show you some new little birdie fascinators that are in my etsy shop this week. 

Click on the pics to go to the listings. 

Hope you have a lovely weekend. 

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. 

My vintage Hat purchases.

As previously promised, here are the hats I bought on my little day trip, the first has some of the most amazing coloured feathers on it I have ever seen, non of my pics truly do it justice. The shape is very 60's and not at all me but I couldn't resit such amazing feathers.

And now for some silly pics of me in it! 

 The second is a 50's hat, the shape is lovely and being plain black I can trim it to go with all sorts. 

It doesn't photograph very well against my hair, but I ave the classic shape.

I listed some new hats on etsy today do go have a look in my shop.

macaroons to celebrate

I have exiting news, I got onto the millinery course at Kensington and Chelsea collage yesterday so I have a busy year ahead of me but am very exited and to celebrate I treated myself to tea and some macaroons from Laduree. yum.