My Dandy preview post

I've been very busy these past few days getting everything ready for my stall at The Dandy Lion Market this coming Saturday.

Even though it's still intermittently snowing and the temperatures are no where near spring like I have thrown caution to the wind and gone for a rail full of sunny frocks and spring wear...to hell with winter I say!

Perhaps I was inspired by the bravery displayed by some peeps in Edinburgh, chicks wandering around bare legged in mini skirts and chaps wearing short-sleeved shirts and no jackets in sub zero temperatures.

Here in London people are still piling on the clobber and I can honestly say that I have not seen so many furry hats on peoples heads this side of Easter before, it is really rather bonkers!

Oh, spring where art thou? I'm more than ready for you dear!

Here's the collection of fabulous vintage clobber that I shall be bringing with me on Saturday...

I'm bringing a few of my handmade accessories too...

A smattering of close-ups for the first volley of vintage...

There's a whole heap more :)

 Close-ups...

I'm bringing awesome prints for the gents too...

 Close-ups...

I'm going solo this month as Mark is working the weekend, so I can't bring as much stuff as I wanted to. I've tried to mix it up so that there's something there for everyone. I am perhaps bringing too many frocks and not enough separates this time around but what can I say more than there is a good reason to why I chose the name FROCKTASIA ;)

If you happen to be in the Kentish Town area on Saturday it would be lovely if you could swing by and say hello. You can check out all the other fabulous sellers that will be there on The Dandy Lion Market FB page.

I'm knackered now ;)
Hope you've all had a fab week.
Friday tomorrow, huzzah!

Loads of love,
Jennie
xXx

Easterburgh

I had a wicked time with my sis in The Burgh.

Markcoolio joined us on the last day too which was luverly :)

Here are some pics of my four fabby days...

Hope you've all had an amazing Easter :)

Listen and love...

Loads of love,

Jennie

xXx

I'm off to dance the lowland fling

My sister is coming over from Sweden for a few days and we are meeting up in Edinburgh tomorrow.

I've been running around like a headless chicken all evening trying to pack but failing rather miserably. I'm still not done! Now you may very well be wondering what the hell I am doing blogging when I should be getting on with the more pressing matters at hand but I just needed to take a break from it all. The flat is so cold that getting changed is something rather perilous, you are risking freezing your ass off within seconds of exposing naked skin. So I'm sitting here in front of my compy to warm up, I've got one of those synergy heaters next to me blasting out much needed heat but only within a very short radius.

 I know it is going to be freezing in Edinburgh cause I lived there for two years back in the 90s and I well remember the ice cold killer winds in the winter.

I'm thinking frocks teamed with a thermal vest, three pairs of tights, two cardigans, two scarves, thermal gloves, a wig & hat combo and that's just for staying indoors ;)

I'm sure I will be fine. I had just hoped for a slightly warmer Easter in one of the most beautiful cities in the UK.

We went for a super quick jaunt up to the park earlier to feed the birds and snap the daily outfit pics.

It may look as if I'm happy in these pics but truth is I'm almost crying from being cold.

If this crap weather carries on, we may very well have to start taking indoor pics.

Today I was wearing my Afghani dress, as it happens its last outing was also on a rather freezing day last year.

I guess I better get back to the packing, eh?!

Hope you will all have a lovely Easter weekend when it rolls around & I'll see you when I get back.

This post was brought to you by The Easter Hunny Bunny...I jest :)

Loads of love,

Jennie

xXx

P.S. Thanks to Curtise for pointing out the musical instrument faux-pas in my last post ;)

Music to my ears

Last Sunday Leslie and I went to see her son Erik play at The Old Queen's Head in Islington. If you live in London or if you are visiting then I can highly recommend going to the Sunday Social. 

It is on every week and it's free. If you pace yourself and don't go totally bonkers at the bar, it's a very good value for money afternoon.  I couldn't get over how good all the acts were and it has totally reignited my passion for watching live music. 

As always I took loads of pics so that I can share some of my awesome day with you.

 Erik was first to go on and did a set of six splendid songs. 

I want to give you a taster of all the acts so here's Erik doing one of his awesome tunes...

Next up was a girl who totally gave me goosebumps when she started singing.

Her name is Hannah Rose Platt and here's one of her beautiful songs...

Third on was a brilliant duo Super Full Moon with Michael Palmer playing guitar and singing and Jozef Secnik playing an extraordinarily beautiful bass.

This song almost had me jumping up on a table to have a boogie but thankfully I restrained myself...

I just had to take a pic of Jozef's impressive instrument ;)

Next up was Eden Billy Simpson with the devastatingly beautiful Noelle on cello...

I just loved what this pair were wearing Eden's printed shirt and waistcoat combo and Noelle's fabulous vintage 80s secretary dress and slouchy pirate style boots, both of them looked impeccably stylish with talent to boot. 

Here's one of Eden's tunes...

The last act we had time to watch before moving on was the brilliant Spekki Chris.

As we were getting ready to leave I spotted these cool peeps and I just knew they were the next act on. 

I mean lets face it, you don't look this cool unless you're in a band...

I took their details so that I could check them out on-line and boy am I glad I did, they're AMAZING!

They are called Wyldeck and I will definitely go to one of their gigs in the near future.

Here's a fab video clip for their wonderful song Wolves...

Erik was doing an open mic at The Torriano Bar the same evening and as we were having such a fab time, we decided to tag along.

The Torriano is Leslie's local watering hole and it's a bar with an endearing personality.

On their site it says: 

"It's the kind of place you can walk into on your own and walk out at the end of the night with new friends"

Yup, totally true! A wonderful place run by some very lovely people.

Every Sunday they have open mic sessions open for anybody to part take in.

More talent was on the cards but unfortunately by now I'd had a few jars and even if I did ask people their names etc, in the morning that information was no longer stored in my mind.

Most of these acts are just starting out, so they are not at the calling card stage yet.

  However even if I can't remember their names or have any links to provide, I still want to share the pics that I took as they convey the wonderful vibe of the place and you'll just have to take my words for it, all these guys were amazingly good :)

I fell head over heels in love with The Torriano, it is such a fab, friendly and all-round awesome place.

Speaking of AWESOME, I'm so frigging happy that I met Leslie, what an absolute gem she is :)

Then it was closing time and after playing silly buggers outside the pub for a bit, Leslie walked me to the bus stop and off I went home after a day of more fun than you can shake a stick at :)

So that was my Sunday folks!

I couldn't really face blogging about it yesterday cause my head was just a wee tad woolly ;)

Hope you are all doing grand & not freezing to death.

Loads of love,

Jennie

xXx