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Back to uni now! I've got a lot of work to do before my exhibition!

We are (ie. some other lovely girls in my class) setting up a website for our class collective as well as a magazine for our end of year show! which is rather exciting as its looking really great so far and is getting printed out today hopefully. The website is www.volanscollective.com - its not completely set up yet but is on its way!

After going to the Diner on Curtain Road a couple of times and eating the delicious cajun spiced chicken burger I decided to try and make it at home - but unfortunatly i couldn't find cajun spice at tescos (damn youuu) so I just exchanged it for mixed spice and made "spiced chicken"! Falafels tomorrow hopefully!

here are the recipies: 

http://mideastfood.about.com/od/maindishes/r/falafelrecipe.htm

http://southernfood.about.com/od/chickenbreastrecipes/r/r70902a.htm

I've also been listning to Screamin' Jay Hawkins loads - his voice really is amazing! And his look aswell...apparently his voodoo skull was called Harry or something...They don't make them like they used 

to eh...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Siapac1HTpo&feature=related

Happy International Independant Record Store Day!

Today was International Independant Record Store Day! So in celebration various independant record stores around the world put on events, including Rough Trade(s), Puregroove and Sister Ray (It think thats what its called...)

I heard Graham Coxon and Patrick Wolf were playing at Puregroove and I was tempted to go to see Lets Wrestle at Rough Trade at 3 o'clock but I just decided from pure laziness and desire to sleep (and watch come dine with me and the breakfast club...) before going back to uni to just go to see Joe Gideon and the Shark which was the last slot of the day. 

I went with Laura and I managed to catch most of Pete Molinari's set who was pretty good and did see Joe Gideon and the Shark, who were amazing! I saw them a few months ago and they diddn't disapoint this time either. I'm always amazed at the effortlessness of Viva's movements and her drum dancing (I cant think of a better word to describe it!). I read somewhere that she was a gymnast and if so it would really make sense because her drumming really is mesmerising! My favourite song was "Johan was a painter and arsonist" and another one which may be called hide and seek, im unsure.

They've also put up a photobooth in Pure Groove which is pure genius! I used it a few weeks ago pretty much a day or so after it had been set up and so I found out that the photos we took are stuck on the photobooth! there are loads of others stuck up around the walls and such (where other pictures of us are) but its a bit exciting that i'm up there pride of place on the photobooth itself haha! ahh simple pleasures...

Lady Luck Internship

For the last month I've been interning at Lady Luck, at the studio in Shoreditch! Its been really fun going there every day, I like the way some days you get there in the morning and by the time you leave someone has completely graffiti-d over the walls down sclater street so its like "waiiiit....this wall diddnt look like that!"

The music too! its what I listen to anyway, but just like all day! amazing - especially the 1960s garage songs sung in Japanese and a song which I cant find ANYWHERE which is called something along the lines of "your wiggle your giggle".

I've been interning during my Easter holidays so it basically meant no holiday as such and even though its been tiring (but thats probably the hours and me not being used to them) its been better than a holiday because i've actually been doing something useful rather than moping around the house eating and watching tv (however fun that is for a couple of days, after that I just end up wanting to eat my arms) 

Yesterday was mine and Harriet's la

st day! It was kinda sad to be leaving cus everybody there is super nice, but Leona made me and Harriet farewell cupcakes which were sooo yummy which we had with tea in the 1930s crockery that we used in the Tea Shoppe. We were also allowed to keep a couple of items of jewellry so I chose the new walnut fox and mushroom, the teapot brooch and a couple of jazzy brooches (the jaguar and the kitty with scary blue eyes)

theres more on the lady luck website about it (www.ladyluckrulesok.co.uk)

So yeah! thanks for letting me intern!

The Pop-Up Tea Shoppe

A couple of weeks ago I helped out with Lady Luck Rules OK! at the Affordable Vintage Fair in Bethnal Green. We had a "Pop-Up Tea Shoppe" there where we basically sold tea and a selection cakes but with a twist because we had 5 tables, each one based on a different era with a waitress to match! It was an early start getting there by 8 to set up, which meant i got up at 6 to leave the house at 7 to get two buses to get there in time!

I made lots of mini teabags to put in the cups for the first customers to have (and ones on 

brooch backs for the girls working with me!)

I was on the products stall with laura, but it was crazy busy with the cakes completely going by about an hour and a half before the end of the night, so none of us got a cupcake in the end. I was next to a lovely hat maker who I think was called Genie, but im unsure...I wish I'd taken her card because her hats were amazing!

Look at all the fabulous bunting! 4oft of bunting = 240 triangles cut by me, sewn by harriet then trimmed and put onto the ribbon by me!

this is us by the end of the day, a little tired! (lr: Hannah, me, Laura, Harriet)

all pictures from lady luck's flickr.

Juliana mana mo mana banana bana fofana fee fi foana , Juliana..

Let's play the name game!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd1oQuX2f-M

I seriously can't get this out of my head!!! 

Other good songs of the moment include Clarence 'Frogman' Henry's "Aint got no Home", The Diamonds' "The Stroll"

...and "Chantilly Lace" by The Big Bopper

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtlNlTHe-_0

helllooooooo baaaaaaaayyybyyyy!! 

Kitty Daisy and Lewis

Did anybody watch the Natalie Cassidy being British program thing? Nah me neither, I dont even know who she is, why she deserves a tv show or why we need a program on Britishness...anyway, my boyfriend alerted me to the fact that Kitty Daisy and Lewis were on it! So I watched it and it was actually really good! Apart from the awful bit at the end where the natalie woman is being patronising and all that malarky

Ever since I saw it I literally havnt stopped listning to them...I can't wait to see them at the Camden Crawl...it also alerted me to two facts:

1. we should all say "hoo-ha" a lot more

and

2. I really want a leopard rug like this:

I saw a lion rug at Spitalfields on antique day, that will suffice - for some reason I have no problems with stuffed things, I'm not sure why it just really doesn't disgust me at all and I really want a proper stuffed lion or a crow or something, just as long as it was vintage taxidermy, you know? 

anyway! Lewis went past Superette last week and into the vintage shop next door and we all got a little excited! "Thats Lewis from Kitty Daisy and Lewis!!!!" "OMG!!!!" 

they really are the best :D

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!

Here is me being a lucky girl with my eggs!

The Mini Eggs tube is almost finished, feeling a bit sick! I made carrot and walnut cupcakes with a cream cheese frosting (that went

 wrong! it was more of a syrup) yesterday with my bf also so its been a bit of a sweets overload

Here are some Easter cupcakes done properly by Leona (miss Lady Luck herself - I'm currently interning over my holidays!)

The chicks were so cute! But Sam's fell apart and Lucy got her's wet so it looked melted and hilarious! Mine was called Abraham Delacey Giosapicase Thomas O'Maley, O'Maley The Alley Cat (which is what Id call a cat if I had one, Abe for short though)

Hope you had lots of chocolates and cupcakes!

xxxx

eeksph

I really need to get my bloggingness together and start blogging!

I got my hair all cut off - its always the way isn't it, something in your life changes and (as a girl anyway) you get a dramatic haircut! 

So I just had loads lopped off!

I sort of feel like I need to go in a completely different direction and stuff cus atm im really not cutting the mustard! 

I pretty much got rid of half my wardr

obe today...literally drawers and half of my wardrobe empty! I just really dont feel like the person I was when I bought them and so cannot wear them anymore in some wierd kind of way, maybe I have too much stuff anyway who knows.

This is me now with my hair grown into a bit! In only 3 weeks aswell its a bit fustrating that my hair grows so darn quickly!