Black Country news and blogs Saturday 21 July 2018
Vintage Vixen
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May The Fourth Be With You – The Cornbury Festival 2018 
Vintage Vixen 17 Jul 18
Have I mentioned how much we love the Cornbury Festival? Previous years have been brilliant and this year, our fourth, was phenomenal.
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Lets Be Frank – Forgotten Frocks, Refashioning and Ten Quid Vintage
Vintage Vixen 6 Jul 18
What is it those strange minimalist types tell you? If you haven’t worn it in six months then get rid of it or some such nonsense.
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On The Ball
Vintage Vixen 2 Jul 18
When the lovely volunteers in my local hospice charity shop asked Jon to take some photos of me wearing this vintage John Charles chiffon strapless ballgown I bought from them last week we had to oblige.
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England 2 – Belgium 2 : A Trip To Attingham Park
Vintage Vixen 27 Jun 18
This time tomorrow we’ll be up against one another when England take on Belgium in the World Cup but today we played nicely when we met up with our friends, Polyester Princess Ann and husband Jos, at the magnificent Attingham Park in Shropshire.
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Are You Gonna Go My Way – Car Booty, Charity Shopping and a Night Out With a Rock God
Vintage Vixen 22 Jun 18
After the relative inactivity of recent times, it’s all go this week and, if trading in London and meeting the gang in Chester wasn’t exciting enough, on Wednesday night we saw Lenny Kravitz on his current UK tour.
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Down In The Bus Station On Monday – A Blogger Day Out
Vintage Vixen 19 Jun 18
Yesterday Jon and I made the two hour journey to Chester to get together with long-time friends, Lynn and Philip and to meet Ann and her husband, Jos, currently holidaying in the UK from their native Belgium.
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It’s Vintage, Darling
Vintage Vixen 17 Jun 18
Yesterday, after what felt like an eternity away from the vintage selling scene, we got to take Kinky Melon’s Retro Boutique back on the road trading with the fabulous Pop Up Vintage Fairs in Walthamstow in East London.
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Picture This – Four Days in Photographs
Vintage Vixen 4 Jun 18
Thank you so much for all your kind words, messages and advice about Jon’s back.
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Pain Stops Play – The Festival That Never Was
Vintage Vixen 31 May 18
Acoustic Festival, 2017 You’re probably thinking, Shouldn’t they be away trading at a festival? and you’d be right, we should.
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Bell Bottom Blues
Vintage Vixen 21 May 18
Jeans? Even Jon was surprised.
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Down The Rabbit Hole – More Mini Adventures
Vintage Vixen 18 May 18
I found this miniature making book at the car boot sale the introduction by author, Christaine Berridge, could have been written by me.
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The Long Good Buy
Vintage Vixen 3 May 18
You’ll be relieved to hear that this week we’ve been wearing clothes.
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Goin’ To A Go-Go
Vintage Vixen 25 Apr 18
Whenever I wear this insane vintage Shubette of London fringed Go-Go suit I can’t help but dance around the bedroom.
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Flower Power
Vintage Vixen 16 Apr 18
Florals, ahoy! The weather’s a balmy 12°C and there’s a suggestion of spring in the air.
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Cool In A Kaftan
Vintage Vixen 2 Apr 18
I bought this crazy 1970s cotton kaftan for a song in a charity shop last week.
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From Bed Covers & Babouches to Bollywood & Books – This Week’s Charity Shop Finds
Vintage Vixen 23 Mar 18
I’m probably the only person in the world to create an outfit entirely around a bag but just look at that handsome Indian prince astride his horse.
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What’s Cooking? My Mini Kitchen Makeover
Vintage Vixen 21 Mar 18
Wanna to see my kitchen? This is my latest mini make, like my real one HERE , its furnished entirely from inherited bits and pieces, other people’s junk, hand-made stuff and lucky eBay finds.
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Maximum City – 48 Hours In Mumbai
Vintage Vixen 19 Mar 18
I was planning to write about our weekend of vintage fairs but the weather put paid to that.
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Charity Shopping & Mini Makes
Vintage Vixen 16 Mar 18
Look! I’m finally out of the doll’s house and back to full-size.
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Slumming It – Touring Mumbai’s Dharavi Slum
Vintage Vixen 28 Feb 18
Courtesy of Reality Tours If you’ve ever flown into Mumbai you’ll know that there’s no avoiding the third largest slum in the world, Dharavi, a sprawling mass of corrugated tin, cardboard and blue tarpaulin running alongside the international airport…
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Indian Epic – Travels in Kutch, Gujarat – Textile Heaven
Vintage Vixen 22 Feb 18
Kutch is famed for it’s rich textile heritage so what better way to spend our final day than overdosing on them.
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Indian Epic- Travels in Kutch, Gujarat – Birding in Banni
Vintage Vixen 20 Feb 18
Just before sunrise on Friday morning we were collected from Devpur by an ecologist his driver fromthe Centre for Desert and Ocean ( CERO ) and taken to the Banni Grasslands, a semi-arid region skirting the Great Rann of Kutch for a morning of bird…
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Indian Epic – Travels in Kutch, Gujarat – Around Mandvi
Vintage Vixen 18 Feb 18
Wednesday was spent with fellow Devpur house guests Carey Gary, exploring the area around the coastal town of Mandvi.
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Indian Epic – Travels in Kutch, Gujarat – The Desert, Crafts & The Party Monks of the North
Vintage Vixen 16 Feb 18
Wednesday got off to slow start after we got caught up in a traffic jam caused by a herd of water buffalo taking a morning stroll.
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Indian Epic – Travels In Kutch, Gujarat – The Temples, Ruins & Tombs Of The West
Vintage Vixen 14 Feb 18
Shortly after 8am accompanied by fellow Devpur house guest Susan, a German-born architect living in Zurich, we set off to explore Kutch’s west coast.
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Indian Epic – Travels in Kutch, Gujarat – Bhuj’s Museums, Palaces, Temples & Crafts
Vintage Vixen 12 Feb 18
Ready for more? On Monday morning, after a sociable breakfast spent chatting to K and the other guests, Ramji drove us to the Medieval town of Bhuj.
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Indian Epic – Travels in Kutch, Gujarat – Devpur Homestay
Vintage Vixen 10 Feb 18
Namaste! We’re back! Be afraid – be very afraid, we took so many pictures during our stay in Gujarat you might be sick of the sight of India by the end of the week.
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In It For The Long Haul – Travel Outfits, Packing & Charity Shop Finds
Vintage Vixen 5 Jan 18
Compared to what I’ve worn earlier this week I’m looking rather muted today.
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Absolute Beginners – Vix’s Adventures In Crochet
Vintage Vixen 2 Jan 18
Happy New Year!! WEARING: Inherited crochet maxi coat with 1970sRicci Michaels of Mayfair psychedelic dress (bought from Vintage Relics at The End of the Road festival, 2016) You may have noticed that I’m rather fond of crochet clothing.
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India Comes To Coventry – Visiting The V&A’s Crafts Of The Punjab Exhibition
Vintage Vixen 29 Dec 17
All dressed up and somewhere to go! This week seems almost interminable so realising that today was probably our last chance to visit an exhibition we’d set our hearts on seeing, it was the perfect opportunity to jump in the van and shake off the …
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The Woman In White
Vintage Vixen 22 Dec 17
When I spotted this 1970s gown in a charity shop window a few weeks ago my heart skipped a beat.
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Ready To Go – Travel Packing & Some 1970s Inspired Finds
Vintage Vixen 20 Dec 17
The Seventies are dead…
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Proud Mary – Today’s Outfit Plus Some Charity Shop Tat
Vintage Vixen 18 Dec 17
It’s the Dead Relatives Society bash.
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Dressed To Impress (Yourself)
Vintage Vixen 15 Dec 17
Catching up with my blog reading after an afternoon spent in the pub, I was blown away by a post Hollie published yesterday which mentioned several of my favourite bloggers / ex-bloggers – as well as me! Aging is what you make it.
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Lamani Love – The One Where I Share My Tribal Collection
Vintage Vixen 8 Dec 17
It’s all a bit grim here today, heavy snowstorms and positively Arctic temperatures with weather warnings issued for the weekend, even our schools are closed.
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Trust In Me – Georgian Splendour In Sleepy Shropshire
Vintage Vixen 6 Dec 17
A rock gig and a boozy Wetherspoons all-dayer, what my birthday week was lacking was some culture so this morning, wrapped up in big coats, hats and thermal undies we headed across the border to the county of Shropshire.
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Exotic Styling – Fashion Porn For Vintage Lovers
Vintage Vixen 1 Dec 17
When I was clearing the book shelves at The Cottage I came across a book which must have belonged to my mum.
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Recycle, Reuse – From Cot Blanket to Blanket Coat
Vintage Vixen 29 Nov 17
In late November 1966 with the arrival of her first born imminent, my 24 year-old mother got out her crochet hooks.
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Market Day
Vintage Vixen 27 Nov 17
Sod unpacking the van from yesterday’s vintage fair, a stroll into town to pick up Jon’s new glasses and a rummage around the charity shops sounded far more appealing.
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Technicolour Friday – Charity Shop Treasure & Some Hardcore Drum ‘n’ Bass
Vintage Vixen 24 Nov 17
Black Friday? Not on your life or on my body.
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The Keeper Of Lost Causes -Tackling The Family Albums
Vintage Vixen 17 Nov 17
I come from a long line of hoarders.
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Down Mexico Way – Cool In My Roberta Vencillino Kaftan
Vintage Vixen 15 Nov 17
Blame on a blogger! When I commented how fabulous Betty looked on a recent post about her holiday in Costa Rica she replied that kaftans were really hard to find so, although I already own a few, I thought I’d have a quick browse on eBay.
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The Colour Purple
Vintage Vixen 13 Nov 17
It’s no secret that I hate winter but rediscovering this coat almost compensates for the plummeting temperatures.
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The House That I Grew Up In
Vintage Vixen 10 Nov 17
The parental home is finally empty and ready to go on the market.
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Charity Shop Finds – The Holy Grail of Hippiedom For The Price of a Pint
Vintage Vixen 8 Nov 17
Such is my love for Indian textiles that this January we’re touring the traditional craft villages of Gujarat, India’s textile state, where we’ll witness at first hand age-old techniques like patchwork, embroidery, tie-dye, weaving and block printing…
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Grey Is The Colour Of Indifference….
Vintage Vixen 6 Nov 17
said the artist, Gerhardt Richter, quoted on a current affairs programme we listened to on Radio 4 on the drive back home from London on Saturday night.
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Little China Girl
Vintage Vixen 3 Nov 17
If you only fill your wardrobe with clothes you love they’ll all go together.
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Somebody Else’s Guy & Another Woman’s Husband
Vintage Vixen 1 Nov 17
Am I happy that Halloween’s over! I spotted this dress on a mannequin in a themed window display in one of our regular chazzas three weeks ago where it was accessorised with a pointy hat, a bin liner cape, a besom broom and a plastic pumpkin lantern …
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Rockin’ In The Crypt
Vintage Vixen 30 Oct 17
As a child I could never quite get my head round how Dad travelled the world on business but claimed never to see much of the places he visited.
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New Boots & Panties
Vintage Vixen 27 Oct 17
I’m off to collect a parcel of pants from Ajay’s, the newsagent at the end of the road.