Coming soon to Vintage Twists

I was hanging for this shoot. The items that always sell the best in my shop are dresses and I was starting to run low. A couple of 50% off sales I recently ran has been great for the shop both clearing out some old stock and driving new customers to the shop.

For this shoot we had a new MUA, Stephanie Webb. Great work by the quiet Steph. I really loved what she did with the girls with my favourite, the eighties stylin for Brianna. She is just starting out her business page on facebook so how bout giving her some loving and like her page here

We also had two new models, the mad sisters, Brianna and Kelsey.

Much hard work was done and fun had by all. Jho's Pics are as always fabulous (over 800 snaps taken over 4 hours) aided by Bri and Kelseys mums super stylin skills (Which Jho seems to think is more OCD than stylin) but her keen eye for stray threads, peak a boo bra straps and wayward tags was much appreciated.
Click Here  to like Jho's Pic's Photography facebook page
We have lots of shoes and some bags comming to the shop, as well as tshirts, skirts and a zillion dresses.
Here are some sneak peaks, contact me on facebook if you are interested in anything before it hits the shop!
VT

Knitting rugs, spiritual enlightenment and dogs mid air collisions

So, after a relatively crazy week at work I finished listing my pottery and vintage plate collection leftover from market stalling last year. Some really cute plates I'd forgotten about and this darling Meakin soup set

Meakin soup set
Great to be able to concentrate on listing clothes again. Even more exciting is my scheduled photo shoot this Friday with Jho's Pics Photography my regular models Nadia and Jenni and some new people Im looking forward to working with as well. Perth has an odd little Public Holiday this Friday due to CHOGM being held in our town. Yay! The Queen!

Had a great chat with a wise friend on Saturday Night who gave me several things to think about. She is looking for people who knit to contribute 1 metre by 2 metre bright knitted rugs to a cause she is involved in. Your knitted contribution will be embedded with a message of love and sent to needy women living in an African refuge. They don't like crocheted rugs because the holes spin them out (they think the rug is faulty) Anyone interested in this cause should contact me for more info or just get knitting! I have started my rug. I find I am thinking a lot whilst knitting. I'm spending more time in the lounge room at night with my family instead of on the computer. Im finding its a nice balance to my usual practice of destroying denim shorts so young people will buy them from my online shop. Im creating for a good cause as opposed to destroying for consumer driven desires. So, therein lies my spiritual enlightenment in a way. I guess.

My Monday. Goodness, what a Monday. The afternoon was spent watching a rehearsal for the upcoming play "When The Rain Stops Falling" written by Aussie playwright Andrew Bovell and STUNNINGLY directed by local Adam Mitchell. I was left feeling emotionally and physically moved. I was all choked up and astounded by this exquisite play, so well cast, so beautifully acted. If you live in Perth, you really must see the latest offering for Black Swan State Theatre Company which previews from Saturday, opening next Wednesday. Click here for booking info and here to go to the website.

So, lots to think about on the PACKED like sardines train on the way home.
Get in the house to see M vacuuming the couch, as you do, and the kids very upset about a mid air collision our weimeraner dogs had at the park. Sari had a blood nose and grazed inner cheeks. Anzac lost 3 bottom teeth. Crap. Not good. Also wouldn't have happened if the kids had 2 balls at the park instead of one. Like they been told countless times before. Sigh! Poor dogs.

Emerald City Treasury

I totally loved creating this treasury for the Etsians of Facebook team. Make sure you stop by each item and look at the amazing things people are selling and creating on Etsy.
EOF emerald city style

Above: found here: http://www.etsy.com/listing/48013065/wooden-toys-wizard-of-oz-dorothy?ref=tre-891859844-7

Recently listed in Knick Nacks & Bric-A-Brac

Some of my recently listed Vintage "stuff" in my Etsy Shop:
vintage seventies westminter serving tray         

vintage 1970s large carved brown wooden serving tray

vintage silver apple candles

vintage pink wooden shoe shapers 

Don't forget that if you 'like' me on facebook you get to see all listings before they are "live" in the shop. So, if you see something that you like you gety first dibs on it!

So here's the link: VintageTwists

Schools Drama : Improving literacy through Drama

Two words:
BRING IT!
Schools Drama

This should be how all children learn.
This should be how teachers are taught to teach

Great Chinese food, Live music & attempting to cook Haianese Chicken

So,
last night was the second part of M's bday present, the Chris Cornell concert at Perth Concert Hall. The first part of M's present was kind of a flop (We had tickets to the Sevendust gig which had been cancelled and we didnt know. Had a few drinks, got all dressed up, forked out money for a taxi.....only to get there and theres a man in a car with fliers saying "Sorry - cancelled") but we have since replaced those tickets with Foo Fighters tickets (Im midly - ok - a lot more impressed by that idea!)

We started the evening at the Hong Kong BBQ house in Francis STreet Northbridge.
Awesome. Authentlic amazing Cantonese food. Heaven.
We had the combination BBQ meat platter and noodles with crab meat sauce.

So, back to the lead singer from the bands Soundgarden and Audioslave as well as a successful solo career.
Oh - MI - GOD
Chris can sing just as good as he did back in the 90s and is charismatic to boot. He definately had the audience in the palm of his hand, taking requests shouted out in between songs from the audience. At one point he came downstage, front of mics and played/sang one song completely acoustically with no mics. The concertr hall is well enough designed that we could still hear him. AMAZING!

The Australian Newspapers review Chris Cornell Perth gig

Great night!

Now, with a hankering for chinese food, I am attemting to create one of my favs from childhood, Haianese Chicken with Chicken rice and chicken broth.
using this recipe minus the rice wine which I didnt have
Hainanese chicken rice

The kitchen now has chicken stock and ginger from one end to the other...but hopefully it will turn out ok otherwise all these hours in the kitchen will have been for nothing! No really, I will enjoy it, thats what matters the most!
A

Save from the shop or not?

I very nearly saved this awesome eighties bag from my online shop last week for a wedding and I just spent more time gazing at it then.....
who thinks I should save it for myself?

http://www.etsy.com/listing/61432294/vintage-1980s-black-leather-bag
It has the cutest paisley lining, and I owned one just like it as a teen!

Help me decide!

Currently reading.... The Sookie Stackhouse companion

I'm not quite sure when I turned into SUCH a book obsessed nerd. Ok, I'll admit, as a kid, I might have had the entire Trixie Beldon and Sweet Valley High collection. I also may have been obssessed with owning a copy of everythin an authour I liked had written.
But.
I do believe I have aged well and gotten quite a lot worse!
I actually cant remember when I got hooked on Charlaine Harris. It MAY have coincided with the first season of True Blood. I quickly consumed everything she had written, particularly enjoying the Aurora Teagarden series.

Charlaine Harris has a quirky writing syle and she is bloody funny too.

So, I finally got my copy of the Sookie Stackhouse companion.
This enormous book of awsome contains tit bits about all the characters, deleted scenes and short stories that havent made it into the other books.

Those of you that love True Blood and havent read the Sookie books really should! They are quite different to the tv series. Characters that are main characters in the TV series were killed off in the books very early on. Despite this, I still love both.
I bought mine from Book depository.com with free shipping!

The Sookie Stackhouse Companion

Weddings, birthdays rollercoasters and the inevitable Hogsbreath

It's been a massive week in Vintage Twists (and her owners) world.
As I drink my morning coffee and look back on the week I've just had, I have to ask myself what the hell the universe was thinking? Throwing that crap at me? I mean, SERIOUSLY?????

Good, positive, awesomeness was the 50% off sale in my store. Selling 12 items in one week was big for this 'lil full time with other (real) job. I could also be convinced to run it again, considering the space I made in my back room. As my gaze wanders to the rather large box brought in from the car yesterday, I realise that the space has been filled, twice over! (Working for a theatre company can have it's pluses come wardrobe clean out day!)

Also good positive awesomeness was one of my oldest and dearest friends, Fiona,  getting married. She looked amazing, radiant. Every time I caught sight of the gorgeous groom, Donald, gazing at her and turned into a blubbering mess. Wait until you see the pic, you will see what I mean about the way he is looking at her!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jhos-Pics-Photography/163252280376405
Whats more, at the reception, she sang to him. A moment I will never forget!

I wore a vintage 80's does 50's skirt from America, complete with crinoline to puff it out. I suspect the outfit just made my hips look bigger, but was loads of fun to wear.

The flip side to that seemed to be that big old thing, communication, threatening to implode my own relationship from the inside out. Thankfully, roller coasters have an endpoint. You can choose to get off or have another ride. Im a bit dizzy, but still on the ride.

Awesome above all maybe is reaching that milestone of seeing your baby boy look and act like a man.
Problem is, he is only 15, as of yesterday. 6 foot 3 and a half, size 15 shoes. Gigantor. What's more, he hasn't finished growing yet.
Took him and the family out to Hogsbreath Cafe and we just 'went for it'. Birthday boy O and M shared a meat tower which consisted of a lamb chop, a steak, a few ribs and a strip of bacon each, along with curly fries and salad. I had the chicken parma and Z had nuggets and curly fries kids meal. (we spent a while coaching him to try something different. He went for safe in the end. Classic spectrum behaviour. My sisters daughter touches many foods to the tip of her nose before trying them. The quirks that go with the syndrome are many and varied.

M and I convinced O to have the "Rocky Rd" desert as I had failed as a mother and not provided a birthday cake. An amazing feat helped by mum and Z.

So, a week of clearing out the Vintage Twists vault, new love, renewed love, ageing and celebrating.

Looking ahead I have the Chris Cornell concert next week....woot! Bout time I got my music on!
VT