New Listings

Well what a glorious start to the week over here in Blighty. The heaven's have opened and it is grey & miserable! At least the garden is getting a good ol' drink.

I have spent the weekend getting some new listings up in my shop, this week I have added some bits for the fellas, do check them out!

60's Mens Unopened Shirt 15 1/2"

Vintage Mens Striped Unworn Shirt 15"

Watermarked 60's Leather Purse

Early 60's Modernist Tea Cups

Tootal Scarf - SOLD!

Psychedelic Dandy Mens Vintage Scarf

Classic Rockstar Velvet Mens Jacket

Also don't forget to enter my giveaway! I've had lot's of entries so far & there is still 2 weeks to go...

Best of Etsy - What a hoot!

So as you can see the theme for this week is owls. I love their kitschyness and I think they are rather cute. One of my favourite pieces of costume jewellery is a giant articulated owl pendant form the 70's I got some years ago, unfortunately a few years ago copies of this style were all over the high street (and still are) so I feel like I can't wear mine. I'd hate to think anyone thought I'd got it from Topshop (such a snob aren't I!) Do you have any vintage pieces that have made their way into modern fashions?

Custom Felt iPhone/iPod Cover

$19 from OhMyCake

Vintage Playing Cards

$2.50 from bostonbaglady

70's Plastic Brooches

$4.99 from kidlee

Vintage Big Eyed Vase

$60 from VintageZen

Whooo! 70's Knitted Tanktop

$28 from mbaugher

Winking Owl Pendant

$8 from VintageAlchemy333

Cutesy Pink Handmade Hairpin

$2.95 from littlehalley

Mod Owl Money Tin

$18 from chixycoco

Sarah Coventry Pendant

$30 from PeaceTraveler

Best of Etsy - Wes Anderson

Welcome dear blog friends to a new feature here on Smashingbird. I'm slowly but surely getting there with my shop listings so in the meantime I thought I'd start a new feature aiming to show my best picks from Etsy with each week focusing on a different subject. This week is all about my favourite film director Wes Anderson. Click the description below to go to the listing.

You too can get the Steve Z look with this fantastic temporary tattoo, available for  $10 from  

SteveZissou 

The ultimate Life Aquatic fans dream shoe, these may even tempt me into casual footwear - yes it is the Team Zissou trainers, $145 from zissoushoes

I think these Rushmore pencils are rather amazing, I want to join the Max Fischer Players.  Set of 18 pencils $25 from tiniestj.

I <3 this Margot Tenenbaum paper doll postcard, just $3 from claudiavarosio.

Here is an item for the Tenebaum geeks, a little woolly dalmation mouse, cute! $10 from WoolyGeeks.

Who can resist a finger puppet? This felt Max is $17 from abbeychristine.

More paper dolls from The Royal Tenebaums, here we have Richie, Margot & Royal in Futura, naturally. mabgraves is selling the trio for $10.

There are some amazing posters featuring homages to Andersons films, I particularly love this Typography Life Aquatic one, $15 from sap43187.

Finally we have a little something from Fantastic Mr Fox, this gorgeous Ash print is $18 from TheBlackSheepStudio

What is your favourite Wes Anderson flick? Do leave a comment to let me know what type of things you would like me to feature on here & I promise the shop is coming sooooon!

Faversham

Here I am in the historic Kentish town of Faversham this weekend standing rather oddly! 

I'm wearing a vintage early 70s Biba wrap around jersey top, 60's floral mini, vintage bag, sunnies & pendant. The shoes I bought the day before from New Look, I've been after a pair of sensible shoes I can actually drive in and thought these canvas & leather brogues would do the trick nicely and they are super comfy to boot!

I haven't been here since I was a wee thing and was pleasantly surprised by the mix of quirky boutiques, good charity shops (by this I mean non colour coded!), junk & antique shops.
Famous for it's Shepherd Neame Brewery, the architecture is fab too, lots of rickety old houses and tudor shopfronts.

I managed to score these cute little turquoise crochet hotpants from an antique shop where the very kind lady also gave me a cardigan which came form the same person too for free! I don't know if I'll ever be brave enough to wear these, maybe on the beach? 

Somethings

Kite & Butterfly, Vogue, Cosmic Dust Tumblr, Scott 4, Granny Takes A Trip, Fornasetti

Vintage Decorating Tips

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