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Miners Lipstick Ad from Rave May 1966.

Songs for Saturday Pt9

Of course I had to link this weeks song to my shop, so the tedious link is..... Shop Around by The Miracles.  I was fortunate enough to see Smokey Robinson live a couple of years ago, and my, what a performer! He had the crowd in the palm of his hands within 2 minutes, and I'm not ashamed to say I shed a little tear when he sung You Really Gotta Hold On Me & Oooh Baby Baby.  Amazing.

Smashingbird Vintage is now Open!

I am very pleased to announce that my Etsy store Smashingbird Vintage now finally has some stock in and is open for business!

There are lot's more frocks & fancies to come, so please stay tuned. To celebrate I'm offering all blog readers Free Shipping worldwide when you enter code BLOGGER at the checkout.

Here is a selection of what is for sale right now....

70's Handmade Floral Dress

Kitsch Vintage Postcards

60's Cocktail Gown

John Travolta Mirror

Clothes by Samuel Sherman Dress

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!

Songs for Saturday pt8

This lovely tune has been stuck in my head all week thanks to Bill @ Anorak Thing. Shame the footage is of The Steampacket.

Shotgun Express - I could feel the whole world turn round (1966)