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Easy Like Monday Morning
 Yesterday took us to Bath, one of our favourite places to trade. Business was a welcome return to form and we had an ace, sun-filled day hanging out with some of our favourite vintage sellers and...
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From Tray Cloth To Crop Top - The Vintage Linen Makeover
Remember the vintage accessories I blogged about here? The collection of bags, hats, stockings and gloves kept in immaculate condition and treasured for decades. This suitcase, crammed with household...
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Take Me Out Into The Green Garden
It's been positively tropical here in sunny Walsall over the last few days. Other than a vintage fair, the pub on Saturday night and a Sunday morning car boot sale I've barely left the garden.Several...
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Traveling The World - One Charity Shop At A Time
Considering I'd chucked on yesterday's clothes, sponging off the remnants of last night's dinner from my dress on the way out, several people stopped me in and around the chazzas today to admire my...
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Festival Ready? Just About!
Phew! The last few days have been a bit of a whirlwind. On Sunday we traded up the road in Moseley (Birmingham's Bohemia). As is often the way for a bank holiday event it wasn't mad busy but we did...
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On The Road With Kinky - The Acoustic Festival of Britain
We did it, The Acoustic Festival of Britain, our first festival of Summer 2016, done and dusted. The sun shone, we sold lots, met some great people and the only thing we forgot was an extension lead...
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A Day Without Dressing Up Is A Day Wasted
 This skirt has been hanging on the Kinky Melon rails for over a year. Every so often someone will pick it out, sigh and put it back, saying they never go anywhere to wear it. Sometimes a prospective...
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Hey Ho, Let's Sew - My Creative Corner
I've got a plan, I announced to Jon on Sunday, thereby scuppering his plan for spending the morning recovering from a boozy late night involving a home-made (by him) Indian feast, footie-lovin'...
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Slowly Does It
Sometimes the world can feel very bleak, especially after the horrific events of this week, but we have to remind ourselves that despite the sadness, life goes on. Most of the people who inhabit this...
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We're Not Worthy - Oh Yes, We Are!
Hand on heart, if you'd asked me two weeks ago I was seriously doubtful I'd make this year's Glastonbury Festival but, after taking things easy for a fortnight, the hip pain has subsided into a nagging...
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Glastonbury 2016 - Fun, Frolics and Mud, Mud, Mud!
This year's Glastonbury was, according to Michael Eavis, the muddiest in the festival's 46-year history and the subsequent traffic chaos made headline news throughout the world but did a seven hour...
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Ain't Talking 'Bout Dub - Camperjam 2016
Last Thursday, after two days mostly spent washing the Glastonbury mud from our clothes and abstaining from alcohol, we loaded Gilbert with vintage clothes and headed eighteen miles down the road to...
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Cornbury, 2016 - A Bit of Posh
Last week we trundled off to the beautiful Cotswolds with Gilbert, our trusty VW Camper, groaning under the weight of vintage clothing. Although the festival didn't kick off until Friday we had to be...
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Keep On Truckin'
We paid how much for a pitch? Jon muttered under his breath on Friday afternoon, wrapping his coat tightly around himself in a vain attempt to ward off the unseasonably cold July weather.The weekend...
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A Week in the Life - Weapons of Mass Destruction, Voodoo Heads & An X Factor...
What a week! Gardening, shopping, car booting, washing, mending, housework, tie-dyeing, shredding Levi's denim, waterproof bunting making, moving the stock into the new Kinky shed, reading in the...
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Buy, Buy Baby!
What's this, two posts in less than a week at the height of the British festival season? After four years I must finally be getting the hang of this festival trading malarkey. Gilbert's mended, fully...
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The Age Of The Train - Indietracks 2016
Indietracks is a festival like no other, an intimate gathering with a capacity of just 2000, held in the heart of the Derbyshire countryside, run by a team of volunteers with the annual profits...
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Sun And Steel - Kaya 2016
Another weekend, another festival. This time we were trading at Kaya, a festival celebrating world music, held in Port Talbot, Wales' steel making centre.With almost six thousand employed at the plant,...
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Lunch Date - What I Wore For Wetherspoons
Victorian, Psychedelic, Indian, Native American, Handmade, Charity Shop, Vintage, African, Birkenstocks, Topknot, Car Boot Sale, Turquoise.....if I did Instagram I'd have worn out the hashtag button....
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Cheap Frills
Isn't the internet great? Lounging in the sunshine, watching the laundry on the line fluttering in the breeze, I decided that I needed a couple of off-the-shoulder tops to wear with my freshly washed...
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