A Little More Little Venice!
My My My… No i do not live in this house.. there are some pretty amazing houses in London… In the summer they have Architectural tours of this area.. you see groups of people standing around listening to the guide talking about the style of the house.. the architect.. and who lived there… 
What a sight! i never expected to see this…. A Ferrari all wrapped up in it’s couture coat
About Time!!!!
Photos taken in Little Venice London
Funny how you live in an area… and day to day pass by real little gems without really noticing what lies within!
Although i remember going to this pub years ago with my friend Merja.. [remember!]
Well i have to say that today the Sun was shining ……. i finally remembered to take the camera out with me….
I wanted to document where I’ve been living for the last 10 years…
I’m not a pub person…. reason being… pretty much a hang over from the days when pubs were the last place on the planet i would choose to go to.. to me they were cold hard places
Back in the day…if you looked a little eccentric or different… you’d walk in to a pub and the whole place would turn round look at you and pass some kind of smart ass comment.. I say that from experience!!
Well thank god thing’s have changed and changed dramatically…. Nobody bats an eyelid anymore… they’ve pretty much seen it all now…. well at least in London!
Pubs have gone upmarket! their friendlier places…. and here is the proof
The Warwick Castle W2…. Very Arts & Crafts, My Local !
This i beleive is a cemetry in Marseille – Provence.. what is quite amazing….. and really shows respect for the departed.. is the very georgious chair embeded in the tomb stone… what do we think here…. was it an upholster? was it the dearly departeds’ chair? or was it just pure symbolic artist licence on the part of the designer? For sure this was designed… by whom i have no idea! and for who.. equally i don’t know….. but what i do know is…. this is pure opulence!
This has to be one of the best photos I’ve taken…. but the view is outstanding… so i really can’t take much credit.. i have to admit that this area of Tuscany is quite mountainous & honestly i didn’t realize it.. but… i have a touch of vertigo in fact more than a touch.. so no mountain goats for me thank you very much… I’m a low – lander… just gentle undulating hills for me!
Lets just take a minute here and just look at this stunning country side….. all you people like me living in the urban sprall – the concrete jungle – the big smoke – the city.. whatever you call it [ I've got a few names to call it... but this is a clean blog] can just chill out and get the zen vibe Ohm…… Namaste!
Lady Mary + Jane
I love these lamps from Serralunga.. they’re Fun – Funky & have a classy look to them.. designed by Marc Sadler they are made from recycled polyethylene.
http://www.serralunga.com/
Don’t you think this is a pretty cool wine rack ? It’s called ‘Flow’ By Black & Blum
Oslo Tekonpol Poster
http://www.commandogroup.no/design
I’ll get back to this post later….. excuse me for now not enough info on this poster!
Catherine Kullberg Lighting
Hum…….. Seating!
Fatboy cat & dog bed’s http://www.fatboy.nl
B&B Italia: Jean Armchair Designer Antonio Citterio
Poltrona-Frau Italy Archibald Armchair Designer Jean-Marie Massaud
Don’t be Silly .
Jade Goody as Lynn Anderson-photo guardian.co.uK 'she won it!'
Example of having to pad out where the dress-form doesn't have it! Dolly Parton outfit Stars in their eyes 2006
[ No....... I'm not a fan! ]
For those who don’t know…….
Jade Goody of reality TV fame…… Big Brother UK 2002.
In her last 2 years
she fell from fame by re:entering the celebrity BB house & revealing her ugly bullying & racist behavior to Shilpa Shetty [ Bollywood star] http://www.shilpashettylive.com/home.html
Jermaine Jackson also in the house.. tried to defuse the argument… all played out on live TV! [you tube it]
It caused major international embarrassment for Prime-minister Gordon Brown
Her racist behavior was brought up in Prime- Ministers question time in the houses of parliament and made international headline news
she became public enemy no 1
Unknown entered Big Brother house 2002
Re: entered Celebrity Big Brother house 2007
Died 22nd March 2009
I got a phone call asking if i could make an outfit for Jade Goody…. for celebrity stars in their eyes [prior to racist thing]
“Sure” i said.
photos of Lyn Anderson [ 1966- present] were emailed dressed in her country & western style…
measurements + fabrics – trimmings lots of trimmings were biked over……… and you sit with all the images and focus in on doing a Fab copy……. Hey! that’s what the show is all about..
Then you got to figure out the measurements…. they are not the same as your dummies [dress-form] really not the same.
I’m a 3 dimensional girl myself… meaning i work on the dummy [dress-form]
flat pattern cutting is not my-thing!
Any way back to it…. You have maybe 3 days Top’s to do the whole thing from drape on dummy -to the pattern – make the toile [prototype] then make up the real McCoy! and apply all the applique tons of them…..
You finish just in time within secs… or the courier has to wait out-side till you have finished [ it's the name of the game]……
You get no credit… No photo… Just a thanks and told to put in your invoice…
This is for all those long suffering costumiers & tailors…….
Baroque Definately!
This is the Cuvillies Theater in Munich Architect: Francois Cuvillies built 1751-55
photos: Katharina Garrelt 
http://www.residenz-muenchen.de/englisch/cuv/index.htm
Many lavish opera productions were held here including Mozarts Idomeneo in 1781. for more indepth info on this Theater go to above link…. it’s not unfortunately…. a very good translation…no disrepect meant!
Rest In Peace ‘Michael’
LA based costume designers Michael Bush and Dennis Tompkins
I thought i would share this with you: taken from todays Sunday 28th LA Times.
The men behind The Man In The Mirror were L – A – based costume designers Michael Bush and Dennis Tompkins.
They quietly designed most of Michael Jacksons personal and concert tour wardrobes -tens of thousands of pieces… many with military details
Working from a Michael Jackson mannequin in their studio that was built to the singers exact measurements
The pop stars directive was always….. “This is what the world is wearing” Top it!
Now i have not been a major fan of Michael Jackson since he started really messing with himself… and felt pretty uncomfortable with what he had become… but there is no doubting the brilliance of MJ as the King Of Pop and his mastery on stage. So it is to this footnote that i have to draw your attention… he left himself wide open to be ridiculed in life and now in death the stories are going to come thick and fast and this is just one of the many! and the only one I’m going to draw yours as well as my attention to.
Footnote: Check this out if you are interested!
I was scrolling the net this evening and came across an article on et online it read
REPORT: Former Nanny Alleges:
So i read it…..as i was reading something said this don’t sound right.. there was a link to a blog
The blog is written by Mallika Chopra… under the heading
BLOODSUCKERS And The World of Michael Jackson……. http://www.intent.com/mallikachopra/blog
then i backed tracked to the Sunday Times article…
The Sunday Times article titled
What Nanny…. Who Worked For Michael Jackson Saw!! written by Daphne Barak.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news Art’s and entertainment.
[ you will have to do a search on this site to find the article as this post is a few days old]
This is a cheap shoddy piece of journalistic c**p
Honestly i don’t know if i should even be posting this article… it has really made me feel quite sick…
It says it all really….. “i agree with you Mallika” ……there are a lot of Blood suckers out there….and more to come..
This is a pitiful demise of an iconic figure….
Garden Vibes
If you live in the urban jungle like me! and your lucky to have a garden… which i am (lucky to have one) I can honestly say i could never be without one again……It’s roughly 40m2 ( 500 square feet) so it’s small
aside from the urban Fox’s who killed the 3 baby chicks last week…
I somehow though it would be a miracle if they survived.
Their parents (Blackbirds) had made a nest on a low [ eye level ] side wall of all places.. it has ivy coverage…
but a little careless….
Those babies are Gone – Dead – Eaten… by a B.s…d Fox…… I heard all this noise outside my bedroom window early in the morning rushed to the back door waved my arms around swore at it…. Mr fox freaked….. fell into next doors decking and bolted
Honestly i felt really bad…….. but what could i do?…stand guard 24/7!
I love my garden!
A little high tech
Check out the UK folding plug below…. if you live in the UK ………. or you have spent any time here
you’ll understand how great this product is……. especially when your traveling…….
The plugs are huge… a real drag to lug around! I have no idea when or if this product will get off the ground…..
Foscarini Le Soleil design Vicente Garcia jimenez
Foscarini Le Soleil design Vicente Garcia Jimenez
The storey of the chest of drawers
possibly 1960's re-pro chest of draws
Last year i went on the hunt for a chest of draws….. just about everywhere i went… “no we don’t have any”
How many antique – vintage shops are there on Golborne Rd alone?
“quite a few actually”………….. nothing on Portobello rd either
finally found Le Pigeon Rose, ‘they deal in vintage hand painted furniture’…
No shop though by appointment only…. www.lepigeonrose.com/
Anyway i emailed……… and Michael Macrae [one of the owners] got back to me
he sent some images of a few pieces he had..
So i made an appointment and went to their workshop ….
When i got there i thought “that looks really familiar to me…….. my mother had one just like that”…
i vaguely remembered doing the same thing as a kid….. painting the metal handles silver
Oh yeah!…. silver……
The chest of drawers was in need of a little TLC.. which is what Le Pigeon are all about!
they buy one off pieces of furniture …. do their thing & give their pieces a new totally lease of life!
We can paint it for you !… no …. I’ll take it as is
It was delivered….. I stripped it down, taking the Crappy-tacky silver metal handles off….
Painted it…. brought some bog standard wooden handles… now she was looking good!
but there is something missing……”A key”……… a key with a tassel hanging from it!
After my mother died and i cleared things up and away.. i found a key that fitted nothing.. I’d kept for it for no good reason….
Got the key i put a tassel on it….. and thought, ’strange if it turns the lock”…….
Put the key in the lock and it turned……. i couldn’t believe it…
Was this my mothers Chest of Drawers?
Maybe it was my mothers or maybe another… same make & style painted pink with silver handles….
I think this was one of those magic moments……
1960's reproduction chest of drawers
You tell me?
I found this for you!
Moroso Italy
Moroso Binta Chairs
Cocoon by Moroso
I thought i would share this company with you….. www.moroso.it/
don’t you just love these chairs…..I’d love them in my garden……
These Moroso Cocoon chairs look like they have been inspired by South African – Art – Culture
It’s pretty strange to me…… that considering Italians are not exactly known for being tolerant in regard to race
that this company has put Africans on their front page……. Hum! are things changing.. i don’t think so!
When traveling in Italy….. i was really struck at how marginalised the African population is….
in fact any peoples of colour from what i saw ……. are completely ignored, as if they don’t exist!!!
it’s a beautiful country…. but the politics and attitudes are much to be desired!
Actually i found it a bit shocking!
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