Friday Night Rock Night!

Last Friday Myself and Bethan went to our local rock night at one of our favorite bars... Trocs :)
The music was pretty bad but me and Bethan looked pretty darn good.
Pictures Please!

 Bethan went for a modern fresh young thing kind of look and I channelled more of a 60s vibe with a beehive and cardigan.

 

We tried out some Alfred Hitchcock type poses, I like doing this far too much.

 

Till next time folks,

Laura Lou x

 

It Christmas!

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Christmas opening at my cousins Garden centre, Richardson's.
They hold it every year, it always gets me terribly excited. Te smell of the roasting chestnuts, the sweet mince pies and the reindeer roaming around their fields! The only reason I was able to rein in my excitement and not explode was because it was a lovely hot sunny day!

 

Bethan and I dressed and ready to go, her in a more casual 1950s style and me all 70s like

 

Christmas and cameo, two of my favorite things

 

A snowglobe in action, so cute.

I loved these, but as I bought myself a little wooden nutcracker I was unable to purchase one. However My grandmother got one and I'll currently hatching a plan to nick it from her.

Me and Charlie boo looking at a Christmas tree... can you tell its posed?

So now thanks to Tracey and George Richardson I am on a Christmas high and will be until January 2013.

Till next time folks,

Laura Lou x

'Allo 'Allo

Okay so I have finally gotten round to this after saying for weeks that I was going to do it, I can't even use the excuse that I've been run off my feet with work. I was just being lazy.
Okay so a few weeks ago I went to see the stage production of 'Allo 'Allo.

When Bethan got the part in the show we went and bought a load of the DVDs and watched them continuously so I'm not a massive fan and an 'Allo 'Allo know it all :)
I think I was probably one of the only young people in the audience who actually understood what was going on so that was a bonus.

The story revolved around the painting of the fallen Madonna with the big boobies by Von Klomp but of course that wasn't the only storyline, there was the ever inflating ego of the Italian war hero Captain Alberto Bertorelli, the many affairs the cafe owner Rene has with this staff, the 'budding' romance between Herr Flick and Helga and plenty of scheming form the French resistance.
All in all is was one big laugh (in a good way) I, along with the rest of the audience, enjoyed it very much indeed.
(http://www.jarrowandhebburngazette.com/lifestyle/entertainment/theatre/review-allo-allo-the-customs-house-south-shields-1-4966140) the short but sweet review.

And now for some pictures!

 

The whole cast.

 

Characters from left to right. Gruber, Helga, Evette and Officer Crabtree

 All the Germans (and an Italian)

 

Herr Flick of the Gestapo and Helga

 

Bethan as Helga :) so proud!

 

A really awful picture of me and Bethan taken at the interval.

Well I hope you enjoyed that as much as I did,

Till next time folks,

Laura Lou x

 

 

'Sexy Bumblebee Eyes'

I sometimes go through fases where I wear outrageously bright eyeshadow, last year for instace where I think I wore down a whole colour palette in a few months. Well I think I may be once again entering that fase because the other day I donned my 'Sexy bumblebee eyes' as someone once called them.

To be honest though it's hardly a bumblebee look. All it is is my noral eyeliner with yellow eyeshadow but it looks effective and cute when teamed with red lips.

 I used to wear this look an awful lot last year when I went through my beehive days in which you could see my sporting the classic 60s beehive almost everyday! Ruined my hair I tell you.
And yes, that it Charlotte's hat you see me wearing. I think I have worn it almost everyday this week, There's no way she's getting it back haha.

On Thursday (which reminds me, I NEED to post about 'Allo Allo'!) I had a meeting with some potential business partners about a theatre project me and Bethan are hoping together, I went for a simplified 1920s makeup look, notice the lips. Once again wearing the hat.

A very (I wanted to say slightly but it would have been an understatement) photo of my. I digging the classic 1920s lips at the moment, it looks so cute.

Well, I'll update you soon on 'Allo Allo' if I remember.
Till next time,
Laura Lou x

(Saturday) Sunday, Monday Happy Days!

This week I've done a lot of pin curling.
I've been trying out a few different techniques, seeing what works and what doesn't.
Friday night was spent setting curls for Saturday. I looked like this...

 

This look made shopping at the supermarket a lot of fun *raises eyebrow*

 

A pretty little picture of my lips. I was watching a vlog on Diary of a Vintage Girl on how to apply and shape vintage style lipstick and I thought to myself 'with lips like these I don't need that!' though anyone else who wants a perfect vintage lip should check it out.

Saturday's hair looked pretty cute. I was going for a classic 1920s style for the night (another showing of Allo Allo and a night on the tiles), I bought a new dress from asos.com in the sale and it's uber cute. I'll show you.

A picture of me in my dress, with no head?

Full length view of the dress.

The hair. What I did was after pin curling, I brushed every curl individually then twisted it round my finger to give it some bounce then after about half an hour after it had relaxed I pinned all my hair under to make it short. A bit like a bob.

And what a surprise... another Caught Out photo of myself and Hannah Potter.

Bad quality!

The on Sunday night I decided to try a different kind of pin curl. I think they are called vertical pin curls or something like that?

I actually loved how this looked. Is that weird?

But anyway, they turned out like this...

I think it will get better with practise but it did look really cute with a hat on haha.

Fortunately it got even colder later today so I got to wear another hat and matching scarf (on loan from my 10 year old sister Charlotte)

Worn with my old 'millitary style' coat.

My alien face.

Nice and warm!

Till next time my lovelies!

Laura Lou x

What I've Done Since Monday

Well...
On Tuesday it was the opening night of 'Allo Allo' at the Customs House theatre in South Shields starring my lil' sister Bethan!
I am incredibly jealous of her, she is playing Helga and gets to wear a fantastic costume AND she has a finger waved wig! The green eyed monster may just come and get me (in joke for some of my friends there).
On Wednesday I officially became a student! Well, it's only a night course but hey, I still get the discount so who cares!

 

Me looking disgruntled at my ID card.

But lets rewind to the beginning of the day! *imagines time going backwards* Some lovely little postcards have arrived!

The first one I shall show you is this. On the front is a picture of, and I quote 'The waterfall, Ashton Gardens, St Annes-on-Sea'

 

 The back reads (and I was very pleased with myself for figuring this out)...

'Dear Mother, we are enjoying it here, everyday has been lovely. Will be back Fri Aft about 4-35 so I can go to P.G. Love Madge xxxx'. Isn't it cute?

It was sent to a Mrs Lawson, Bramley, Station Road, Banks, Southampton.

See

I can even tell you the time and date it was sent and where from!

It's because I'm magic you see.... and it's stamped on the postcard :/

Lytham Stannes Lancs.

6.30pm

6th September

1945.

Now the second postcard isn't so easy to decipher, the writing is very odd and I think it may be sent by someone who's first language is not English.

 

'The River and Cathedral, Inverness'

 Okay, I will try my hardest tell you all the content of this postcard but don't hold your breath.

'Dear .... thanks so much for Pavuk(?) M.... safety  J is a little built v .... .... the saw. Hope this finds Z all well. Ra dist love to all I w... Z... l... a...

J.R'

Good lord that doesn't make much sense does it? If any of you can decipher that better than me please do give it a go. I'd love to know what it actually says.

I also sadly cannot tell you where it was sent but I can tell you where from!

Inverness

2.45pm 

11th September

1945.

 Anyhoo, the morning of Wednesday was a particularly cold one which called for a nice warm outfit (I know what you're thinking, a small dress! But I am wearing leggings and socks too).

And a coat.

And that brings us nicely to Thursday!

When me and mother took ourselves along to the theatre to see 'Allo Allo'.

I wore my vintage greens which you've all seen before, I teamed it with a cute little Peter Pan collar top I got from George at Asda and a red bowler hat.

I shall post separately about 'Allo Allo' and give it a little review (which of course will be five star because my sister is in it haha).

A (vain) close up of the hat (of me)

Till next time, 

Laura Lou x

PP Arnold

By now you will all know how much I love 'oldies' music (I prefer to call it 'good' music) what with my Ronettes post and all.
Well Now I want to share with you another of my most loved artists from the 1960s.
PP Arnold.

Patricia Cole was born into a family of gospel singers, and so began her musical training at a very young age. An unfortunate marriage to David Arnold when she was only 15 brought a period of considerable hardship throughout her late teen years, but she persevered with her musical ambitions in the hopes that it would open the door to a better life.
(For full bio visit http://www.nndb.com/people/840/000043711/)


I first discovered her when I was around 9 years old and had bought my first 60s compilation CD which I believe I have already told you about.
Well, PP Arnold's song 'The First Cut is The Deepest' was the very last track on the disc and boy was it a treat. I used to listen to it over and over and imagine myself singing it in a typical black and white sixties mini dress and of course matching white boots.
When I got older I heard more and more of her music and understanding more of the world the words seamed to mean a lot more. I couldn't relate to any of them but you get the point (yeah?)

I was awed and amazed by this one song so much that it made me want to become a pop star just so I could sing it, but what child doesn't think that at one time or another?
So anyway, the point I am trying to make is that You don't really hear too much about singers like PP Arnold nower days. People only remember 'the greats' like Aretha Franklin and Dusty Springfield and beautiful singers with soulful voices like PP Arnold get forgotten about.

And lets not forget how utterly beautiful she was (is). her style wasn't typical, it had a relaxed feel to it.
Except for in picture like this of course!




It's hard to have a favourite song when it comes to PP Arnold because there are so many amazing songs like 'Though it Hurts Me',  'Angel of The Morning', 'A Different Drum' and her version of The Beatles 'Eleanor Rigby' but as it was the first I ever heard of hers I shall have to say that 'The First Cut is The Deepest' hold something a little more for me than the others and here it is for your enjoyment.

Till next time,
Laura Lou x