Crafting Flower Hair Clips and Fascinators

I've been working over the past week on making some customized hair clips and hair fascinators for myself, in the hopes that I can start custom-making them for orders in the future. I am very pleased with how they turned out and can't wait to make a few more with the other materials I've not been able to use yet, including some more orchids and roses. I also plan on making some more fascinators with different ribbon, as I have all sorts of colors to choose from. If I can find some different hats, I'd like to use those as well.

I hope to try and list some hair clips and fascinators on Etsy in the near future. I'd like to gauge the interest of my readers to find out if you all would have any interest in purchasing clips and fascinators like the ones pictured from a place like Etsy? Please let me know if you'd like to see items like these featured for sale. I can customize the details on the flowers and ribbon to create something unique and beautiful, so if you have something in mind, just let me know and I'll see what I can come up with. You can either comment here on your interest or you can email me at vintagelovingmom@gmail.com. Thanks!

Enjoy!

Tiger lily hair clip

Worn in victory rolls hairdo

Straw hat blue gingham hair fascinator

Worn with hair down and parted to side in a hot roll set

Blue bird hair clip

Worn inside curve of victory roll

Worn with hair down and parted on side in hot roller set

Bee hair clips

Worn at side of victory roll

Orchid hair clip

Worn at side with hair down with side parted and hot roller set

Blue daisy hair clip

Worn at side of victory roll

Worn at side with hair down with side parted in hot roller set

XOXO,
Crystal

BooBoo Kitty Couture Skirt Giveaway

I was given the opportunity by BooBoo Kitty Couture to host a fabulous giveaway for my lucky readers and I know that you’re just going to LOVE it!

BooBoo Kitty Couture is a wonderful shop based out of the UK that offers custom-made dresses, skirts and couture reminiscent of the lovely 40’s and 50’s fashions so loved by women everywhere! The folks at BooBoo Kitty Couture offer their customers the ability to customize each and every piece to specifically fit your own unique measurements, making it fit you perfectly and showing off all that you’ve got! The dresses which are custom-made are fashioned after the wonderful films and styles so popular in their heyday. Their stock features such delightful styles as wiggle dresses, wrap dresses, full circle dresses, halter dresses, sun dresses, pencil skirts, and A-line skirts. BooBoo Kitty Couture can fashion any dress that you see on their site to fit you perfectly and can also make other alterations to the style or design in order to better accommodate your tastes and style. They can also entirely customize a dress for you from scratch, thereby making it uniquely your own. There are so many different styles to choose from, you’re sure to find all sorts of lovely styles that you’ll cherish for years to come! The shop caters to anyone and will gladly ship worldwide.

BooBoo Kitty Couture has a wonderful website that is currently under construction, but please be sure to visit them soon, as they will have all sorts of wonderful items to view! The shop also has a business page on Facebook which features all sorts of helpful information about their designs, as well as many, many beautiful photographs of their vast assortment of dresses they custom-make. Lastly, BooBoo Kitty Couture also has a great blog, which will give you all sorts of wonderful entries on vintage fashion and their clothing line.

Featured below are just a few of the many designs that BooBoo Kitty Couture carries, so be sure to visit their website and Facebook page and take a look at all they have to offer.

Black gingham prom dress with boned bodice
Photographer: Miss Rain
MUA: Miss Moo
Model: BooBoo Kitty Couture
Dress: BooBoo Kitty Couture

Pinup Girls Hawaii Print, Halter Sun Dress
Photographer: Miss Rain
MUA: Ms. Moo
Model: BooBoo Kitty Couture
Dress: BooBoo Kitty Couture

Love Birds Prom Dress
Photographer: Miss Rain
MUA: Ms. Moo
Model: Scarlett Daggers
Dress: BooBoo Kitty Couture
Jewelry: Quirky Boutique

Tiki Pinup Girls Wiggle Dress
Photographer: Miss Rain
MUA: Ms. Moo
Model: Scarlett Daggers
Dress: BooBoo Kitty Couture
Jewelry: Quirky Boutique

Bottle Green Gingham with Daisy Embroidery Dress
Full Circle Prom Dress, Boned Bodice with Halter Straps
Photographer: Miss Rain
MUA: Miss Moo
Model: BooBoo Kitty Couture
Dress: BooBoo Kitty Couture

One lucky reader will win a custom-made pencil or A-line skirt made to their precise measurements in a wonderful Hula Girls navy print!

Hula Girls in Navy fabric

*Image courtesy of BooBoo Kitty Couture

Pencil skirt by BooBoo Kitty Couture

*Fabric of skirt in image is not the print that skirt will be custom-made from, but will be Hula Girls in Navy.
*Image courtesy of BooBoo Kitty Couture

If you would like to have a chance at winning this lovely custom-made skirt from BooBoo Kitty Couture, please be sure to enter! One lucky reader will be randomly chosen on Friday, June 3, 2011. Entries must be received by Thursday, June 2, 2011 at 11:59pm EST. The winning reader will be notified by email and will have 48 hours to respond with their name and mailing address.

Good luck!

I would just like to convey my thanks and gratitude to the wonderful folks at BooBoo Kitty Couture for giving me the opportunity to host such a wonderful giveaway. Please be sure to visit their website, their Facebook page, and their blog, as I have only featured just a few of their many, wonderful designs.

XOXO, Crystal


Mandatory entry:

• Visit BooBoo Kitty Couture’s Facebook page and browse their photo album of dresses, then come back and leave me a comment telling me which dress is your favorite. In order for your mandatory entry to be eligible, you must follow me publicly on Google Friends Connect and be sure to leave your GFC username and email address in your comment.

Extra entries (please leave a separate comment for each extra entry):

• Follow the Vintage Loving Mom on Facebook and leave a comment letting me know that you follow, along with your Facebook username and your email address (worth 1 entry).
  
  
• Follow BooBoo Kitty Couture on Facebook and leave a comment letting me know that you follow them, along with your Facebook username and your email address (worth 1 entry).

• Follow The Vintage Loving Mom on Twitter and leave a comment letting me know that you follow me, along with your Twitter username and your email address (worth 1 entry).
• Follow BooBoo Kitty Couture on Twitter and leave a comment letting me know that you follow them, along with your Twitter username and your email address (worth 1 entry).
• Follow The Vintage Loving Mom on Networked Blogs and leave a comment letting me know that you follow, along with your Networked Blogs username and your email address (worth 1 entry).

Friday Favorites: Vintage Reproduction, Mobster Movies, Jazz & Punk

It's Friday and that means I'm going to share some of my favorites from the week with my wonderful readers! I hope you enjoy!

Halter dresses that help a Southern girl cool off in the heat!
I am loving both of these dresses!

*Image courtesy of Bombshell Vintage

*Image courtesy of Bombshell Vintage


Pirates, stripes & skulls! I couldn't help myself to picking both of these awesome finds up. I'm a sucker for punk!

*Image courtesy of Hot Topic

*Image courtesy of Hot Topic


Fashionable yet comfy vintage reproduction wedges! I am craving this pair of Lana wedges from Rocket Originals!

*Image courtesy of Rocket Originals


1920's and 1930's Jazz! Just one of the many favorites I'm listening to this week is Jasper Taylor's State Street Boys.

*Image courtesy of All Collection


Modern spins on vintage history! Most of you know that I am quite smitten with Johnny Depp, so naturally Public Enemies is one of my favorite period films!

*Image courtesy of Ask Men

Have a great weekend!
Crystal

Fab Finds: All Things Rockabilly & Pinup

I came across some awesome finds this week that I just couldn't pass up, so I thought I'd share them with my readers!

Cats Like Us is one of my favorite retro and vintage reproduction clothing and accessories store. They are based out of Tonawanda, New York, but have a very large online store and offer reasonable shipping, so I use shop their store quite a bit. Their selection of vintage, rockabilly and pinup reproduction clothing and accessories is quite impressive! This week I picked up a few t-shirts and accessories that were just too cute!

Pink Champagne boxed t-shirt that comes in a cute keepsake decorated cigar box. *Image courtesy of Cats Like Us

King Kerosine purple Stay True swallows t-shirt. *Image courtesy of Cats Like UsWhite patent leather belt with heart-shaped buckle. *Image courtesy of Cats Like Us
Beach Party white cat eye sunglasses. *Image courtesy of Cats Like Us

While passing by Hot Topic the other day, I found an awesome shirt that I just couldn't pass up. I love black and white monochromatic color schemes, stripes and Johnny Depp...so when I came across this raglan punk shirt, I just had to have it!

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides striped burnout raglan. *Image courtesy of Hot Topic

I hope you've enjoyed taking a peek at my goodies I found this week!

XOXO,
Crystal

Vintage Pinup & Rockabilly Photo Shoot Opportunity

To all of my local readers in the Northeast Tennessee area, (Tri-Cities, VA/TN/NC area), I have a wonderful opportunity for you!

The Vintage Loving Mom is partnering up with Lane Photography and Reed Restorations to host a vintage pinup and rockabilly themed photo shoot for an upcoming calendar that will be produced this Summer. The calendars plans are to include a twelve month spread of area pinup and rockabilly girls who are into the vintage scene, including plans to shoot at several different area locations using authentic and reproduction settings and props.

Pictured below are just a few inspirations of what genres may be included in the photo shoot.

*Image courtesy of Photograph Layne

*Image courtesy of Dayna Delux

*Image courtesy of Electric Speakeasy

*Image courtesy of My Zombie Pinup

*Image courtesy of We Heart It

*Image courtesy of Art Vision Studio

*Image courtesy of Dixie Pinup

*Image courtesy of Sephora

*Image courtesy of Pinup Lifestyle

*Image courtesy of Big Tattoo Planet

*Image courtesy of Natasha Bailie

*Image courtesy of Phillip Macklem Photography

If you are a vintage, pinup, or rockabilly enthusiast in the area who is interested in possibly being included in the photo shoot, please email me at vintagelovingmom@gmail.com and I will send you the photo shoot application.

Good luck!
Crystal

Vintage treasures & accessories recommendations

I have come across some wonderful Etsy shops in the past few weeks and thought I'd share them with you, as you will love their vintage selections!

I came across the Wiggle Perfume & Sundries shop when a fellow blogger, Punk Rock Momma, posted an entry about the shop and their wonderful selection of handmade perfumed oils, and boy was she right! I purchased the Honeysuckle Sweet Tea perfume oil and the Valdosta perfume oil, both of which have southern roots and floral scents to them. No surprise that Wiggle Perfume & Sundries has now become one of my favorites!

*Image courtesy of Wiggle Perfume & Sundries, Etsy

*Image courtesy of Wiggle Perfume & Sundries, Etsy

While browsing the Etsy shops, (which I do more than I should!), I found a great new vintage boutique called Atlantis Vintage, which has some great vintage jewelry, clothing, and accessories to pick from. I couldn't stop myself from picking up a great pair of vintage black and white spectator pumps from their shop! Be sure to take a look at their selections, as I'm sure you will find something that you love.

*Image courtesy of Atlantis Vintage, Etsy

I was also lucky to find La Poubelle Vintage, a great Etsy shop that carries some wonderful, vintage 40's clothing that is in great shape. They have a HUGE assortment of vintage clothing that is quite impressive. I grabbed a 40's style navy blue dress and a vintage floral swing dress from their shop and can't wait to break them in!

*Image courtesy of La Poubelle Vintage, Etsy

*Image courtesy of La Poubelle Vintage, Etsy

Last, but not least, I came across the Jitterbuggin shop that is, by far, one of most favorite new Etsy shops! Their selection of 30's and 40's styled tops, bottoms, and play suits is phenomenal. I absolutely fell in love with their 30's style denim wide leg suspender pants! Be sure to check them out, as you will certainly find something that you just can't live without!

*Image courtesy of Jitterbuggin, Etsy

Much Vintage Love!
Crystal