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A Guest at Penny Dreadful Vintage
If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter you will have seen that we have a guest staying with us at the moment. Can you see her in the above picture? That is the sight that greeted me when I went to...
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Bondi Hipsters Take On Vintage
I’ve been feeling a wee bit flat this week, so gave myself the day off blogging yesterday and have spent a large amount of today re-organising and cleaning my kitchen shelves. Labelling jars of...
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Tea vs Coffee
1940s Hammered Pewter Coffee Pot and Tea Pot at Le Grenier Last week while browsing a military magazine, I found this little gem from a 1942 booklet entitled ‘Instructions for American Servicemen...
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Just Chillin’
Apologies for the silence lately folks – last week I was on a much needed break where I did nothing but drink daiquiris, sunbathe and swim. This week (as some kind of punishment for too much fun) I...
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My Grandpa
My grandpa passed away last month. He wasn’t what you would have called the most affectionate man. Far from wearing his heart on his sleeve, I think he kept it under lock and key. Men of that...
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If you aren’t already organised with your Christmas tunes, below is a Spotify playlist I made of some cracking vintage Christmas music from the 40s, 50s and 60s (it is free and easy to join Spotify...
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The Year in Review
I love blogging, don’t get me wrong. But it has been incredibly difficult to keep it up this past year. In many ways 2012 was a year filled with worries, stresses, and sadnesses, none of which...
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Guide for a Single Valentine’s Day
Each year on Valentine’s Day, the number of couples going out for a nice meal together or giving each other cards is almost outweighed by the number of singles who take the day as a personal affront...
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A Vintage Website Makeover
If you have visited the Penny Dreadful Vintage website this week, you may have noticed some changes. We have given the old girl a total makeover, with fancy new layout, flipping images, and a...
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Leopard Print Coat at a Vintage Fair
A few weekends ago I visited the annual Farnham vintage fair. There I found the most delightful vintage leopard print coat ever, that made me look and feel like a superstar (a toasty warm one at...
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Welcome!
Hello possums, and welcome to the new-look Penny Dreadful Vintage! The blog and shop can now both be found in one place, so I hope you all have fun looking around the new joint. I had promised this...
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How to Follow the New Blog
This will be a very quick post from me possums, as I am about to collapse from tiredness. In fact, I suspect it is a sugar crash as I met a friend at Patisserie Valerie for a catch up and stupidly...
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Personal Style, Manners, and Why I Wear Vintage
A good friend of mine became reluctantly involved in what developed into a rather nasty Twitter exchange with a Guardian journalist yesterday. Although none of it was directed at me and I had nothing...
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I’m Back!
I have been told that one of the golden rules of blogging is that you must never apologise for an absence. In which case I should now simply breeze back saying ‘lovely to see you again dahlinks’,...
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Happiness is a Warm Cat
It has been quite a while since we’ve had an Elsa update, so I thought I’d show you a picture I took of her enjoying the snow. A dogs version of a snow day involves romping about getting covered in...
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Interview with Queens of Vintage
Some of you may have already seen this, but last week I was interviewed by the wonderful Queens of Vintage about the trials and tribulations of running a vintage business. It has certainly been a...
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A New Addiction
I am probably a bit behind the times with this one, but I recently signed up to, and was instantly obsessed with, Pinterest. Have any of you tried it? My goodness, so much fun! I never quite...
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How to Follow Blogs Easily
<a href=”http://www.bloglovin.com/blog/3121619/penny-dreadful-vintage?claim=jgquvfa2j9q”>Follow my blog with Bloglovin</a> Now that Google has removed their follow option for non-blogger...
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International Women’s Day: Still A Long Way To Go
Today I was going to post pictures of a pretty Scottish village. And then last night I came across the above image in the twitter feed of Elle magazine assistant Natalie. And no it isn’t a made-up...
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My Vintage Assistant
I was going to write some kind of review today, but it wasn’t long before I thought ‘stuff it, Friday afternoons should be reserved for animal pictures and other such fluff’. So I shall bore you...
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Cuddles with Baby Kangaroos
I am only just getting around to sorting out the photographs I took on my trip back home to Australia over Christmas. One of the most exciting things we got to do was to visit a friend of my mum and...
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Spring Sale Day Pictures and 1920s Outfit
The first Penny Dreadful Vintage open day of 2012 was held this past Saturday, and my goodness, we were unlucky with the weather! My friend Charly of Land Girl 1980 very kindly came around to help...
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Penny Dreadful Vintage now on Tumblr!
As always I am a bit behind the times, but Penny Dreadful Vintage is finally on tumblr! This is where I’ll be posting all the quirky things I find which don’t warrant a full blog post, but are too...
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A Very Vintage Jubilee Party
The week before last I did something very original. Something not many people have done in this world. Brace yourself for an amazing surprise: I went to a Jubilee party. Now I have never made a...
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Check out my bun
How do you like my bun? He was a present from artist Emma Block (who I wrote about a few weeks ago). He is fab, isn’t he – I love his little stitched monocle. Emma had quite a few of these printed...
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