Miss Kitty Boo Sales

Miss Kitty Boo Sales is now up and running.

I managed to get through part of my wardrobe over the long weekend and found a few bits and pieces that were sale worthy. Along with the items I have now posted I also took a lot down to the local Op Shop (thrift shop for those of you outside of Aus) so if you are in SA you might even pick some of it from there :)

Most of the things listed were simply listed as I had not worn them or only worn them rarely. I buy things thinking they will be wonderful for a casual day at home or running errands, but when it really comes down to it I do not have many days like this. I spend Monday to Friday at work so must be dressed appropriately and then spend the weekend mostly in my PJs during the day and then all dolled up at night. I do most of my errand running on my lunch break…

So, good news for you is if you are interested and live in Australia here is a bit of a taste of a few things I have listed. Not much vintage, but there a few vintage look items…

*sorry for anyone who is outside of Aus, I do not have PayPal yet so its direct deposit only*

Black silk look party dress - $15.oo

Sailor style long sleeve spot dress - $15.oo

Beach print wrap dress - $10.oo

Maroon, purple and yellow print high-waisted skirt - $7.oo

Green collage style jumper - $15.oo

Links below each image or check out all items at Miss Kitty Boo Sales. Check back for new items periodically.

Devilles Pad

I heard about this through a friend who lives in Perth when I was meant to be making a trip over. They insisted that I would love this place so I googled it and they were right! Just from their website I would quite easily say that I would frequent this place if it were in Adelaide.

All images from Devilles Pad.

However, to my dismay I went onto the FAQs and found that they have a over 25s age policy… luckily my dreams were not quite shattered as I read on to see “This has been put in place to encourage mature minded clientele and ensure a fun, safe and comfortable environment. We may allow select 20-25s into Devilles Pad, as long as they are well dressed and display a respectful and mature minded attitude. They must be within a gourp of over 25s or with a Devilles Pad member. Under 25s are allowed on Thursdays”

Here’s me hoping a can wrangle a group of 25+ year olds when I make my next trip to Perth!!

After being blown away by the photographs of this place I was continuously awed as I continued to browse the site.

The dress code is great, their motto “dress to impress”.

Dress Code: Smart to Glamorous.No offensive clothing. No badly torn or faded jeans. No jeans & sneaker combo. No work wear. No sportswear or sport shoes. No thongs.

But the thing that most impressed me was the constant stream of entertainment…

Every Thursday B-Movie Bonanza: horror, exploitation teen delinquents, 50’s & 60’s Music movies, biker, sci-fi, kung fu and underground movies you wont see on TV! But wait, theres more! Rock’n’roll karaoke: Elvis, Ramones, punk rockabilly, cramps, easy beats – guaranteed no mainstream hits! Plus $10 dinner.

Every Friday and Saturday: they treat you to a crazy cabaret of acts. Chanteuse, magicians, burlesque, dancers and sideshow acts. Along with some Show-Go-Go girls.

Their regular bands feature Rock’n’roll, 60’s beat, rockabilly, ska, Elvis, Tom Jones, Jerry Lee Lewis and more…

There is a dairy of upcoming events too… you can find it here.

But that’s still not all, they also quite a range of snacks and meals and even ice-cream. From tacos to pork crackling everything on the menu sounds pretty appetizing… (but I haven’t eaten my lunch yet).

The drinks are on par with the rest of place and they stock a range of top shelf liqueurs, international beers, champagne for most tastes and “a grand range of absinth”. The small selection of signature cocktails that they show on the site are equally as tempting with a Tequila Temptress for the She-Devil Delights and a Damnation Libation for the Demon Drinks.

I certainly hope to make it to this place one day soon (fingers crossed sometime this year) when I am back in Perth.

If any of you have been I would love to hear about it?

Spring Cleaning

With the long weekend coming I up and only one night out planned I made a promise to myself that I would do something and not let this extra time go to waste. As tempting as it is to simply sleep in and watch movies in my pj’s I figure I don’t often have 4 whole days to myself with nothing planned so I had better make the most of it. I considered rushing to out tomorrow on my lunch break and buying some fabric so I could “get my sew on” (I literally haven’t taken my new machine out of the box, but that’s another story) but thought it best not to do something that could simply lead to frustration as I don’t even have a “learn to sew book” yet. I then considered perhaps getting back into my polymer clay jewelry making or changing my room around and was quite looking forward to it until, I finally realize what I MUST do…

As I mentioned in my “100 eBay Purchases!" post, I had intended to sell online but without PayPal I couldn’t set up a selling account and I simply stuck to buying. Well, buying is exactly what has me in this dilemma… I have bought so many things over the past 4 years (since I last had a spring clean) that my wardrobe is at maximum capacity. I literally have to lean on everything at one end and push it with all my might to simply move it down enough to pull one hanger out! So I have come to the decision that I am going to clean out my wardrobe…

One of my wardrobes

Long shot of my wardrobe

As much as it pains me to even consider, I do KNOW there are things in there that simply do not fit me anymore or I haven’t worn in so long that I have just forgotten about them. I would much rather they go to a happy home and be worn then sit in my wardrobe hidden from the world.

Having gotten much more comfortable with the settings on blogger I figured I would simply branch out and set up a sales page for whatever goodies I decide to part with. And so… "Miss Kitty Boo Sales" was born :)

Feeling totally motivated at the time, I got onto fixing up the page at once… all that is left is the actually items to be sold. As I will be hopefully getting it all sorted over the Easter weekend I hope to have photos and measurements sorted by the weekend after or earlier should time permit.

I have created a page called “Shop” at the top of my blog which links straight to it and will do a post to announce the grand “stocking” of the site so keep you eyes peeled.

PS. My apologies for the poor quality photos, they were taken on my mobile phone this morning as I was rushing out the door.

Va-Voom Vintage

Brittany - Va Voom Vintage

Image from her blog, Va Voom Vintage.

For those of you who don’t follow this blog now is a good time to start. Va-Voom Vintage is having its first give away and the goodies look amazing :)

For details on how to enter click here.

I am a big fan of this blog and it is defiantly worth checking out. There are links for where find vintage clothing and op shops in America, England and Australia along with some amazing tutorials, movie reviews and fantastic outfit posts. Brittany from Va-Voom Vintage has some killer curves and she knows how to work them.

Also, on a spookier note after looking through her movie posts it seems we very cinematically in sync and have been watching all the same movies lately… hehe.

Screams on Screen

Image from The Invisible Agent.

Image from Pal-Traux Wordpress.

Well, I have just come across a rather interesting little piece of info! It seems there is wonderful new events business called "Smokin’ Betty’s Events". I saw something about them on Facebook and promptly became a fan, but I didn’t realize any events were coming up so soon… As I currently can not access Facebook I googled “Smokin’ Betty’s Adelaide” and found this on the Sparci site here.

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Screams on Screen - 1950's inspired double feature sci-fi film night

10th April 2010

Live: burlesque performer Miss Cherry Valens

Official after movie party at Crown & Anchor Hotel 196 Grenfell St Adelaide SA 5000

Venue: Mercury Cinema 13 Morphett St Adelaide SA 5000

Tickets: $25.00 (+ b/f) from Venue Tix

Time: 7pm - 10:30pm

"Smokin’ Betty’s Events presents their first events, “Screams on Screen” for all lovers of 1950’s films and culture.

After months strategic planning, set-up, and establishment, Co-Proprietors, Jessi and Phil have finally turned their vision into a reality and have released to Adelaide their first of many unique and exciting events as part of their fresh new business, Smokin’ Betty’s Events.

Screams on Screen is a 1950’s inspired double feature sci-fi film night with as much of the added culture in between, taking place as a one night only show on Saturday April 10th 2010 at the Mercury Cinema, 13 Morphett St Adelaide SA 5000.

From an era where Sci-Fi films were so bad, they were good, Screams on Screen will show two of the most iconic films of this genre. Forbidden Planet (1953) and Robot Monster (1954) both possess everyone’s favourite qualities in a low budget film – the hilariously dodgy special effects, corny one-liners, monsters, robots & the classic kidnapping of the damsel in distress scenes!
Amid this will be a performance from Adelaide’s burlesque sensation, Miss Cherry Valens, Tommy Kaye from Six O Clock Rock Coast FM 88.7 will be presenting door prizes donated from generous sponsors. Moxie Minx, Adelaide’s finest pin-up designer is dressing Screams on Screen’s usherettes for the evening who will be directing patrons to their seats as done in the 50’s.

Leading sponsor, The Crown and Anchor Hotel (168 Grenfell St Adelaide SA 5000) will be hosting Screams on Screen’s official “After Movie Party”. The Mercury Cinema is also a licensed venue so be merry while you sit back and enjoy a night of classic cinematic entertainment. Suffice to say, it’s going to be a fantastic night.

Smokin’ Betty’s Events look forward to formulating more exciting, fresh and uniquely vintage and retro inspired events and music festivals locally and nationally later into 2010 and further into the future.

Proudly sponsored also by Caffe Primo Mawson Lakes, Adelaide comic Book Shop & Adelaide Theatre Costume Shop. "

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I am thoroughly looking forward to further Smokin’ Betty’s Events and am going to make every effort to attend this one. Will take some piccies if I do and keep you up to date :)

100 eBay Purchases!

Today is quite a milestone in my life… I have made it to 100 feedback on eBay!

And when I say 100 I mean 100 people have left feedback for me after I have bought something from them. Although I had hopes to sell things online I have yet to actually do so… so every single digit of my feedback score is something I have bought.

Now, I can’t quite take credit for all of it as my mum and I shared an account until her eBay addictiveness took over and she created her own, but I most certainly made quite an effort toward it. Unfortunately eBay doesn’t keep track of you purchases after they are 90 days old so I can not see what the first thing I purchased was… but I vaguely remember it being a dress with pumpkins printed on it (which was worn so often that I literally wore a hole in it!).

Since I do not have a credit card eBay is about the only place I can shop online since I can pay via bank deposit. This can be quite a problem as I often find things on other sites that I would kill to have but alas can not buy. However, the lack of credit card has probably worked in my favor in the long run though I suppose… otherwise I foresee a wardrobe full of pretty dresses BUT an amazing amount of debt.

There have been so many wonderful things I have bought off eBay… some of which I probably wouldn’t even remember until I saw them. I love eBay for making things that are too find so easy to get. From my saddle shoes to TV series that were not released in Australia… it is a goldmine of hard to find stuff.

Although I can not purchase things with PayPal and therefore can not buy anything from overseas I still do OK just buying things from Australia… there are some wonderful vintage sellers and sewers who make petticoats and rock n roll skirts. I must say though, from when I first made my foray in the world of eBay compared to now there is a lot less quality vintage. I’m not sure if this is simply because it has all been snatched up and there isn’t as much out there or because people have simply stopped listing it… but either way it is rather disappointing.

I haven’t gotten any clothing or shoes on eBay for a while but I still find a way to spend my money hehe. My 100th purchase on eBay for instance was “The James Dean Story” by Ronald Martinetti. It is second hand but still in good reading condition and for $11 including postage I couldn’t resist. I have been looking for a good James Dean biography for a while and haven’t had much luck at all so it was quite a good find if you ask me.

I will do a post of some of my past eBay finds shortly but for now here are a few things I am constantly watching but am yet to splurge and buy…

I just think this is too cute… I certainly wouldn’t mind walking into my garden and seeing Bambi and his Mummy reunited :)

You can find this here.

The Real Bettie Page: The Truth about the Queen of Pinups.

You can find it here.

Mad Men – Season 3.

You can find it here.

She and Him - Volume Two

Image from Sound Of The Overgound

I have just myself up a copy the new She & Him album "Volume Two".

Image from sheandhim.com

I am a bit of Zooey Deschanel fan and I loved "Volume One" but was craving some new tracks for while (probably because I had the album on repeat for a good month or two). I have just gotten through the whole CD and not surprisingly, it is just as amazing as the first one. It still has that folky old world feel and sweet lyrics but this album seems to be a bit "sadder"... but that is just my opinion.

Even though I only picked it up on my lunch break today, I've already managed to pick two favourite tracks.

"Gonna Get Along Without You Now" and "Over it Over Again" = ♥

You can listen to the whole album here on spin.com. Definitely worth a listen :)