talkin' bout an evolution

As my friends, family and anyone who sits too close to me on the tube have no doubt heard many times, I love the shop Evolution on Roman Road. There are a few others dotted around the country but this is 5 minutes from where I live so naturally I went there to do some of my Christmas shopping when the idea of getting on a tube to Stratford or in to central was too daunting. I ended up buying stuff for both my sisters, my friend Elle and my friend Simone from there... oh and for myself. OF COURSE. I also got a free £5 gift voucher, swish. Well free as in I spent over £50 free so sort of like a loyalty card. 

Why do I like it so much? It's one of those sort of hippy homewares shops but has some really awesome stuff (guitar shaped candles, ying and yang sun catchers, Marilyn Monroe movie poster straw holders, mirrors in the shape of skulls - in fact, just lots of skull things) and the prices are great (I get carried away) and it's ethical.

When I went in there to do my Christmas shop they had a new line in - Dia de los muertos calaveras. Me encantas! I basically bought everything from the range,`including this brooch which I attempted to style with my silk Whistles shirt today....

Now I want to get all of the colours and wear them with everything! NO LUCY. I wear too many skulls....

I have also been enjoying this purple D&G lipstick, shade name 'purple pearl' that I got for £1 at a beauty sale. I don't really know if it suits me but it smells great and has such a lovely texture.

P.S. the skull in the background on the bookcase was from a charity shop on Bethnal Green Road, we keep sweets in his head.

day of the dead wedding cake toppers

clearly has to be done. Google away, oh the joy.

I would need this cake to complete my imaginary never gonna happen wedding:

by Julie Cupcake, click pic to link

little shop of horrors

Catherine just took us to a little shop of curiositys called 'The Last Tuesday Society' on Mare Street. She couldn't describe it before she took us there and now I understand why... taxidermy cats with wings, shrunken heads, a dinner table with guests fresh (decaying) out of 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre', celebrity poos in jars, a piece of felt from one of Al Capone's hats, The Cunt Colouring Book, taxidermy 'largest rceorded erect penis' from a man who was hanged (and well hung, apparently) in the 18th century, Pancho Villa's trigger finger, a jar of used condoms and a packet of viagra allegedly from a 2003 hotel room used by the Stones. Need I continue....

There is a £2 entry fee and they are a bit snooty, but they also have some more palatable (and affordable) goth/curio stuff such as the jewellery and these tin mariachi band figures that I bought to hang on my wall, click the pic for a link to the website. They're cute but I think I'm missing a trumpet/horn player:


Also, I've been wanting to blog these for a while, another of my favourite little finds, Russian politician Russian dolls, from a charity shop for £1, but sadly I'm missing the littlest doll, who I think must have been Lenin:

Ha looking a bit dusty....

home nonsense

Lifestyle Bazaar

I love all this shit. The Blaue Blume set (the cake stand is part of this collection) was actually a choice by Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen on that daytime tv show House Guest a year or so ago but I'd not seen it anywhere since. Another time he also bought some of the freaky trays of classical portraits with bird's heads instead of humans which are also on this site, s'fine. Obvs really want all of the Inkhead collection featuring a Day of the Dead skull design. Rock cakes on a rock plate please.

read my sips

Click on Coverdale's cheeky face to order your own. My flatmate got to report this as part of her job, pretty rad

Cats from Fame

I love tacky shit like this. There was a third one but her arm broke off. She is aerobicising in that big gym in the sky.

kitschen sink

It seems unlikely that I will ever be able to move out of my parents' house, but if I do, I'm all ready for tea time.




The photography/styling is sloppy but you get the idea. The top pic is a jigsaw box, I'm going to frame it and turn it into a picture. The second is a set of 4 china mugs, and the last picture is a set called 'Chelsea Flowers', there are plates and cups and saucers. Only mature guests will be allowed to use these; boys will have to use plastic cups and plates. For now, however, they will remain in their box until the day comes.

sylvanian families

When I was little I used to collect these. Working in a shop that sells dolls houses has made me really nostalgic for my sylvanian family sets and houses. Although I did always think it was a bit weird that you had like horses that dressed as people and lived in houses and horses who were naked and walked on all fours and pulled the little school bus along...

Facebook nosing I saw this art work and I desperately want one:




also these are pretty funny/cute/weird

heaven knows I'm miserable now

I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour
But heaven knows I'm miserable now

I was looking for a job, and then I found a job
And heaven knows I'm miserable now


In my life
Why do I give valuable time
To people who don't care if I live or die ?


Two lovers entwined pass me by
And heaven knows I'm miserable now


I was looking for a job, and then I found a job
And heaven knows I'm miserable now


In my life
Oh, why do I give valuable time
To people who don't care if I live or die ?


What she asked of me at the end of the day
Caligula would have blushed


"You've been in the house too long" she said
And I (naturally) fled


In my life
Why do I smile
At people who I'd much rather kick in the eye ?


I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour
But heaven knows I'm miserable now


"You've been in the house too long" she said
And I (naturally) fled


In my life
Why do I give valuable time
To people who don't care if I live or die ?

A lazy post, this is how I'm feeling right now but I have a fun weekend planned so fingers crossed. Morrissey postcard 10p from Sue Ryder Care shop, Emmer Green.

a woodland wilderness in which to wee

The best thing about my place of work phyically speaking is our toilet. We have turned it into a silly, girly haven, check it out:





Amazing. This sign I found in Beth's room has to be added to the door to complete the look...

xxx