Swell Queens

Happy Monday, all! Wait...is there such a thing?

Did you have a lovely weekend?

I had ever such a good time at the IFB London Fashion Week party - Mademoiselle Robot did such a fantastic job! It was lovely to meet her as well as many other wonderful people, including the wonderfully glamorous Jennine Tamm of IFB and The Coveted, the adorably sweet Reena of Fashion Daydreams, the brilliant Gemma of RetroChick, the Daisy Lowe-a-like Holly of Never Love You More and the hilarious and chic Fritha of The Fish Tank.



Thanks to all for a brilliant evening! (above: Reena, Jennine and Gemma).

I am also very pleased/excited/overjoyed/delighted to announce that I am now a contributor to the wonderful website Queens of Vintage! If you haven't heard of this site, I highly recommend you check it out quick-sharp, as it's a wonderful resource for anyone who is truly passionate about vintage.

I have written my very first article for the lovely Queens, which you can read right here. It's all about sourcing vintage and antique parts to customise your favourite vintage outfit with or to use however you please! I hope you find it useful, and maybe even a tiny bit entertaining(?)

I really need to follow my own advice and get out on the hunt for new parts - all my good stuff has dried up! So no new jewellery to show you this week...but here's one of the photographs I took for my website (http://www.swell-vintage.com/) that wasn't used in the end.

I'm off on a mini-holiday from Thursday till Monday (a long weekend in London with my girls - very exciting!), but I will try my best to post before then. My new internet-tastic phone is due to arrive before then, so perhaps I'll even be able to do it from there!

Have a good week!

Much love,

Frankie
Swell Vintage

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Swell bloggings

I'm so so happy to have joined Independent Fashion Bloggers!

To use their own words, IFB is a web community to help bloggers make informed choices about monetisation, advertising networks and general blog improvement. It's a wonderfully friendly and helpful place, and many truly brilliant bloggers are involved. I found out about it through the site's founder, the lovely and stylish Jennine Tamm. She is possibly one of the hardest working fashion bloggers around! Her other site, The Coveted, is a cracking read.

So fingers crossed that my blogging skills will soon improve! I'm hoping that 2009 is going to be a big one for me, so it's very reassuring to know that the IFB is there.

In other news, I went on a vintage shopping binge today (whoops - it was a total accident). Photos soon to come!

I hope you've all had a wonderful Christmas break, and that going back to work tomorrow isn't going to be too painful!

Much love,

Frankie
Swell Vintage

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