In Temporary Secretary’s own words their jewellery is ‘Super duper cute jewellery and accessories’ and we couldn’t agree more. We’re having a bit of a love affair with their Kitsch handmade jewels and can’t resist logging on to check what new pretties they have in their new section!
Pet my bunny
Delicious rings
Mmmmm ICE CREAM AND GINGERBREAD MEN!!!
Behind the beautiful and quirky jewellery designs we have a delightful girl named Sarah Wong, who as well as makes the pieces you see here draws pretty pictures!
Last week was the launch night of the wonderful Faun fashion label bridging the gap between catwalk and high street. Lovely open bar, lovely nibbles and wonderful goodie bags. Balladettes had a super evening with Danielle, Jaclyn and the Freeweelin bunch! Beautiful look book, we now you will love Faun!!
Then onto Jaguar Shoes for Melon Shrub zine launch… Murray, Ballad fave who you have seen at our various events doing live doodles has collaborated on this wonderful piece of finery including music, art and doodles
and a catch up with the wonderful illustrators Sandra, jamie and Erd. Whoop! What a night!!
Paulina is the girl who keeps on giving. She stuns us with more Fashion Week behind the scene shots, which, lets face it are the best kind of shots hehe!
Introducing Lucy Emma Harris to all you Balladettes! A Fashion Stylist based in London she documents all her goings on over on her blog, from Fashion Week goss to new suspender socks she is in LOVE with (and we might be too). But here on Ballad Of…we are going to show you some shots of her own personal work. That playsuit is to die for <3.
Meet Cults, a band that have been teetering about musical radar for a while, seeping up to the forefront on late night drinking endeavours of playing ‘Youtube DJs’. And guess what? It’s soul music, yes really. But by white people, oh me. Hailing from New York, their soft 60s sound, with chimes and xylophones, ethereal girlish lyrics (as in sweet, but a bit moody/grumpy too, not to offend anyone, I am pretty much basing this on my own character) across piano samples and turned out guitar, Cults are perfect ‘morning sun’ walking, erm, around music. You can practically hear the day starting in these tunes, and no matter how grumpy you might be, it will make everything better – for example consider programming ‘Go Outside’ into your alarm clock, its catchy but not so upbeat you want to punch it in the face and speaks of excitement of wanting to get out and, well, not waste time being inside – and in your case, in bed.
Have a look, listen to Go Outside
‘Most Wanted’ brings in more samples, and has a Ben E. King feel, where ‘The Curse’ brings out added depths of Cults, the ‘we’re not actually all that nicey nice’ thing, it’s about loneliness and heartbreak, and there isn’t a happy ending, it’s the kind of song you might have heard in a Shangris La album.
The Cults 7” is out on Forest Family Records, find out more here!
At Ballad HQ, we get very excitied about tea. Like VERY excited. It brightens our day infact, so when we spotted these gems from Esther Horchner we were in our elements! You should pop over to her website to see for treasure and lots of Pet My Ballad pretties! Now, one lump or two? x
…We stumbled across the sweetest website we ever saw. Fairytales and Hidden Notes is a treasure just waiting to be found, with jewels to adorn yourself with, its the perfect little stop shop to visit. We are head over heels for the type writer necklace Mmm. The story behind this beaut of a collection came from very early on, from a brother and a sister, true childhood partners in crime. They built fortresses in the garden and traps for the midnight thief. As the little girl grew Fairytales and Hidden Notes grew too and here we are today with all the creations. Love love love.
