Free UK Shipping on ALL Karen Mabon’s Spring 2018 Collection Scarf Launch Today- Cycling, Squirrels & Best in Show.

Karen’s Spring 2018 Collection is a Beaut. Free UK shipping today so why not treat yourself?  Browse the whole fresh collection here.

The Best in Show silk scarf is adorned with horses, piglets, prize tomatoes, ducks and even a massive marrow. It definitely has Balmoral Show vibes.

As a cat owner I’m also pleased to see lots of cat prints in the Spring 2018 Collection. Lucky cats in two colour ways as the Today Is Your Lucky Day scarf, both Pink and Olive.

Then also in Lilac colour Georgette.

My scarf from previous collection below

There are more cats in the pottery prints, plus squirrels, sunflowers and cycles to finish up the  spring collection. It’s a sunny, gorgeous selection. Which scarf would you pick?

This photo with Mrs Meow below is one of my Karen Mabon scarves, which doesn’t have a cat sadly, but does have squirrels, like the new collection!

Last Minute Valentine Gift Idea- Kitsch Print From Jealous Gallery By One of My Favourite Artists Magda Archer

If I had a couple of hundred pounds to spend on art I would spend it in Jealous and I would spend it on Madga Archer’s work. 

I stumbled upon Magda’s designs completely by accident at the end of last year, thanks to the print below. I was watching the documentary about autism with Chris Packham and spotted this huge print in his home, with the Wire Fox Terrier, and immediately had to stop the programme to hunt down the artist. Unfortunately I found the print was £225 (here) which was outside my spending money, but I had found the artist, Magda, and could follow her on Instagram.

Instagram is so great for keeping up with artists you love, so if they do release short runs of prints for special events you can get a chance to own their work when at other times you might not be able to, so I was able to get a chance to get one of Magda’s Feminist designs before Christmas by being a follower on Instagram.

So in December I was able to buy a small print via Jealous Gallery, as well as do a good old fashioned cut out and keep job when Magda’s Brexit Print was featured in a newspaper one week.

If you want to check out Magda’s work and buy a piece for Valentine’s you can do so via London’s Jealous Gallery. I did so before Christmas and was very pleased with their customer service. Browse here.

Disneyland Haunted Mansion Ride 1970 SoundTrack Vinyl Album

I picked this up for my Haunted Mansion Themed bedroom

It was sold in the park from 1970 and came with a story book

It features the stretching room and scenes from the ride

Poor Madame Leota doesn’t look too hot

The organist repping it

Hat Box ghost making an appearance 

My Disney Haunted Mansion Themed Bedroom

Okay I know this makes me an absolute weirdo, but everyone knew I was an absolute weirdo already, right? 

So when we returned from Disneyland Paris in October I took buying Haunted Mansion nicknacks one step further and started turning my bedroom into a whole mini Mansion.  

This included Haunted Mansionesque wallpaper curtains, cushions, and lots of a purple and black everything else. I also have filled the room with plants and hung some plants from the ceiling. 

My brother surprised me with these for Christmas, framed copies of the stretching portraits from the entrance of the ride, which are absolutely perfect!

Below them I have framed the duelling ghosts from the ballroom scene. I had these framed to my brother for Christmas too, so it was funny, we had both bought each other Haunted Mansion prints! 

I also have a stretch of this gorgeous Haunted Mansion shag fabric but I’m not sure what to do with it yet. I might make a scarf or bag with it. I would like to make something to wear with it.

I would like to get some brighter photos of my room too. Any other Haunted Mansion nuts out there? Get in touch! @rudedoodle

Exclusive Up to 30% Off Savings On Spring 2018 Stena Line Sailings Between Belfast & Cairnryan For World of Kitsch Readers With This Offer Code

Here’s an exclusive, time limited offer Stena Line has shared for my followers! Drive from Belfast to Cairnryan or Cairnryan to Belfast between 8 February – 30 April* and save an amazing up to 30% off!

What’s the deal?

·Up to 30% off Economy, Flexi or Premium motorist fares

·Available on the Belfast to Cairnryan or Cairnryan to Belfast route

·For travel until 30 April*

·Book at least 48 hours in advance of travel

·Book by 13 February

*Travel period excludes 28 March – 8 April inclusive.

Just go to: www.stenaline.co.uk/world  offer code: World30

My Son Asked Santa For Kitsch For Christmas... I’ve Never Been So Proud. Knitted Toilet Roll Poodle Covers- Where To Buy Them In 2018 Britain.

Specsavers had a quirky little ad campaign for Christmas 2017 that ran along the lines of showing a tacky present, like a gnome, a toilet shaped mug, flamingo slippers, or a knitted poodle toilet roll cover like the ad above, and the tag line, ‘Get something more useful this Christmas, like a free eye test’.

Well Smix spotted the ad with the baby blue knitted Poodle in the Bloomfield Specsavers’ store window, and immediately added it to his Santa list. ​

As the Santa list read 1. laptop, 2. Candyfloss Making Machine and 3. Blue Toilet Roll Poodle, you can see it was quite a high priority item for the elves to find this unusual and rare item, plucked straight from the 1970s by Specsavers’ ad folks, so Santa’s elves must have broken into a cold sweat when Smix’s list dropped down the chimney with that request.​

Luckily for the elves, they found Gifts Galore 1962! Who for £3.99 plus £3.00 shipping can make a Toilet Roll holding Poodle in many colours, the colour of your choice in very short notice (turn around for Smix’s Poodle was a couple of days) 

Come Christmas morning Smix was delighted! The second generation of Kitsch was passed down.  

Let me know if you order a poodle of your own! 

Valentine’s Day 2018 is Super Sweet at M&S

It’s the first of February already, and time to start thinking of Valentine’s Day, should you have a loved one. Marks and Spencer have some wonderful sweet treats this year, from the very gorgeous Pink Himalayan Salted Caramels, the more fun gift idea below like like the little jelly Turtle sweets.

There’s also the show stopping gifts like the  Large Velvet Box of Chocolates (left).

The Marks and Spencer site has a Chocolate Shop feature in time for Valentine’s with lots of behind the scenes of how they make their finest and single origin bars.

You meet their chocolate makers and can watch videos about their invention process.

See it all here. 

You can also order Valentine’s flowers on the M&S site here.

I Wanna Live In Nadia Lee Cohen’s Mind- Kali Uchis’s Dreamily Kitsch New Music Video

Wood chip walls , topiary, vintage hair dryers, Nadia Lee Cohen is a creative genius, I wish she could style all of 2018. 

Watch the whole video here-