Lucky Dip Club is Drag Race Themed This Month- You Will Hopefully Be Able To Buy The RuPaul Socks Without a Subscription From Their Store Very Soon- Bookmark Now!

​Lucky Dip Club is a monthly subscription box I get delivered, which sends me quirky socks and a pin badge, with a random theme each month. My March box arrived this morning I and squealed with absolute delight when I opened it and saw RuPaul’s face staring back at me.

I’ve blogged many times about Drag Race, I’m a huge fan. I watch every series and follow all the gossip on Reddit. 

If you want to get your hands on the subscription box you can sign up on the Lucky Dip website, or you can wait until later in the month, as they usually list their socks and pin badges separately in the store for sale if they have some left over, so if you just want to buy the Ru socks, you will be able to do so if you bookmark the site.  They should be on sale in a week or so! But if you want to get your hands on the Ru socks for definite, I would email them and check if you subscribe for a box today will it be the Ru box, as you never know, they might end up with no left over products for the store. 

Dragons, Snakes & Wall to Wall Kitsch- Gucci’s Autumn Winter 2018 Ready to Wear Collection

Severed heads, dragons and snakes on the catwalk along with Alessandro Michele’s gloriously quirkily campy and kitsch designs for Gucci as they showcased their Autumn / Winter 2018 Ready to Wear Collection in Milan this week.

I love it as there’s a real 70s and 80s feel to a lot of the tailoring. There are designs that remind me of air hostess uniforms of yesteryears, and power suits of the 1980s’.  

You can check out every single look, and there are close to a hundred, on the Vogue website. 

I can never afford even the Ready to Wear Collection, but I do keep my eyes peeled for accessories that are ‘heavily inspired by’ Gucci designs like this arm band.  

Bees are out, but tigers and snakes seem to still be in, as well as dragons, so those are the beasts to be looking out for when you are searching for bags, jewellery, shoes etc. if you want a Gucci look but not the price tag. Add some red and green and you’re all set! 

Take a Nosy Inside My Home, The REAL World of Kitsch: Taxidermy Piranhas, Castle Grayskull, & Haunted Paintings from the 1970s

My blog, when it started out in August 2009 was a place where I posted the charity shop finds I would return home with triumphant every weekend after scouring the Oxfams and Heart Foundation stores of whichever town we would drive to on our family day out.

I would have certain things in particular I’d look for. Art work wise I would keep an eye out for anything 1960s or 1970s, JH Lynch, or Shabner, the gypsy women, or glamorous glossy haired beauties that hung in every home in those decades, mass produced much like the more famous Tretchikoff Green Lady, which ironically I don’t own.

So I have a nice little collection of Shabner and JH Lynch ladies. I’ve also a small collection of Dallas Simpson big eyed kids. 

So, anyway, years ago I shared all my Kitsch items as I bought them, but I realised recently my blog is The World of Kitsch, and I blog about things like Karen Mabon, and Magda Archer, but really my newer readers might not know me as being truly a Kitsch lover, which is why I would love to share with you my home, and invite you to my Instagram account here, where you can see that side of me, and see more of my home and life, where you can see that side of me. 

So back to the art work. Two of the Shabner girls are downstairs but most of my 60s and 70s ‘faces’ are now upstairs in the third bedroom. Our house is a rental, and this spare room is a little empty. One wall is all book cases, and I use the other wall as a dressing table with makeup, so I’ve arranged the ‘faces’ as a kind of wall of them. 

In the decades of their popularity there was an urban legend about the portraits of sad children and that if you had them in your homes your house would burn down. I like to think if you have two then they cancel each other out.

So what else do I collect? Well I love taxidermy. I know it’s a controversial one. It skirts the topic of fur. It’s also very rare to find it in a charity shop, and you won’t find it in somewhere like Oxfam, but maybe somewhere like an ‘unbranded’ smaller charity shop, a junk shop, or house clearance. There’s always the auctions, and where I’ve found my pieces is either eBay, or car boot sales. 

Taxidermy isnt cheap, and that’s why I own very little. I have a fox head, a two headed duckling, a duck, another few birds, a stoat, another few other small pieces and a fake full size flamingoes. I would of course love more. I would love a house full. I’ve also two piranha that Smix hates with a passion. Oh! And I’ve a jackalope too! How could I forget!

Candle by Kat Kirk Addiction Tattoo Bangor

I also have three cabinets filled to the brim with Kitsch which I am refeaturing on Instagram at the moment, and a snowglobe collection. I started collecting them a few years ago cause I wanted to actively started collecting something properly tacky on purpose.

I’ve one cabinet that’s filled with awful properly mad Kitsch stuff, including a rotating glitter Last Supper clock, and another cabinet (a few photos below) which houses vintage Fisher Price toys and a Castle Grayskull. 

I also love World’s Fair souvenirs because of the retro furturistic stylings of all of the stuff to do with it. I have trays, ashtrays, scarves, and of course, snow globes.

My absolute pride and joy piece of furniture, which my parents bought me for my 30th birthday is my 1960s home boat bar. It’s amazing. I don’t even drink but it’s just the best.

So come join me on my Instagram and I’ll share a photo of it this week, I need to get a good shot of it! There’s a clothes’ horse in front of it right now! 

*Edit* here it is! Plus some more snaps from this week

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

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