Back from the War.

Yes, we all made it back alive from 1939!

Many spam sandwiches were eaten, Camp coffee was drunk and we danced to the sounds of the good old days. The cottage we stayed in was constantly covered in hair grips rollers and stockings and through the mist of hairspray there was plenty of Team Love as we all enjoyed a weekend spending time with one another. 

Let the transformations begin...

This is me and my Brother. He's such a good sport, letting us draw him on a 'tasche. We had to be on tash watch all day and night in fear of my brother having a 'chocolate lip'!! Ever since I have started this blog he has been longing to appear in one of my blog posts. So here you are Bruv, you've made it!!

In the day I wore my dusty pink original pearl buttoned dress, matching earrings and brooch, a 1940's umbrella to shield my heavily sprayed pomp from the drizzle and 'Rita' my black fox fur. We didn't seem to come away with any evening outfit photos, we must have been too busy gasbagging and admiring everybody else, however I wore my new Bettie Page Pea green dress with a little wicker hat.

The photographer who took this is planning on making the photos he took from the weekend into greetings cards....keep your eye out for us in Paperchase!! (I wish).

Well, now that I am back, I'm working on the hair tutorials that I used on the weekend to show y'all. Keep in touch, don't be a stranger!

   Love as always, Lucille x.

Half of it.

Squeezing it all in...

...and that's only half of it!

   Love as always, Lucille x.

Play-bears.

Look at them big ole' paws!

   Love as always, Lucille x.

The weather is a swappin'.

Counting down the days until I can no longer step out in just a dress and parasol. In a few weeks time it will all be winter coats & umbrellas.

(Don't worry, they shall be just as glamorous!)

   Love as always, Lucille x.

Girls always make passes at guys with moustaches.

   Love as always, Lucille x.

Poppy line & Pin Curls.

We have our tickets for this year's 1940's extravaganza.

Now to work out hairstyles, outfits. I'm an obsessive list maker. I pretty much have OCD about the whole business....but a girl must be organised for such high class events! 

Last year the two of us caused a stir with my chinese wooden parasol and wound up getting interviewed for the local news (unfortunately the third member of our glamorous gaggle missed it, as she was stuck in one of the portaloos!!).

We lived in a caravan for the weekend, surrounded by hundreds of grips, clips, even waking up with them in our bed! Every night before bed I made the girls put rollers in their hair, even Inka.

Lucille's Locks will be in full swing, getting the dolls all dolled up each morning, ready for showing off on the station!!

   Love as always, Lucille x.

Open sesame!

Only certain fellas get to see what is beneath my stripes....

...SPOTS!

   Love as always, Lucille x

Help a poor girl out...

Look at these superb spectacles!

I bought them off Dead Men's Spex, but unfortunately rekindling with my old flame, eBay has left me with an overdraft bigger than Carmen Miranda's headpieces.

I  bought them with the original lenses in and the kind man at DMS fitted a clear lens into the frame. I don't actually need glasses you see, I just wanted to look cool and dandy.

These frames are just perfect, all original and authentic, just waiting to be shown to the world on a new face! They come in their own box to protect 'em in transit.

If any of you dollybirds are interested in these beauties then take yourself over to eBay where I am selling them. 

GLASSES SOLD.

Well, have y'allselves a spectacular sunday, Lucille and Inka are embarking on a soggy but sophisticated picnic at a Jazz festival a few villages down.

   Love as always, Lucille x