my husband’s getting all steamy…

unfortunately it’s all steam punk and now he’s got me hooked on it even though it’s been around since the 80s.  i’ve always loved the tight bodiced corsetted Victorians with their bizarre and kitsch tendencies for building arcades and collecting glass paper weights and ferns.  Their obsession with mermaids and displaying flora and fauna in museum like display precision.  Jules Verne’s 20 000 Leagues under the Sea always fascinated me, even more so after a childhood submarine experience on the vintage style ride at WDW Florida.  I can still vividly recall the green sides of the submarine and its brown leather inside where you peered outside portholes at floating dummies somebody had weighted in the pool. OK so it was a bit naff by today’s standards, but it was one of the original rides from the 50s and it had this aquatic etherealness to it. It was a classic and so now is its poster. If you can’t imagine what i mean you have to read Celeste Olaquiaga‘s The Artificial Kingdom: A Treasury of the Kitsch Experience (the older publication’s cover is more beautiful available at Abebooks).  So now I have an excuse to bust out my Victorian style black corduroy jacket with gorgeous puffed sleeves and neck to waist buttoning…just needs a skirt like this to die for one. Handmade grey black victorian inspired skirt I found on etsy from PINaR ERIS  based in LA.  And with some accessories…goggles and some lace up heeled ankle boots perhaps.  Now i just have to get my husband a suitable steampunk gadget…

send it in a letter

as you know thelittleanorakgirl is an avid letter writer and as such keeps her eye out for all things letter. here are some of my current favourites to share…some vintage red class, some cute and kitsch and some vintage silhouettes lulu guiness style…

red vinyl vintage writing case by Bunnybissoux

vintage red phone and address book by homeandjoyhome

vintage 40s love letter wall hangings by freestylevintageco

fish wiffs…

trout are fresh water fish and have under water weapons pew pew! i have been indoctrinated by my other half of the finer song lyrics out there as you can tell, but this is a great line in the fishy song.  and he seems to have fish on the brain which now means i unfortunately do too. from fish songs to him catching up on some river cottage cookery TV programme whilst on a trip back to the UK, I am living with the fish back home in Greece. so about fish…I am fished out and I bring you this from etsy…

fisherman’s balm by swanmountainsoaps

and for a better home, who could be without…

vintage fish paper plate holders by five6seven8

and I do love kitsch…

vintage fish bowl ring by HeyYoYo