girl and the party: October 2010

time for tea #3

so I know I am running the risk of this becoming too much of a tea related blog.

but i couldn't not share these with you.

it would be such a shame for them to stay hidden in the depths of the charity shops in Waltham Cross. (which are by far the best, bargain filled charity shops I have ever had the pleasure of visiting)

wish i could have bought them all and thrown a very mad tea party. but having already snipped a Daks coat for a fiver and various other gems I couldn't really justify the penny a spending.

it all adds up don't it.

so the tea pot treasure hunt continues. i just don't think i've found my perfect tea holding vessel yet. have found myself being very particular with the criteria for: must be handsome but not too pretty. smart but not fancy. statement making but not try hard. reliable but not boring.

i know its out there somewhere. and yes i am still talking about tea pots.

i just take my teapots seriously. promise.

seems fine.

planning our party. creating a riot.

so Alice and I spent the whole of Saturday planning our party and creating a riot: we've blagged ourselves a band / club night type affair. should be lot's of fun.

we have named our night Riot Party.

we decided we should try and put on the kind of night we would quite like to go to and that our pals might want to come to. and lots of other girls like us might want to come too.

music wise we are going to play riot grrrl, punk, garage rock, indie, shouty chick based music and other trash you dance and shout along to in front of your bedroom mirror: all with less of the usual weekend pressure 'cos its a Sunday or something.

our number one task for the day was to design our flyer.

so off we went to Staples to do some photocopying and buy pens and art supplies.

(not very punk)

then we went to buy fizzy pop and crisps to get us through our crafternoon.

(also not very punk)

and then we started cutting and pasting and generally making a massive mess.

(a little bit more punk but not that much, because you can see we we're drinking out of tea cups)

so mess made and inspired by the epic play list we have compiled for the night. we created the below flyer for our party.

face by me. riot party logo by Alice. and the back was joint effort.

we are getting them printed ASAP and then will be frequenting night spots and making a nuisance of ourselves and trying to give them to you very soon.

In the meantime check out the amazing bands we have booked to entertain you, you can check them out on their myspaces if you don't believe me.
(*weep weep* the only thing myspace is good for these days - music, r.i.p the myspace glory days)

BITCHES

La La Vasquez

The Ethical Debating Society

Death of the Elephant

sunday november 7th. come. seems fine.

bag lady.

a little bit embarrassed that this is my current handbag.

don't get me wrong. i love a tote. and i love band merch. so this has been my favourite accessory of late. always on me or a floor somewhere. lugging my life around. unfortunately due to this it is now in a ridiculously sorry state. tried washing it but the grub just won't shift. also it has a few holes.
R I P Veronica Falls tote.

so the quest is on for a new bag.
feel like i'm on quite a few 'quests' at the moment;
the hunt is still on for the perfect teapot, a post to follow with the china delights i have recently come across.
i am also on the scout for new bands.
Alice and I are putting on a band/ club night and we need bands to play it.

but not any old bands. lovely good ones. like the band on the front of my precious but dilapidated tote above. Veronica Falls, they are pretty good. would love them to play the band/ club night , but that would be a bit of a massive blag and not sure if they would, although there's no harm asking i guess.
also quite like them because they have sung a little song about Beachy Head, a well known suicide spot next, to mine and Alice's hometown, the sunshine coast that is Eastbourne.

Veronica Falls - Beachy Head

the video makes the beachy head cliffs look so eerie and beautiful in a way i have never really noticed, i guess i have always just taken it for granted, so used to it being just a place that was the butt of most jokes and any references to do with Eastbourne.

seems fine.

Performance

so i finally got round to watching the 1970 film, Performance, on the recommendation that firstly i would like it, something to do with my love of violence and music related things?! and secondly because well its one of those films that isn't quite a classic and not quite cult as such but well just good and that I probably should see. so i did.