Brixton Retro and Vintage Market



On the 3rd Saturday of every month, alongside the more traditional food, homeware and clothes, Brixton market on Station Road specalises in vintage and retro goodies. I thought this was a beautiful way to display old jewellery in an antique printing block tray.

Many stalls sold just vintage clothes, reasonably priced

I love anything old & haberdashery - so this sewing basket with antique cotton reels caught my eye and I bought some china from this stall - pretty plates, cups and saucers from only 50p!

Lovely, old fashioned knick nacks and spliffing good prices at the local carpet shop below!!

The choice and scents of different delicacies on display and being cooked was divine!
I loved this caravan!

 A lively and colourful market!

Old fashioned beaded necklace

An old fashioned necklace made out of vintage fabric and beads sewn on in flower shapes

Playing with the beads!

The beads sewn into fowers in different colour combinations

Measuring, cutting and sewing the vintage fabric, laying out and glueing the bead flowers

A pink variant - work in progress

 

Detail of flowers

Cluster of beaded flowers

The finished necklace

 

OT tempted by the ribbon fastening!



 

Plastic Seconds

At the Vintage festival recently I noticed a stall by "Plastic Seconds", selling fun and original jewellery recycled out of everyday objects. It reminded me of my attempts to make a necklace out of litter (See posting "Rubbish necklace at Design Festival!") It proves that everything can be given a second lease of life and beautiful objects don't need to cost the earth! Plastic Seconds clever use of simple pen tops, sushi sauce bottles, yoghurt pot bottoms...in fact all sorts, have resulted in unique and some quite avant garde pieces! Lush!  

Find out more: http://www.plasticseconds.blogspot.com or  http://www.plasticseconds.com

Illuminated necklaces

These lovely, giant illuminated necklaces, by Penelope Batley, made me smile when they were displayed earlier this year in the Gallery of costume in Manchester.

Lace ear-rings

My mum always inspires me! I love the way she uses a piece of antique lace to hang her beautiful collection of ear-rings from.

Rubbish necklace at London Design Festival!

In 2010, Design Bridge, the international branding agency, hosted a Feelosophy exhibition during the London Design Festival. Their staff were invited to submit their interpretations of Clerkenwell, where the agency is based. The reception of their London office was taken over by an installation expressing these interpretations. Sonic ID's Martyn Ware, and former member of 80's pop group Human League, created a soundscape for the exhibition.

Smashed car light, St John Street....

Crisp packets...

My route to work each mornng takes me through sparkling Hatton Gardens - the UK diamond centre. The Festival also coincided with London jewellery week. Coupled with my interest in jewellery, I was intreagued by the amount of domestic and commercial rubbish in this fashionable area. I combined these two themes to produce jewellery crafted from recycled litter!

I scoured the streets, skips and greens of Clerkenwell collecting all sorts of litter and discarded rubbish, cleaned it and then  fashioned the items into a necklace with a display box. I loved this project, apart from opening a matchbox full of maggots!

....all the links combined..
A rubbish necklace!