Vintage news, Artist Andy Waite exhibition and is it really almost Christmas? LOL
Hello from Arundel.
It's September 1st.
OMG
where oh where is the year going?
I guess the kids are back to school soon,
thats good news for a few fraught Mums.
( Yes, they are fraught, trust me, I've heard 'em ) LOL
Then, we will all be thinking of Christmas
EEKK
Ha Ha
I have loads of Arundel image Christmas Cards
maybe I should start selling them early.
It'll be here before we know it.
vintage news
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| Carolyn from Vintage@Chi a great vintage shop in Chichester |
Firstly, that great three piece band in
Tarrant Street during the Festival.
I found out they are called
Dawn's Vintage Do
and here is the link
to the website and blog
You will find the lovely Dawn
on
Facebook
vintage clothes
Secondly, and pretty exciting for all you
vintage clothes enthusiasts,
while I was wandering around
looking at the gallery trail,
I found, quite by chance,
The Vintage Room
It's upstairs in Nineveh House
(where
Arundel Eccentrics
were about 11 years ago)
The huge converted church in Tarrant Street.
There isn't a website address
but the contact is;
Elaine 07702 755611
They had some fabulous clothes,
handbags,
hats, jewellery.
It was stuffed full.
If you are into vintage clothes its
definately worth a trip to Arundel,
well, unless you live somewhere like
Kentucky,
then its probably a long way for a few frocks.LOL
Another great vintage clothes shop is run by Carloyn,
her shop is in Chichester and is called
Vintage@Chi
You will find her also on Facebook.
Pretty Nostalgic Magazine
There is a new magazine that has recently come out.
I have to say, I hadn't heard of it,
but it sounds wonderful.
Here is a bit about themselves,
in their own words.
About
Pretty Nostalgic
The
independent bi-monthly vintage lifestyle magazine celebrating everything that’s
brilliantly British has been enthusiastically
Nicole
Burnett and Sarah Legg
We
launched the first issue of Pretty Nostalgic magazine in May 2012, and we are
so pleased and proud of the feedback and reviews we have been getting,
especially as when we first came up with the idea for the magazine just a year
ago, neither of us knew anything at all about publishing, writing, producing or
designing magazines!
We
met in January 2010, when we were just starting out as vintage dealers in the
same antique’s centre, Sarah had started painting and renovating furniture,
previously she had been a community nurse and owned a coffee shop and tapas bar
and Nicole was selling vintage china and textiles after spending almost 20
years as a museum curator.
Within
3 months of meeting, we had decided to work together and started looking for
our own shop, we aimed high and found the largest shop (almost 4000 square ft!) we could find in the
busy market town of Cowbridge which is just a few miles outside of Cardiff in
South Wales.
In
September 2010 we opened Happy Days Vintage Home Store and Artisan Market. We both had plenty of space to sell as much
vintage furniture and bits and pieces as we could find, we had a beautiful
tearoom and we let out space to 30 artists, crafters, sewers, bakers, restorers
and growers in our artisan market. We
worked very hard at building the shop and it was and it is still very
successful, we especially enjoyed working with our many artisan makers and felt
very protective of them, we were constantly trying to educate our customers
into buying handmade goods, but we all seemed to be fighting a tide of cheap
foreign imports. The final straw for us
came when we were asked to advertise in a well-known British magazine and we
were sent a complimentary copy to have a look at. Inside on the shopping pages,
they were promoting handmade vintage items directly alongside cheap fake
foreign made vintage style items – the difference in price was glaring, £45 for
a handmade British cushion compared to £3.99 for the vintage style one from the
High Street, we were both so cross, were the British public really only
interested in the style and price of an item, didn’t they care about how, why
where and who made it?
Very
shortly after we decided to start our own publishing company, just like that
really, Nicole had always wanted to write a book and Sarah had a dream of
starting a magazine and so Pretty Nostalgic was founded in May 2011.
We
started work on our first book, Pretty Nostalgic Home, visiting homes of
customers and friends who shared our way of thinking, Sarah took many of the
photographs and Nicole started writing it and choosing lovely images from her
own library of vintage and antique books, magazines, postcards and photographs,
which she has been collecting since she was a teenager.
We
found ourselves a wonderful local printer and we met with them excitedly with
our book and magazine ideas and although they thought we were mad and didn’t
stand a chance in hell of pulling it off, they none the less humoured us and
helped us all they could, giving us lots of advise and quote after quote.
We
knew we would have to fund the development, design and print of both the book
and magazine ourselves and that was no small task. We wanted to have everything printed in Britain
and this was proving so much more expensive than China, but we had to stick to our
principals from the very start.
In
July 2011 we met Jo, she was on a press trip for another
magazine for which she was features editor, and as soon as Sarah found out she
was in the world of magazines, Jo was swallowed up in our enthusiastic plans to
launch Pretty Nostalgic. Amazingly she
didn’t think we were mad and really wanted to work with us, but unfortunately,
she was getting married in the September and so couldn’t be involved until
after. Through the summer, we kept
researching the world of publishing, visited lots of vintage and craft events
and festivals and found out what sort of magazine people really wanted to
read. We quickly realised that many
people felt the same as us and were getting bored and disillusioned with other
British magazines and we knew were doing the right thing.
We
met with Jo again in October 2011 and she accepted the post of Editor and we started
work on the launch of Pretty Nostalgic and aimed for May 2012. We all had an amazing amount to learn and at
the same time we were finishing and publishing our book too. We had to learn how to publish, write and design,
but as we wanted it to be unlike any other magazine, we couldn’t simply copy
what was out there. We wanted everything
to be the best it could be, we swore that all features in the magazine would be
designed individually, as artworks in their own right. We allowed our team, which now comprised of
Jo as editor, Sue as art editor and Jen as photographer, to have the freedom to
produce work they would really be proud of.
We invested in wonderful photo shoots and elaborate design, we wanted to
bring a new perspective to the magazine and we developed the identity of Pretty
Nostalgic.
From
the very start we decided that the magazine would only feature and promote
vintage, second hand, up-cycled and British made goods.
We
are, as far as we know, the only magazine, which excludes foreign made goods,
even if they are made for a British company and this is very important to us.
We want to provide an access point for people who really care about what they
are buying and actively want to buy vintage, handmade and British made goods
and we want our advertisers to know that we will promote British goods on a
level playing field without unfair foreign competition.
We
decided early on that we wanted the magazine to be printed on quality
environmentally responsible stock and that we wanted our stockists which
comprise mainly of independent shopkeepers, to make at least 40% profit on
selling the magazine and so we needed to sell the magazine for £8 to make it
viable. This did worry us initially, but
people have been more than willing to pay extra for Pretty Nostalgic, it looks
more like a book than a magazine and it is just so beautiful and different.
Well
we are now working on issue 3 – we have done it, we have launched our own
magazine, we are sold nationwide and have just increased our print run and we
have an amazing magazine team working for us.
We have kept all our ideals and have funded it all ourselves and we are
looking forward to the future of Pretty Nostalgic.
Artist Andy Waite
I see Arundel artist,
Andy Waite
who is a great favourite amongst the
Gallery Trail visitors
( and my lovely next door neighbour,
a few years back.
I used to live at 52 Tarrant Street
in some former life LOL)
Anyway, I digress,
Andy will be exhibiting
paintings on
Sussex Landscapes
at
paintings on
Sussex Landscapes
at
26 High Street
Arundel
Arundel
throughout September.
Saturday and Sunday
11-5pm
other times by appointment.
here is a link to Andy's website
http://andywaite.sussexart.com/
11-5pm
other times by appointment.
here is a link to Andy's website
http://andywaite.sussexart.com/
I'm pressing on with Victorian Bamboo
we have Ardingly Antique Fair
on Tuesday.
