Wake Up Your Make Up!

Sobhan Collett will be a resident Make-Up artist at the Bungeroosh Gallery for this Christmas show. She's a professional make-up artist with years of experience. She also runs a number of local workshops.

It's a drop in set up so just come by and have a half hour session for £10 or book a longer one directly with Siobhan. It's really useful to have an overhaul on how you do your make up.

I know I've been doing mine (exactly) the same for years. The old boat race needs a little more careful application of make up these days to hide the increasing crumpled look. A look I used to have just in the mornings but now extends through much of the day. Don't get me started on sleep creases. The man in doors (or more endearingly called "the man in the bunker") will groan and call me vapid.

Also Siobhan makes you try all the techniques she shows you so you don't look great for a night and immediately forget afterwards how to recreate it.

I actually did a session in May and learnt how to do smokey eyes which can look daft on a woman in her 40's at the best of times. But, she achieved what I thought was impossible! I didn't look like mutton, a tranny or like I had been punched in the face. After four decades of never knowing how to apply eye shadow and never daring to try, I now have a handle on it! Now all I need is the time, the inclination and an a reason to do it!

So come on ladies (and gents, why not), give it a whirl. She does face painting for kids too and burlesque looks!

Peculiar Vintage - Red or Dead!

Red magazine have recently featured Stef Warde's Peculiar Vintage jewellery and her love tag necklace is now a best seller.

The necklace will be on sale for a 10 % discount at Bungeroosh this Christmas. Drop in and have a look around the gallery from the 27th of November, open for three weekends only. Take a look at the pics uploaded.

For more information:

Check Stef's jewellery out on facebook

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Peculiar-Vintage/124571304264396?ref=mf

or her blog:

http://www.peculiarvintage.co.uk/category/blog/

Lieber tot als rot!

Talking of world war II anti communist slogans devised by Goebbels, re-invented by lefty UK shoe manufacturer in the 80's, what ever happened to Red or Dead?

I had an amazing pair of shoes I bought from them in Camden market in the day...in my "Salad days".

Two tone. Platform. Brown. Patchwork, matching hand bag!

I kept them for 10 years until they got so high smelling I had to (reluctantly) bin them. I am sure a few unfortunate dates got a wif of cheese on more than one occasion. Talking of high. Rob was happy about their departure. I'm 5 foot ten and he doesn't like me wearing heels. Means I am taller than him. What's with that? Some "new man" he is.

Sorry, very banal. It's only November and I'm scraping the bottom for interesting things to say. Unless you people start talking to me or sending me stuff, it's gonna get a lot worse!

News from Carola Del Mese and Lux & Love

Thought you might want to know a little more about Lux & Love’s jewellery that has been selling successfully for the last 2 years at London and Brighton’s boutique tattoo shops, Into You:

http://www.into-you.co.uk/devils_own.php

as well as Brighton’s Hope & Harlequin, Made in Hastings, Wickle in Lewes and online stores Ecoboutique:

http://www.ecobtq.com/content/view/121/86/

and Dollydagger.

Designer and maker Carola Del Mese uses 80 – 90% reclaimed materials. She raids the brass bins at the metal recycling centre which she uses to make the unique and handmade elements, and recycles genuine vintage charms and necklaces, reusing the carefully selected semi precious stones and pearls.

This Christmas sees the launch of Lux & Love’s new creations, which feature themed collections of necklaces, bracelets, brooches and earrings starting with Ali Baba’s Arabian nights, Sailor Jerry’s tattoo parlour and Time for tea!

Lux and Love has collected vintage and antique charms, altered them & re-cast them in brass, mixing them with jewels and nuggets to make unique and limited edition pieces.

Themed collections for the future include Crown Jewels, Circus and Safari.

Teapots

Carola has been recently approached by the Kamm Foundation (the largest collection of artist non functional teapots) housed in its own museum in California. The founders have expressed an interest in buying some of Carola’s work.

More news coming: Stef Warde's Peculiar Vintage Jewellery featured in Red magazine and her best seller! 10 % discount on these Red Magazine pieces for Bungeroosh Gallery customers.

Art Angels & Typos!

Liz Toole has recently sold two of her prints to a card company. They are being published by Art Angels and will be available in galleries and shops all over the UK, including The Bungeroosh Gallery!!

I've posted two pics of them here.

On Typos!

I thought I'd also take this opportunity to share a classy typo with you (one of many in my life) that will be hard to live down but, nevertheless, very funny.

In an email, I recently requested that all my artists would need to do a minimum of two shits during the Bungeroosh Gallery exhibition! Strange kinda request, weird even, you might think!

I was, naturally, referring to the need for everyone to do two SHIFTS to help run the gallery. Anyway, Maria reckoned it would be funny if I add it to the blog.

Here's a few responses in italics. Worryingly, Su didn't notice my reference to minimum required bowel movements, Siobhan prefers it that way (weirder still) and I think Tanya is clearly concerned about my sanity but... she has a point:

Hi Lou, I will choose my shit nearer the time, far too soon for me to decide on shits!

Hope you are recovering sanity.Tanya La Mantia x

I prefered the shits. Siobhan Collett

Hi, Loved your email, you said shits instead of shifts.

I've had an awful day and it made me laugh ! x Liz Toole

It made me laugh a lot! XXX Sarah Ketelaars

No worries... the shits flew over my head! ... so to speak!
xxxx Su Breakwell

I don't have any shits do I? Siobhan Collett

Signing off

Two Shits-Lou