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I have recently become addicted to the Instagram app on my phone - a great social photo sharing app. I thought I'd post some pics I took recently on my trip to Queensland...

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The Women

If you haven't see The Women, you simply must watch my favorite film of ALL time. This 1939 flick starring Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Joan Fontain, Hedder Hopper must have rocked some boats at the time. Also, note that this film has a cast made of entirely woman yet the film is entirely about men! The costumes, makeup and hair are divine and cannot be faulted. Click on the basic plot summary below to find more info from IMDB about this film.

"Wealthy Mary Haines is unaware her husband is having an affair with shopgirl Crystal Allen. Sylvia Fowler and Edith Potter discover this from a manicurist and arrange for Mary to hear the gossip. On the train taking her to a Reno divorce Mary meets the Countess and Miriam (in an affair with Fowler's husband). While they are at Lucy's dude ranch, Fowler arrives for her own divorce and the Countess meets fifth husband-to-be Buck. Back in New York, Mary's ex is now unhappily married to Crystal who is already in an affair with Buck. When Sylvia lets this story slip at a country club dinner, Crystal brags of her plans for a still wealthier marriage, only to find the Countess is the source of all Buck's money. Crystal must return to the perfume counter and Mary runs back to her husband."

Check out the trailer below...

Cannibal Capers...

These are treasures all right, I am so inspired by Disney's Silly Symphonies cartoons right now, especially the crazy macabre plots, synchronized music, the timing and the way it all comes together.

"The Silly Symphonies were a series of musically-themed animated shorts that launched in 1929 and ended exactly ten years later in 1939. Disney's chief composer Carl Stalling (who would later reach even greater fame as the main Looney Tunes composer for Warner Bros.) began to grow weary of writing music to match the pre-determined action and gags of the animation in his early shorts. Stalling prompted the concept of animation dictated by the flow of music instead. With this, Walt eventually produced a line of unique, unrelated animated shorts known as the Silly Symphonies. Shown before the feature film along with newsreels and serials, the Symphonies did not feature known cartoon characters like Mickey Mouse and the concept was a slow start with Walt's distributor at the time".

 Cannibal Capers

 The Skeleton Dance

Hell's Bells

Clog it UP with Swedish Hasbeens

I have been in LOVE with Swedish Hasbeens for years now and in particular the Braided Sky High...and I think it's time I got a pair to match back perfectly with all my 50's vintage summer dresses!

My problem is that I cannot choose a colour...I am leaning towards Nature (bottom) but then I like the Black and the Red and the Mint and the Yellow and the Pink....

The Importance of a Dead End Street :

I discovered Dead End Street by The Kinks and The Importance of Being Idle by Oasis some time ago but have been recently rediscovering them on my ipod. Evidently, Oasis were hugely influenced by The Kinks - not hard to imagine why. Check out the video's below, both clips are GREAT and I love the shoes!

The Kinks, Dead End Street, 1966 (Ray Davies) 

Oasis, The Importance of Being Idle, 2005