Search

Translate

Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts

Saturday, 19 April 2014

This Easter, The all time favourite Pattern!



Easter Special! 

Hello my vintage lovelies, Hope you have enjoyed your Easter Holidays so far! So what are the must haves this Easter? 

The current pattern that is basically everywhere, is checkered and gingham. I love this pattern , it is simple, sweet, cute and affective. Checkered and gingham has taken over the fashion world, you can find it in lots of different styles of tops, shirts, skirts and Trousers. There are many outfits completely based on the gorgeous patterns! 

One of the reasons I love this pattern is it is an old time classic! This pattern has been a favourite to many people in the past. Including some vintage stars!
Marilyn Monroe rocked this pattern in many different styles!



And Judy Garland













And a touch of Audrey Hepburn






What I found amazing is how today you see people wearing things similar to the clothing above! And it makes me think, do these people know they are rocking a look from some vintage idols!

For me this pattern is totally the Easter look! Lets find some treasures that you can buy for yourself as a special Easter Treat!


Primark,Traditional long skirt!

Other shops I have seen 
treasures in myself:
~New Look 
   ~River Island 
~Zara          
~Forever 21
~Select       
And LOTS more
(No guarantee)



Gorgeous simple topshop dress!






Topshop, gorgeous mini skirt :)



This cute pattern is everywhere, in the shops and online! So there are no excuses. Give this old time pattern a chance, you wont be disappointed! Maybe even experiment in the dangerous world of pattern on pattern like we did in the "Carrie Bradshaw" inspired post, Click HERE to view.



I hope you enjoyed the article my cuties! Have a great Easter, and wow family and friends with your checkered/gingham outift inspired by us! Please share our blog with your friends and family too! It would be much appreciated :) Dont forget to follow us on twitter and like our page on Facebook, for more updates and behind the scenes information! Click HERE for links. In fact if you yourself have a love for this pattern, please comment below, or even send a picture of your gorgeous outfit to us on our Facebook page! Don't forget to also comment any suggestions for other articles, or email us.
 Thank you soo much for Reading, and a Happy Easter to you all :) 
 Lots of Love, Buttercup x








Monday, 8 April 2013

Space...How to use it?? x



Hey Everyone!! I Hope your having a great Half-term, i know i am! Sorry we haven't updated the blog , since Easter but i hope that has given you a chance to explore old articles!!

Today's article is about Space! When designing any room , you must factor in space as a main thing. People say the more space the better , but i think that more space equals more gaps to fill and you can often get the "Over the top" affect. Small spaces can also be a challenge but with the right ideas and a lot of enthusiasm, small spaces can often look nicer, in my opinion, than bigger spaces. Shabby Chic designing is about feeling fresh, feeling relaxed and feeling free, but space isn't the key to that...

You will notice that in Shabby Chic interior , carpets aren't often  used normally floor boards or tiles depending on the room. This creates and open airy feel as supposed to the carpets which suggest a more cosy , sitting by the fire with a cup of tea, vibe. You may say well that vibe sounds nice and yes i will agree it does , but Shabby Chic is about being open and if a room in open it looks bigger than it may actually be.

When applying furniture to a small room you must always think necessitous for example a bedroom, furniture you must have is a bed and then storage in which ever form you wish , Chest of Draws, wardrobe etc... then there is the things that may be nice to have for example a bed side table, or a dressing table, or blanket box. You can't have all these things without it looking crowded, so you must pick and choose!  

As i have said soo many a time accessories can make or break the room, they are my favorite things by far!


I have soo many articles about each of the subjects i have talked about, that unfortunately often get forgotten as they were wrote in 2012 , so i do hope everyone remembers that when designing a room , my tips are found throughout all my articles. Here are some links relevant to this article you may want to check out:
Top 5 things to think about when designing a room
Mix and Matching!
Patch work Quilts
And here are some from earlier this year...
Wallpapers or Feature Walls (from 2012)
Lighting (Candles)

And my personal favorite article, even though it may be short and sweet...
That Cute Little Touch!!

I hope these articles help, And don't forget to check out article from 2012 from The Country Rose and Snowdrop too!! Thank you For reading 
                                                              Much Love Buttercup x x x


Other Articles You May Like!




Pictures are from Google. We have no ownership or copyright over these letters. All copyright belongs to Google.com and the original owners.
Enhanced by Zemanta

Friday, 29 March 2013

Easter Special!! x






Happy Easter!!
Hello Chums! All of us here at VintageCountryRose are wishing you a happy Easter, with our Easter Blog Special! This article is different to our others, as all of our bloggers are going to write an article for you, all in one place! Enjoy your holiday, whether you are celebrating the traditional festival, with lots of choccie, or just celebrating spring!

Before  I move on, just a quick reminder to Follow Us on twitter @VCountryRose, "Like" us on Facebook and Email us VintageCountryRose@gmail.com : For all the Background Information, gossip, updates and more! (Or just for a nice chat!) 

Enjoy your Holiday!


FASHION
Pop into Spring with these Cute Vintage dresses! Wow everyone, by looking fabulous but casual. And because I love you, links to were you can buy these gorgeous dresses are below :) 

Chambray Crochet Neckline Day Dress/Swimsuit Cover-Up



DENIM




How STUNNING is this dress?! Slimming and gorgeous. The lace just makes the look, don't you think? And get this : its only £31!!

 Buy it here! www.Vintage-Unique.com





www.mytheresa.com 
              ALTERNATIVES 
www.BHS.co.uk 










FLORAL 


91066.jpg

Another stunning dress, that can make you look beautiful : Whatever your body shape! A major wardrobe staple. 
$49.50 ( not sure how much that is in pounds though, sorry!) 
Available from www.Lulus.com 







ALTERNATIVES 

Cream (Cream) Parisian Cream Floral Print Sweetheart Lace Dress | 281332613 | New Look
Love this pattern, £27.99 for this gorgeous Dress!
www.newlook.com 

Laura Printed Netted Lantern Dress
Outlines your Curves! And only £25 pounds
from www.boohoo.com 

ASOS Skater Dress In Bright Neon Floral With Belt
No words to describe, simply gorgeous.
Available from www.ASOS.com





MAXI 

I love maxi dresses, somehow they make wearing a long dress simple and casual, easy to wear during the day, but still stylish and sophisticated. So versatile, you could really wear it for anything! Convinced you to buy one yet? No? Wait till you see these gorgeous ones!

 Eden Of Zola Maxi Dress 
Sophisticated : Yes. Simple : Yes! Steeply priced at £200 pound, but sure to make a staple in your wardrobe. One to save for! From French Connection.







Blue tie dye lace edge maxi dress
£30 pounds from River island : My favorite store!
www.Riverisland.com


ALTERNATIVES




Love the pattern, and mega easy to
pull of! £55 from www.ukmonsoon.com



1. Create the base Line!
Get a good even coat of eyeliner, and rest your elbow on a table or steady surface, this reduces the risk of wibbles! 
Apply the Eyeliner to the inner corner first, whilst looking STRAIGHT towards the mirror. Then do the same with the other eye. 

2. Then for the Flicking!
Make sure you eyeliner hasn't gone dry. Try not to blink, leaning back can prevent this! 

Its best to draw a dot were you want the eyeliner to finish. Then tilt your head back, and draw a line from the dot downwards towards the outer corner. 

3. Sweeping
Sweep across from were you stopped, across your lashline. 

And lastly!
Fill it in! In a sort of triangular shape. 


Finally, Check just to see if you are happy with your eyeliner flick. Experiment with thick ones, thin ones, long Cleopatra ones, or short cat-eyes! 

Clean up any fallen eyeliner flakes, and there you have it! 


My favorite Lipstick!  
You all probably know, that I love my Bright Lipsticks. Right now Im totally loving the Avon Collection Colourtrend! 
As well as being amazingly cheap ( The last lipstick I bought was under £3.50!), the colours are long lasting and lushious!

My favorite Lipstick from Avon in Shade,
 Poppy Love
           


If you want to wear a bright colour, but don't want it to be too Vibrant ...

Blot it! - Blot it carefully with tissue, basically kiss some tissue a few times, it will dampen the Intesity of the Colour, but will also make it last longer!


Apply a Lipbalm- If im going out to a nice place, I usually want to dull down my Lipsticks a little, so I apply my favorite Lip balms over the top, it also brings shine!


A friend got me this one, Use it so much, as it smells great!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~




Hello All, it is great to speak to you again and how exciting this is!! I Hope everyone has great plans for Easter and gets enough chocolate to last forever haha!! Today i am following the theme of a change and talking to you about Easter Crafts (as i have already done a spring/Easter interior Blog "Spring cleaning with a twist"!!





  
                            HOME MADE CRAFTS!!













First of all Card making i find Easter one of the easiest and funnest topics for card making!! You could do a jumping bunny , a bird in an egg or some flowers but the one i am going to show you how to make is.... 



( Drum role please ;) ) ... Is a bird pop up card , it was one of my favorite ones to make when i was little and still is , it is easy and fun to do too!!

You will need: 

~2 pieces of paper (preferably card and maybe different colours)
~Glue
~Scissors
~Colours/crayons/feltips

1. Fold an A4 piece of paper/or card in half. Find the middle of the paper and cut a line about 5 cm long across the middle!


2. Then Fold back each of the flaps to make two triangles


3. Open up the card and lay it down portrait way!


4 .Push one of the triangles up and pinch the edges together above the card. Do this for both triangles


5.Close the card and push down on the folds to make them well-creased.

            ~Then open it up!! You have a POP UP Beak~

6. Get your other bit of paper/card (A different colour is recommend) And your glue stick, glue it on the outside of your card (avoiding sticking it to the beak or it won't pop out of course haha) 


7. Write Happy Easter on the front and Decorate the inside of the card into a bird and then experiment opening and closing it you have yourself and opening and closing beak!! There you have it an amazing Easter Card!!


 

Here is a fun example of one , this one has used googly eyes and put string hair on it as a final finishing touch !! :) 

PREZZIES!! Well sticking to the theme of CHOCOLATE!!! I will show you a simple recipe!! That looks great!!


You will need:

~A slab of white chocolate
~A slab of milk chocolate   
~A slab of Dark chocolate 
(~Choose two from this choice of three, I know it is hard as all chocolate is yum~)
~A saucepan and a glass bowel
~A Hob
~Some baking paper
~ A spoon

Right now for the easy instructions...


1. Get your saucepan and fill it up with water, then put it on the hob at 180 c


2. balance your glass bowel on top of the saucepan


3. Break up the chocolate into cubes and stir until it is melted


4. Get the baking paper and drizzle the first layer on , It could be in a heart shape bass or it could just be a massive drizzle depending on what sort of effect you want.


5. Then repeat with an different sort of chocolate you have chosen for your top layer


6. Wait till the bottom layer is dry and drizzle the top layer all over


7. When it is dry you have yourself a chocolate gift!! ~Easy in 7 steps~


A close up of one could look like this...





So there you have it an Easter gift for anyone this year!! Easy, fun and it doesn't burn a whole in your pocket. I Hope everyone has a lovely Easter and has fun!! Please comment what you are doing for your Easter and if you have any questions!! Thank you All Buttercup x x x

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~




Classic Vintage Movies

Some Like It Hot! 
Starring the beautiful and talented Marilyn Monroe, and the fabulously funny Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. 

Made in 1959, a classic Black and White film, that can always make me giggle. 

The Film follows Two Musicians who witnessed a crime, and flee into an All-Female band, Full of Funny Complications! 

The film is dotted with fun, atmospheric characters. And also including some Lovely songs! 








GoodFellas 

Goodfellas.jpg

This is a 1990 American Crime Film. 
Staring Robert De Niro !
Henry Hill is a small time gangster, who takes part in a robbery with Jimmy Conway and Tommy De Vito, two other gangsters who have set their sights a bit higher. 

His two partners kill off everyone else involved in the robbery, and slowly start to climb up through the hierarchy of the Mob. Henry, however, is badly affected by his partners success, but will he stoop low enough to bring about the downfall of Jimmy and Tommy?

A crime/Drama, full of excitement! 




GroundHog Day!
Groundhog Day (movie poster).jpg


I absolutely adore this film! Made in 1993, but really a classic! A weatherman finds himself living the same day over and over again, trying to impress a beautiful woman. 

Bill Murray is Hilarious in this! Its a comedy/Romance thing, but really good for everyone. 



Forrest Gump



Made in 1994 but a complete Classic. Fabulous, Starring Tom Hanks. 
Forrest Gump is a simple man, with quite a low I.Q.but has good intentions.He is going through his childhood with his only but best friend, Jenny. . Forrest joins the army for service in Vietnam, finding new friends called Dan and Bubba. 

He does lots of other lovely things, but all he can think about is his Childhoos Sweetheart Jenny, who messed up her life. 

All he wants to prove,is that anyone call fall in love with anybody. 

Such a cute film, And a must see! 



Comment your favorites, Whats your favorite? 

Vintage Instroments
I love Vintage Instroments, they look so stunning and antique! Being an avid Musician I love my instroments, Here are my favorites. 




Vintage Guitars! 
Link here for places to buy them




Vintage Violins! 
Oh my, The Country Rose wants all of these! 




~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Vintage Pianos! 
Wow, these pianos are stunning!


www.thepianoman.co.uk/


Snowdrop's Article! 
Hey guys,

sorry i havent done a
blog in like for ever so i thought
considering the easter 


special is out, might aswell add onto it

my blog today is going to be about vintage tv shows,
When i was little my mum bought me a video tape,
it was called, watch with mother. This was the greatest
video i had ever watched, it included the woodentops,
bill and ben (the original), muffin the mule and many more
delightful favourites. How ever some of you readers may be a little
old for watch with mother, so there is always Sunday night at the


London Palladium, why not search some up yourself if your interested


in watching some

Love from snowdrop

p.s Happy Easter!xxx
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Well there you have it guys , our Easter Special , please to comment below if you enjoyed it as it will encourage us to do more "special" Articles such as this one for other events)! We have said everything from how to make presents and cards for Easter to fashion tips and fabulous films to watch!! We all hope you have a lovely Easter and hope you enjoyed our Easter special, Don't forget to show us your support by Commenting below, We would love to know what your plans are for Easter too!! Don't forget to support us on Facebook, twitter and/or Stumble Upon for more information on how to find us : Visit our "Get in Touch" Page!!

If you have any questions about any of the Articles on here please comment below or " Get in touch"

Thank you for Reading and From all of us here and Vintage Country Rose , have a lovely Easter!! x x x


Pictures are from Google. We have no ownership or copyright over these letters. All copyright belongs to Google.com and the original owners.