Morecambe Variety Festival

Bringing the Fun Back to the Seaside!!!

13 Jun 2012

Fantastic News from The Winter Gardens!

Some fantastic news for our firends at Morecambe Winter Gardens Preservation Trust! Next May, part of London Fashion Week will be taking place in the glorious setting of the Winter Gardens.

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24 May 2012

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A Glowing Report from the Lovely Amelie Soleil!

Found over on Amelie Soleil’s lovely blog today….original post here

2,000 audience members, 200 year old venue, 20+ performers, 2 days…

It’s been a little bit manic at Frayed Knot Towers recently. We’ve moved again and actually might be in the same city together for more than one night. Maybe.

However, we’ve been so busy, the past weekend of AWESOME simply crept up on us!

We love working for Neil Kendall and the team at Golddust so were so excited to be asked last year to perform at several of their events in 2012. The first of these commenced this weekend with The Morecambe Variety Festival after a 10 hour journey from London.

We had the BEST time. From ghost tours to icecream, sideshow stunts to sleepy showgirls onna train.

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Pippa The Ripper – Sleepiest Showgirl Carries Own Bed.

Wonderful, beautiful, superb and an absolute honour to perform at the event.

We have too many pictures but check out some videos of the event…

Frayed Knot Circus (us!)

AND do check out the entire festival shot & edited by Elly Hughes photo.php?v=3413627372598&set=vb.1027458370&type=2

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14 May 2012

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Fantastic Vintage Magazine Covers

Thanks to the lovely Fuzzylizzie at The Vintage Traveler, here are two amazing Vintage Magazine covers to brighten up a dreary Monday. These are from 1950s America….

Her original posts can be found here and here

First of all, a Glamour Cover from May 1950

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Having a Wonderful time on:

Vacations

Weekends

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And all the time keeping a close watch on the competition with those sly sidewise glances!

then an amazing cover from Seventeen, from May 1951

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If you look closely at the full skirt, you might be able to pick out the words, “I Love You”, which are applied in felt. All the separates are by Junior First, a label I’ve never encountered, but they are really adorable. Also note, they are on a ship. According to the cover notes, it is the S.S. Queen of Bermuda. I’m jealous.

Fantastic Vintage goodness!

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14 May 2012

For All Our Pin-Ups in Pinnies Out There

This is a lovely post from Jessica over at the fantastic Chronically Vintage. You can see the original post here

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It features three 1950s soup recipes for all you budding domestic divas! Ideal for all those wild, wet, and windy days we’ve had lately!

As Jessica puts it…

“This is not a day for complex meals or anything that involves reams of intense activity. It’s the sort of damp springtime Wednesday that calls for, to my mind, one food perhaps more than any other: a steaming, alluringly fragrant, delightfully tasty bowl of warm soup.

Whether on the coldest of winter eves or a drizzly May afternoon, there’s nothing quite like soup to comfort, nourish, and relax the mind, body and soul – which no doubt accounts in part for why this dish – in its countless iterations – has remained such a beloved classic the world over for thousands of years.

While we aren’t reaching anywhere near that far back in time today for today’s vintage soups, this trio of 1950s recipes (quartet if you count the suggestion of cooking frankfurters in your soup) featuring Lipton soup mixes that one jazzes up to turn into more exciting lunch or dinner fare, certainly harkens back a few decades and brings with it all the timeless appeal that soup has held since day one.”

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“Of the three recipes above, I think that the Chinese Noodle Soup appeals most to me at the moment, but the Tomato Fish Chowder and Milky Way Soup both certainly have their merits, too (I’m not the biggest seafood fan though, so I’d be included to turn that recipe into Tomato Chicken or Turkey Chowder if I was cooking solely for myself).

Aside from the ultra easy mid-century soup recipes themselves here, I’m drawn to – and just adore – the wonderful ice cream and coral inspired colours of this charmingly illustrated cookery page. Talk about fabulous vintage decor – or wardrobe – inspiration!”

Thanks so much for sharing, Jessica, we’ll get our pinnies on and give it a go!

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13 May 2012

The Liebster Blog Awards!

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*blush* We have been nominated for the Liebster Blog Awards by the very kind people over at The Big Forest. Thank you so much for this, we know we’re doing something right now!

First of all, this is the link to The Big Forest – a jolly lovely blog!

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We have been asked to do the following in acknowledgement of this lovely award!

1. Acknowledge the person that gave the award and link back to their blog.
2. Copy and paste the award to your own site.
3. Share five of your choice blogs to award and let them know by commenting on their blog.

We would like to share with you the following utterly amazing blogs, and to pass this award onto them!

The Friends of the Winter Gardens - without the fantastic Winter Gardens and the Friends, our task would have been very difficult! So we send them some blog love!

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