I Love My Bedroom - The Art Wall

I love my bedroom! I love having a room that is just 'ours', and that reflects our personalities. Our bedroom is the 'darkest' room in our house, with black furniture and flooring, and a black wall with skulls on, and it is so wonderfully ours. I love climbing into fresh bedding and snuggling up, watching our TV, sneaking the dog into the room for cuddles when Stu isn't looking and on weekends, getting the dog, and both the cats in the bed too for the snuggliest mornings ever!

Since we got our new wardrobes, we have redecorated our bedroom and have started the 'Art Wall'. I love the look of walls that are filled with different pieces of art in different frames and textures, so now we have the chance to fill a wall, I'm totally doing it! One of our walls is black with skulls, and the rest are white to make sure the room isn't too dark. It's monochrome, with flashes of colour thanks to the bedding and now, the Art Wall.

I am more than happy to do art trades with people for art for this wall, so if you wanted to swap prints of my photography or polaroids for your art, let me know! I particularly love moths and butterflies in art.

Sass & Belle Hanging Butterfly Ornament - no longer available

Sass & Belle Black Photo Frame £4.95

Lawrence Canham Moth Print

Tea Cake Art for Mark 'Fightshark' Miller

Minimal Prints True Romance Print £10

Anbhz 'bitchin'' Cross Stitch

Minimal Prints Pulp Fiction Print - no longer available

Minimal Prints Reservoir Dogs Print - no longer available

The Painted Skull Death Head Moth Roe Deer Skull

Fred George Cliff Burton Print

The Range Butterfly on Glass Art

Fred George James Hetfield Print

Sass & Belle Turquoise Photo Frame £4.95

And that's it so far! The photo frames from Sass & Belle just have what they came with in them right now, but I'd like to switch them out for something, they are just so small it's hard to know what to get to put in them. I have a few pieces I have my eye on so I can't wait to see it grow!

Much love,

Kitty xxxxx

March Favourites

March was a bit of a different month, this month was mostly about redecorating and changing our home, rather than purchasing new goodies. I did get a few bits, so here are my faves...

Moth Print by Lawrence Canham

Lawrence is a fantastic tattoo artist that I am a huge fan of, so I couldn't resist snapping this up at Tattoo Tea Party for our art wall in our bedroom.

Death Head Moth Roe Deer Skull by The Painted Skull

Another feature on our beloved art wall, this is from The Painted Skull who I found on instagram and hunted out at Tattoo Tea Party. I love moths, I love skulls, this was perfect for me!

Rogers PU Biker Jacket £38

My Mum found this biker jacket in Matalan, and sent me a photo of it asking if I wanted to buy it. I couldn't afford it, but she is such a sweetie that she grabbed it for me anyway! Thanks Mum! It's also available in pale pink and baby blue, the pale pink is amazing too.

Lily Lolo BB Cream £11.99

I've never used BB cream before, but after trying out Lily Lolo's mineral foundation, I couldn't resist trying this. I got it in light, and it blends so well into my skin, and feels so light. It also stops me from looking flushed, when I get warm which is a biggie for me!

I got a few pieces right at the end of March I plan on featuring in a haul soon!

Much love,
Kitty xxxx

Tattoo Tea Party

For the first time ever, I went to a tattoo convention! I went to Tattoo Tea Party in Manchester and it was fab! As soon as I knew Keely Rutherford of Jolie Rouge would be there, I knew I had to be there. We booked in advance, and got there a little early. Once we were let into EventCity it was really well organised and well run. I was booked in with Keely first thing, so I went straight on the hunt to find her!

Keely was sharing a booth with her lovely fella Jethro Wood, another super talented tattoo artist.

Opposite was Rizza Boo, an artist I'm a huge fan of so I couldn't resist sneaking over to her stall to have a peek. I want something from her so bad!

Keely is working on my leg, this adorable leopard print moth is the last large part of it, next up is background! The colours are inspired by True Romance, mine, Stu's, and Keely's fave film.

It is super hard to take a photo of your own leg! It's on my inner calf, so tricky to photograph without it looking distorted. I love it so much!

Next up we wandered around and I took some snaps of awesome stuff we found around the event.

Relics 'N' Rust

Mrs M Vintage

I loved that painting so much, it's beautiful. 

Burning Sensations 

Aurora Tattoo

Le Segaula Tatau

It was incredible to get to see an artist working in a traditional hand tapped tattoo method. Stu has always wanted a traditional hand poked or tapped tattoo.

Rusty Pistons

Oh that car. Now that is proper car porn. Nom. How amazing would it be to get to have a go in this?!

Dr Phantasma's Side Show

I only caught a brief glimpse of the show, wish we'd had time to see the whole thing!

I bumped into the lovely Melissa Hayward. I photographed her about 4 years ago so it was lovely to catch up. She is a real sweetie, and such a babe!

I also wanted to go over and say hey to Shelly D'Inferno. I've photographed her clothing range with Maja Stina and I love Shelly's modelling. She was at the convention with Pyrohex, the fire performing troupe she is in. The blue haired cutie is Katherine Suicide, and the red head is Cervena Fox.

I somehow ended up in a photo with Shelly, Cervena and Katherine. Do excuse how tired I look! I'd been up since 6:45 and had driven 2 and a half hours to get there, then spent 2 and a half hours in an awkward position getting tattooed.

Cranfield's Curiosity Cabinet

A booth full of incredible taxidermy and my personal favourites, moths and butterflies! I've always wanted some framed moths and butterflies, I was so tempted by their Oleander moth, because it's one of the ones I have tattooed on me, but I couldn't justify the pennies right now.

Handmade By Me

I was actually wearing one of HMBM's pieces without even realising it. The Star Trek insignia necklace Stu got me for Christmas was from them. It seemed appropriate to wear after hearing the heartbreaking news of Leonard Nimoy's passing.

The Painted Skull

Now this is the stall I was determined to find! I follow The Painted Skull on instagram and had fallen in love with their death head moth deer skulls, so took the opportunity to get one in person! I can't wait to mount it on our bedroom wall.

And of course, I had to visit the lovely folks from Loaded Forty-Four. I bought a moth print from Lawrence Canham, and creeped on the amazing work Hannah Von Farren was doing, a palm piece!

I couldn't resist sneaking back to see Keely and to take a few snaps of her working.

Me and my lovely Stu <3

It was an awesome day, and I hope to go again next year!

Much love,

Kitty xxxxx

ps. How adorable is this little guy?!