Retro Fabuloso

Welcoming Little Hornby Fabuloso!!!!!

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 16:09:00 +0100

Today I bring you a very happy post, tainted with sorrow but ultimately the happiest thing I will ever tell people! Mister Fabuloso and I are Pregnant!!

I have wanted children for ages now, all I had to do was talk Mister Fabuloso round! It didn’t take long in the end! ;) I thought I would end up having to steal his seed!! ;)

We started trying last year and in November were delighted to discover we were Pregnant! I had a super easy time which worried me. I felt ill for a full week in the run up to Christmas but was fine by Christmas day and I just knew it was going to be bad news. It hasn’t taken long after coming off the pill. About two months. Which I thought was good going! I swapped my Pill for Folic Acid and did all the things you are told you should do. I unfortunately fell down the stairs at 7 weeks and went to Hospital to be felt all over and told I was OK. I had knocked myself out in the fall, it was only down 3 stairs! I felt pathetic haha! My bum ached! But apparently all was good and I was sent home and told to rest up!

Scan day rolled around in January at 10 weeks. We arrived and I had no hope whatsoever! I was glad of that in the end. It made it all better. It was less mentally stressful to discover I had a Blighted Ovum/Missed Miscarriage and the embryo had never developed. It looked something like this -

Just an empty sack. After the scan I stared blankly at the midwife as she talked to me. I don’t have a clue what she said, except when she changed the subject to talk about my make up. That I remember. All I wanted to do was go to town and buy myself some Pink Cigarettes and smoke every last one. So that’s exactly what I did!

I went home and started on the Raspberry Leaf Tea, it was my rescuer. That and my beloved Mister Fabuloso. It really helped and I would recommend it to anyone who is going through that. The only advice I could remember was from the scan a week after that to check what was going on inside me. She said I don’t have to wait to try again, just as soon as I felt ready! Mentally I was hunky dory! I wanted to get going again! Haha! So after another few months, a week before my 21st birthday, I wasn’t even late yet, I was starting to annoy people. I was a right moody bitch so I pee’d on a stick. It was terribly faint, but just enough to make me think, maybe….. On my Birthday I was late (Thankfully how crap would that have been!?) and there they were, 2 dark pink lines. Again we were Pregnant.

(That’s the first one!)

It was a stressful few weeks. I got sick for a few days at 7 weeks and then it stopped again like before so I kinda freaked out and booked an emergency scan at the Royal. The night before I was hurling everywhere but I didn’t want to cancel the scan! I just needed to know! I had myself dated at 8+2 but when I had the scan they said I was only 7+5 I couldn’t have cared less what the dates were then, it had a heartbeat! That was ALL that mattered.

That’s it. This tiny grey smudge that is so important… All it is, is a smudge, a smudge that gets bigger, gets born and you must you must protect and guard till you die. This dated me at December 24th which I was pleased at, it was December 20th which meant I had to go sometime before then or a while after NOT the 25th! Phew! I could go a week over and be fine this way. Yeah, that lasted long….

Coming up for scan 2 I was a little freaked out. I was worried it might have died and I was going to have to go through all of that all over again. But I didn’t feel like I did last time, last time I just knew, people kept telling me it was normal to feel like that but I was insistent this was different, it was no more. But this time I was unsure of myself, which I was glad of! I just wanted to know though! At about 9:30 on Friday I was called into the room for the scan with Mister Fabuloso and there it was, going mental on the screen, it had arms and legs and a head and a body and it was bloody creepy looking, that thing is INSIDE me, it’s moving and I can’t feel it, and it’s a small developing person that kinda looks like an Alien! Bloody hell was I relieved! We both were. My dates were moved again, it had a growth spurt… My dates were right to begin with… I was 11+1… Back to the 20th December! This child had SO better not come while I’m eating my Goose! I will be furious! I will take the Goose with me to Hospital! I will cross my legs until dinner is over. Argh. It’ll be just my bloody luck. I’ll try and go early 12/12/12 maybe? Or New Year and not move till after Christmas. Anything but Christmas day!!!!!

I would like to thank everyone who has supported me since last year. I love you all, I would list you all but you know who you are. You have made me feel so loved and so much better about everything. You are truly wonderful people and I love that I have you in my life.You will forever be my best friends. Xx

I also want to thank my wonderful darling Mister Fabuloso, who has been the best partner anyone could hope for. He has been and is my best friend. I love him with all my heart and I am so happy that this is the start of our new adventure, It has been long awaited and I really hope that finally it is OUR turn at this. Even if nothing worked out it wouldn’t matter as long as I had him by my side, he is my everything. He is my world. Xxxx

hey :) i just wanted to let you know that i adore your blog. I'm from belfast too :D you have such great style :')

Thu, 31 May 2012 14:52:43 +0100

Thank you very much! :)

Do you have Twitter? I’m @RetroFabuloso! Get in touch over there! You have to speak to me though to get a follow back! I always assume it’s bots! ;) Xx

I would very much like these shoes! (Taken with instagram)

Mon, 07 May 2012 23:18:36 +0100

I would very much like these shoes! (Taken with instagram)

Hallelujah I just love that man so… (Taken with instagram)

Sat, 05 May 2012 19:24:05 +0100

Hallelujah I just love that man so… (Taken with instagram)

Mother Of Pearl Lampshade. (Taken with instagram)

Tue, 01 May 2012 22:27:14 +0100

Mother Of Pearl Lampshade. (Taken with instagram)

Under a fiver charity shop haul! (Taken with instagram)

Tue, 01 May 2012 17:10:41 +0100

Under a fiver charity shop haul! (Taken with instagram)

My mum came over yesterday and we went to Tesco where she...

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 10:13:00 +0100

My mum came over yesterday and we went to Tesco where she introduced me to The Lady Magazine. How did I not know about it before?! I’ll definitely be buying one next Friday too!

I just went and had my birthday Gel Nails done in Paradise Nails...

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 12:01:08 +0100

I just went and had my birthday Gel Nails done in Paradise Nails on the Cregagh road. It was lovely in there and i’m looking forward to going back to gey infills done!

Today has turned into a lazy day. Babysitting all morning in...

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:50:02 +0100

Today has turned into a lazy day. Babysitting all morning in town and now lying in bed with Charlotte eating Aunt Sandra’s hand made raspberry and milk chocolate coconut macaroon watching Desperate Housewives.

New dress for 99p!

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 20:08:54 +0100

New dress for 99p!

Ormeau Park…

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 20:01:04 +0100

Ormeau Park…

Not So Vintage Now...

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 19:58:20 +0100

Hello folks! I’m moving up in the world! Mister Fabulous got me an early 21st Birthday present, a brand new Samsung touch screen. I’m struggling with the buttons as I’m not used to a touchscreen and it’s wild.fiddly but I’ll get there and i’m loving the apps!

Beauty In A Polkadot Case..

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:14:00 +0000

Strolling about the Cregagh last week telling myself ‘Don’t spend any money don’t spend any money!!’ I failed, I gave in, I entered all the Charity Shops I spent money. I spent £4 on myself. This was actually the last thing I bought, for £1.50, the rest is yet to be written about!

Mister Fabuloso has several different Leather Vanity Cases, 4 I think if I remember correctly! I on the other hand, had none, which thinking about it is strange, well I have the big hard Vanity Cases, more like a big make up case, you know the ones I mean, but not a set, so once I had shoved past a woman who was totally in the way (I waited ages while she was hoking on the top shelf with all her bags at her feet and I said excuse me please twice) I grabbed it off the floor and bounced to the till, it did say parts missing on the label but it felt pretty full and to be honest I would have just been happy with the case!

It’s mostly there! All I need to get is a mirror, a nail file, a Razor (I’ve been looking at lots of those recently!) and I can’t think of that the other thing missing is? But it has a glass perfume bottle with 2 cork stoppers in both lids, a soap dish which is metal on top and plastic underneath, a clothes brush, a hair brush, a comb and a talc bottle I assume that is with the holes in the top! I’m pretty pleased with it! Even though it has tiny scuffs in the Leather! It’s all character!

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Birds Eye Maple....

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:19:00 +0000

I was doing my daily ‘free stuff’ search and someone had posted that they were giving away a 1960s dressing table and to email them for photos.

These were the photo’s I received! I couldn’t email her back quick enough! It became mine in a matter of minutes! It was quite far away though, in Ardglass but the woman who was giving it away was also called Alice and that was what made me decide I would make my Dad drive down to get it for me! (I REALLY need to learn to drive, and get a bigger house!)

It arrived tonight. My Dad went to Ardglass in the afternoon and he said it was beautiful! Alice lived right on the bay and apparently she lived in a Duck Egg Blue house with a Pink door. It sounds incredible! I would have loved to have seen it! She is moving though, to a Fisherman’s Cottage on an Island. How lucky is she? I am pretty jealous. I’m sure it will be amazing!

Sorry the photos are so bad! I couldn’t work the camera!

The Handles have tiny Cross Stitch Roses clipped into them, one had fallen out but it was in the bag of Glass that arrived with it so I just clipped it back in which was handy but if it hadn’t been I would be sewing one right now!

This is bad photo but once I get it fixed up I will post another one it just wasn’t working for me! This is of an etched glass panel that slots into a hole in the wood. There are flowers and little petals on it. Underneath this is a hole in the wood for a light fitting! The light shines up onto the mirror, how cool is that!? I can’t wait to fit lights into it! I will be keeping an eye out for some Brass ones so if anyone sees any let me know! Although I have emailed Alice to ask if she knows where they are incase they get thrown out! Unfortunately they left side glass panel is broken so I will be getting a new one made for it! I can’t even stick it back together in the meanwhile because all the pieces aren’t there, but I will be keeping the original in one of the drawers.

Alice told my Dad that she had bought the whole set of these (Chest of Drawers and Wardrobe) second hand in 1964 and we have all come to the conclusion that it is late 30s. I really wonder what has travelled through this Dressing Table, what clothes and jewellery have been stored in it! I wish some of them had come with it! Just imagine…..

I’m so glad I got it! I love it! I can’t wait to fill it with all my stuff and get the lights running! It does smell funny though. It smells like Churches. I have hoovered it out and washed it, but I will put Bicarb in it tonight to try and take the smell out. Wish me luck!

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Olde Belfast Velo Jaunt!

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:06:55 +0000

This link is to nothing I have written, but it is a piece that Mister Fabuloso has done for The Big List about the Olde Belfast Velo Jaunt happening this Monday (19th March).

I did a post about the last run where I won best dressed lady! I’m gonna go for it again this time too! I got a Black and White Polkadot dress today!

Just click the photo to see the interview! And if you live locally be there or be square!

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Lipstick On Your Collar....

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:50:00 +0000

Mister Fabuloso bagged himself a job last month! He is the Editor of The Big List Magazine so I have had an awful lot of TV time to fill! Not for long though, I am finally qualified in Childcare and I am looking for work! I applied for a job this week, the only one I could find! Which is annoying as last year I saw 100s but they all needed the qualification I finally have! Which is a bugger! So keep your fingers crossed!

On my 4oD travels I came across the show Lipstick On Your Collar. I don’t really watch the dramas on Channel 4. I’m not keen on them but this looked very me so I got stuck in! I wasn’t keen on it and almost gave up in the first episode. I was very surreal but I quickly got sucked in. I also initially thought Ewan McGregor was funny looking but I fell in love all over again (I adore him in the Moulin Rouge). I thought it was going to be a musical, but it is and it isn’t. A musical is singing right? This is miming along to big Rock ‘n’ Roll hits, and all in a very strange way!

I want to blab on for ages about it all, I was on Twitter! But then you woulf have no reason to watch it. So here’s the link, tell me what you think! Beware though, there is a lot of nudity!

Also, while I was Tweeting about it Notorious Kitsch popped up and told me she was an extra in it so keep your eyes peeled! (I don’t think she was the naked lady haha).

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Middy Madness!

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:57:00 +0000

So, I have finally got used to my new hair cut! I got a Middy!

The lovely Kathy from Vintage Rocks came to my house to give me the chop!! I was really getting sick of having long hair! It was down to my lower back it was so long, I only ever wore it in a Pony Tail, I couldn’t do anything with it, it was getting in my face and wrapped round my earrings and gawd it just HAD to go! I was ready to give myself an Undercut before Kathy saved me!

Look at all that Hair! As it was cut in my living room, I didn’t have a mirror in front of me, so when I went to the mirror I had a minor (MAJOR) freak out! It looked sooo short! Well it IS short, but it was a shock. Kathy, seeing my face went to look for some Sellotape! But thankfully it wasn’t needed!

Hair Flower from Victory Fabric.

During the course of the day I fluctuated from freaking out, to loving it, to getting confused about where my hair had gone when I tried pulling it out of my clothes where it used to get stuck!

Mister Fabuloso loved it though! It means that I can wear scarves more, which is exactly what he wanted! I didn’t do it very often anymore because I always tied my hair into it and it wouldn’t sit right! More importantly though I can wear my hair down! I never do that! I have been every day since it was cut though, apart from cooking and sleeping, my hair must be up and out of my face when I sleep! I hate it being in my face!

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Victory Fabric - Fabulous Flowers and Scintillating Scarves!

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:12:00 +0000

Our 2 and 3/4 year old Victory Fabric Fan Erin!

I have been meaning to do this post for a VERY long time! Sorry Sara! But this is FINALLY it! I met Sara Boswell on Twitter over a year ago, she lives in Texas and we have really become good friends! I can’t wait till the day I get to meet her and her husband!

They run a company called Victory Fabric and have all sorts of wonderful materials in their shop! Last year I found some of her awesome headbands and I had to have one! So we did an excellent trade! I sent her a bunch of my cross stitch designs to make hair clips out of and in return I got some fabulous flower clips and my awesome Pink Head Scarf!I have been wearing them all the time, particularly the White Orchids and the scarf and so far so good! My fear with hair flowers is that they will fray and break, I work with children a lot and they have withstood all kinds of tugging and borrowing!

*White Orchid*

*Green Orchid*

*Roses*

*Scarf*

Here’s Sara in the Nautical Headband and a lovely Victory Fabric Shirt too!

I have also just found this one on the website! I must own this! Polkadots and Flowers! How sweet!

They also arrived super fast! I expected to wait for weeks so I was over the moon when they arrived so soon! I went to the Post Office 4 times the day I got the ‘Sorry we missed you’ card from the Postman, and then opened the box on my walk home!

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Streetzie Desire and The Scapegoat...

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:31:00 +0000

Flicking through Facebook and Twitter in the wee wee hours I came across my chance to win some of Streetzie Desires High Heel Bunny Slippers! I have wanted these for ages, but I simply can’t afford them with all that postage from the States!

Aren’t they cute?!

All you have to do to win is pledge even just $1/£1 to help the lovely Cathy Beasley create her film ‘The Scapegoat’ which tells the story of Sonia, Aurelio, and Trevor are three jewel thieves who’ve been put together to play out the perfect jewel heist. However, when things go wrong their boss tells them to hideout in Venice, Italy until he figures a few things out. But no good will come from this. The only way out of this mess is for one of them to take the blame so the other two can get away free and clear.

If you follow the link to Streetzies Facebook page and let her know you have pledged money Cathy will make sure and then pull a name out of a hat! I think it’s definitely worth helping with the potential of shoes!!

The pledging page can be found here where you can watch a little video and see what else you get depending on how much you pledge! It ranges from a personal thank you letter to a credit on IMBD!

Streetzie can be found here on Twitter

As can Cathy here.

Good luck! She’s almost half way there, and there are 10 days left for money raising!

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Vintage Family Photos!

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:18:00 +0000

I got my family to send me some more Vintage Photographs the other week and it has taken till now to try and get names and dates! Hopefully I find some more somewhere, I love looking through them! I think I have saved the best photo till last in this post. So enjoy looking!

1) The Thunderbirds my Dad in front, Charlie Hokin behind and Richard Top - early 70s.

2) My Daddy about 10 years ago!

3) Grandad and Daddy in Hill Climb Special Morris ‘Cammy’, this was later swapped for my Grandads RAF Irvine Flying Jacket. 1958/59.

4) Grandad, Daddy and Auntie Debbie. The Pop Gun had been converted for my Dad to shoot 22 rim fires. 1963, my Dad was about 6/7 Debbie about 2.

5) Granny Violet and Grandad late 70s.

6) Granny Violet

7) Granny Violet and Auntie Debbie early 60s.

8) Debbie now!

9) Great Grandad and Great Auntie Margot with my Great Granny in the background.

10) Grandad and Margot (Brother and Sister) on a Raleigh Motorbike 1945.

11) Grandad on a Boat called The Boscobelle, a Boat used in the Dunkirk Evacution. 1955.

12) Grandad, 1970s.

13) My Grandads RAF Squadron photograph, he’s middle row second in from the right 1944.

14) The Solitaires, early 60s Grandad is singing L-R - Eddie Anderson, Grandad (Robert James Fox Little), Doug Lewingdon, Brian Wilson and Chis Bishop.

15) The Solitaires.

16) The baby is my Grandad, the woman behind is my Great Grandma Jenny, then my Great Great Granny, the old woman is my Great Great Great Granny and the man is my Great Grandad. Around 1926.

17) Granny Violet 1951 age 20.

18) Granny Violet 1947 age 16.

19) Some of the crowd at my Dads gig from The White Heart in Southall 1973 around the begining of the Rock ‘n’ Roll revival.

20) Look at that outfit! This is my Granny Violet 1954/1955. I love this photo. The Motorbike is Aerial Red Hunter 500cc Single. It had a Tan Pig Skin Saddle and was the only new Motorbike my Grandad ever owned.