Spring Fever at Dawanda.com

The DaWanda 'Spring Fever' discount special will take place from Monday, 26.03.2012 (10am CEST) until Thursday, 05.04.2012 (Midnight CEST).

The sale takes place in a maximum of 2 DaWanda main categories per day (Fashion, Accessories, Bags, Jewellery, Men, Baby, Children, Home + Living, Paper + Stationery, Art, Supplies, Vintage, Occasions + Celebrations). During the sale period you will receive a 12% discount off all participating products in the categories of the day (marked out with a little butterfly icon, excluding the SALE category). The reduced price will be displayed during the order process, and in your shopping basket.

Dawanda Spring: Today 12% discount on ALL products!

A Primavera acordou! Hoje 12% de desconto em TODOS os produtos!

Der Frühling ist erwacht! Heute 12% Rabatt auf ALLE Artikel!

Spring has awakened! Today 12% discount on ALL products!

Le printemps est réveillé! Aujourd'hui 12% rabais sur TOUS les produits!  

Simplicity Is The Key To Successful Living

Source: chrisabraham.com via Raluca on Pinterest

 Try not to complicate things

Peggy Lee - Black Coffee

I can´t live without it!

Madonna - Into The Groove - Official Music Video HD

Still is an inspiration.
Even considering myself as a free-spirit, sometimes I wish to be bold and wild like Susan!

10 reasons to visit Portugal

Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) trailer Elizabeth Taylor

One of my favorite moovies, a great play!

Love it, love it, love it!

Elizabeth is fantastic, Katherine and Montgomery Clift too.

Fundamental to watch and to read!

"I love to find a great vintage secondhand shop" - Bridget Hall

Specially, if it is MY SHOP!

Discovered on DaWanda

By: tpafonso

Vintage 1960s Gold Tone Set with faux pearls

Our customers are our shareholders!

Print Out Vulture’s Downton Abbey Paper Dolls

Print Out Vulture’s Downton Abbey Paper Dolls

So cool!

Downton Abbey wraps up its second season this weekend, when the stellar Christmas special airs on PBS on Sunday night. (Seriously, this Christmas Special. It may even make you forget the stranger-from-the-past double-reverse-amnesia plotline.) To help get you through these next many months without Downton(season three! With Shirley MacLaine! Can't come soon enough!), here are four sets ofDownton Abbey paper dolls created by Kyle Hilton. You may not be able to watch new episodes for a while, but you sure can cut these dolls out and make up your own story lines. (Imagine all the things you can make Matthew and Mary do...) Below, please find printable paper doll sets — click on them to see a bigger version—of the Dowager Countess (complete with multiple facial expression), Matthew and Mary, Thomas and O'Brien and their villainous accessories, and Sybil in a contemporary T-shirt.

Illustrations by Kyle Hilton

 Print out the Dowager Countess here.

 Print out Thomas and O'Brien here.

 Print out Matthew and Mary here.

Print out Sybil here.

Personally I miss Bates and Anna...

Dame Vivienne Westwood: People Look Ugly Wearing “Disposable Crap”

by Jasmin Malik Chua, 02/20/12

“People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.. I’m talking about all this disposable crap. What I’m saying is buy less, choose well. Don’t just suck up stuff so everybody looks like clones. Don’t just eat McDonald’s, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That’s what fashion is. It’s something that is a bit better.”

—Designer Dame Vivienne Westwood, speaking to reporters after her Autumn/Winter show atLondon Fashion Week on Sunday.

1950's Womens Beauty Salon

Blue jeans are a must-have

"I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes". - Yves Saint Laurent

Marilyn in jeans for the movie "Clash by Night"

Bonnie Tyler - The Best

GLORIA JONES- "TAINTED LOVE" (1964)

A first-rate version of yourself

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” Judy Garland

http://fightforthefuture.org/

http://sopastrike.com/#how-to-strike

What people want from technology is usually pretty clear...

People love huge open libraries of music, books and video. They don't like censorship and legal landmines that get you sued for making amazing things. They love privacy and open platforms to create and invent. They're happy to pay for good stuff, but hate being coerced to pay for mediocrity and middlemen.

And people are right to want all these things, even when governments and corporations, with their own narrow interests, try to paint this new, expansive cultural freedom as dangerous or destructive. Our goal is to make the public's interest vividly clear, so clear that not even the most powerful lobbyists and smartest monopolies can destroy it.

We're living during a global shift as big as the industrial revolution. Because of the internet, our future will work very differently than the world our parents and grandparents created. We, as a society, are literally building a new world. Fight for the Future is here to bring the most essential human values back into the debate about how society uses technology. We believe there's hardly anything as important as ensuring that our shared future has freedom of expression and creativity at its core.

To do it, we need your help. If you have ideas, tell us. If you care about this stuff too, follow us in whatever way’s best for you (email's best for us). We'll be gentle on your inboxes, and we'll try our best to only send things that are awesome. When we do, share it. Hard. Popularity and passion make good ideas dangerous to special interests.

We're friends with EFF, Public Knowledge, FSF, Creative Commons, Demand Progress, Mozilla, Question Copyright and many more. We care passionately about making real concrete change, and we are here to be successful. Plus we're hiring.

To be a bit more concrete, we're asking:

• After spending thousands of years building libraries of donated books, why do governments try to tear them down when they happen spontaneously online?
• Why can't I give money directly to every musician I like, instead of paying Apple or Spotify and leaving virtually nothing in the pockets of the artists?
• Why does the US pay so much for cellphone service? And for slow internet?
• How is it possible that singing "Happy Birthday" in public is still illegal, and why does anyone stand by these laws?
• Will every kid growing up in every developing country have access to every book ever made, as soon as they get a smartphone? Or will the books cost $12, an impossible expense for a poor kid?
• Why have we all been sitting idly while the movie and music lobbyists have been systematically advancing legislation that strips freedoms, blocks innovation, and exclusively advances Hollywood's financial agenda?

Vintage Condition Grading System - II

Condition Ratings

*** Source: Price Guide to Costume Jewelry, Third Edition by Harrice Simons Miller

Mint: New, never worn.

Near Mint: No apparent wear.

Excellent: No chipping or fading of finish or enamel; no missing, yellowed, or darkened rhinestones; no worn prongs or edges. If stones have been replaced, it should not be obvious.

Very Good: No missing or dead stones, no peeling pearls, minor chips in the enamel or slight wear on the prongs or edges.

Good: Any flaws do not affect wearability. Under a loupe there may be spotting in the foil, minor darkening or graying rhinestones, minor yellowing and signs of wear. Professional repairs.

Fair: Visible damage, missing or darkened stones, broken closures, severe wear. Old repairs with solder evident on reverse.

Poor: Stones chipped, scratched or missing; dents and holes in metal; some missing prongs.

Colour Trends for 2012

Here are the colour forecasts for 2012...


"70s appliances": Gold, almond, avocado green, and muted mustard

Layered neutrals: Oatmeals, browns, tans, and grays.

Pastels: Blush pink, robin's egg blue, and mint green.

Graphic Black and White: This combo is being used in geometric, bold applications, which is pretty exciting. 




Tangerine Tango: Pantone, a globally recognized authority on colour chose this cheerful, feel-good colour to help keep spirits high.

For further information: International Colour Authority (ICA) and Pantone

Merry Christmas and a Happy 2012!