Time is flying!!!

Steampunk Sizzler event is 2 days away and my outfit is nowhere near finished - aarrghhhhhh!!!

Have just spent ages listing new items in Etsy shop and still only have 31 items listed - boooo!!!!

Have now got to go and do some cleaning as house is v.messy - NOOOOO!!!!

Anyway, I am sure normal service will be resumed soon,

Bye bye for now lovely blog readers,

Ailsa xx

Vintage finds.

Got some lovely vintage "treasures" which I will be selling at the Steampunk Sizzler event on Sat 31st July in Bethnal Green http://steampunksizzler.eventbrite.com/. Managed to source some amazing old binoculars, more glass valves (excellent for adding to your raygun!!) and one of those cool old cameras that concertinas out (you know what I mean..!).

Also have some parasols, which are made of wood and paper, but are surprisingly robust. Hopefully all those Steampunky ladies out there will find these useful! This pic is of some of the similar bits I had for sale at last weeks Comic Con - new items will be photographed and up soon!

Love Ailsa

London Film and Comic Con last weekend

LFCC last weekend was excellent - I met some really lovely people, and made some good sales! There were lots of Steampunks there, who I will hopefully meet up with again at the Asylum event in September (http://steampunk.synthasite.com/) and also got to meet Robert Rankin! In addition to the Steamy set, there were lots of Cosplayers - some interesting pictures below!!!




Robert Rankin and some Scary Girls!!!


Cosplayer + Doll!


SH Creations gorgeous hats. Dragon Dreads corsets
http://www.shcreations.co.uk/ http://www.dragondreads.co.uk/

All in all, a great weekend. Now, I will be knuckling down and getting some stock listed on Etsy - a few new pieces have been listed today, so please take a look! http://www.etsy.com/shop/coucouheart

Bye for now,

Ailsa

Busy weekend ahead!

I have been super busy making loads of lovely items for my stall this weekend. I am trading at the London Film and Comic Com at Earls Court on Sat & Sun (http://www.londonfilmandcomiccon.com/ ) which should be great fun. Loads of Sci Fi type stars there - cast of Being Human and William Shatner himself are the ones I am going to look out for!

I am also trading every Sunday (except this one of course) at the Backyard Market in Brick Lane, London. This is a really vibrant, exciting market with loads of great vintage stuff and really cool handmade creations.

Lastly, I have also been trying to get more things listed in my Etsy shop - more to follow soon! Anyway, will report back on the weekends events next week,

Love Ailsa

PS - please become a fan on my new Facebook page - search for Coucou Heart.

New Items from Coucou Heart!

Hi

Just listed a few new items on my Etsy shop - nice pics above! I am really trying to get my online shops filled up, but I do find it takes quite a while to list things! I think I spend too long trying to write descriptions, and then am never happy with them anyway!

Well, hope you like the new things - more to follow soon. Follow the link to Etsy on the left!!

Love Ailsa

xx

Coucou Heart does Expo!

Hi everyone!

I am back from an exhausting couple of weeks preparing for, and then trading at the London Expo. It was a fantastic weekend - my first time at one of these events, and it was a real eye opener, I can tell you! There were some amazing Steampunks there, as well as all the Cosplayers in their vast array of costumes, Japanese lolita girls, superheroes, and more wigs than you could shake a stick at!!!

I met some really great people, and I am glad to report that they all seemed to like my jewellery - I had a very successful show so I am very pleased! Got to get myself moving now and get some more stock listed in my Etsy and Folksy shops now I have fininshed making stock for this weekend. Thanks to all the lovely people who chatted to me - here are some pics from the show

Where am I now???

So, it has been some time since I last blogged - and since then a lot has changed in the world of Coucou Heart!

The market where I was trading, Stuff Marketplace in Croydon, has closed down. Unfortunately there were not enough tenants or customers in that location to make enough money, so the owners of the market were forced to close it down, All of us traders from the market are now speading far and wide, looking for somewhere to sell our lovely creations!

At the moment you can find me in Piccadilly Market in central London on Tuesdays (in the courtyard of St James Church http://www.st-james-piccadilly.org/market.html) I will hopefully be trading in some other London markets soon - updates to follow!

You can also still find me on Folksy and Etsy, and I will also be trading on 29th & 30th May at the MCM London Expo at London Excel Centre in Docklands. Hopefully, a few select shops will also be stocking my jewellery too!

Speak to you all soon!

Love Ailsa

PS - hope you like the pic of one of my recent necklaces featuring a vintage bug charm!