Memories of days gone by... May!

My vintage pal Madelin, who also is a vintage wedding stylist, arranged a vintage wedding event at the vintage shop Beyond Retro here in Stockholm. ( hm... that was a lot of vintage! ;)



The always beautiful Miriam Parkman from Kafferepet was there and wore white.



As did her friend Britta.



Then there were "the party girls" - Åsa!



And yours truly with a sort of Mad Men-esque style :)



The wedding event at Beyond Retro - Stockholm!



What else? I went to a great seminar that spoke about the perilous and heartbreaking lives that women in the Democratic Republic of Congo are forced to suffer due to the country's highly lucrative natural resources ...

Key speaker and an old acquaintance was - the formidable Margot Wallström, Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, to the Secretary-General of the UN.

I went to the seminar as a spokesperson for Kivuvu - Supporting the Women in Congo. A small organisation (5 women) aiming at showing support to our sisters in Congo.



This is our loggo. You can find us on the web here (only in Swedish I'm afraid...) and on Facebook.

So, far we have applied (and received) money from various charity organizations and thus been able to give away over a 100,000 SEK (approx 13,500$, 11,000 €) to Synergie des Femmes - Women's Synergy for Victims of sexual Violence (SFVS)

A platform of 35 local organizations in the DRC working to prevent sexual violence, to assist survivors and to persecute perpetrators.

By the way... Kivuvu means "hope" in kikongo, one of the many languages in the DRC - Join us!



Apart from this me and Neo were just looking for... summer !

Greeting Spring and Other Things

May is turning out to be such a busy time! For one I am taking singing lessons for a show to come this fall. here I am at my singing teachers appartement goofing around.



Then there was the traditional greeting of Spring. Me and Madelin enjoying a cup of wine! In Sweden its traditional to greet Spring with bonfires, singing and out dooring. And even though the weather was a little chilly, a few of us vintage gals & pals met outdoors.



Madelin, Josefine, me and Neo!



Then it was time to support democracy and its foundation on the first of May! :)

Calling Desireé !

Dear Desireé, since no one expressed any desire to participate in the give-away except you I decided that I wanted to give you the gloves you so eagerly desired even though you don't have a blog and thus have not blogged about it. But it seemed like the fun thing to do! :)

Since you don't have a blog I'm reaching out to you this way.

So, send me a message at frkquartey-missquartey@yahoo.se and let me know your address in the world and I will post the gloves asap to you!

Sugar Hill - Vintage Entertainment !

Adorable Josefine, one of the hostess, greets guests - Welcome to Sugar Hill ! Vintage Entertainment at its best!



















Anna and Mårten came, Anna in her new dress that she made herself!





















Lots of vendours. Here Sivletto.



















Marcus or better known as "Mackan" - a great dancer, teacher and connoisseur of vintage swing life!




















Is'nt this pretty! This is some of the many delightful things that were available.


















This young lady always does her hair to perfection, but that night I was privy to seeing just how much effort goes into getting the curls to look that effortless ;)




















Tomas, Madelins beau - what a trouper - he was everywhere helping out!





















Sandra, another of the hostesses looking smashing.




















Anna decided to treat herself to a vintage make-over!





















Sweet Sharon working away nail by nail.










Then it was time for a little entertainment (Will you belive I forgot to take photos of my own jazz performance ....)

Swinging at Sugar Hill!


















Finally home at 2 a.m exhausted, but oh so happy ! I bought a dark blue vintage dress and I danced till my feet hurt! Can't wait till next year! :)

TIKI ROOM !

Tiki Room

The seating area at The Tiki Room

So, last  weekend was packed with fun! There was a big vintage event that my vintage pal Madelin and here girlfriends arranged. But we started with a little Hawaiian inspired get together the evening before at Tiki Room.


Madelin was looking stunning

As was her charming beau Tomas who had agreed to be my dance partner at the lindy hop class the  next day. As he needed any lessons... :)


Savouring the drink Tomas, ever the gentlemen,  bought me


Lady Kamikaze the dj for the event. Tomoko was simply a delight to get to know! And the dress she was wearing...


Britta and  Miriam all dressed up!


Sharon Trickett, the vintage manicurist from Minnie Moon  and also from London. Charming young lady! You can find her Facebook page here. Sharon is wearing the same kind of vintage polynesian dress that Tomoko is wearing - superb!

 

 Josefin and Sandra, the two other hostess of the Sugar Hill Event and great girls!

   

Tomoko, Josefine and Sharon - ready to party! 

Also - still having major blogger problem with the new lay-out ... :(

Vintage Hairstyles

The Lisa Conakry Hairstyle

It took long time before I came to love my hair growing up as I did in Sweden, land of blond-long -a-blowin' in the wind kind of hair :) But now I LOVE my hair. Black hair is so resilient and versatile! That said I still have to work it to get it into a vintage hairstyle. But I'm very inspired by my vintage pal Madelin.

Madelin

She is always wearing eloquent hairstyles, but then of course she is a stylist and arranges the most fabulous vintage weddings! :)

The Suzanne Abuja Hairstyle

The Jenny Dakar Hairstyle

I try to find different styles and have fun with them. That's why I give them names :)

I use hair rats of course. I have two medium sized ones. I've thought of buying a little bigger one too.
Sometimes I just do a scarf hairstyle. Actually I wish I had more scarfs. Hm... must put on my "to-buy-list".

My everyday going out shawl and the glasses I bought in LA, oh why oh why did I not buy 10 pairs!! They came in different colours.


By the way: The new Blogger format is so annoying!! I can't get my pictures or my text to be where I want it...