No More No Name!

So...we have a name!!!!

No longer simply 67 Hackney Road.....drum roll.....M.Goldstein is now open for business!!! Nathaniel ripped away the cheap facure the previous tenant had (which I think said "everthing a ££££") to reveal this beautiful old shopfront!

He had some old bunting which he duly draped....voila!

The booty from the previous week looked amazing in the shop and I set-to with my chinagraph pricing things up....

There was the kitchen area....

The skull is now wearing my favourite hood...

Garden stuff for the Columbia Road crowd...

And crockery with garden stuff on it...


Don't forget: Open Saturday and Sunday.....and sometimes Fridays!

Madame xx

Great stuff at Nelly Duff

I was playing at the George and Dragon the other night, and as luck would have it, Nahid and Rudy were headed that way to the Nelly Duff on Columbia Road to see the Angelique Houtkamp show "Folies les Femmes". So not only did I get driven to work in style, I had a spare half hour to take in the wonderful show and even meet the artist! Reeeesult!

Angelique was showing some exquisite watercolours of lady pirates, carnival queens and freaks. She is a tattoo artist by trade and all the images have that aesthetic, not quite Sailor Jerry, much more refined, like smokey-eyed 1920's vamps with finger-waved hair and pnned eyes....there's voodoo skulls super-imposed on some of the images and they are drawn on what looks like tea-stained watercolour paper - they are sooooo amazing! This is my favourite.....

But I pretty much loved them all....how wonderful it would be to get an Angelique tattoo! I'm a sucker for a woman making it in a man's world and she has really carved herself a distinctive niche. Nahid and I fluttered around her like proper fans and got books signed....

And although the exhibition was a two day quickie, they're holding some of the prints in stock - I'm really tempted to get the pirate-girls set - so if you like the look of anythiing on the website here, you should get in touch or go along for a butchers....

I definately saw a print of this one in the drawer.....

Madame xx