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Wow, Saturday was the highlight of our year so far! The legend that is Peaches was in our Brick Lane shop to launch our new range of jewellery for her. We’ve been big fans since the first time we saw her in 1999 - when we were just starting Tatty Devine!
The shop was looking great in the sunshine as we made the final preparations for the event. Kirsty and Amy made the cabinets and windows look great with Peaches-style gold lame, glitter curtains and mirror balls. We made a massive Peaches logo for the mirror and had some logo wallpaper specially printed.
 
We have been working with Peaches for a while now as we designed the jewellery for her recent US tour, but Saturday was the first day anyone in the UK got a chance to get their hand on the signature pieces.
Peaches was with us all afternoon, signing albums, jewellery boxes, bags and even bums!
So many people came down to meet the Peach and get their hands on the new album and a Tatty Devine necklace. Peaches was inundated with requests but was totally great and everyone got a chance to meet her and have a picture taken. There we so many lovely looks going on as lots of people were wearing their Tatty Devine pieces already.
Some other famous faces also showed up: Sue Denim from Robots In Disguise, Anat from Chicks On Speed and artists Rob Ryan and Mark Pawson. Post punk legends The Raincoats were there too! They recently interviewed Peaches for a film they are making - we were pretty star struck, as we love The Raincoats!!!
   Hairdresser Charlie Le Mindu was there making sure Peaches was looking glamorous as ever, and she was wearing an amazing pair of earrings he had made for her out of hair!
We made a massive version of the Peaches necklace to hang in the shop window, and by the end of the afternoon we had whipped out our pliers and turned it into a giant necklace for her. She was loving it and took it with her to wear at Glastonbury, where she was closing the show! We got really excited about other giant show pieces for her, so watch this space for news of bespoke stuff we might make for her shows. We can’t wait until she next plays London. It was such an great day, the shop was really buzzing. Thanks to Amy, Kirsty, Sarah and everyone else from Team Tatty who made the day go so well. We better get on now and make some more jewellery, as it goes online today and we’re sure it will be crazy!
Thanks Peaches, we love making jewellery for you!
Sunday is my birthday, it’s an event I try to keep well hidden. This morning I was in full cleaning mode, getting ready for Peaches’ arrival tomorrow, when suddenly I look up and see Tom Fletcher’s face, the singer and genius of my favourite band Mcfly. Alas, it was not Tom himself, but a life sized picture of Tom, which was my birthday card! Hurrah! Then I was handed the biggest Reese’s Cup milkshake I have ever seen, a gift, cupcakes and a Tatty Devine jewellery box. What’s inside the box? Take a look at the picture! Tomorrow is Peaches day and the shop looks snazzy, there is no other way to describe it, there is gold everywhere! On Sunday I will be heading for a car boot sale, maybe I can pick up some new stationery to write all my thank you notes to Team Tatty and Pam, who expertly iced the cakes Amy made! Thanks Pam. Love, Kirsty x
Sometimes we all come into work in very similiar outfits. This morning Suzie and Harriet surpassed themselves, with matching blue’n'red stripes and THE EXACT SAME SHADE OF NAIL VARNISH. It’s like a girl band waiting to happen.
Fridays at Tatty Devine are so much fun. We have a big Friday Tidy, afternoon milkshakes and best of all Charlie Le Mindu has a pop-up hair salon in our Brick Lane boutique! Charlie is a hairdresser to the stars, and he is always full of stories about whose hair he has been cutting recently, or who he is designing wigs for. I wish my life was as glamorous as his! Last week Time Out magazine came to the shop to do a feature on the pop-up hair salon - it was so exciting, lots of lights, camera, and big hair action! Check out these pictures of customers and the Time Out shoot (and look out for the feature in an upcoming issue!).
It’s behind-the-scenes sneaky preview time!
How much do we love fashion designer Peter Jensen? Quite a lot. That’s why we made him some fabulous accessories to style his new resort collection. We turned his signature rabbit shape into plastic bunny sunglasses in sweet shop colours, and made him our chunkiest charm bracelet yet. It’s not available to buy - sorry! - the collection isn’t even out until pre-spring (fashion-speak for November). But watch this space…
P.S. Don’t you just love illustrator Charlotte Mann’s hand-drawn set?
Here at Tatty Devine we are huge fans of charity shopping, so we’ve been loving Mary Portas’s show on the telly where she transforms a charity shop (watch again here). Even us lifelong chazzing fans, reared on a fashion diet of swap parties and Cheap Date magazine, have learnt a thing or two - DON’T save your best cast-offs for ebay, DO give good stuff you’ve not worn to the charity shop, and DON’T just dump your shrunken jumpers onto Oxfam. Last night’s show was a particular winner - check out Jodie Harsh in his charity shop coat and Tatty Devine necklace!
If you want to look like Jodie (!) get yourself down to Mary’s Living and Giving shop in the Westfield shopping centre this Sunday 21st June, where we will be donating a pile of Tatty Devine jewellery that you can pick up at charity shop prices, and also volunteering our Kirsty’s superb shop assistant skillz to the cause.
Can’t be there? Have a wardrobe clearout and hotfoot it to your nearest hospice shop!
We just got our latest delivery of jump rings and chains and all that sort of necessary stuff and look at the size of it. When it started coming through the door I hoped it would grow as tall as me but the pile got bigger and bigger. I’ve spent the whole day unpacking it, counting it and finding homes for it all. It amazes me how much stuff we get through, especially when I think of the old days when I started here and we had only one tiny drawer of chains and a jam jar of jump rings. Now we can really get cracking with making the exciting new collection which you will have to wait patiently for.
Love from Amy N (workshop manager)
We’re looking for girls and boys with style and personality to model our famous name necklaces! You could appear on tattydevine.com and on showcards, postcards and posters.
Visit our London studio, have a name necklace custom made for you, and be rewarded with free jewellery!
To enter, email design@tattydevine.com with two photographs of yourself, your name, current address, and telephone number by 30th June 2009.
You must be over 18 to enter. Please do not send large files. Photographs must be under 5MB.
Good luck!
Yesterday was very exciting - we went to see Blue Peter filming the London Rollergirls. We had a Tatty Devine stall in prime position for watching an exciting bout between London Brawling and Brawl Saints! Blue Peter presenter Helen was really brave and got in the jam, wearing a special “Helen HardAsNails” t-shirt with her rollergirl number, BP1, on the back. She also had a cool helmet with Blue Peter stickers on it (jealous).
As a prize for being Rollergirl of the Bout, she won a Tatty Devine Big Bloody Name Necklace. She definitely earned it. Watch this space to find out when it will be on TV! There are more pictures here.
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Oh my! Saturday’s Double Trouble roller derby was really one to remember! We set up our Tatty Devine stall and got rushed by rollergirls adding jewellery to their incredible outfits. Once the bouts began, Leeds Roller Dolls put up a valiant fight against Brawl Saints (that’s the London Rollergirls’ reserves team), Birmingham’s Blitz Dames then got blitzed by London Brawling in a really exciting game that was interrupted by a streaker! We had to avert our eyes (while grabbing our camera in time to snap him in his sky blue pants - the lengths we go to for our blog…).
Our own London Rollergirls jewellery was nearly outdone by the amazing merch brought by Leeds Roller Dolls - we are loving our knickers and bag. If you’re in Yorkshire check out 