Dead men's Spex at Blakeney

Hi There

I'm doing well this month ; 3 blogs in March. Wow!   We are off to Blakeney on the picturesque North Norfolk coast this Sunday 29th March with Little Vintage Lover Fair.

Blakeney Harbour

We will have a wide selection of stock; including  plenty of cool cats' eyes and  a good range of Shuron frames. Look out for our cool decoupage heads which set off our glasses beautifully.

Our lady  is wearing blue bay sunglasses at £25 for three pairs ; blue, yellow and white.






Our man is modelling a pair  of black 
Shuron Sidewinder  frames at £ 65 a pair.










We look forward to the show and hope to see you there.



TTFN MrsDeadman

Off with a Little Vintage Lover

This week I've been cracking the whip over Deadman to get him working preparing stock for our Deadmen’s Spex stall at Little Vintage Lover Fair this Sunday the 2^nd December at Blakeney Village Hall. It is a small eclectic fair which moves around North Norfolk specialising in vintage and vintage reworked items including fashion and home wares from around the 1920s to the1980s. Everyone is very friendly and they often have fun music from the 1930's supplied by dj.78 AKA Dave Gutteridge who always dresses beautifully complete with glasses from Deadmen's Spex. They also do great cake, which tastes even better when Bunny buys me a slice. 

dj.78 catching up with the news

I will be bringing a varied selection of spectacles; for the ladies I have 1950’s cats’ eyes through to 1980’s Terri Brogan frames. For the men I have selection of reworked frames and the ever popular Shurons. In the unisex frames I have some classic favourites including NHS 524s ,1940’s round eyes and  Algha  gold half eye readers. I'm tempting providence rather with a tray of sunglasses, hoping that the rain has finally been pushed away. When the sun does show itself  in the winter it is incredibly dazzling and I find myself desperately groping for my sunnies whilst driving (at traffic lights of course!) There will also be accessories;  fabric glasses cases and spexlaces which are necklaces made from spectacle fronts.
                                                           

                                                                

A selection of our frames           


                               








 

 A spexlace                                                                                                    











I'm also selling a few cigar boxes on the side, Deadman got rather excitable at an auction and we landed up with rather more than he had bargained for. They are very pretty and beautifully made so I hope they may tempt a few people to be creative and turn them into handbags or even guitars!.

Cigar boxes 

So I look forward to seeing some of you on Sunday
TTFN

Chocks Away

Hi, sorry it’s been a while since I last updated the blog. What was supposed to be a fortnightly event is slipping towards a monthly. I’m hoping that with the return of Dead Man Junior to school and Mrs Dead Man to work, after the Easter break, to turn over a new leaf and be more disciplined............famous last words.

The past month has been a busy one. Another show under the belt with Zoe of http://www.littlevintageloverfair.co.uk/ this time at the lovely North Norfolk coastal village of Blakeney.

We have also supplied a pair of vintage sunglasses as a prize in WWII re-enactor magazine’s Pin-up competition. You can read all about this is this month’s issue available at news agents or through http://www.reenactingww2.co.uk/ .

On top of this I have taken delivery of 200 1950’s frames from the USA. They are all original unused opticians’ stock and are currently going through the workshop to make sure they are up to my exacting standards before they upload into the shop http://www.deadmensspex.com/ . A few have already hit the shop on the Ebay site http://stores.shop.ebay.co.uk/Dead-mens-spex . With a further 200 coming in at the end of the month and Hemsby Rock ‘n’ Roll show on the way it looks like my work is cut out for the near future.

Why might you ask do new old stock frames have to go through the workshop? Well, frames are like all goods, if they sit around in boxes and drawers for 40 years or more they become dirty and misshapen. Also some plastics fare better with age than others, staying well coloured and flexible while others fade and become brittle. It is my policy that all frames I sell should be able to accept lenses being put into them. What’s the fun of owning a MG and being unable to drive it? Likewise what’s the point in having a swinging 1950’s cats eye and being unable to wear it? !!

Some of our new stock

Finally, with planes across Britain and Europe grounded due to the volcanic dust drifting down from Iceland, I think I’ve found the perfect flying goggles...

Chocks away

Dead Man