AND THE WINNER IS......

This week, to celebrate Ziggy reaching 300 Likes on Facebook, I have been running a Retro Record Clock Competition.

All you had to do was SHARE your favourite clock from these: http://on.fb.me/SUvwO6 to be in with a chance of winning it!

Competition was pretty fierce! 42 entrants have been placed in this hat and shuffled to be picked at random (with my eyes closed for extra fair-ness!)

 SO with out further adieu: 

Drum roll, please..!

And the winner is  BECCA BROAD!

Congratulations Becca! 

Your chosen Roxy Music 'Over You' Clock will be on it's way to you super soon!

But it doesn't stop there.... 

I am so happy with the response to this competition and have been excited about it all week! Once I picked one name, I was struggling to resist the temptation to pick another. So I decided, what the heck, pick another winner! It's Friday after all!

So another Drum Roll, please!

And winner number 2 is  HANA WACLAWSKI!

Congratulations Hana! 

Your  Kate Bush 'Man With The Child In His Eyes' Clock will be with you shortly!

I'd like to say a  massive thank-you to everyone that entered! If I could give a clock to everyone, I would! My Etsy Shop will be featuring more Retro Record Clocks soon, so keep your eyes peeled!

WOO HOO!!

Retro Record Clocks!

I think it's about time that I give my Retro Record Clocks a bit of a mention seeing as they are currently dominating my ETSY shop!

I am a big 'retro' music fan (the Ziggy Stardust/Sawdust connection is no coincidence!) and my love of objects 100% extends to old records!

I am fully aware that the idea of converting records into clocks isn't the most original idea but they are fun to make and fun to own!

I try my best to focus on finding iconic records with a bit of cult status, to make the clocks all the more desirable... and I also use coloured plastic clock pieces to add a little 'pop' of colour!

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My favourite recent find has to be Simon and Garfunkle's Mrs Robinson 7" single from 1966, which is the sound track to one of my favourite films- The Graduate.

(So here's to you Mrs Robinson!)

Records are great objects in themselves and even though their function becomes altered when they are made into clocks, it's much nicer to have an affiliation with the songs that they contain!

Other clocks that I have made from great records include:

Start! 7" single by The Jam

Frankie Says Relax 7" single by Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go 7" single by Wham!

Union City Blue 7" single by Blondie

Let It Bleed 12" album by The Rolling Stones

and

Pin Ups 12" album by David Bowie

but you can find even more at my Etsy Shop!

My Weekend Treasure Hunt

I spent last weekend in a log cabin in the middle of the Scottish countryside, with my family.


We were staying near a lovely little town called Dunkeld and I just could not resist going for a rummage (and spending a small fortune!) in the unusual shops that the town had to offer.


Here's me braving the coldest May in history, discovering an Antique shop!

I came across another shop called The Little Curio Shop on Dunkeld High Street... and I fell in love with it! The shop was full of unusual pieces from 1950s picnic sets to antique dressers to vintage cake stands. But this really caught my eye:

She's a little lamp stand from the 1920s/1930s...

I'm reading The Great Gatsby at the moment and I can just picture something like this on Miss Daisy's side table!

I'd love to incorporate this pretty lamp stand into a Ziggy Sawdust creation... I'm thinking of keeping her as she is but play with the lamp + shade colours + designs... 

How about mixing colours like these with her pretty rose pink??

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But the shopping didn't stop there!

I rumaged and raked in piles of old records and came out with this lot to transform into retro record clocks:

I found everything from Simple Minds to Elvis, from Michael Jackson to Tears for Fears.

My Favourite discs have to be Wham!'s Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go with it's lilac sticker:

And Roxy Music's Fifth Album Siren which has Jerry Hall as a mermaid on the sticker!

I better get making... soon I'll have more retro record clocks than you can shake a stick at!