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Friday Feeling. Headpieces for hire.

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www.mindlikemagpie.com http://www/facebook.com/mindlikemagpie I've been turning my hand to fashion accessories these past few weeks. After a trip to Dorset I came back with a hell of a lot of skulls. I've put them to the most beautful use possible, embellishing them with my vast collection of jewelles and trinkets lovingly hoarded over a few generations of lifetime.  8 puffins came into my life, rescued from a beach up North after that horrendous mystery oil spill a few months back. Unfortunately they weren't kept that frozen so I could only salvage the wings. Such beautiful birds!!! One sale in a little artist emporium called  Cult Mountain  Cult Mountain is also on  FACEBOO k Nautical inspired headpiece featuring a fox skull, birds feet, fine feathers, shells, trinkets, faux pearls and leather. Some wonderful soul found a woodpecker and sent it to me in the post. Soon to be resurrected as a headpiece  Charlie Tuesday Gates

SING FOR YOUR LIFE! Musical foray featuring the recently deceased.

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Watch video HERE  On Saturday the 11th of May, people really did go wild for wildlife. It was the most thrilling performance combining some of my most favourite things: singing, raw emotion and roadkill. Imagine a cabaret show in the underworld, judged by Cheryl Cole, Harry Hill and Damien Hirst - and compèred by Edgar Allen Poe? Not for the faint-hearted, this unholy union of taxidermy, puppetry and chanson explores the no-man’s-land between hilarity and tragedy. .  'SING FOR YOUR LIFE!' took the audience on a sensory adventure, tugging at their moral and immoral heart strings, as I brought the reality of death to life in a musical foray Basically what all this means is i'm taking taxidermy up a notch.. . Taking it to the West End(eventually). I previewed a small sample/exsample of what the future holds at Hundred Years Gallery.  I eased the audience in by playing a selection of highly of