Happy Birthday Beth!!!

Happy Birthday to our Fahion Writer Beth May Hall- Babby at 22 years!

Big Chill Festival! Wellie Love

Sorry for the belated photos from The Big Chill (have now stolen them from lovely Beth, was her birthday this week Happy Birthday Beth!) The boys are loving the wellies at The Big Chill working those legs for three days worth of sun, Sweaty Feet! We love The Big Chill festival is such a unique festival with so many nice little arty features, making it a def relaxing weekend but also making room for Bonanobo and Quintic nights Loved the music Loved the People think this we be a new regular in our festival year. Bad news this weekend Brighton's Beachdown Festival, an extremal young festival was meant to be having it 2 year this bank holiday weekend but unfortunately it has been CANCELED such a shame, this festival was an Little modest festival which could have been enjoyed for many years, apparently they have lot their sponsors but i have been informed that they have cleared out of their offices completely and the unfortunate ones that bought tickets are not getting refunded! Gutted, oh well any one heading to the south still should def check out The Southsea Kite Festival! The mini festival is a magical display of whimsical kites, Whales, Dragons, Marque sized Cats and Dogs, absolutely amazing experience with a lovely little crafts fair so if you are up for getting some nice treats or early Christmas pressies!

Express FM

Thanks to the lovely Lara, Nikki and I will be interviewed on Express FM Thursday 2th Sept, 10.30am people!

Polyvore

Polyvore Green touch

Green gold Delights!

Jule of the week! Beautiful necklas come in three colours bronze, Gold and silver to suit every nauty prinsess Use code DINOSAURS for 10% treat off! This week also featured on fabulous finds and Bon Bon Rose

The Guide 2

Oh Dear not the best photo! The Portsmouth News wanted to do a feature on us for local support, quirky photographer made us laugh. Very strange angle of choice, jewellery looks nice! Poor poor Nik S though, that angle makes her arm look a bit like a leg, lol. We are over it though just made lots of jokes and giggles. No vain gals here! Lara wrote a lovly peice, thats so much lara you are such tatalented gem! x

Style in the city

What is Style in the City?....

Offering guests the ultimate live fashion experience, the 2009 event will take place from Thursday 24th - Saturday 26th 2009. Visitors will be whisked around the city to experience a whole host of fabulous venues, events, catwalk shows, entertainment and shopping treats.

Style In The City day trip time, we are off the Birmingham in September to see what up north has to offer, investigating if this show could be for us the following year. I keep getting told that patience is a virtue but in my excitement just want to get on top of everything. Looking forward to it. Nikki S is off to London Fashion Week soon so she can give us all the gossip.

Pease and love Nikki B

Beautiful, Fabulous Finds

A truly stylish and luxurious blog. Urban Spark is thrilled to be featured and absolutely loves this blog! Fabulous Finds has aso offered to run a competition for their own very luckly bloggers, also a great start for us in the USA as this is our real first blog from the states that adore our brand values! Please check out this blog, now and in the future, we have it saved in our favourites, always! x

Urban Spark now on Catwalk Genius!

Urban Spark are ecstatic and sooo excited to announce that they are now on Catwalk Genius ! If you're not familar with Catwalk Genius already you really need to go have a look seee...

Catwalk Genius is an online fashion store selling clothing and jewellery and accessories from independant retailers from the likes of Laura Lees, Tatty Devine, Ostwald Helgason (loving the Las Vegas jacket!) and now Urban Spark (wahey!)

The lovely thing about Catwalk Genius is they not only allow designers to sell their products, but also offer a crowd funding scheme to help give designers financial backing.

Waste no time, go have a look and discover some new designers and invest in some treats! X

My New Best Friends Fashion Rocks Show

Us at Urban Spark are so happy to be appart of Fahion Rocks Show in London, Going to be sao much fun, can not wait to raise lots of money and awearness for the childrens trust.

‘mynewbestfriends.co.uk presents London’s hottest ticket combining fashion and music and all things fabulous, FASHION ROCKS FOR THE CHILDRENS TRUST will premiere at this exclusive fundraising event on Thursday 29th October 2009 at The Bloomsbury Hotel, London.
Featuring many of our countries best designers showcasing their latest work, the best up and coming bands as well a special appearance from ‘The Pink Butlers’ and why not also indulge in our luxury raffle, and goody bags galore. Stay tuned for more!

19:00 Arrival
Thursday 29th October
The Bloomsbury Hotel, 16-22 Great Russell Street, London
Nearest Tube: Tottenham Court Road

Limited Tickets @ £20 with all proceeds donated to The Childrens Trust (registered Charity no: 288018) All tickets available to purchase through httml://mynewbestfriends.co.uk

Jule of the week Coral lovin

Jule of the week people, coral charm. We love it! xx 10% off use DINOSAURS at till x

Telling tales....Liberty Prints, Plinths and all

Urban Spark had a trip down to the 'telling tales' free exhibition at the V&A. Being fans of all things whimsical we had to have a look see. Bath boats made from wood, cupboards that most definately led to Narnia, and a fox with maggot filled ears....

We were also delighted to see Tord Boontje intricate garland lanterns making appearances all throughout the exhibition, so beautiful!

Telling tales exhibition

Plinth in Trafalgur

Plinth man- Missing an Urban Spark sign!

Southbank Urban spark love !

Finally got to visit the Liberty 'Prints Charming' exhibition. There was much to be desired, particularly the Grayson Perry scarves that were on show. Unfortunately both us Nikkis had to part emty handed, not even a Liberty key ring to show for ourselves - £14 no ta! Squint had some of their furniture on show, it has again inspired me to create my own patchworked floral mirror - on the to do list.

Cranford Scarf, Grayson Perry for Liberty £110

Whisper mag Press

Whisper Mag Feature! Thanks guys amazing really very proud to be featured on your mag!

Tube Trauma!!!!!!!!

London Underground Tube Trauma, running on to the train on the way to South Kensington me on my missions jumped on to the tube in my merry way, when I turned around spinning in my delight that I had made it, my shock and horror when I turned around to see Nikki S waddling along as the tube doors slam together, leaning on the glass with my hands up on the glass shouting NOOOOO!!! Little girl looking at me tutting, saying oh dear, made me laugh. Sorry Nikki!!

Ice Cream Dreams again! Yum!

Designer Tadaaki Wakamatsu (Harajuku/Tokyo, Japan) has a sweet tooth. Inspired by many things from his daily life and happenings, the designer molds cake-inspired shapes into fresh original creations for his label.

Absolutely love it!, I want the ice cream ring I want to know what materials they are made of and more about his techniques, me and Nikki were dribbling over the glass for a taste of this juicy treats, we hope we can espier to these delights.

London lust

That time of month again to take our bored boots from the four walls of our office to walk and wonder through the loving streets of Carnaby Street and stare at the beauties of cupcake shop cuteness. Strange and I were all over the place, starting out at the National theatre, Southbank, where we had perfect photo opportunity. Then be ventured to the plinth and loved the guess the plinth game for appeal for Felix man can’t find his website, oh well.

V & A showed off The Royal College of arts graduate show, so we had to have a gander at delights they had to offer, amazing! Here are my must have picks Lisa Hjelm and Murat Kuscu. Love the cat suit love I want one maybe a venture to Thailand will mean some new clothes should be in order.

Love the use of paper hanging like a curtain, looks as if it’s been placed so beautifully on you and reminds me of when a princess would be dressed buy birds as slips on over her head so nicely, pure white love for this one.

Eclectic Sounds- Calling all obsessive Cd/record collectors...here's some music for your ears...

In this day and age of instant music downloads, the humble CD is being forgotten....fear not if you are a collector of music who is a firm believer in purchasing music in a physical form. Eclectic Sounds is an online record shop, run by massive music fanatic Pete Strange. He is a serious music collector who dedicates much of his time to music; be it collecting and searching for rare LPS, Cds, Vinyls or attending concerts and festivals. With so many giant music retailers it is refreshing to find Eclectic Sounds, a site that reminds me of the small traditional record shops that are a pleasure to have a rummage and a browse in.
Easy to contact if you request a record/Cd that is not visable on the site...be sure to check out Eclectic Sounds for a musical treat. X

Spark up your blazer...

Adorn your blazer with an Urban Spark brooch pin from our 'Jules' Collection. Such a pin will give you a touch of class and transform your blazer- think of it as a blank canvas.!Decorate.! Click the set to check out where you can purchase these goodies...x

See more of our brooches

'Jule of the week' Trinket Mirror Brooch

This week the delightful trinket mirror brooch is the 'Jule of the week'. Claim a cheeky 10% discount off this product making it a nice £9.09, Free Postage! Just enter the code word: DINOSAURS (Enter this in the promotional code section of the checkout)
See how this treasure can be worn with oufit

I could get lost in Barcelona everyday x

My recent holidays from Spark took me to beautiful Barcelona where I stayed in a not so beautiful 'Windsor Hostel' (good location mind). Lots of sights to be seen, with the much- talked -about architecuture and Dali and Picasso museums. Unfortunately my lack of euros meant I had to look at most things through railings or from a far. Still, there was a lot to appreciate. After my adventures in the city, having met and partyied with French, Australian, Belgium, Austrian and of course English, I moved on to Benicassim festival. Unfortunately after my time there I dont have too many positives to speak of, (apart from 2manydjs set -ammmmazzzing!) The festival was filled with too many Brits abroad types, band cancellations and a mighty sandstorm! At least now I can fully appreciate damp and dirty English festivals. Love it.

The Lovely Polyvore

The Lovely Polyvore

Some lovely examples of our jewellery with the adorable clothes and handy items in a outfit for your disposal.

Win an Urban Spark necklace from the 'Jules' Collection!

Adorn yourself with a sparkling treat..win a necklace from the 'Jules' collection!
Fashion in my eyes have put on a competition for their readers. Get a piece of the action by checking out her blog. Simply link the necklace you'd like in the comment section of her post and one lucky reader will win a lush necklace of their choice.The competition ends on the 20th August.

Miss Fashion Whore Blog

If you haven't already spotted this blog find, it's really worth taking a gander at...Miss Fashion Whore has a fun and fresh approach to writing that encourages readers to get involved.



A little about Miss Fashion Whore...

"Miss Fashion Whore is a blog about fashion, shopping and life. I have always had a passion/borderline addiction to shopping. First designer bag= Chloe Paddington. Age 16. Bought on Daddy’s credit card. He still doesn’t know!

Not much has changed since then. After shopping trips I still hide my bounty of purchases in the car until my boyfriend goes out and I can sneak them into the closet! And it is true, I did search ’selling a kidney’ on google when I just HAD to get that nearly sold out pair of Louboutins.

But now I’m a bit older and a bit more sensible. I want to share my new finds, fashion ideas, must haves and wardrobe lusts with anyone else who is truly a fashion whore and can’t get enough of it!"

This is one of the blogs we're definately going to be following daily...x

Free Rice

We found an amazing website Free Rice which allows you to answer questions varying from Art and English Language to Maths and Geography. Your correct answers allow you to donate grains of rice to the United Nations Food program. So not only will you become wise and knowledgable and know things like the word 'scintillation' means sparkling (you can astound people with your new found vocabulary!) but you'll be helping end world hunger...get learning.