Urban Spark

www.dec.org.uk

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www.trulymadlyvintage.com

2010-01-22T03:37:00.000-08:00

Vintage delights! Urban Spark love a good vinage find, so this new site is a dream!

"We were very excited to be asked to appear on BBC Essex radio to talk about our vintage business and what a sustainable business it is, we also got in a few mentions about the Pop-Up Market in Chelmsford on 30th January! You can listen again to "Mid Morning on BBC Essex" to hear all about it."

My New Best Friends In Grazia!

2010-01-22T03:14:00.000-08:00

Our beautiful my new best friend’s family will be in Grazier next week for her dedicated fashion bloging! So glad that he is going to be celebrated around the country, we are so proud of her so please grab a copy of Grazier on Tuesday!!!!

Festival of Christmas!

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Festival of Christmas!

2009-11-19T11:45:00.000-08:00

We are full of that warm fuzzy feeling that keeps us warm at night as it is freeeezing! Festival of Christmas marks the day when we can be all merry and official to the thought of taking few days aside to spend with our loved ones and eat mince pies till explode!!! We are so happy to be taking part in the festival hopefully keeping not to far away from the malt wine tent. We hope to see you there and will be keeping a keen eye of for any bells reindeer and of course the one and only!
Peas and love
Nikki B x

Jule of the weeeeekkkkkk!

2009-11-19T11:38:00.000-08:00

Jule of the week! 10% OFF use DINOSAURS at checkout! mights and delights for the chrismas season! 5 weeks till Christmas Eve!

My New Bestfriends Highlights

2009-11-09T04:14:00.000-08:00

Rosalind Frances Holmes

Inspired by a contrast between strictness and softness, the masculine and the feminine. Bold solid structure contrasted with soft chiffon fabrics. Quite an androgynous mix and we love it!
This collection looked striking on the catwalk - I sensed an eerieness to the collection, particularly with the antler style constructions in the centre piece of the garments contrasted with billowing fabrics.

Contact: rosalindfrancesholmes@gmail.com for more information!

Hussaindeyn

Vintage and one of pieces

Lellow lucy

Chantell Walters

Fashionistas Night out proudly presented by My new Best friends X

2009-11-06T01:49:00.000-08:00

Urban Spark were lucky enough to be invited to showcase our jewellery at 'Fashionistas night out' a really GREAT event with an even better course as all money raised when to Breakthrough Breast Cancer. Kimberley Sanderson who sparkled the whole evening in her little silver sequin number, organised the whole evening at Bloomsbury Hotel, so a big thankks goes to her for lettting us being part of such a lovely evening.!

Me and Jordan, (who runs Individual threads was also invited to showcase) decided to road trip it down to London from Southsea. So much more entertaining is it to travel through London by car than tube, total luxury!. I'm not going to lie, we acted like total tourists taking pictures of the Natural History Museum lit up, waving and yelling at people. It made for an fun filled trip. We arrived at the hotel all hypedd up and were greeeted by Beth looking beautiful stood next to a Ferrari nonetheless.. As soon as we got in we were greeted by Samuel J Hextail the presenter. He's best friends with Paris Hilton apparently.After setting up we received champagne from the pink butlers; a couple cheeky lads who had nothing but a small pink apron to cover their bits and bobs. Didnt know where to look. We were also joined by Hardip who is one our spark models! We decided to have a nosey at the delights from other stalls. Elisha Francis was another jewellery designer there displaying beautiful vintage Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor inspired pieces, her head pieces were lush! (A blog featuring our favourite designers from the show will feature shortly!) Playful Promises showcased their sauccy lingerie, a must for any Spark girl I'd say.!

The show itself didn't disappoint. There was eclectic mix of collections by Lellow Lucy , Hussain Deyn, My most favourite part of the show was Agent Lynch. Now if we had to pick a spark girl this without a doubt would be her. Absolutely stunning and mad as.! Starting off as a present with bow and ribbon she stripped off to a bond girl and fired a shot from her gun at Jordan, lucky man. She then quickly whipped her clothes off to reveal her bikini made of pearls which she then proceeded to lasso across the chandeliers. Me Hardip and Beth were in oar. I want to join up to her classes!

Towards the end of the show, on my way back from my trip to the toilet I bumped into Dappy from N dubz ! Ha made my day. Got a cheeky look and down from the chapppy who was without his usual hat with bobbles. He is quite short without it.

Journey home was the best thanks to Jordan and his recommendations on food. We had a naughty little pitstop at the Bagel King where we grabbed some rice, peas and jerk chicken with loads of lashings of coleslaw. Sat chilling in the car with some Jamaican beats.I pretty much devoured mine in a second and fell asleep.

Unfortunately Nikki B was in bloody Thailand having the time of her and was not able to attend. Ordinary it would not be the end of the world. However Nikki B being the very clever lady she is designed the logo for the mynewbestfriends website. This logo was blown up into a banner and was pretty much on every piece of paper, bag, and booklet going at the show! We were so proud of her!! Cant wait for her return .! X

Here are a few pictures of the evening. Due to the lack of appearance of my camera lead I am being delayed in the uploading of pictures so more shall appear very shortly. Including a short interview with myself.!

Loves Nikki S

OMGee!

2009-10-13T04:54:00.000-07:00

Flash On Event

2009-10-09T02:26:00.001-07:00

Flash On event in Eldon building yesterday was so much fun saw some really beautiful clothes and jewellery as well as meeting some absolutely wonderful people also, I swore most of the day i was just talking non stop!

Will have some better photos of the show shortly as we where all dressing behind the scenes. Individual Threads and urban spark joint forces to make a T-shirt and Jewellery combo. Helen wearing yellow and silver bear T-shirts popped on our Urchin earrings black and silver they sold straight after, look F**kin cool! Loved the day Loved the show, big credits to Nikki Strange for organising such a big, fun event, hope you raised loads of money for your end of year grad show cant wait to be their in the audience.

Model Helen sporting indie threads T and silver urchin earrings!

Southsea Shananigens

2009-10-06T08:15:00.000-07:00

SAVE SOUTHSEA SKATE PARK KILL KONG EVENT!

This weekend was a hectic one, we ventured to Portabello Market once again, this time meeting yummy mummy Candice, so sweet! We had some lovely munch from the Cantonese stall next door, thanks again O for sorting us three out so much with your yummy dumplings! lol!

As Nikki S was unwell this week Nikki B (ME) took the fella along, who was happily fast asleep on a bar behind the stall (not used to getting up at 4 to make train to London), made lots of customers laugh though! We sold lots of gems this week, everything is going charmingly well.
On Sunday Sick Fun Times at the Southsea Skate Park where bands, D-jays and Skating collided together for some dirty pipe action! Was Wicked to catch up also with Dan (formally Johnathan) and Learn about The Free Art Project, we where lucky enough to see Brian place his own Free Art Work right above us!

We Love Music

2009-10-01T08:40:00.000-07:00

Yesh guys had wicked day at freshers fair! No photos though was a bit groggy, but see they had sunshine all day today, lucky things. At our local freshers fair one of the stands pelted out some dirrrty tunes! The New Music Society in Portsmouth is having nights every other Thursday and we will be giving out goodies again, as always, as we love you so much! so get your badges! With 445 members I bet we will run out soon! Here is their bestival love flyer I wanted to share!

Jewl of the week!

2009-09-29T08:48:00.000-07:00

This evil number will sure to cause a stir in the eye of a curtain some one or at least blind him with a slight light reflection, a great new conversation starter! Use DINOSAURS at check out to receive your 10% off discount!

Enjoy and keep the blinding safe!

REFRESHERS for our FRESHERS!

2009-09-29T08:36:00.000-07:00

We are proud to, unofficially announce (secretly from NUS), that we will be around at our local freshers fair to support our students in Portsmouth and Southsea. As we all know they have had a hard year this year with lack of places and loans beign late as always. So as they trot, like we once did (from our roots), we are going to spoil them with sweets! While reminding them also to register with local dentist.

We hope you all enjoy and we will surely get few photos of the young ones to cherish their innocent times before they get unleashed to the dark depths of Portsmouth night life!!!

Peas and love Nikki B

Love Albert Road Day!

2009-09-28T02:42:00.000-07:00

Albert Road Day was amazing as ever! Nikki and eye where handing out Lolly's in celebration to Albert Road and Local companies of Southsea! Had such an amazing night as so many others! thanks so much to the organiser that again made it one not to forget hope that the weather keeps up for freshers fair next week! Amazing!

See all the photos on our face book page (Click Link Bellow)

Urban spark at Fash/On event Portsmouth

2009-09-25T03:54:00.000-07:00

We at Urban Spark are going to be showcasing our 'jules collection'on the catwalk at a local fashion event to us in Southsea. The event is going to be held on the 8th of October at Portsmouth university, Eldon Building. We shall also be having a stall where you can purchase our jules. I, Nikki S, am helping organise the event so am really looking forward to it as we can meet other Southsea retailers (including Rokii, dead man's glory, deluded, style and the city, beautiful me, individual threads etc) So if our local to Southsea please do come along.
Nikki S
x

Oooo la London fashion week ! S/S 2010

2009-09-25T03:03:00.001-07:00

For the past four seasons I've been lucky enough to check out all the action from behind the scenes at LFW, working backstage. It's always pretty wild with broken shoes, smudged makeup, lost shorts, blood on clothing (stupid women) etc etc. Here's some snaps I managed to get at various shows from S/S 10, including Basso and Brooke, Henry Holland, Richard Nicolls, Louise Goldin and Redbull fashion factory. As luck would have it, my camera decided to be a pain the asssss and go all blurry on me. I personally think it makes it all look a little dreamy.

At the Richard Nicolls show I was able to get a cheeky picture of a beautiful Chinese model I was dressing, wearing a bit of Spark jewellery. Think she works the lamina well!

Red bull factory show -graduate show

The Gradute show held by The Redbull fashion factory I thought was the most impressive as with these designers, there are no restrictions, always ambitious. The scale of the dresses blew me away! The models were so elegant and walked beautifully and with grace, it was amazing..especially with the size of heel they were subjected to.

Catwalk Genius write about Urban Spark

2009-09-25T02:53:00.000-07:00

Helen at Catwalk Genius has written some lovely things about Urban Spark on their blog.

If you havent been on catwalk genius yet, you really must. Support freshh designers and get some finds that arent on the high street.

Love Albert Rd Day!

2009-09-25T00:59:00.000-07:00

This Sunday LOVE ALBERT ROAD DAY, it has come! a whole nover year has whizzed by and the street festival is this Sunday. Me and Nikki are so existed! this year will be working representing spark delights on our roller blades giving out badges sweets and discounts for Urban Spark as we are a local business that love our Southsea scene (roots)!

This year 5 stages on the streets

Albert Rd Singers

Batala

The Pompy Plucker's

The Sound of Steel

Alistair Goodwin

Andrew Foster

Full line up

After Party: DJ Derek!

Cant wait going to be so much fun!

Peas and love, Nikki B

Starfish gem of the week!

2009-09-23T01:24:00.000-07:00

Gem of the week, Starfish necklace beaUti! Grab that yummy blocks attention with cheeky glisten from the necklace! get 10% OFF use DINOSAURS at check out!

The Fashion Guide

2009-09-22T07:29:00.000-07:00

Delighted we are now as we have see this giveaway up on such a recognised and respected site. These giveaways will be ending soon so get in there quick! xx (we are going to run out of stock!)
Peas and luv Nikki B

Bryony Fripp

2009-09-22T05:13:00.000-07:00

Bryony Fripp graduate from Bournemouth University (not far from our neck of the woods) has created beautifully quaint illustrations that are elegantly adorable and make us feel as if we are looking at poetry in drawn form.

We were lucky enough to be at the UNTOLD event this week and met her after already admiring the illustrations she had done for the event earlier that day. Although, now after seeing her website I feel that she was keeping these lovely gems hidden away! These prints/illustrations on clothes are a dream boat! I just had to share with you!

UNTOLD fashion week event!

2009-09-22T03:35:00.000-07:00

Thanks so much to the lovely MyNewBestFriends Kimberly, we were invited to the UNTOLD event in Kingston, The Kensington Rooms. I whisked away our Urban Spark fashion writer Beth May Hall and photographer Caz GotSoul.

The event warmly welcomed us to truly stunning and charming peaces and people. The show featuring designers Onescouture, Mononoko, Oyinda, Pia Loves, Maame Baryeh London and MA:LE

Each collection really complimented each other And the Pai Loves My personal favourite simply oozed a fun and energetic st lye that Urban Spark girls love! The evening was a superb success from my view, we met some lovely people and saw some fabulous clothes, thank you so much agan MyNewBestFriends! I will re-blog Beth's full fashion review later in the week!

We Love Desirable!

2009-09-18T05:52:00.000-07:00

Oh, what a funny few weeks it has been, up an down like a roller coaster that has induced a few to many bottles of Cherry Lambrini, (lol). Though we were delighted to roll (merry-ly) across this lovely little find called Disirable.co.uk. The adorable blog is filled with a great mix of fashion, music, , home furnishings, FOOD (which we love!) and all things nice with lots of spice I might add. this is one def saved to the favorites list and we are really flatted to be included in a beautiful feature!

Urban Spark do Portobello Market

2009-09-16T04:18:00.000-07:00

Yes! We at Urban Spark are so soo soooo excited to be finally hitting up Portobello market for four weeks no less! We shall be there every Saturday starting from September 26th -October 17th. Do pencil these dates in your diary as we would love to meet you. Expect to see myself Nikki S, and Nikki B dressed up in (would you call it fancy dress?) as well as the full 'Jules' Collection making an appearance..as well as some treats for you guys. Don't miss. X

Urban Spark competition with 'The Fashion Guide'

2009-09-16T03:57:00.000-07:00

These past weeks we've gone wild for competitions, trying to give you lovely ladies as many chances as possible to win some 'jules' with online publications such as Whispermag, Bon Bon Rose Blog and Fashion in my Eyes blog to name a few. We are therefore happy to announce another competition for those of you who have not been fortunate of late, win a brooch from our 'Jules Collection'.

Simply visit The Fashion Guide's page and follow the competition guidelines for a chance to win.

Nikki S
X

Fashion Addict

2009-09-11T00:53:00.001-07:00

Jule of the week!

2009-09-10T06:23:00.001-07:00

Jule of the week! Wed Love for the Sea me mirror! we love this little number cute and small but will be sure to glint a little bit of light to the beauty on the other side of the bar, get him to buy you a cocktail, Cashasa always! 10% OFF use DINOSAURS at check out.

Bestival Blues

2009-09-10T06:18:00.000-07:00

Unfortunately myself and Nikki S are unable to go experience the heat wave that is going to pass though the festival event of the year, although sitting the office we have spoke about our costumes. Mine would be a packet of space raiders, just thought you would like to know x

Nikki B (sad face)

Festival of ********** 27th-29th November

2009-09-09T06:35:00.000-07:00

You know what is now only 106 days away, can you believe it all the festivities including the cold weather is slowly dawning on us.

Though I thought I would let you know in advanced about The Festival of you know what! It is full of tidings and cheer, malt wine and holly, and now urban spark. We will be for the first year apart of the festival as well as Christmas (ahh dare I say it!) We will be in the Storehouse getting rather merry and hoping that some happy go-ers may choose our gems to give as a modern frankincense and merr to fellow friends and family, looking forward to it greatly!

so 106 days till the big day and only 78 days till the festival which will be on the 27th to the 29th of November, located in the Old Doc yards in Portsmouth, can not wait!

Peas and love

Nikki B x

For the Siren inside you!

2009-09-08T07:47:00.001-07:00

Fashion Insight

2009-09-07T01:37:00.001-07:00

The lovely Fashion Insight has now added us to their wonderful website, thanks so much as your newsletters keep us with up to date with all the latest fashion info!

Customer Spot light: Holly Mcsweeney wearing the Silver Etchant Necklace

2009-09-07T01:35:00.000-07:00

Describe your style in a few words:

I can't describe my style in a few words from fear of categorizing myself - Its so easy to become trapped into a fashion stereotype and I hate that! I like to try a bit of everything and play around with what I think suits me. You are more likely to find me in a charity shop than you are TopShop, purely because I don't want to wear the same t-shirt and jeans as everyone else! Up until quite recently I refused to wear dresses and skirts... but I've dropped that stigma now and it feels fabulous to go girly one day and boyish the next.

What do you love?

I love people, poetry, hilarity and coffee. Oh... and Documentary! My favourite thing to do is sit in a coffee shop, it's honestly where I feel most inspired! I like watching people! It gives me ideas for things to write and make. As strange as it sounds, sitting silently in my own little world when all about me is hustle and bustle gives me a warm glow of inspiration, I love that. I also love stand up poetry and comedy and good british humor, laughing at my own jokes, laughing at myself laughing at my own jokes and totally rocking out in my car to a song I love when I know other drivers are watching. Ha. That totally cracks me up!

Music of the moment:

I am totally in love with Kate Nash... (And did so before foundations thank you very much.) Purely because she is more poet than singer. I am trying to learn some of her songs on my guitar! I also love Regina Spektor, Spank Rock and Dizzee Rascal. I actually do love everything as cliche as that sounds... except for bands that are mad at their Dads. Ha. I'm a huge fan of acoustic versions of otherwise totally non-acoustic songs. The Fray - Heartless is Gorgeous! I love it!

What do you do?

I am a graduate from Bournemouth university where I studied Television Production and specialised as an Editor, I worked on numerous dramas and documentaries, my most recent piece of work being a documentary presented directed and edited by me called "A Trifle Messy". It is about a fetish called sploshing - and I get sploshed at the end! At the moment though... in the height of this job stealing recession, I am working in a bar to save money to hopefully move to London in the New Year where I can be in the thick of the television industry. My dream is to make documentaries.... OR to produce a cooking programme filthier than Nigella! In the mean time though I am working on a few small creative projects as well as writing a bit of my own poetry!

Link to my documentary

Helping out our friends

2009-09-03T07:58:00.000-07:00

buy your tickets now for the Fashion Rocks show in London from http://www.mynewbestfriends.co.uk/ Its going to be a wonderful evening, we just can not wait!

Urban Spark featured on Hippyhippy Chic blog!

2009-09-03T05:13:00.000-07:00

Kat at Hippy Hippy Chic Blog kindly featured us on her lovely blog! Go have a peek at it to see some preview pictures of our press pack contents as well as checking out which 'jules' pieces she loves!

Thanks Kat! X

Our first debut...radio chit chat live on Express FM

2009-09-03T04:26:00.000-07:00

Myself and Nikki Bruce whipped off to Express Fm studios in Portsmouth for a cheeky interview with Darren Gamblem. Things from the get go didnt run so smooth. Ended up in the wrong building in the wrong part of town. Ditsy designers we are. Radio talkers we are not. We discussed all things Urban Spark, from influences, and the design process to where we'd be in 5 years time. All in all it was a bit of a giggle (though judging from the above pictures of our expressions, you'd think me and Nikki were looking for the nearest exits!) Might have to learn how to speak though before we try that again...

A thank you goes go out to the Express Fm team that we met, especially to Lara who has been a gem to us at Urban Spark! Big love

Nikki S
X

Statement For Sure!

2009-09-01T01:20:00.000-07:00

Jewel of the week, on this beautiful sunny bank holiday week (yesh 4 days) is the shocker bracelet that will make that yummy fella look more than just twice! Use DINOSAURS to get an equally yummy 10% off!

Happy Birthday Beth!!!

2009-08-28T02:28:00.000-07:00

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

Big Chill Festival! Wellie Love

2009-08-28T01:03:00.001-07:00

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

2009-08-26T01:03:00.000-07:00

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

Polyvore

2009-08-25T02:47:00.000-07:00

Polyvore Green touch

Green gold Delights!

2009-08-25T01:52:00.000-07:00

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

2009-08-25T01:30:00.000-07:00

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

2009-08-25T01:05:00.000-07:00

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

2009-08-24T02:19:00.000-07:00

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!

2009-08-21T03:27:00.000-07:00

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

2009-08-19T06:37:00.001-07:00

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

2009-08-19T06:29:00.001-07:00

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

2009-08-18T05:45:00.000-07:00

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

2009-08-14T08:35:00.000-07:00

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

Tube Trauma!!!!!!!!

2009-08-14T07:09:00.000-07:00

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!

2009-08-14T06:59:00.000-07:00

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

2009-08-14T05:28:00.000-07:00

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...

2009-08-12T07:10:00.000-07:00

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...

2009-08-12T06:44:00.000-07:00

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

2009-08-12T02:27:00.001-07:00

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

2009-08-11T06:33:00.000-07:00

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

2009-08-11T03:04:00.000-07:00

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!

2009-08-08T04:17:00.000-07:00

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

2009-08-06T05:50:00.000-07:00

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

2009-08-06T01:21:00.000-07:00

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.

Field Day loved our wellies

2009-08-05T01:26:00.000-07:00

One of our Urban Spark lovers took one of only 6 in the world test designs to London at the weekend to field day, a one day festival in London. The response was epic. Unfortunately having these designs only in sample form it won’t be available till next summer for customer purchase, but you can already register for Glastonbury maybe we should put a register for these willies and if the min order is met we will all be able to enjoy for the festival season. May be I will start a face book group in a few weeks. Reckon 2000 people would want them?

Facebook Group

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=133309806662&ref=mf

2009-08-04T02:35:00.000-07:00

Mynewbestfriends.co.uk is complete with How-To Guides we have been lucky enough to come across, with all helpful and priceless advice and strategies for surviving the realities of modern day life. Here at Urban Spark we love the Fashion side and have already as a result of My New Best Friends seen a lovely clothes site with a beautiful style www.lellowlucy.com which we adore. So why not join her and immerse yourself into her life as a single mum, dedicated career women and socialite on her quest for love, success and happiness, a real Urban Spark girl.

Thanks for all your wonderful updates My New Best Friends.

Brighton Pride

2009-08-03T05:39:00.000-07:00

Despite feeling a little delicate from the night before, Urban Spark hit up Brighton Pride at the weekend! We loved it despite the rain, especially enjoyed the man dressed as a strawberrry! Came back with a hell of a lot of whistles, balloons and pens...it's all about the freebies.!x

2009-07-29T16:00:00.000-07:00

Last week I went on work experience with Urban Spark.
It was a great experience for me to learn how the process of a company works, especially one that is starting from scratch and is working its way up.
I’m a design student studying Product Design at the University of Huddersfield, so it was an opportunity for me to understand the process and to learn what the work environment would be like within a design company.
Urban Spark is a trendy, unique and has an upbeat attitude towards their designs as well as their professional attention to the company.
When I was there for the week, they were getting ready to launch and go live on the website for orders to be placed. My job was to unpack the jewellery and re wrap them into the new Urban Sparks packaging. It was repetitive and sometimes boring but only when Chris Moyles wasn’t on the radio to keep me laughing.
It was a good experience and I thank them for that. I know they will do well with their designs and the many more to come :o)

She summed up her style in a few words: Loves dark blues greys greens and blacks, naturally inspired with small gems and metal touches to make that eccentric touch.

Send in your pictures of YOU wearing your Urban Spark jewellery! We find it really interesting seeing how you style it to suit your look. Surprise us.!

New and inproved Newsletter

2009-07-29T03:18:00.000-07:00

The new and next newsletter quick sneak, we will be open later today and will be sitting on the edge of our seats waiting for that first order! We have been working aiming for this day for a year, so it’s a big one for us. We can’t wait to shout about what’s been hidden away for so long. We will give any followers and Twitters discounts by the way so send us an e-mail. Me and Nikki where up till 4am last night (with a glass of rose) packing jewellery, found our self’s slumped over our desks and on the floor at 6.30 this morning for our college Andrew to see our morning faces and bums up in the air, funny times. Will let you know when the sites live, ASAP! Pease and love

Urban Spark

2009-07-28T05:09:00.000-07:00

www.UrbanSpark.co.uk

Urban Spark

Our jewellery is eccentric and uniquely designed for Urban Spark, with a team of designers dedicated to bringing exclusive designs making it accessible on the high street.

Music: The Filthy Youth
http://www.myspace.com/thefilthyyouth

Director: Will McGregor
Writer: Nikki Bruce & Steve Byles
Stylist: Nikki Strange

Ice cream dreams

2009-07-27T02:37:00.000-07:00

We hope to be selling our jewellery at festivals next year in a beautiful lovely ice cream van with our best sellers packaged as beautiful 99 flake delights. We love festivals, we love meeting you and we love your style. So if you ever see any of us Urban Spark girls in your local shopping centre please come grab a photo and let us know your style we may even use you as inspiration and blog you.

Student Discount

2009-07-27T02:17:00.001-07:00

Will be going live in a few days now! Urban Spark will be giving our newsletter joiners a lovely thank you of 10% off, so join the mailing list to not miss out.
www.urbanspark.co.uk
For all you students out there, don’t threat, as we will always be helping you spend minimal of your student loans by offering you 10% off also, permanently.
Type STUDENT in to the vouchers section when purchasing and will confirm your details and give you lovely discount!

Customer spotlight - Jess

2009-07-27T01:46:00.001-07:00

Jess aged 20 sent us a picture of her working one of the 'antique' mirror necklaces.

She summed up her style in a few words: chic black dresses, vintage brooches, 30s inspired flapper coats snd floral patterns.

Send in your pictures of YOU wearing your Urban Spark jewellery! We find it really interesting seeing how you style it to suit your look. Surprise us.!

Urban Spark behind the scenes!

2009-07-27T01:28:00.000-07:00

Check out two of the Urban Spark team hard at work packaging up your little delights.! Unlike some e commerce websites, who, to be honest, do not put much time or effort into making sure your product is packaged with love and care, we at Urban Spark, put a lot of time in! We pride ourselves on spending that little bit more time making sure our jewellery is packaged just right so that you enjoy receiving it...it's all about the little things in life.

Packaging

2009-07-17T07:52:00.000-07:00

Our packaging has all been delivered from the printers, wonderful! So thought we would give our bloggers a sneaky peep. We have boxes, stickers, 10% off vouchers, student discount vouchers, Jules Collection flyers, badges, letter heads, business cards and urban spark info booklets, Lovely!

Scrap-a-badge!

2009-07-17T05:04:00.000-07:00

Urban Spark loves design, so why would we through any of it away! We take all our scrap paper drawings, print outs, test sheets and spec sheets and make them in to badges to give them to our customers. We think the process of design is just as important as the design itself so why would we discard any bits of work! I suppose you could class this as recycling in a way, but we think it’s more re-inventing. We Love design!

Spotted

2009-07-10T01:50:00.000-07:00

Our very first scarf’s on some lovely spark girls, think so nicer to have a picture of someone wearing products rather than mannequins even if the photos are not amazing, sorry my bad skills, although the lovely ladie in the hat (Caz) if just enrolled on to a photography course so when we get the new batch of products in think we will be giving her first bit of experience, we will be planning to make our first catalogue by then so happy days. Computers are amazing but sometimes it’s nice to have a book, we are building our book collection up as we speak.

Also a quick photo of our first sample wallet from the new Rosa/Forest collection, there are three colours of this. We love bright and beautiful, very fun loving sample, few more adjustments and should be finished. We are ordering this week! Spark also thinks this zip purse is most functional we can keep changing the patterns and make the same purse but revamped with different colours to suit wardrobes for summer and spring. We are complete purse sluts, we love them!

Urban Spark Loves London

2009-07-10T00:45:00.000-07:00

As the Spark offices are not based in London, we make sure that once a month we venture on southwest trains to the capital.
After seeing on “Style Bubble” of the trees from the exhibition “Walking in my mind” http://walkinginmymind.southbankcentre.co.uk/index, wanted to venture see it for our self’s with a sneaky pop to Spitafields market on the tube. We loved the messages people that had written in the bubbles.

We ventured to the Victoria and Albert Museum; they had some amazing little gems in the Museum shop. This T-shirt, jokes!

Glasto Dreams

2009-07-08T08:08:00.000-07:00

Now a few weeks on from the Urban Sparks venture to the delights of Glastonbury festival we have time to reflect.
One of the defining moments was in the wee hours of Thursday night/Friday morning down in the amazing depts of shangrila in the only bar left open, we were lucky enough to have a few drops of rain (it pissed it down!). One of the team pulled out of their bag this amazing delight bought from a local gardening/craft discount shop in Gosport (The Range), I kid you not, amazing! This ladybird poncho is design innovation at its best, we love these quirky little festival made delights. The frog wallet will hopefully suit well next to this number.
P.S bobby and drew we have sent you a poncho hope you enjoy was a delight to have a flash of you in our memories, amazing times! (Bobby in photo loving the poncho) frog wallet sample/first attempt)

"I am slouching"

2009-07-08T03:07:00.000-07:00

These samples are the first we have had back, the design when it’s all folded is "just defo in the mood to slouch" or a "I am just off to the market scarf", --- it’s a scarf whatever you want to do with it looks sick! Red is the staff fave to go with the old black leather jacket, black and green look really good with the gray cardies. As they are samples will give them out, as always we are a giving company after all need some photos with some styles so let us know if you are up for some styling, oh 100% cotton buy the way, requested the ink to be as bright as possible!

2009-07-08T01:23:00.000-07:00

Been working with Becks our very own dedicated e-mail marketing writer/ magic worker with a computer (will upload photo soon, also her choice from our first collection) she has been a dream the first newsletter will be sent soon lots of pictures less text, beautiful fun photos of the girls. Can’t wait to get these photos out feel so bad been hiding them in the office, this room does not do them justice. Also our website team have put a few tunes from the filthy youth on the website, hope they are on tour soon possibly prizes could be some tickets maybe. Peas & love x

Can join up to our newsletter by going to…

www.UrbanSpark.co.uk

Urban Spark Loves Glasto!

2009-07-01T04:09:00.000-07:00

Glastonbury Experience was beautiful! Urban Spark team took a load of signs trying to get some good cheeky photos in return. We left them in doted places in the festival with an e-mail address on the back, good response and some amazing photos, random fun times. Want to make our appreciation to the trash city of Glastonbury, we really love the effort that went in to the city visually it was amazing extremely perfect with the secrete set from fat boy slim on the Saturday night in the dance club/catwalk stage with only 300 people lucky enough to get in, yesh, lucky us we got in and it was amazing! Fat boy slim was sick, we love these things the best Glasto yet! P&L

Loving the boys who I through a sign to classic photo with all the people behind does not do the whole thing justice though, thanks for the pose guys!

Wellies, 6 people were lucky enough to sample the willies at Glasto, there was lots of interest and photos taken so this is great for us so next year hopefully we can get a bit of backing and get them in order made ready for Glasto 2010! 2010 now that’s a scary thought, time fly’s.

Also posted some sample jewellery to a few people so if you see a spark girl/boy grab them make friend you never know what samples we have to give out, tote bags are on the way soon as well!

Back end

2009-06-16T08:18:00.000-07:00

Back stage view from the photo shoot, this was on a fourth level in a play area getting lights and everything was missions but well worth it, never seen something done like this before so hopefully will have a little impact, our first one as well so going to be experimental, always tell us what you think the photos will be on a album in the face book fan group when its published. Models and makeup artist and our talented creative/media writer Beth did amazing job.

Bring on forest/Rosa next collection hopefully be sot before the sun goes away for winter. Maybe will give you sneak peek at the drawings so you know that the spark team is on top of it. Got some bags as well bright and fun purse will be on blog soon promise.

Urban Spark loves the Rubber Dub Boat Party!!

2009-06-16T04:07:00.000-07:00

Picking the theme for the end of year rubber dub boat party was not hard, urm… and it was on a boat so aquatic was not a hard one to think of did def not have anything to do with the fact that Urban Spark was launching a sea themes collection.

Well the night was an amazing success and we loved seeing everyone put so much effort in to the costumes and put up a stir at Gunwharf keys, Portsmouth. In fact I think more photos where took on the punters from the strangers walking past, we love this urban young event and want the boys JC, Phil, French and Crew to be lovers of our up for it brand. We secretly love them all!

Wellie love!!

2009-06-16T03:55:00.000-07:00

Wellie love some better photos for the blog here even if they are a bit muddy, that’s what willies are for though, “a dirty wellie show a good time!”

“Make sure you have a dirty wellie!”

Hopefully they will be out next summer fingers crossed don’t want to keep them from you for toooo long although we love bit of suspense and drama.

Chicken feet, ballet, and old tart.

2009-06-05T07:26:00.000-07:00

The Urban Spark website this is what it should look like, Wizbit our web “creator” is working very hard to get it up and running ASAP, though give us a bit of time to work on a few projects. When it up video and everything will flood over the web you get so pissed off with us.

2009-06-05T07:03:00.000-07:00

Jules Collection

These Designs are currently exclusive, they will be available online the end of June.

2009-06-05T06:53:00.000-07:00

2009-06-05T06:31:00.000-07:00

Urban Spark is not far away from launching now.

Giving you a sneak peek of our products and branding asap!

2009-05-05T01:55:00.000-07:00

The Filthy Youth- Come Flash all you ladies

Video coming soon

2009-05-05T01:41:00.000-07:00

Urban Spark is a fashion accessory company that is inspired by women’s confidence and the personality that echoes through fashion. The company which currently consists of 2 designers, is looking to launch up to 3 new ranges of jewelry which is initially available online. Raw talent from designers on the south coast and an eye for detail, Spark! Offers quality and beauty that echoes various themes for each collection.

The first collection that will be available online is the ‘Jules’ collection, which is inspired by the ocean . The collection boasts a range of bracelets, necklaces, broaches and earrings which have all been designed by one of the urban spark team. The second collection that will be released will be ‘Rosa’ with an underlining theme of sophistication that not only contrasts the ‘ocean’ themed collection, but has echoes of vintage boudoir.

Launching jewelry as the first accessory online will also be followed by unique wellington boots just in time for the festival season, scarves, and handbags which will help define Urban Spark as a accessory company and not just a jewelry enterprise.

2009-05-05T01:35:00.000-07:00

Urban Sparks! Mission statement is to provide accessories for real women. This highlights the attitude of spark, which believes women should relish in their natural beauty without airbrushing their flaws, because it is the personality and attitude that creates the style. With the help of a range of accessories that compliment every spark girl out their, it is possible to compete in such a market where natural beauty has been forgotten.

2009-05-05T01:22:00.000-07:00

Urban Spark Models: The initial idea behind finding models for the ‘faces‘ of urban spark, was to conduct a model search, giving real women the chance to model for the company.

Spark! Want to make sure that their models are comfortable in their own skin and all compliment each other on screen and off, so that there is a natural chemistry so working together is as natural as it can be. The models chosen are all currently students from the south coast (Real Urban Gems) who sent test shots over for the chance to be the face of spark. Three models were chosen and it proudly shows that they are and have found the best models possible for spark. They have completely different looks, and attitudes for the three different collections available.

2009-04-22T09:26:00.000-07:00

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