Nikki @ Penelope Cat Vintage
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| Gender | Female |
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| Location | Liverpool, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | Hello, my name is Nikki. I devote my life to the acquisition of beautiful vintage things, much to the annoyance of my partner, who will always prefer being able to actually move about one's abode to having thousands of gorgeous things to look at :). I live with said partner - otherwise known as A, our odd little cats Juno and Luna and aforementioned stuff. I have high hopes of opening a shop when I grow up. |
| Interests | Spending time with friends family and pets, vintage clothing and accessories, vintage ceramics, textiles and homeware, jewellery, reading, art, craft, visiting galleries, museums and exhibitions, knitting, making random stuff, dressing up and playing pretend, shiny things, old photographs, collecting doorknobs, thinking, blurring my boundaries of real life and make-believe, treasure-hunting, charity shopping, collecting collections, writing, a little film, tv and music and baking the occasional sweet thing... |
| Favorite movies | Lilo and Stitch, A Matter of Life and Death, Mirrormask, Stardust, Clash of the Titans, Jason and the Argonauts, It Happened One Night, Finding Nemo, the Studio Ghibli Films like Princess Mononoke, Laputa, Spirited Away etc, Monsters Inc., The Adventures of Robin Hood, Kiss me Kate, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Some Like it Hot, How to Steal a Million, Heaven Can Wait (the old one), School for Scoundrels (the original), anything with Cary Grant, David Niven or Roger Livsey..... |
| Favorite music | Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Glenn Miller, Buddy Holly, Elvis, Johnny Cash, The Smiths, The Cure, Blondie, The Buzzcocks, The Clash, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Muse, The White Stripes, lots of 50s, 60s and 70s music and tons of other stuff |
| Favorite books | The History of Tom Jones, Pride and Prejudice, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Harry Potter Books, The Gift / The Riddle / The Crow / The Singing, Sabriel / Lirael / Abhorsen, Northern Lights/The Subtle Knife/The Amber Spyglass, Spindle's End, Beauty, Alice in Wonderland, Nights at the Circus, Lord of the Rings, Rebecca, Fly by Night, Idols of Perversity, From the Beast to the Blonde, 1000 Rings, Books on ceramics, jewellery, art, Fairytales and objects, Cheesy 70s craft books, New Age books... |