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Warwick Christmas Lights Switch On 2025

Posted on November 30, 2025 by Kitten von Mew

It was such an honour to compère at Warwick’s famous Victorian Market and Christmas Lights Switch On this year! Thursday saw thousands of people mingling festively throughout the town to be part of this historic event.

I originally made the hat above (custom hats available to order from 2026, just look for Cogsmith’s Curious Creations on Facebook!) for last year’s event, but it never got seen as I was so ill and had to cancel. It was wonderful to finally don my wintery titfer and step onto Warwick’s stage!

There was a primary school choir, members of I Sing I Dance I Act, the St. Mary’s Church Choir (beautiful!), a Victorian costume competition, the winner of Warwick’s Got Talent and more besides! I had a wonderful time singing and chatting to the audience, who were in high spirits and eager for the Christmas Lights to be switched on!

As the bagpiper led the town crier, Warwick Mayor, court leet and various members to the front, it was like trying to organise children for a school photo as we herded and lured the dignitaries onto the stage. The town crier got his career for good reason and after a short spell of tinnitus, I looked out at the crowd and made sure to take in every single amazing and magical moment I was experiencing. One especially fabulous moment was the fact that I was asked to push the plunger down with Father Christmas and the mayor! Can you flippin’ believe it?! I sleighed it up there.

I have been away from the area for a little while now due to family stuff and this time helped me recharge, recoup and feel a little like myself again. It was so wonderful to see a few familiar faces and friends popping up to see me with a huge hug and a smile, your support is absolutely invaluable right now and you made me feel very loved/ made me looked fantastically famous and popular, so thank you.

Video taken by Christie Russell

I will add more images as I find them, but until then I will leave you with the above. You will find me in Weymouth next; at the Steampunk Yuletide Weekend on 6th December at Northe Forte! Huzzah!

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Folkingham Remembers Operation Market Garden 2024

Posted on September 25, 2024 by Kitten von Mew

I must apologise for my long absence on here. I’ve had issues with my site and am also having a life declutter; finding myself once again and regaining my inner strength and confidence.

Wearing an original vintage tie and 1940’s hat

I had a wonderful time at Folkingham Remembers Operation Market Garden recently. The weather was astounding on Saturday and a constant downpour in the afternoon on Sunday! Did that put me off? Goodness no! I was the last entertainer standing and sang in the rain to a hardcore audience in a little orchard.

Kitten Von Mew singing before the rain started!

The church housed some incredible artefacts from Folkingham’s WW2 past, including photos, American airman uniform pieces, letters and insignia. There was even a piece of aircraft that had taken off from the airfield and unfortunately crashed in bad weather.

I was incredibly impressed how the whole village got involved. It very much felt like a community event, which was so lovely. What an incredible piece of history to have on your doorstep. Thank you for letting me be part of it!

Original 1940’s dress, telephone cord bag, 40’s hat, 30’s red glass beads and Remix Vintage Shoes

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Photoshoot with Donna Lawson

Posted on August 14, 2022 by Kitten von Mew

In July I had a lovely, relaxed photoshoot at home with Donna Lawson. The weather was great, so we managed to do some outdoor shots too! I meant to post these weeks ago, but what with Fantasy Forest (I’ll post some photos next!) and Covid (yes, I know, 3 times now) I have only just got the mental energy to sit down and do this blog post!

Wearing Bettie Page Lingerie from Playful Promises and a wig styled by Violet Says in Warwick

Based in Evesham, Donna specialises in street photography, but decided to branch out more into family, wedding and boudoir shoots. You can also get casting portraits, live gig photos and corporate images too!

I really hope you enjoy the ones I selected. I can thoroughly recommend Donna, especially for more candid photos that capture moments you didn’t even notice. It was a real pleasure working with this lovely lady!

Dress by Heyday Online, shoes by Johnson’s Originals

If you are interested in booking her for a shoot, you can get a whopping 20% off by mentioning this special code: KVM20 up until the end of December! This is purely for my followers, so we are really lucky to be given such a huge discount! You can contact Donna Lawson at enquiries@donnalawson.co.uk

Original 1930’s embroidered dress, 1940’s hat and shoes

Dress by Vivien of Holloway , Bangles by Splendette

Longline bra by Bettie Page Lingerie, french knickers by What Katie Did

Fiore Vanity Seamed Stockings and original 1950’s boudoir slippers

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Walking Away Those Blues

Posted on April 16, 2020 by Kitten von Mew

Well, Betsy and I are still doing our crazy walks down our road and even managed to make the local paper. Thank you to the residents who got in touch with them!

Stratford Herald. Main image by Mark Williamson, Tinkerbell image by Kitten Von Mew, Santa image by Rachel Perks, other images from residents of my road.

I’ve also got a few more images of some of our other walks below…

Pebbles and Her Pet. How do people wear this in marathons?! I was struggling after an hour!

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Covid-19 Morale

Posted on April 8, 2020 by Kitten von Mew

I hope you have all been staying safe and healthy in these unsettling times! It can be incredibly intense and claustrophobic being isolated, but you are doing great.

To update you with what I’ve been up to…every single week day, my 4 year old daughter and I dress up in a different theme and take our 1 hour of exercise time. My plan was to create some crazily cool memories for Betsy, focus on something fun by dressing up and bring some morale to the street. I suffer with depression quite badly and love the escapism of fancy dress or costuming. The fact I can use this outlet as a ray of sunshine for other people and keep my mental health more-or-less stable in these uncertain times is brilliant.

I began by writing a list of characters we could do and even bought a mic that has a little inbuilt speaker so that I could sing to the residents too. At first we only saw a couple of people looking, but now most of the street waves or twitches their curtains at 11.30am each morning!

When I moved here 4 years ago I became familiar with about 4 people in my street. Who would’ve known that a desperately worrying time would lead to so many more friendships being formed from 2 metres away?

So far we’ve done Disney Princesses, Unicorns, rainbows, fairies, Maleficent and a dragon, Steampunk dolls, Mary Poppins, Dorothy Gale (Wizard of Oz) and Glinda the Good Witch, 1940’s, 1950’s and my favourite… Santa and his elf!

It was BAKING this Tuesday and I was dressed in full Father Christmas outfit, complete with beard, wig and hat. I had ordered a pack of 50 toilet rolls that I stacked inside my cart, which was decorated with tinsel, a reindeer and more! I put some vintage festive songs on my Bluetooth speaker and we made our way down the road. Everyone who waved got a toilet roll and I ran out! I left one on a parked ambulance, along with some sweets. “Ho ho ho! Meeeeerrrrry Covidmas!”

What else have I done? Oh! I wrote a parody of ‘It’s in His Kiss’ (made famous by Cher in Mermaids). It’s called ‘Is it Covid’ and you can see it HERE.

I’ll keep you updated on happenings. I’m just trying real hard not to lose my marbles. X

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Stoneleigh Militaria 2018

Posted on February 2, 2018 by Kitten von Mew

What a lovely weekend! We managed to hire our first ever baby sitter (eek!) and head off to Woody at War’s 1940’s dance at Stoneleigh on the Saturday evening. We haven’t been to a dance since I was pregnant! The last time I went to this one was when Kieran at the USO Shows was running it, so I didn’t know what to expect. Woody had done an excellent job and had even set up a little USO stage for me to sing on! The place was packed and everyone looked wonderful.

On the Sunday it was time for the Stoneleigh Militaria Show. I was singing in the foyer at 1pm, so we had plenty of time to walk around the stalls! I had managed to do little victory rolls in Betsy’s hair and she looked ridiculously cute in her khaki jumpsuit and headscarf.

There were 3 really good clothing stalls at the show 2 in the main hall, 1 in the second) and I got a lovely bargain 50’s straw bag and a jacket to wear with my Heyday trousers. Richard got me a lovely wool suit for Valentine’s that I can’t wait to wear!

It was wonderful to see some familiar faces and new ones alike. Some people I hadn’t seen for so long, they didn’t realise that I now sing?! So many cuddles and greetings, lots of cooing over Queen B and her hair, lots of catching up and a great singing set. I always enjoy this show, I think many of us treat it as the ‘real’ new year in the 1940’s scene as it is the first event of the year for us! It seemed to be a lot busier this year too.

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Christmas Vintage Pinup!

Posted on December 12, 2017 by Kitten von Mew

I thought I would treat you to a fun little shoot I did in the snow on Saturday! A little bit of vintage pinup for the festive season. ‘Yule’ love it!

Wearing an original 1950’s gold lame swimsuit; originally used in a circus in LA, 1940’s rubber and fur over boots and a 1930’s fur muff with ruched silk on the back with a hidden purse pocket. The boots are wonderful as you just wear your own mid-heel shoes inside. They act as wellies to keep the rain, snow and mud off your footwear!

Kisses

Kitten von Mew xxx

Photos taken by Richard von Mew

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Singing at Leif Tearooms in Leamington Spa

Posted on July 8, 2017 by Kitten von Mew

Today I did a set of soothing 40’s to 60’s songs at Leif Tearooms! I couldn’t wait to meet up with my friends and try the afternoon tea. Usually there is a piano player, but this time they got me on the mic! I was upset to hear that one of my friends was poorly, so couldn’t come along, but we managed to have a good time and wished her a speedy recovery.

Time for another shameless plug… I was yet again wearing one of Time Machine’s amazing vintage reproduction outfits! The barkloth fabric is amazing and contrasts beautifully with the polkadot cotton of the skirt. You may have seen me wearing the trousers of this set at Battles for Victory last year! I also have some shorts too! I teamed this outfit with some vintage Bakelite and jade bangles that picked out the yellow and green beautifully.

So back to Leif! The afternoon tea is priced at £12.95 and is delicious and filling. You get to choose 2 Sandwich fillings and these come on a tiered slate cake stand with slabs of cake, really gorgeous scones (fresh not frozen!), strawberries (guessing these are seasonal) and the obvious clotted cream and jam. Your tea is served in a loose leaf pot, so nice and fresh.

I do prefer the little patisserie fruit tarts you usually get with afternoon teas as scones AND sponge cake can be a bit too heavy. I only managed the sandwiches, strawberries and scone, but it was a delight.

Hopefully I will be asked back to sing again some time! Enjoy your weekend! X

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Daily Mail Article

Posted on September 27, 2016 by Kitten von Mew

Click here to read the article.

Ah yes, another corker of an article released today about our lifestyle; full of misquotes and fabrications to make us look weird. Always take this type of thing with a pinch of salt and a smirk!

Apparently we eat like they did in the Blitz (you know…powdered egg, rationed bacon, spam, pizza, tiramisu, korma…)

Betsy’s Bing and Peppa Pig toys are from an ‘erstwhile age.’

Kitten von Rew????
Oh and of course Betsy loves the wartime classics (?!), like this fairies book from 1950 for instance (blatantly on the front cover)…

The grammar is impeccable…if you aren’t fussed about punctuation and sentences making sense…

This wonderful image below was used in the article and not credited. It was taken by the talented Candee Photography!

As you can see from part of this email, I previously contacted the company about misquotes and other info. Some of it was taken onboard… I mean, they corrected my name.