50's style sunglasses now in store at Wild Fire Piercing, Canal Walk!

I have a fascination of times gone by - in particular the 50's and am always on the quest for the perfect pair of vintage looking sunglasses. Lucky enough for us Tom Ford designed "Nikita" the most beautiful pair of classic black cat's eye sunglasses (below) in his last collection which we are already beginning to see filter down to a more "commercial level" at stores - now I just need to save some cash to get my hand on a pair!

"Nikita" by Tom ford (above & below)

So...for those of us without a huge budget (and designer taste!) I have managed to source two awesome styles (below) for you which are now available at

Canal Walk,

Shop 478A - near Entrance 8

Happy Shopping Girls!

New Miss Happ accessory stockist in Long Street (Cape Town)!

Miss Happ has another new home!

You can now find our Miss Happ accessories at

223 Long Street

Tel: +27 21 4260242.

Happy Shopping !

Miss Happ now in stock at Black Light, Durban!

We are excited to announce that yes! we have ANOTHER new

Miss Happ stockist in Durban! Yay!

Black Light (Lifestyle Modification Studio) in Clark Road, Glenwood

is where you will find select range of Miss Happ's corsets, tops, jewellery and hair clips!

The store is an alternative lifestyle spot for Durbanites to do a little shopping. Owner, Lesley Granger a Body Piercer, saw a gap in the market for alternative offerings and Black Light was born. We are super excited to be a part of this new venture!

Black Light is open from:

Monday, Tuesday & Thursday 10am till 5pm & 

Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 10am till 8pm 

Remember, you can now also get Miss Happ at the following spots in durban:

*Mooi, 100 Bulwer Road, Glenwood*

*The Essenwood Market (every Sat)*

*The I HEART market (1st Sat of every month)*

Look out for our Miss Happ posters in and around the Durban stores...

White Orchids fit for a wedding!

Durban seems to be full of exciting surprises as it turns out....

I was very busy last week-end with an awesome order to make 45 white orchid hair clips

that are going to be wedding favours for soon-to-be bride Simone.

We managed to source some amazing silk orchids from a local supplier and within two days 

the bride-to be got her flowers...always nice to have a happy customer!

with the big day Simone, we wish you all the best!

New vintage inspired range of hair bows & broaches

With our new vintage inspired range of necklaces having just hit stores, I thought it only fitting that we have cute hair bows and broaches to complete the range.

Miss Happ is all about colour, textures and funky prints so you can't go wrong with our tape measure broach with it's cute anchor charm, or the newsprint hair bows or even the sage ribbon broach with it's vintage cameo charm sitting pretty in the middle! 

All items are made from 100% cotton ribbon, and range in price from R65 - R75.

All are available from: 

The Deco Collection, Essenwood Market Durban (every sat)

Our Miss Happ online store

*we can post to anywhere in SA too!

Till next time,

Miss Happ full range now in stock at Mooi, DURBAN

Just wanted to let you know that you can now buy Miss Happ's full range of rockabilly & pin up clothing, hair clips and necklaces from Mooi in Durban (100 Bulwer Rd, Glenwood) so make sure you pop in and meet the girls at Mooi to do alittle shopping!

Happy shopping!

Till next time,

New girly Miss Happ vintage inspired necklaces

I am so excited to finally share with you all our cute exclusive Miss Happ vintage inspired necklaces and pendents! Choose from either long or short lengths in a pewter/antique finish or a silver. 

 The pendent images are from our classic collection and have all been selected carefully to give that unique and individual touch!  Choose from the cute bambi to the more well known tattoo images of swallows & anchors to the pretty faces of Victorian ladies and the popular vintage roses.

Each necklace has a sweet mini charm that sits slightly off center to add that quirky, 

slightly "off the wall" touch!

Our Miss Skully pendent in a vintage cameo setting is our "cherry-on-the-top"! She comes as either a pendent/necklace or as a broach - perfect to add to your winter coats.

*Prices range from R70 to R75 with our Miss Skully at R85*

All our necklaces & broaches are available from the following stores:

Wild Fire, Canal Walk, Cape Town

Mooi, Durban

I HEART market

The Deco Collection, Essenwood Market, Durban

as well as online from:

Miss Happ 

or, you can e-mail me to place your order:

misshapp@mweb.co.za

Welcome to Durban

After woblly start I boarded a Mongo flight after having to pay a wopping R200 for overweight baggage - gotta love Mango - so much for cheap flights! They make up for it with the overweight luggage policy so be aware!  

So a little irritable at the beginning of my flight I eventually settled down to begin reading my new book by Charlene Harris - Grave Sight (the same author as the True Blood series) which so far I am enjoying. All in all, it was an easy and quick flight and  I was happy to land in balmy Durban 2 hours later.

Thursday evening we made our way to the May Night Market which was held The Quays. Now remember I haven't been to this area in years so seeing all the restoration of the beautiful victorian building at the point was just great!

I must say, when you compare the night market to our awesome markets  in Cape Town like the biscuit mill and the stellenbosch fresh goods the little Durban Night market looks (unfortunatly for them) tame and rather empty. On the upside I did however buy some delicious goodies to take back as prezzies to my Cape Town honey....

The Martinnaise does a range of delicious Mayonnaise are super tasty too - with flavours such as Wasabi Mayo garlic mayo, mustard mayo and peri-peri mayo you can't go wrong. The great thing with this range is that they are all preservative & chemical free. I cannot wait to try mine as a dip with some home-made crispy fries...oooh! my mouth is already watering!!

Also bought some Chilli chutney from Nicky's Preserve for my man who absolutly loves anything spicey or chilli! But being the scardy pants I am I didn't try it, so will have to let you know how that one tastes - but I must just add that it looked HOT!!

 Till next time folks!

It's a bug's life!

Went to a friends daughter's 2nd birthday party yesterday. Kerry layed out a fantastic spread, and being the creative chief that she is she baked the lady bug cake and some cute mini cupcakes with butterflies and more bugs! so creative! we even had delicious butterfly chocolates and who couldn't forget Boudoir biscuits and sour worms - talk about a blast from our childhood!

I chose to celebrate the day with my new Miss Happ cupcake dress - never one to miss a moment I thought I fitted in just perfectly!

Dave Ferguson farewell with Them Tornados and Peachy Keen

Saturday night was the farewell party for Dave Ferguson who is sadly leaving us for Italy. Peachy Keen opened the evening with their rockin' tunes and got the crowd going - of course they Peachy Keen girls looked great in their Miss Happ dresses (I wore one of my new hawaiian printed swing dresses - soon to be part of our Summer 2011/12 range - keep a look out of our summer launch soon!). Dave played next and had the whole venue dancing and feet tapping to his americana blues tunes. Them Tornados ended off the evening with their signature rockabilly sound - and when Dave joined them on stage it was electric!

A total mixed crowd (it was at the Harley Davidson Club) so between the bikers and the odd rockabilly boy and girl it was a great evening with awesome music. SA is going to miss you Dave Ferguson!