Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee
The Walthamstow Mile Long Street Party
Sunday 5th June 1-7pm
Madame Bouteille De Lait
The self proclaimed Rubbish Queen of Waltham-On-The-Stow, Madame Bouteille De Lait, reigned at the Mile Long Street party with and her court musician Camille De La Crème in attendence. Celebrating 1 year of her reign (and 70 years of Queen Elizabeth’s).
Camille De La Crème is Layil Barr of the fabulous
Witch1
Do you know this feeling when you meet someone, and you just know that’s the 1? When I met witch1 I knew. One Sunday morning, surrounded by chaos, we realised we have a story to tell. We unpacked our memories, dreams and lies. We revived them with sounds. Our music celebrates the unbeatable spirit of freedom fighters, cries Llorona’s tears, converses with Rumi’s secrets , dances naked in the streets, dives to the bottom of oceans searching for a forgotten pearl and puts our relentless children to sleep. We weave our spells and cling to sanity in the midst of a pandemic… What does it mean being alive?
We are Witch1
The theme for the 2021 Art Trail was ‘Possible Futures’
so why have I made an 18th Century Court dress?
Madame Bouteille De Lait simply can’t understand the problem. Her beautiful dress has been fashioned from single use plastic – milk bottles, plastic cutlery, crisp packets and cat food foil. Therefore, it will last for 450 years! It won’t wear out, she can merely adapt it and refine it to keep up with fashions.
If it had been made in the 18th Century it would still be here.
The clothes we buy now, and the packaging from our food will also not wear out. However they are made on the whole for a single use or a single season, before being destined for landfill. As stewards of this wonderful planet we really need to redress this problem – the single use things need to decompose quickly and the items we need to last a long time should actually do that!
Madame Bouteille De Lait would like to encourage you to stop buying new clothes – adapt, repair, reuse and recycle instead. Spend a little more on a quality item that will last. This might sound a little counterintuitive for someone that makes clothes for a living! They Shout Hello is my passion project – I enjoy making one-off garments – dungarees and fascinators, for individuals, who are not a faceless customer. The garment will be made for you, with discussion, collaboration and lots of love. I will then help you if it needs repairing or altering so it can be a timeless piece in your wardrobe that will last beyond a season.
Imperishable – From Possible Future to Sure Future
Even plastic won’t last for eternity. God has put a ‘use-by’ date on the earth, but only He knows when that is.
Micah 7 13 The earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants,
as the result of their deeds.
We shouldn’t be surprised about the mess the world is in. It’s our fault. We are selfish and short-sighted and have taken the command to steward the earth and run with it, without reference to its creator.
Thankfully, in the same way that he created it ‘good’ in the first place, it will be good again. Actually it will be better than good it will be glorious and so will we!
1 Corinthians 1553 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
Jesus will return, and those who have put their trust in him will be made imperishable.
I am imperishable.
Please message me if you’d like to know more about how you too can be imperishable.