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Battleship Bettie *formerly Atomic Swank*

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About Me



I am a 30 year old Navy wife with a lot of time on my hands. In that spare time I design and create vintage inspired accessories, children's and PLUS SIZE pinup/retro style clothing. I have a little online store thingy at ETSY and I also sell on eBay once in a while. We were formerly known as "Atomic Swank", but someone decided they liked that name too and bought the domain so now here we are... New & Improved.

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My Interests

Thriftstoring! Fashion, retro culture, art, sewing, needle crafts.

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Other crafters, seamstresses, DIYers and interesting people!

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Music:

Buddha bar, Cafe del Mar, Nelly Furtado, some swing, DMB, John Mayer, Christina Aguilera, Michael Buble, Frank Sinatra, Gwen Stefani... I'm really all over the place.

Television:

Ab Fab, Extreme Home Makeover, The Dean Martin show, Family Guy, M*A*S*H*, Arrested Developement...

Books:

Too many to even fathom listing them

Heroes:

My husband.

My Blog

Once again, it never fucking fails!


Posted by Battleship Bettie *formerly Atomic Swank* on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:02:00 PST

We had to change our name...

due to the lack of originality of other people! LOL. Well friends and customers, I am pleased to bring you Battleship Bettie’s! (formerly Atomic Swank) Why did we have to change you ask? I...
Posted by Battleship Bettie *formerly Atomic Swank* on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:57:00 PST

I know I haven’t been on much...

but my husband deployed and I’ve just NOT been in the mood to create anything since before Xmas. I made some children’s dresses as tests and a mock up adult dress and some bags for friends...
Posted by Battleship Bettie *formerly Atomic Swank* on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:51:00 PST

Prototype of THE DRESS

Okay so I worked out a prototype of the upsize dress pattern lastnight on some cheap Walmart fabric. It needs a little tweaking and the stitching is shit becasue I did it fast and just wanted to get i...
Posted by Battleship Bettie *formerly Atomic Swank* on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:49:00 PST

Vintage Patterns!

Well Ladies, I have recently aquired some vintage patterns and ordered some reprint vintage Vogue patterns (including a corset!) off eBay and some from the Vogue site itself. I can’t wait!!! I a...
Posted by Battleship Bettie *formerly Atomic Swank* on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:48:00 PST