Here’s a photo of Helena, Tim and their little girl taken on May 6, 2008 in Hampstead, London, UK:

from Celebrity Baby Blog:

Many thanks to Laura from the Forum for posting the whole Helena Biography Channel episode on YouTube:

Part 1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOBx3dm7zio

Part 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t67Q2ZioJt0

Part 3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3QkDOZRY98

Part 4:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKxcEjinJ0Y

Part 5:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VEMf2c_9K8

Many thanks to Samantha for informing us that Helena has contributed a foreword to the book “Put on Your Pearls, Girls” by Lulu Guinness and Martin Welch.

Here’s the foreword (many thanks, Samantha, for sending this in!):

Foreword
ONCE UPON A TIME, three Christmases ago, my father asked me to buy a present for myself. I needed a handbag, a special handbag- always a tricky purchase. We are talking long-term relationships here. So I made a beeline for the shop of the Goddess of Handbags and it was there where I found the bag that has been at the end of my arm ever since. It is black with patent handles and bears a silhouette of the aforementioned goddess wearing a pearl necklace and her initials embroidered in white, along with the phrase “Put on Your Pearl, Girls.” It is somewhat battered now, the bottom has begun to bow and sag but it still holds my mini life, the essential baggage I carry with me everywhere: and to me it is still beautiful. Like all happy pieces of design, it is a blend of the functional with visually delighting. It has also proved to be a social asset, prompting smiles, conversation, and envy (the sign of a successful purchase) from strangers in queues, airports, Starbucks, and on streets and in shops across the world.

The lulu you will meet in this book, dear reader, is not, I’m happy to say, a dictator. And this is why I prefer her and would refer to her as a style agony aunt over others. She is a champion of the individual whereas others want us all to copy and conform. Indeed, as far as I see it, the underlying and governing fulcrum of an idea upon which the whole of fashion is poised is that we should all look the same, i.e. we should all be sheep when, in fact, we were never meant to be clones. She is a defender of the rebel, a liberator of the inner girl, and femme fatale, or fun fatale. A confidence-giver and one who urges us to perceive our difference as uniqueness and to show it off, not hide it away. Looking at her style suggestions I see that unconsciously I have been observing the whole lot of them all my life. And I have definitely observed Elsa Schiaperlli’s Fifth Commandment, as I would not be beyond wearing a show as a hat. Maybe lulu’s one suggestion I haven’t live by is number seven, as I hate often dresses like a five-year-old, especially when my inner girl gets a bit too enthusiastically outer. Anyhow, I’ve never been once to grow up fast.

But then I suspected this is exactly what lulu, and particularly this book, is about. It’s a picture book a pop up book for us not-so-grown-up-girls. She appeals to the five-year-old girlie in all of us: exhorting us to wear our inner girls on the outside. I have always loved her aesthetic, her wit and whimsy. her would into which she invites us to step. or skip, is one where we can dream and fantasize, regress and dress up in our Mum’s clothes; walk back to the ’50s and borrow from our mothers, when women were fabulously feminine and decorative and flirty and pretty. But unlike our forbears we do it because we choose to, but because we don’t have any other option. In le Monde De lulu we can have your cake and stuff ourselves, and then, if we are fat, as lulu says, “shop for accessories.”

This book, dear reader, is like all of lulu’s creations: a delicious confection, a little life-enhancer. Lulu in turn observes on of my own little aspirational aims in life which is to remember to live with imagination: to bring fantasy to the quotidian: to splash what can sometimes be the gray and drab days with a little pink. So if you are in need of a touch of pink just take your fingers for a walk in this book. I hope it enchants and that it lands on he top of your bedside tower. And if, unlike me , you have a little girl, I suspect that author might approve of it being read by both mother and daughter simultaneously. A little bedtime style instruction.

And finally, as I write this, Christmas has come around again. My father is no longer with us. But I carry is bag around with me wherever I go. Quite serendipitously, the other big man in my life, Tim, gave me a string of beautiful, very real pearls that hang around my neck and which have no left it since I was presented with them three days ago on Christmas eve. I have written those words in them. I have truly fulfilled Lulu’s and Dad’s commandment, And I have yet to tell Lulu that even though he’s not a girl, my son Billy loves wearing them, too (much to his fathers slight consternation. But then he is our oyster boy).

Helena Bonham Carter
London, 2005

I think I’ve seen this handbag!

Edit to add: This photo was taken on May 5, 2005 at the launch party of the book. You can see Helena’s handbag:

Many thanks to bellatrix92 for posting these two photos in the Forum:

The pictures were taken by Alberto Tolot in 1998:

Many thanks to “Jack and Sally” for finding this photo. This picture was taken on April 19, 2008 in London:

Helena and Tim were attending a fair yesterday (Tuesday, April 22, 2008):

From the online version of the Daily Mail, April 23, 2008

Arriving at the decorative antiques and textile fair in Battersea Park yesterday, Sweeney Todd actress Helena Bonham Carter and her film director partner Tim Burton took one look at the endless queue — and promptly joined it.

“They didn’t queue jump and had to wait at least half an hour to get in,” says a fellow fair-goer. “They even turned down the free champagne.”

Helena, who has two children with Burton, made one purchase, paying £950 for a naive 1820 watercolour called Mother & Child.

Other bargain hunters included newscaster Kirsty Young sans make-up.

Helena and Tim are so down-to-earth!

Many thanks to Heather ~ *SupawSimba* for letting us know that the Sweeney Todd DVD extras are now available on YouTube.

Wishing everyone a happy time watching Helena talking about Sweeney!

Swenney Todd Extras - Part 1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um_XY2tGvPE

Swenney Todd Extras - Part 2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCeAhq-cWeI

Swenney Todd Extras - Part 3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH7KlZ5EVJc

This photo was taken on April 14, 2008 in London, UK.

From Celebrity Baby Blog:

UK’s newspaper “The Telegraph” published on April 14, 2008 their list of “The 100 most powerful people in British culture”. Helena is included as well. Yay! She comes in on no. 99:

No. 99 - Helena Bonham Carter, 41, actress. Her breakthrough role in the 1985 film Room with a View led to a phase of typecasting. After reinventing herself in Fight Club, she has become the staple muse of her boyfriend-director Tim Burton.

Link to article

Here’s Helena with a somewhat different Mrs Lovett costume - than it was seen in the film