easily distracted by shiny things…
Posted in culture, inspiration, writing on May 14th, 2011
Over the past few months I’ve also been keeping a blog on Tumblr. I’m using it mostly as a way of collecting and sharing images that interest me, or that I’d like to keep hold of for future reference. (This screenshot is of the archive, where you can view lots of thumbnails at once.) I [...]
Posted in culture, exhibitions, inspiration, nature on Mar 21st, 2011
A couple of Saturdays ago we went to the Natural History Museum. We booked tickets for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition (which was the reason we’d made the trip), and also booked ourselves onto a Spirit Collection Tour. There are a few things-in-jars on display in the new Darwin building, but the 30-minute [...]
Posted in inspiration, sewing, shopping, tops, Uncategorized on Mar 11th, 2011
I walked past my local branch of Hobbs yesterday, and spotted this lovely pink dress in the window. Then I came home and looked in my wardrobe at my pink party dress, which has a very similar keyhole-and-knot detail on the back. Now I don’t need to covet the Hobbs dress, and have thereby saved [...]
Posted in inspiration, shopping on Mar 1st, 2011
Picture © Ayten Gasson Remember the skull & rose print bra that I made last month? Well, I wore it last week. It was certainly a better fit than the first bra I made, but it still wasn’t all that comfortable. I have a few ideas regarding underwires, and I thought it might fit better if [...]
Posted in inspiration, shoes, shopping on Feb 25th, 2011
Aren’t these felted slippers absolutely magical? If I accidentally found my way through the back of a wardrobe and ended up in a mythical land where it was always winter and never Christmas, these are exactly what I’d want to keep my feet warm while I was there. They’re hand made in Lithunania by ing00te, [...]
Posted in inspiration, shoes on Feb 2nd, 2011
Image © Koronya Oh. My. Goodness. Aren’t these shoes simply gorgeous? The uppers are made from a single piece of leather, and I adore the delicate little detail on the toes. They’re handmade in Budapest by Koronya, who writes a blog about making shoes by hand. It’s been really interesting to read the posts about the [...]
Posted in embroidery, inspiration, sewing on Jan 27th, 2011
The trouble with buying men’s shirts is that the sleeves are always too long. I buy them because it’s quite difficult to find women’s shirts that fasten with cufflinks, unless you can afford to shop at somewhere like Thomas Pink. Then it can be difficult to find pretty or interesting cufflinks, but fortunately it’s extremely easy [...]
Posted in inspiration, knickers!, sewing on Jan 8th, 2011
Today I went shopping to buy some sketchbooks, which is something that I do at the beginning of every year. While I was in the art shop I spotted a little magazine I hadn’t seen before, called Cloth. I had a quick flip through, and spotted some instructions for making a pair of knickers. They [...]
Posted in culture, exhibitions, inspiration on Oct 23rd, 2010
Yesterday I went to the Old Operating Theatre and Herb Garret, where I arrived just in time for a talk. I was glad of that, because the museum would have made a lot less sense without it. It’s mostly three hundred years of medical history (including bit of bodies in jars) without a great deal of [...]
Posted in costume, inspiration, sewing on Oct 2nd, 2010
Last night I watched Brotherhood of the Wolf, and now I find myself wishing that I had a masquerade to go to, so that I had an excuse to make a couple of really exciting 18th century costumes. Simplicity 3637 would be an ideal starting point – although it might be rather an expensive one. [...]