Yesterday I went into London, to visit the Foale & Tuffin exhibition at the Fashion & Textile Museum with a friend. Afterwards I had a few hours to spare until I was due to meet another friend for tea, so I’d planned to spend the afternoon looking at the Relics of Old London exhibition at [...]
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Ethical window shopping
Posted in inspiration, shopping on Jan 29th, 2010
I have to confess that I hadn’t looked at the Nomads website recently. I’d always associated Nomads with gothy dresses and plenty of tie-dye, so I sort of assumed they wouldn’t have anything I’d like these days. I can’t remember what drew me to have a look at their website today, but I was very [...]
Jeffery-West
Posted in inspiration, shoes, shopping on Jan 25th, 2010
My friend Patrick is a Very Bad Influence. We were talking about shoes, and he pointed me in the direction of Jeffery-West. Now we’re both coveting beautiful shoes that we can’t afford - and they aren’t even made in my size! (And I still haven’t saved up enough money to go on a shoemaking course.)
These [...]
Rising Sun Art Market
Posted in shopping on Dec 5th, 2009
Oops, this is a bit of a last-minute announcement, but the Rising Sun Christmas Art Market is tomorrow!
Rising Sun Arts Centre, 30 Silver Street, Reading RG1 2ST
10.30am - 5.30pm
Skycarrots and I will be there, and there will be cake and mulled wine in the bar area - conveniently close to my stall.
Come and join us [...]
Mmmmm, boots.
Posted in inspiration, shoes, shopping on Nov 30th, 2009
It’s a good job I’m not a goth any more. Nor a costumer, nor simply a collector of amazing shoes.
Otherwise I’d have to buy these:
Probably in the black velvet.
(Available here, for £60. They’re by Pleaser.)
Seeing these has put me straight into the mood for wearing the most enormous skirt, and a tailored jacket or frock [...]
Here you go - these are the eight finished pieces that I’ve made for the Tiger Lilly boutique. I just need to sew in the labels, and then I can take them into town.
Just in case you’re wondering how you might order a circle skirt or a tunic dress for yourself, you can do that [...]
Here’s today’s offering - another full circle skirt for Tiger Lilly, this time in a bold cherry print. This one’s a size XL, which covers UK dress sizes 24-28.
I have one more tunic dress to make now, which will also be in this cherry print fabric, and then I can label everything up and take [...]
I was in a jewellery making mood today, so I’ve just finished putting together this necklace.
It’s a leather cord, with twenty purple sunstone beads attached - they’re a very dark purple colour with a glitter sparkle when the light catches them. The beads are hung in pairs, so that they hang in bunches and at [...]
In case you’ve been wondering about the sudden flurry of sewing photographs that have been appearing on Flickr and Twitter - I’ve been asked to put together a few things for a local shop.
Tiger Lilly is an independent vintage and retro boutique in Reading’s Harris Arcade. Chloe has a lovely ever-changing collection of vintage clothes [...]
Looking for the perfect bag.
Posted in Uncategorized, inspiration, shopping on Sep 12th, 2009
Now that the honeymoon’s booked (hooray!), I’ve started to think about what I’ll need to take with me on our trip. We’ll be walking around the city all day, and we’ll be carrying heavy cameras, so I need a comfortable bag to fit everything into.
This is a bag that I have already - a Crumpler [...]