After looking at all the dresses that had been made previously I decided to change some elements while keeping some of the things that worked well and keeping the feel of the original dress that started all this off. Once I’d picked up the materials, my ideas on the design were also influenced by them. Read more about Paper dress Inspiration & Making[…]
A few weeks ago I was browsing Twitter during a break at work when this dress caught my eyeIt had been posted on a tumblr site by someone who worked at Berg publishers and they had republished the link. Awesome I thought, the next thing I know they were asking if anyone would be willing Read more about Researching paper dresses[…]
Yesterday courtesy of my awesome boyfriend me and my snowboarding jacket (the humbug) hit the real (but purposefully generated) snow at Milton Keynes. I’d wanted to go snowboarding for ages, although I get cold really easily I’ve always loved snow and after attending the freeze festival (blog post here) and seeing some of the best Read more about Hitting the snow[…]
So today was my birthday and as well as being lucky enough to be taken to the Red House this is what else I received (lovely presents). This scarf was from my mum, you can’t see it on the photo but the edges of the cotton are actually raw. I wore it to Red House Read more about birthday presents[…]
So as today was my birthday (happy birthday to me) myself and his Jammyness took the day off in order to explore a house that I have been dreaming of for a while. It was at universty that I first found myself drawn to the Pre Raphaelites, we looked at the literature of the movement Read more about The Red House – a special birthday treat[…]
I can finally post photos of these as my friend Vikki’s wedding is over and these were a complete surprise for her. I got approached by Vikki’s mum with these two blank bunnies with the challenge to make them into a bride and groom. I chose who was who based on the ears, I thought Read more about Nuptual bunnies[…]
Yes as you should be able to see in the above post I am now a darker brunette than I was before! The urge to reach for the dye bottle was brought on by the fact that I feel I’ve become a bit too sensible lately so what better way to shake it up than Read more about Dyeing for the weekend[…]
I got interviewed by in house magazine Parklife for their interesting hobbies feature. Unfortunately since we redesigned Parklife to look prettier we have less room for photos so although I’ve reproduced the text here, I’ve also added quite a few more piccys (as well as the one of Lisa and myself on the morning of Read more about a seamstressing interview[…]
The last couple of weekends have seen us lending some serious brawn to help with housebuilding and quite a bit of time travelling first to go and see some old friends from work, then we drove to visit Jam’s grandparents in Cardiff (on what was possibly the hottest day of the year so far). Added Read more about a weekend of rest[…]
One of the guys that Jam works with and his partner are building their own house (and have been living in a caravan in the grounds for 5 years while the house gets finished). Usually the only people working ‘on site’ are Greg and Jo, so once a month a team of people go over Read more about And then we helped build a house[…]