pattern, textiles, illustration, photography, good stuff
Here are a couple of pics of the work I have applied to put into the Noise Festival shop which is going to pop up in Mancester pretty soon by all accounts.
I hope they like em! It’d be so great so exhibit there!
These hand cut pieces are also for sale, and for commission so if you would like one don’t hesitate to contact me! 
I was just hunting for jewellery inspiration and got all excited about laser cut rings! Theres some really fun things out there—>
These cool bits are by Steven Shein unfortunately his website was so rediculously flashy I couldn’t even look at it but maybe you can and maybe you’ll find some awesome jewellery on there cos I love all of this!
And the next bits are by the originals and the best…Tatty Devine!
I pretty much have to own that mustache ring!! Ace!
Soo this is a little bit of an exciting post because for once its to do with my own work!
On 2nd December I’ll be taking part in a little Christmas craft fair at Baildon:
Heres a sneakedy peek at some of the things I’m working on!
(Apologies for the poorish picture quality)
Hope you like them, keep an eye out for more of the same in my Etsy shop soon!!
So its Halloween! And thats spooky!
So here is a spooky post
Yesterday someone put a couple of photos on the blog at work of Bradford Odeon which is about the be bulldozed, the images of the decaying cinema really inspired me. After a bit more snooping I’ve found all sorts of amazing photos of abandoned buildings, turns out ‘Urban Exploration’ is a bit of a cool thing to do! I might have to go on an adventure!
Severalls Mental Hospital, Colchester.
West Park Asylum, Surrey.
Ashworth Secure Hospital, Mersyside.
These next photos are by the lovely Mr Christopher Harker, I do hope he doesn’t mind me including them. Theyre just too amazing to leave off this post though!
Wonderful!!
There are loads of forums and things where photos such as this, and tips about Urban Exploration can be found, just do a Google!
Heres the one I found most of the best pics off though.
Have a lovely Halloween everyone!
Wow! Not blogged for aaaages! I need to become more regular again!
Anyways I recently began an embroidery project just because I miss sitting down and quietly making something. So the other day I was having a look around the internet for some exciting embroidery related to inspiration and I came across the wonderful Jenny Hart. I had seen her work before as they sell her Sublime Stitching patterns at Tatty Devine, but I had never seen her own work.
Here are some images of her crazy and bright embroidery:
If I’m honest her portraits scare me a little, but they are pretty amazing and I loooove the detail and pattern that goes into it all.
Take a look at her website and blogs, Embroidery as Art and Sublime Stitching.
Right I’m off to get some stitching done…exciting! – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – -
I know I need to do a new blog post!!
Its been too long!
Soooooooon promise 
In the mean time, please go shop at M&S for Christmas things, especially the ones I designed 
Like this!!
There’s not really much direction in this post, but today I have been getting especially excited about nice houses and interiors after looking on Design*Sponge at the Sneak Peeks! I do love a good snoop about someone else’s house!
Anyways I love this one in particular! I can’t wait to have a place to fill with junk furniture and other awesome cr*p! Hopefully I’ll be able to make it look as lovely as this:
This is the apartment of Christine Martinez of Lama Designs, I love all the vintage accessories and furniture mixed with the bright colours and modern artwork, it looks like such a fun and sunny place to live! You can really see the links between the Latin American influence and the items in her shop, and her home. Apparently this was all done on a very small budget, which I think makes it all the better. It certainly gives me hope!!
Finally! I am sooooo colour coding my books!!! *geek*
Thanks again to Design*Sponge for all the inspiration, info and photos that I have nicked here
Just a short post about the craziness that is Bompas & Parr, who I just discovered whilst having a lunchtime look at Wee Birdy (which is now in my blogroll).
“Bompas & Parr creates fine English jellies, designs bespoke jelly moulds and curates spectacular culinary events.”
They have jelly wedding cakes, cocktails, buildings, aeroplanes and even glow in the dark jelly! I like how weird they look!
The thing that really caught my eye wasn’t exactly to do with jelly but…they had a breathable cocktail event in London town where gin and tonic was vapourised to form a ‘breathable cloud’ that guests entered. Crazy, sounds lots of fun!
Woop! Finally got my first set of Lomo photos developed…lots of them didnt come out…lots of them were a bit boring…these were good!
I like the soft quality of the photos, but next time I’m going to get some more exciting film and hopefully do some cross processing so they are more like the photos in my inital Lomo post
A while ago I said I would do a post about Claire Coles, and finally here it is!
I came across her work about 4 years ago whilst preparing my very first project for the beginning of Uni! At the time I was really into my sewing machine and her work and success made me excited for my future. Anyways, I saw some of her wallpaper in a blog recently and thought I should do a post about her as I was so inspired by it as a budding designer. Also its an excuse to show off some of my work for the first time!
So, here are some of my favourite Claire Coles pieces:
And now some of my ‘First Year’ Claire Coles inspired work. I handcut loads of tiny flowers from recycled envelopes and stitched 3 lengths of vintage wallpaper, I also created some stitched wallpaper accessories, all very eco. I’m quite impressed at my motivation back then! Haha! If anyones interested in any of this work, of course contact me! (p.s sorry about the photo quality here)
I love the idea of stitching into wallpaper to create new detail and texture, but my favourite Claire Coles Piece is the stitched table I think its such a beautiful idea. Maybe something to think about relating to my last post about Restoration!
