When I was about eight years old an odd craze swept through my primary school. The jewellery-made-from-crisp-packets craze. Do you remember it? It must have been about the late 1980s and it was suddenly de rigeur to put a crisp packet into the oven, watch it shrink and then stick a safety pin on the … Continue reading Tiny teapots and lurid lobsters: shrink plastic experiments
Month: March 2013
Easter guest posting
It's a blinking good morning here in sarfeest London. The sun is shining, I got a full six hours un-interrupted sleep last night (finally breaking my lack of sleeping spell) and it's almost the long Easter weekend... Could life get any better? Turns out, it could! Because I've also got my first ever guest post … Continue reading Easter guest posting
It’s Bacon Connoisseurs Week!
I’m not sure how this crucial information can have possibly passed me by until now, but I have just discovered that it’s Bacon Connoisseurs Week. This week… Luckily, I found out in the nick of time, for tomorrow is the very last day we have to celebrate all things bacon until the revered event comes … Continue reading It’s Bacon Connoisseurs Week!
The (fabric) world is not enough…
You know how it is around these parts. You wait four months for any sort of fabric dream development, and then two pieces of news come along at once… (Okay, to fit the bus analogy it really should be three things at once, but heeeeey, steady on there, let’s not get too carried away in … Continue reading The (fabric) world is not enough…
A Luddite no more…
For someone who has spent more than half their office life working for online companies, I’m a surprisingly, no, ridiculously late adopter of two trends. I say "trends," but most people I know would call them necessities. Prepare to retrieve your jaw from the carpet as I tell you that I’ve never before owned a … Continue reading A Luddite no more…
Planting the seed…
If you’ve read, oooh, pretty much any other article on this blog, it’ll come as no surprise to hear I’m a lazy gardener. Every Wednesday in my horticulture course we learn about all the right ways to help a plant grow: how to provide the right soil conditions, the right nutrients, the best levels of … Continue reading Planting the seed…
A toe in the water: teapot fabric
You know the drill by now. I’m meant to be writing a blog about setting up my own fabric business. Except, I’ve been too busy writing my blog to do anything about setting up my fabric business… Until now, that is. For, this week, I took one giant step towards making the whole fabric designing … Continue reading A toe in the water: teapot fabric
The perfect packaging
I'm a huge fan of good packaging. When I really get started on the great fabric project and open my Etsy shop, I want everything I send out* to be so beautifully packaged that the recipient feels they're getting a present in the post. Which was just how I felt this morning, after taking delivery … Continue reading The perfect packaging
Vintage children’s book covers
First an apology. I’ve somewhat lost my writing mojo over the last week. I was reading through my last few posts this morning (mmm, I know, surely there are better things to do with my time) and thought they were somewhat lacking in a little je ne sais quoi (except I do sais quoi: it … Continue reading Vintage children’s book covers
Birthday T-shirts
My love affair with ironing pictures onto T-shirts continued apace this week. We’re off to Ireland at the weekend, to stay with some friends and celebrate their baby’s first birthday. (We may also be tempted to betroth our sproglets to each other, ready to be wed as soon as they hit 16, if we could … Continue reading Birthday T-shirts
Wolves in London 