In which I feel some disappointment that my design skills aren't quite as faultless as I thought... You know the saying: the work of a budding fabric designer is never done. Buoyed by the success of my teapot fabric, I went straight back to Spoonflower to experiment with some different designs. With the teapots, I … Continue reading Beetles and fish and lobsters, oh my!
Year: 2013
Counting sheep: the art of sleep
Sleep’s been on my mind a lot recently. I haven’t been getting any. I miss it. It's down to the baby. I try not to witter on too much about baby things on this blog. I know how tedious it is to listen to parents of babies tell you every last detail about their sleeping … Continue reading Counting sheep: the art of sleep
A new house
Meet Mabel. Mabel scares the crap out of me. You can see why, can’t you? For the last seven months, Mabel has been sitting on top of the cabinet above the sink in my bathroom. Under her skirts, she’s been keeping her treasured belongings safe: But this morning, I’m taking Mabel off to the charity … Continue reading A new house
A bundle of bibs
Remember when I made the little sproglet a set of carrot clothes in celebration of National Carrot Day a few months ago? And how I broke my sewing machine making the first of four planned bibs? Well, the breakage turned out to be terminal, which was sad for my machine, but quite delightful for me … Continue reading A bundle of bibs
Matryoshka March
At school when I was younger (ahem, much younger) my favourite class was English. And my favourite ever English class was when we had to write a story. And my very favourite story-writing English class was when the teacher gave us the first line of the story and asked us to finish it. I used … Continue reading Matryoshka March
Tiny teapots and lurid lobsters: shrink plastic experiments
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
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…
Wolves in London 