Showing posts with label clothes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label clothes. Show all posts

Friday, 13 September 2013

A spot of sewing

I had wanted to have a go at sewing some clothes for ages, literally years, and over the summer I finally took the plunge, spurred on by the purchase of this vintage fabric from a charity shop. I found a brilliant tutorial for a circle skirt here and have now made three! Two of which were made from fabric I bought two years ago, to make skirts with! Yes it has taken me that long!
I also had a go at making a top from this brilliant free tutorial and pattern . I know so many people who say they wish they could make their own clothes, and don't know where to start, being scared off by confusing looking patterns, and I was one of them. So I highly recommend these two projects to get you started! I have definitely caught the bug now! 






Sunday, 16 June 2013

A busy week off

So speaking of my busy week off, this is what I got up to:


A photo shoot on this beautiful split screen camper for Air Monkeys Magazine, the weather was glorious!


Time in the sunshine. Hooray!


 A few treats, including a cute fox print Shirt, that was in the men's section of Primark, but I thought it was too cute to resist, so I bought it in Extra Small, and some vintage lovelies from Burton's finest Charity Shops.


 
 
 
We watched a photo shoot for Growl and Grandeur Clothing, that my husband helped organise. It involved our friends, Si and Jess' awesome split screen camper. We set up at the Custard Factory in Birmingham. To top the fun day off there was free Ben and Jerry's being given out, with awesome 'shovel' spoons :D. We had peanut butter and jam flavour, it was awesome!




 Goslings! :)

 Urban Outfitters


York Minster


 The National Railway Museum


Great sign writing from around York


 Clifford Tower


 We had a lovely day trip to York, one day was no way near long enough, so we hope to go back soon.  Such a gorgeous city. The National Railway Museum was brilliant! Packed with beautifully re-stored trains, and also lots of fantastic examples of sign writing and vintage graphics and illustration.



 I did a spot of painting :)





I also popped to a vintage fair in Pelsall, at the Community Hall, which was great, so many brilliant stalls, and also demonstrations of dances on the stage. The Lindy Hop was great, I really want to have a go. The top photo shows some lovely jewellery on one of the stalls- I was in love with the vintage tin they were displayed in!

The middle picture shows a beautiful small plate, I didn't have enough money for it though :(

I did however, get the goodies in the final photo. The Hornsea owl pot, swallow hair clips, and a cute vintage print. Very happy with my £10 haul :)


Sorry for the mass load of photos!

Wednesday, 17 August 2011

New dress!

Another great charity shop find that was shouting at me between the rails and was luckily in my size! Completed by a belt I bought in London a few years ago (excuse the hair, I'm due for a hair cut!)






Monday, 11 January 2010

What I wore today!

I made my first contribution to the wonderful 'what I wore today' pool on photos site flickr. http://www.flickr.com/groups/whatiworetodaydrawings/

for those of you who haven't discovered this yet, you can happily wile away some time having a nosey at other people's outfits and brilliant drawings, I highly recommend it!