Creative Goodness
French Dream by littledollface
Hello all, I really hope everyone had a lovely Christmas? I had a great one, lots of relaxing, eating and sleeping. Now I’m ready for new years parties, new resolutions and making 2009 (hopefully) awesome! I have been playing around with Polyvore.com (I took Holly over at Decor8′s recommendation). It’s a brilliant tool, so much fun and really addictive. I think many more will follow, this one is a bit out of the ordinary for me as I’m more about dark colours but it’s dreamy.
Lovely Fabric
Ok, I’m sorry I’ve been a terrible blogger again. It’s been a whole month since I last posted, I think this is a real occupational hazard as I write a blog all day long I get blog fatigue by the time I come home. Anyway I’ve been meaning to post this picture up for ages as it is the gorgeous fabric that my lovely sister bought me (I know your reading, thanks!). It’s is just so pretty I a little stuck what to create with it. Well, I’ve a few ideas, Miles Mum has just kindly lent me a sewing machine s fingers crossed I will be able to rustle up something half decent (I am not too good wit the sewing machine – shaky hands!).
From now on I’m back blogging. I have my Christmas tree up so stay tuned for the pictures, I spent so long collecting and finding my tree decorations I couldn’t wait to put them up ( in fact I caved and put them up on the 30th of November!).
Fete Cakes
Hope everyone has had a great week? I have been coveting the above knitted cakes all week, I am seriously in love with them all! They are by the very lovely, and inspiring Bombay Duck - a company that source very cool decorative items, homewares and generally everything lovely. I love how these cakes and the styling they use to photograph them reminds me of beautiful English fetes, he ones my mum used to take me to as a child. With tones of cakes, tea, lace and old china in various miss matched patterns. I love all the knitted cakes and want to get a huge Christmas tree and hang them all on – in all the various colours. That would be one yummy tree!
Oh well a girl can dream but at £30 for four I think I should stop thinking about a whole tree covered in them. Have a great weekend everyone – oh, if any one does take the plunge and buys something lovely from them, there is a Bombay Duck voucher code in circulation giving 15% off – I may have to indulge!
Inspiring Spaces
I have been seeking out inspiring things lately since returning from my holiday I have been a bit overwhelmed with work and everything so the situation called for some pretty inspiration. However it seems everything has come all at once, beautiful places to eat, my new Cath Kidston book ‘Make’ arrived today and Miles left me a gorgeous single coral rose in my Greengate jug on my dressing table, as he went away today. The collage above shows some of London’s prettiest places; Lauderee Harrods, Shipps Tearoom and The Athenaeum Hotel (big image). This is just a little selection of pretty pink hues around London that amaze me.
I am off to the Future of Web Apps tomorrow (very exciting). Happy 15th birthday Cath Kidston for tomorrow by the way (did anyone else enter the Cath Kidston quiz?)!
Dream Boats and Pink Cats
Friday I was lucky enough to visit the Design Museum and check out the stunning Tim Walker exhibition. I have been completely in awe of Tim’s styling and photography ever since I saw his ‘White Night’ photo shoot in Vogue, it not only captured my imagination but it really did capture a mystical and magical view of folk Russia (see the image below).
I think the way I feel about all the Tim Walker photographs is that I share his sense of beautiful fantasy, everything he shoots is so alive, because he makes it so. It escapes reality, but never too far away to be silly – skimming the edges of fairy tales. The over saturation of colours reminds me of my childhood spent looking at old book and playing with highly colourful, picturesque 1960′s Victory puzzles. I think I always assumed life would be like one of those puzzle pictures, idillic and over saturated and looking at Tim Walker’s photographs reminds me that I’m not the only one who’d like life to be a little richer in colour and little bit less serious. Beautiful!
Happy Valentines!
Happy Valentines everyone!
I hope cupid was kind to you all? I thought I would post up this lovely picture done my my very own valentine – Miles. I love it and I think it really says something romantic, but it is also quite neutral if your not into the whole valentines romance thing. I am at work writing this, so no cards or surprises for me yet – fingers crossed for this evening!
Antwerp and Bernhard Willhelm
It was recently my 23rd birthday and Miles and I ventured off in the car to Antwerp for the weekend. It was lovely and armed with my Birthday present of a Nikon D40X (digital SLR) I was able to snap lots of pictures that previously I wouldn’t have been able to due to the fact that my old digital was a little lacking. One of the highlights for me was visiting the Mode Museum of Fashion where Bernhard Willhelm was exhibiting his collections since graduating from the city’s design university. The exhibition was so visually amazing I had to post about it. This picture is from the ‘Protest Room’ exhibition – it was incredibly vibrant.
I also wanted to write this post after reading a post about Bernhard Willhelm over on Scout Holiday about how she really wanted to go the exhibition. I have been reading her lovely blog for a while now, it’s also been on my blog roll too – I love it! So ‘hello’ and I really hope your enjoy this Scout Holiday!?. The photo above is from the more recent Willhelm collection titled ‘Tirolean’ all the models have computers for heads, it is very futristic yet the clothes have a classical element mixed with modern hues.
This photo above was one of my favorite scenes, his attention to tiny detail is amazing and all the tiny details really add to something great when you see the overall composition. These tiny figures were glued near to the famous collection titled ‘A Girl with Mobile Phone’ I am a big fashion fan and the slightly unhinged nature of the exhibition really appealed to me with it’s bright colours and surreal detail.
This photo is the actual ‘Girl with a Mobile Phone’, that is all the photos I am going to post on here about this I don’t want to bore any of you non-fashion fans out there, anyway I hope you have enjoyed the vibrant colours all the same?So many great things have happened over the past week, I have so much to talk about and share but for now I will tell all one blog post at a time. x
Yuletide Greetings!
This post is a little greeting to everyone out there. I hope everyone has an amazing Christmas and a fantastic new year!
The above illustration was made my my very talented designer boyfriend, Miles. I am so pleased with how it came out he made it especially for me to post here on my blog. All I said was ‘I would like a Christmas image with some snow flakes and maybe a deer’ and this was the result – I love it so much, I almost cried! I love how he always gets it right, and I never need to tell him what I like or want – thank you Miles! I am completely in awe of your ability to create things that I really can’t. As you probably guessed I am quite taken with the picture, I hope you all enjoy it too – even if it makes you smile just once.
Also a really big thank you to everyone who has read my blog and supported me in my first year blogging, I have met so many lovely people – with lovely things to say and share. I hope next year will be just as much fun!
Happy Christmas everyone!
Meeting John Bird
I very rarely blog about things to do with my work on here, but meeting John Bird (the Founder of The Big Issue) was a too exciting for me to not mention. On Tuesday I attended the Wedge Card ’Shop Local Challenge’ day. The event was hosted by Wedge Card and welovelocal.com was one of the supporters. The event was kicked off by a really moving talk from John about the benefits of shopping locally. He spoke not only of the economic benefits but also of the benefits to the social fabric of our communities. The idea that local shops help to keep our communities together, and without them we would lose a huge part of not only our community, but also our identity and consumer choice.
As a graduate of Sociology, and a big fan of The Big Issue meeting John was a pretty big deal. It was just great to here some of his and Wedge Card’s ideas about shopping locally. It is very inspiring stuff. I know I carry around my Wedge Card with pride – the discounts are good! Money off in most of London’s best independent and unique shops is too good to be missed.
So, I can’t believe it is so close to Christmas, I am totally unprepared. This is most unlike me I haven’t even managed to get round to opening the last three doors on my yummy Thorntons advent calendar! Oh just a little girls tip here, I have recently discovered (well with help from Holly) a magazine called Lula, it is divine – take a peek you’ll see what I mean.
I couldn’t Agree More
I saw these over at Keep Calm and I couldn’t resist sharing them. I am already in love with everything Keep Calm make and this print really tops it off. It sums my life up in one statement. I love tea and I find great comfort in drinking it. Not just any tea though, I drink green tea and Jasmine tea (by the bucket load). I have been drinking this type of tea for about 3 years now and it never fails to sort me out. I suffer with poor digestion and constant stomach aches and all I need is one soothing cup and I am good to go. The same soothing effects can ease a head ache, PMT and general stress. It has been working wonders on my awful cold that I have at the moment, well as much as a cup of tea can (she types one handed clutching a huge mug of hot tea). I am so British I take my tea away with me on holiday, and carry it around in my handbag (because other people’s tea just isn’t the same). I will be purchasing one of these lovelies just as soon as I get a pad of my own to hang it in (I hope they don’t sell out before that happens?)