Joining the bandwagon

I've finally after two years of managing to avoid it.. given up and got myself an iphone. I'm an apple girl through and through always have been really from my dad's influence, so I've finally got one. since then I've been on the hunt for a really nice but affordable iphone sleeve because those who know me will agree I'm quite careless! (another reason I put off getting one) I gave up the hunt and tried my hand at making a few of my own. At the time I made these I decided I might try sell them too.

Easter break

When I came home for easter this time, I was all prepared with some fresh ideas for makes and some lovely new fabrics to make them out of. I got a lift home from uni so that I could take my sewing machine with me... I got home, cut out my patterns and fabric pieces... set up my sewing machine, only to find I'd left my pedal back at uni. Gutted. So an old friend's mum kindly lent me her Bernina sewing machine which was a dream to use compared to my cheapo Argos toyota!

Long story short here are a couple of the things I made in the few days I had the machine for...


This was a little commission for my friend emma, she saw a skirt that I'd made myself and asked for one making and she chose the fabric etc. I posted it to her and it took about 2 months to get to her about 80 miles away. Fail!

I made these little baskets for my mum's school's market stall. They have a stall on Wetherby market once a year selling the plants the students have grown, so they sold these baskets with a few little plants in them

Hootie treats

I made these little fellas to go in my mum and grandma's crackers last year. I've been having a spring clean on my laptop and found this photo the other day!

Naughty me

So I've been very lazy with my blogging of late, but things are gonna change! Get ready for an overload of posts of what I've been up to since my last blog, full of makes, drawings, failures, outings and more! Watch this space x

J Trav's Persona set

A collection of photos of the insides of people's bags, having been randomly stopped in the streets.
A surprising amount of knives, and an unsurprising amount of SLR's
A helluva lot of iphones out there, it would be interesting to see this done in a years time, and see how many ipads there are.
J Trav via Ektopia

Amazing.

London Town

So I've been pretty rubbish at blogging the last few weeks, I had all my final deadlines for the year and now im free! Although I have to be back in uni in June to help the 3rd years set up their final degree shows which should be interesting. I finished last tuesday and had my brother come to stay for a few days which was real nice. Then went to an awesome 21st birthday which was superhero fancy dress. I went as Hit Girl from Kick Ass, and all week jamie claimed he couldn't think of anything to go as (which I could tell was rubbish he's the biggest superhero geek I know) so then rocked up to the party in a pretty awesome Iron Man outfit.



So that was a good night! My brother went back to uni in Hatfield on sunday, I recovered from my night out and then headed over to his on monday. I only went for a night but he jetted off to Austria the next day it was nice. Plus it meant I could spend the day in London the next day before heading back to Leicester. I planned on going to the 150 Years of Sanderson exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum



However, much to my utter annoyance with mostly myself for not pre-checking, it was shut on tuesdays. So I had to re think and pottered on over to the Tate Britain. I knew there was a Henry Moore exhibition on, but again to my annoyance it was a tenner to get in and being a wee poor student I went to the shop (after looking around the rest of the Tate) to look at the Moore merch instead. His silk scarves were in there (£150) and are gorgeous...














Spent a large amount of my remaining time in the Tate book shop wanting every book in there, I can only wish! I am however the proud owner of the new Print & Pattern book from the Print & Pattern Blog



Had a nice little treat when I got back to Pimlico station nearest the Tate Britain... a freebee glimpse of Henry Moore for those who couldn't afford the real thing!



I spent my last few hours on Oxford Street. I came up from the tube at Oxford circus with Liberty right in front of me beckoning me to go in. I'd never actually been before but I definitely fell in love with it straight away and accidentally bought myself some fabric. I think i might make a skirt out of it now that Uni's done with. Watch this space for that one! My coach was at 4pm so I only had time for Topshop and Miss Selfridge accross the street. Loving Miss Selfridge's front window display though and i got a nice waist skirt in the sales...



I was also amazed by the amount of people who actually asked ME for directions in my half a day in London. I like to think it's because I look at home in lovely fashionable London (ha) when in actual fact it might have had something to do with me carrying my iphone around with the map up looking lost, and them hoping I could use this facility to help them too! All in all a semi successful trip to London, one which will most probably have to be completed another time soon. Inabit x