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Showing posts with label friends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label friends. Show all posts

Monday, 6 July 2009

hint hint

Don't you just love surprise parcels in the post.........
I had one this week from my lovely talented friend Gemma.
A while ago on her blog, Gem had shown the fabric she had got from CK and mentioned that she hadn't liked the footballer print one....I suggested she could make something for a friend with blue flavoured children :)
(I know tres cheeky!!)
Look what my blue flavoured children have in their room now....

They are thrilled with it and it looks great on their wardrobe door......
I love this print -shame Ms K discontinued it!!
The baby had a bodysuit I found on ebay with this print on - I like things a little bit different from the norm!! Shame it had been made for a normal sized baby and he only wore it once before it cut off his circulation!!!
Gem had also included a cute cupcake hanger, which now is on my shelves in the dining room.

Love the beady detail.
Now I happen to have heard that Gem has interviews this week, following her fabulous degree result, so good luck Gem, I'll be crossing my fingers for you.

(You can find gorgeous brooches handmade by Gemma here.)

Sunday, 17 May 2009

shabby chic'ers do London - a day in pictures!

Saturday saw me getting up at 5 am to catch the train to London to meet up with some friends. Friends who, until yesterday I had not met in real life.
6of us from here met up in Covent Garden to begin our tour of fabulous shops! We shopped til we dropped -well until our trains called us home - but it was a long, but very fun, day.Photobucket
Cath Kidston
I only managed to get 1 shot inside....just before someone got told off for taking pics!!! (MM is very brave so in our 2nd CK shop of the day a few more snaps were took)
After a short chatty walk via The Bead Shop and a vintage magazine store.....kicking ourselves that the Jackie mags of our youth weren't saved, we ended up here..All the Fun of the Fair
(I bought something knitted in here- decided that my 'i could make that' thoughts needed to get real!)
We made time for this at lunchtime.......

LibertyLove these cushions....

MacCulloch and Wallis
(Gok shops here - I didn't get interior pics as I was too busy fondling the haberdashery!!)V V Rouleaux
Emma Bridgewater
We really did have a great day - there was perhaps about 5 minutes of shyness when we first met, but I suspect that anyone would have thought we had been shopping together forever. Thanks girls for a fab day xx
We all got tons of inspiration from the places we visited and each other, I can't wait to get some of the projects from my head into reality!
We shopped til we dropped...In case anybody's interested I'll post some pics of my haul later?