who doesn’t love vintage pinup girls? those images of slightly wicked or suggestive glamour are so evocative of another time - i wont say better or more ‘innocent’, because that’s obviously rubbish, but there’s something about that aesthetic that i kind of love…

my friend pieces has been playing around with that aesthetic lately, and she’s done a fantastic photoshoot that draws on it:

how cute is that?!
you can see a whole set HERE. i think you’ll agree that it’s adorable.

xxx

one of my friends had a birthday this week. she’s a crafty chick, who likes apples and red. for christmas i used the minny muu “wee apples” fabric…

…to make her a little bag, and as i had a bit left i thought i would use it to make her a brooch for her birthday.

i was inspired by this tutorial by allison of cluck, cluck, sew, and it was super easy. want to see? here it is:

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*thanks to pieces for taking this photo for me, since i forgot to do it myself before wrapping it up and giving it away!

i particularly like the way the edges of the fabric are left ‘raw’ so that they will fray a little with use and get a shabby look.

so, next time you have some fabric that is just right for a certain friend and you’re not sure how to use it, i can highly recommend that tutorial as an easy and fun solution!

love,
essie xxx

i’m weighed down with exam preparation right now. that’s not to say that i’m not loving what i’m studying, but the weight of expectation, pressure and anticipation is definitely there. so to remind myself of how i’ll feel when this is all over, i’m just going to look at this picture every now and then:

i took it when we were in paris last year, and it makes me happy.
oh, to be a white balloon, floating in the breeze over the siene…

i hope you’re less stressed than i am right now!
essie xxx

right now i’m working on a quilt that a friend commissioned.
it’s great, because i’m getting the opportunity to play around with pretty fabrics that i would not ordinarily have reached for in the shop…

it’s a coin stack pattern that i’m pretty much working out for myself - i’ll let you know how it goes!

it seems i’ve been a little quiet on the blogging front in the last couple of weeks. there’s been a good reason for that - i was off ‘getting weddinged’ to my honey of five years! it was such an amazingly special day, and i got to feel like a princess in my green silk dress:

after all that fun i have promptly become violently ill with what started as tonsillitis and has morphed into a chest infection (ew!), so i am sitting on the couch, under my favourite quilt, spluttering away like… well, something that splutters.

i’m working on a couple of projects that i hope to show you soon!
essie x