May 7, 2016
For a long time plastic litter has been a scourge on the environment but manufacturers are showing no signs of using less plastic packaging. A plastic bottle takes an average of 450 years to biodegrade, and before that time it disintegrates into thousands of little pieces that are impossible to clean up. Our seas and beaches are filled with plastic, including an island in the pacific ("the great pacific
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Posted in DIY, Environment and Ethics | Tagged chalkboard jars, DIY, homemade, marine litter, plastic waste, spice jars |
August 8, 2014
This poppy print twosie is another piece that I borrowed from Shop Jessthetics for my holiday in Greece. Having lots of new stock to try out is definitely one of the perks of making clothes for my shop. This twosie is very comfy and wonderfully colourful, even if I do say so myself! I definitely tried to make the most of being able to wear a lot of colourful breezy summery clothes in Corfu. I
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Posted in Travel, What I wore | Tagged clothes, corfu, fashion, greece, holiday, homemade, kassiopi, outfit of the day, personal style, poppy print, shop jessthetics, travel, twosie, upcycled, what i wore |
July 13, 2014
I recently joined the White Tree Fabrics blogging team. White Tree Fabrics sells fabrics, patterns and a whole load of haberdashery bits and bobs, and I'm so excited to be doing my first project with them! For this dress, I chose this Very Easy Vogue pattern, this lovely lawn fabric, and this pinky satin fabric for the lining. I also used a zip and some contrasting yellow thread to sew it all together!
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Posted in DIY, Sewing, What I wore | Tagged DIY, dressmaking, embroidered dress, embroidered lawn, homemade, sewing, very easy vogue, vogue8764, white dress, white tree fabrics |
June 14, 2014
After using Thermomorph to make a plant pot last week, I had loads of pellets left so I decided to have a go at making some plastic jewellery. I used a cookie cutter again, this time in the cutest little daisy shape! I've attached the plastic flowers to a choker I bought from eBay. Who knew 90s "tattoo" chokers would be cool again? Oh well, I'm not complaining!
You will need: Thermomorph, Choker,
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Posted in DIY | Tagged choker, craft, daisy jewellery, daisy necklace, diasy choker, DIY, DIY choker, diy DAISY CHAIN CHOKER, DIY jewellery, handmade, homemade, thermomorph |
June 8, 2014
When Thermomorph first contacted me, I thought the product sounded a little like a character from a superhero movie. It's not actually a type of transformer, but a box of moldable plastic! Think play dough for grownups, you pour the little plastic balls into a bowl of boiling water and you get a lump of plastic that you can mold into whatever you like. Because this stuff sets very quickly (I'm talking
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Posted in DIY, Experimenting | Tagged craft, DIY, DIY elephant plantpot, DIY plantpot, elephant, handmade, homemade, moldable plastic, platpot, thermomorph, yellow elephent |
