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A miscellany of wayward thoughts on clothing, crafting and cake, amongst others...
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CROCHET PATTERN – AMIGURUMI POKÉBALL APPLE COSY

Yeah, that’s me, looking a little too proud of my handiwork… I’ve a bit of a thing for making apple cosies; and I made this one for my friend Jo for her birthday. She squealed when ...

25 oct 11

I’m proud to be involved with fashion.

I’m finding that more and more people are surprised by the fact that I’m entering into a career in fashion these days. They expect me to be nothing but some insignificant bimbo who falls ...

06 sep 11

What will they think of next?

Over the last couple of weeks, Abercrombie & Fitch has been quite busy generating publicity for itself. First, it banned a woman in California from buying its merchandise online over fears that s...

18 aug 11

Dust off your F me pumps.

Amy Winehouse will always be more than a magnificent unkempt beehive to me. I had some reservations about writing this, but then I thought that as someone who had a real appreciation for her music, I...

26 jul 11

Fashion – for adults only?

Last month, Lanvin and Cacharel both released new children’s lines which, alongside being ridiculously cute, are ridiculously expensive – and, thinking about it, not really designed and manufactured ...

07 jul 11

A week on from the Galliano trial.

We’re now a week on from John Galliano’s trial in Paris over anti-Semitic and racist remarks he allegedly made towards a couple at a bar one night back in February and the furore surrounding this has...

30 jun 11

Contrary to popular belief, these are not cakes made of pans.

I often harass Susie of Takeout in Couture fame by posting photos of my deliriously fabulous pancakes over on Twitter. I call them deliriously fabulous because they are – so there. Having now (figura...

21 jun 11

I never had to come out as a coffee lover or a cat person, so…

An amazing little comic by Keith Copping that this post inspired! ♥ When I came out to my mother, the only response I got was a non-committal nod and then I was asked if I was hungry. I was ready f...

14 jun 11

Interns turn it out every time.

I recently wrote about how I’ve been attempting to gain a staff job on a print publication and how this has been proving difficult due to the recent exodus to online publications. Well, that’s not th...

08 jun 11

Let us learn from the new, just as they learned from the old.

Earlier, I had the opportunity to attend the degree show for the students of the BA (Hons) Fashion and Textiles with Enterprise course at the University of Portsmouth. It’s the university where I did...

04 jun 11

Print is to fashion journalism what vinyl is to music.

I’ve been trying to attain one of the holy grails of modern journalism for a while ago now: the staff job. It’s been proving quite difficult, mainly because I’ve been setting my sights on working for...

03 jun 11

We get what we pay for, but do we pay for what we get?

If you’ve been following this blog, you may remember that I’m going to my cousin’s wedding this month – it’s the first wedding I’ll have ever been to – and that I’ve been panicking about what I’m goi...

02 jun 11

And if you hold craft group meetings at somebody’s house, you get to snoop around.

Earlier today, I was invited to join in a new crafting circle someone where I work is starting up and I have to admit that I came over a little bit funny – I never expected that I’d feel that excited...

26 may 11

Just like everything else, fashion isn’t perfect and it’s very diverse. Remember that.

I know it’s been a long time since the whole debate about the representation of disabled people, a variety of ethnic groups and different sexualities in fashion advertising and promotional materials ...

25 may 11

Anyway – bearded ladies. Your argument is invalid.

From silly little wispy hipster moustaches to big lumberjack beards by way of Wolverine’s mutton chops, we’re surrounded by facial hair. I’m now one of the few remaining men in my o...

24 may 11

If I dressed my shoe size, I’d be wearing a Biker Mice From Mars T-shirt. Wow, that dates me.

The other day, I tweeted about an old lady I walked past in the street that was wearing a pair of sunglasses whose frames were shaped like bats’ wings and which were studded with little red gem...

20 may 11

CROCHET PATTERN – NYAN CAN AMIGURUMI PHONE COVER

OK, I’ll admit it – I’m obsessed with Nyan Cat. When I sat through the video on YouTube for the first time (below, for your convenience), I was transfixed by the cuteness of the thing and couldn’t ge...

17 may 11

It was, simply put, love at first sight.

Going from dating to being in a stable relationship didn’t really take a lot of time for me; as a result of this, I’ve had a few people coming up to me and ask me whether I feel that I...

12 may 11

It makes me think – what would I wear to my own wedding?

On this day next month, at the age of 26, I’ll be going to my first ever wedding; one of my cousins is getting married. I’ve had the opportunity to go to a couple of others, but circumsta...

12 may 11

If you had another man’s you-know-what in your mouth, THEN you’d look gay.

As I indulged in one of my favourite pastimes recently, AKA ferreting around in the sales section of a clothes shop in the hope of finding a bargain, I saw a man trying on some T-shirts in the middle...

10 may 11

Think Cher, Dionne & Tai from Clueless, but not quite.

I was never that fashionable at secondary school. Shocking, I know, but don’t judge me too harshly. I hadn’t yet discovered my personal sense of style and I was never really that aware of...

09 may 11

¡Bastante Picante!

This is my spin on a guacamole recipe from my darling friend Trudy, who is the queen of Mexican snacks in my opinion and to whose throne I’ll never be anything more than a pretender; it’s...

06 may 11 1 person likes this

I spent my entire student loan that year on yarn and lived on sandwiches for three months. I have n...

I spent a little time in Toulouse a few years ago as part of my degree. One of the many things I loved about the city were the tiny little yarn shops dotted all over the place. I loved going in and s...

05 may 11

T-shits. Sorry, T-shirts.

Well, I’m about halfway through the massive spring clean I promised myself a few months ago; if you follow me on Twitter, you’ll have seen glimpses of it here and there, including a pair ...

03 may 11

However; you’ll never get to use a pile of apps as a makeshift bedside table…

Today, I horrified myself whilst doing a bit of spring cleaning: I unearthed a seemingly inordinate number of old glossy magazines and newspapers, whose collective value came to more than I’ll ...

28 apr 11

Would you accept gay/straight fitting rooms? How about Black/White ones?

I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve gone to try something on in a shop selling clothes for both sexes, only to find that I can’t make use of the fitting rooms in the menswea...

26 apr 11

The Bag Blues

You know how they say that you’re either a shoe gal or a bag gal? Well, I’m a bag gal. Kinda. I’ve no idea of the amount of bags I have in my possession; the last time I went throug...

21 apr 11

Dirty, filthy brand whores. Oh, yeah.

Most of us are massive brand whores. We’ll choose to buy a product or engage a service because of the company providing it and not because of the true quality of what’s being offered. We ...

20 apr 11

Crêpe expectations.

OK, so there’s actually nothing about crêpes in this post, but it seemed like a fitting pun at the time. I remember when I first heard of the term ‘cupcake’. For me, it was synonymo...

15 apr 11

Also, clothes are pretty. So there. Nyah.

Yesterday, I read an interesting little article that included a comment by Reese Witherspoon; she appeared to suggest that people working in fashion ‘lacked perspective’. My first reactio...

15 apr 11

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