On Saturday, after two weeks of intense rehearsing, Francis and I took the train into Kent to play at a wedding. Considering that the wedding was to be held at a farm and in a field (and be followed ...
I’ve only vaguely alluded to my music on here lately, so I would like to introduce to you my part in Wayward Children. With myself on vocals and cello, and Francis on guitar (and cajon, piano, ...
Back in December I found some lovely sea-green (my colour of 2011-12) yarn in a charity shop. There were about 6 balls which the eccentric manager priced at the grand sum of £1.80 – I had to bu...
I apologise for my recent absence from this blog. I’ve been busy moving, working, rehearsing, and enjoying the sunshine. Yesterday I dosed myself up on antihistamines and spend the day in the g...
Now that my degree is finally coming to a close, I find myself turning to everything that I enjoyed and excelled in, and had to push to one side for the sake of my studies. One of those has been R...
Here are the pictures we came up with in the shoot I described in my last post. As I mentioned we had a few difficulties with this shoot, and soon after beginning the flashes blew out. So Nelly has c...
I did a shoot a few weeks ago which involved building a set in my bedroom – so now I can add ‘location styling’ to my experience, haha! (Set design is not really my area of speciali...
Good things start small, so I’m happy that some images of my recent styling (and modelling) collaborations with my friend Nelly Nguyen have been published. Firstly, a few shots from the 1950s/I...
Outfit posts don’t crop up too often on this blog, and when they do I think that I tend to be dressed a little formally: it’s not what I might wear in a casual, everyday situation whereby...
I’ve come to the realisation that I prefer female singers in English, but male singers in French and Spanish. Doesn’t his voice just make you melt? I am so excited about working at Opera ...
Phew! That turned out to be quite a lot of ribbing. I forgot how long 1930s/40s sleeve caps take to knit! The next job on this sweater, then, is to seam it up; then finally to dye it. I plan to dye &...
Here are two more blocked hats that I made when I took a millinery short-course at Central St Martins. First up, an olive green top hat which I am very fond of. The colour is amazing, and the velour ...
Photograph by Nelly Nguyen I mentioned my photographer friend Nelly recently, in this post which you may have read. Nelly has entered a competition for the chance to exhibit in New York – if sh...
(image source) I’m currently really obsessed/inspired by Rachel Khoo of The Little Paris Kitchen, the latest cookery programme to join UK television (and she’s also Eurasian, like me!). F...
It’s out of a mixture of pride at being as self-sufficient and independent as possible, and the stinginess that comes from necessary economic frugality of being a student/choosing an inevitably...
So I made a really long (and not inexpensive!) trek to an interview yesterday that went really badly. But do you know what? I don’t mind. They had very clearly decided within the first five min...
What a wonderful boy-friend I have. After just one casual hint regarding a dress I liked the look of, and not even a particularly serious hint at that (I’m a big fan of the ‘favouriteR...
Portrait of a Milliner by Nelly Nguyen I was partially named after Nusch Éluard: dancer, artist’s muse and second wife of the surrealist poet Paul Éluard. Though I would never be content with l...
Thought of the day. Filed under: reflections
(image source) As you must be aware, I’m currently an undergraduate student, coming to the end of my degree. As I chose to study a BA (hons) degree, I wrote a dissertation as part of my final y...
I have been having far too much luck with the charity shops, vintage shops &c lately. I have managed to find exactly what I have wanted. This is not good news for my bank account, especially as I...
A few things, updating you on myself as an online entity…. Firstly those of you not reading in a reader will have noticed that I’ve been having a bit of a re-jig with this site, getting i...
Here are two hats that I have made inspired by shapes of the 1930s and 1940s. The first one is blocked from wool felt and topped with a lace embellishment I concocted. I am particularly fond of this ...
I’m currently a little confused as to why I’m feeling so relaxed and positive about my work when it’s a matter of four weeks to the final deadline of my degree. But there you have i...
After seeing a matinee yesterday, my boy-friend and I took a stroll through Poole down to the harbour, one of my favourite places to walk around. On the way there we took a detour and went through Po...
Filed under: musical tunes
There is something about this latest knitting project. I am addicted. I have been finding it difficult to put down my needles, and many an evening last week was whiled away on two-by-two ribbing inst...
Silly me left my camera at home in London, where I was for a flying (too short, sobsob!) visit at the beginning of the week. I have therefore resorted to taking photos with the pinhole-sized camera l...
I’ve wanted to try beetroot risotto for ages, mostly because of the colour I confess! I finally did it last night, loosely following this recipe but with various student twists. For instance, I...
The best kind of food is one that is colourful without artificial additives. I was really happy to find raw beetroot at a fruit and veg stall in town. I recently discovered the joy of roasted beetroo...
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