Thursday 24 July 2014
Tuesday 22 July 2014
Love My Dress features A Handmade Wedding
I've been feeling quite popular this month! Last week I was Laura Ashley's blogger of the month (oh yes I was) and today our handmade rustic wedding was been featured on Love my dress! What is Love my dress? it's the largest, most widely read, multi-award winning wedding blog in the UK and world ... and today they featured our wedding! Here's a quick glimpse ...
Awww I want to do it all over again! |
Monday 21 July 2014
GIVEAWAY: Win 2 tickets to the 2014 Alexandra Palace Knit & Stitch Show
Morning lovelies! Well today I am super excited because I'm giving you crafty lot the chance to ...
WIN TWO TICKETS TO THE ALEXANDRA PALACE KNIT & STITCH SHOW!!!
I'm so pleased because I love the knit and stitch show and attend every year. If you love craft you will LOVE the show. It's a great day out and is full of demonstrations, workshops and wonderful stalls selling everything to do with craft. To see photo's and read my review of last years show you can do so here. The competition will run for the 3 weeks and expire on the 10th August. The winner will be announced soon after ... see below to enter (it's easy and everyone has a good chance of winning - no favourites!)
Friday 18 July 2014
An interview with artist Brian Seymour
I love surrounding myself with beautiful scenes and images that move me in some way. I don't pretend to know much about art, but I don't think you need to know anything in order to love, and appreciate something. Today I have a super special guest to share with you. His name is Brian Seymour (Uncle Titch to me) - and he's an artist. He is my uncle, and the man responsible for our beautiful 'wedding tree' (which you can view below). Today I'd like to share his work with you, some of which I'm lucky enough to own myself.
Tuesday 15 July 2014
Laura Ashley's blogger of the month!
* Laura Ashley's blogger of the month - A Handmade Cottage *
Friday 11 July 2014
The making of my antique lace wedding dress - Part 2
Stage 1 - Sourcing the fabric.
So in part 1 I told you all about my search for the right dressmaker, how I went about designing my dress and finding the right fabric. Now it was finally time to make the dress! As we were using my Normandy antique lace bedspread to make this dress, our fabric needed to be supplemented with some more 'tulle' (very fine netting) as the bedspread alone wouldn't be enough. So I sourced some 'point d'esprit' - which is a tulle with tiny dots on. Adrienne, my dressmaker from Bridal path then dyed the tulle to match our lace with ... Nescafe coffee! It worked perfectly (though always do test run first!) We then sourced some lovely shimmery satin to use underneath the lace.
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