Me a model!

As I mentioned a few weeks ago I teamed up with Beth Ann Photography to shoot a few hats and some of One Hand Knits Knitwear designs and here are some of the results. Although it took me a while to get used to being in front of the camera I quite enjoyed myself in the end.

 

You can see more on my facebook page. 

These are a couple of the ones for One Hand Knits. 

You can see more of One Hand Knits designs here. 

And a huge thanks to Beth Ann Photography for managing to make me look so good!

All Photography rights belong to Beth Ann Photography.

ZOMG Bloggers Bash.

 On Monday evening I was lucky enough to be involved in the huge ZOMG Bloggers bash for the launch of the new Rockalily Lipstick shade made for London Lip Gloss 

There were almost 200 bloggers invited, all with a name badge!

 Kelly of Hayday Honey was there for all your hair and makeup needs.

I had a selection of my hats for trying out.

Peeping over this rail is Lizzy of Betty Blues Loungerie who had her lovely wares for people to try on.  I had a try of the Nell Robe, it's amazing and I want one to make my sitting round the house so much more glam!

Then you could go have your photo taken in Tigz Rice's pop up studio, the amazing results of which are here.

To top the evening off we were treated to Burlesque by Rubyyy Jones and Miss Banbury Cross, I was need the back so my photos of them were a bit rubbish sorry!

All in all it was a really fun evening and I got to meet lots of lovely ladies, see ReeRee's blog post on the event with lots of good photos and links to other posts here.

Leopard Print pillboxs

I made some more of my Little Leopard Print pillbox hats last week and put them in The Etsy Shop. I ave always made these hats with red trimming but decided to give some other colourways a go. 

A weekend of stalls

So as I told you my weekend kicked off with a stall at the London Rollergirls. I've never been before so it was all very exiting, I had a really good view from my stall though even with a program telling me how it all works I still got a little lost!

I have to say those ladies are pretty brave, I love the idea of the rollerskating but the actual derby is a bit brutal. The London Brawling team lost fairly heavily 49-228 to Rocky Mountain but they put up a hell of a fight.

I took my new hip flask with me with some lovely home made damson gin in it, it went down rather well! 

Saturday was much more sedate, I arrived at the Boogaloo to find this little kitty sat in the garden. 

You never know what markets in pubs are going to be like and august is always hit and miss and although the day was quite I got to meet some lovely people and was made very welcome by the organisers. 

  

After all that I had a chilled out day and Sunday and am now getting ready for my next stall with the Crafty Fox Pop Up Market at the Thames Festival, you can see details on the facebook page here, on the Thames festival site and the Crafty Fox Blog.

My vintage Hat purchases.

As previously promised, here are the hats I bought on my little day trip, the first has some of the most amazing coloured feathers on it I have ever seen, non of my pics truly do it justice. The shape is very 60's and not at all me but I couldn't resit such amazing feathers.

And now for some silly pics of me in it! 

 The second is a 50's hat, the shape is lovely and being plain black I can trim it to go with all sorts. 

It doesn't photograph very well against my hair, but I ave the classic shape.

I listed some new hats on etsy today do go have a look in my shop.

My finished collection

I'm on the last leg at collage now, just the paperwork to hand in on Thursday and then the dreaded crit on Friday!

The exhibition went well and we may even be moving it to a pop up shop(if it happens I'll lit you know where) Anyway hear are some pics of the finished hats. 

I'm still hear!

Sorry, I disappeared for a while there, I had a deadline at collage and things coming at me from all sides, though I think I may have to get used to that as I don't think it's gonna let up until sometime in the new year!

The last project at collage was a theatrical one where we have make a hat similar to one from a picture from history, this 50's picture hat was my inspiration. It's made in brown fake straw. I may have to find a reason to wear it!

Tips on vintage hats.

Over on Queens of vintage this today there is a lovely article wearing vintage hats with tips from lots of lovely bloggers. Well worth taking a look.

This weeks hats

Thought I'd show you some of the hats that I'm eyeing up this week, click the *'s to go where I found them.

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I love that the feathers are made out of the same felt as the hat, I'll have to give that a try some time.

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I'm not sure where this is from but they are lovely illustrations .

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I do love a matching hat and handbag combo.

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my stall

I've not been around because I had a stall of the things I  make at a little music event, as ever I had left lots of things to the last minute so last week was a bit crazy. It went really well though and was nice and sunny so sitting around outside was a pleasure.