jeans and shuttles and potfest Oh My!

Exciting parcels have been turning up the last day or two. Well, exciting to me. After Hannahs treehugger post the other week I decided to go look at Howies again - they had a sale on, and because I'm on the mailing list I got a code for an extra 15% off. so I treated myself to some new jeans, because I never do that. Truth be told, I didn't expect them to fit, I'm rather tall, but have wide hips, and its horrible going Jeans shopping usually. But these fitted perfectly :D and they're organic cotton = double :D.

and you can find them here. If you've not been to howies website before, you really should. Not only are their clothes cute, and well made, their ethical and ecological policies are really strong. These jeans came with a label which explains so well why they use organic cotton. This is a longer version of it here (although its not so long that yo can't read it in a minute or so.) That's why I like Howies, their are very transparent as a company, All their beliefs are on their website, and their catalogue reads more like a manifesto for life at times.

Anyway, packages. the other one which will probably make no sense to anyone, is something I bought as a result of selling a piece of work to a friend (in fact my wedding dressmaker :)) She asked me to make a baby blanket a while ago for one of her friends who was having a baby - born last Monday - And when I got the money for it I thought I should put some of it to good use despite being skinted, so I bought myself my first boat shuttle for my loom.

This type of shuttle, for anyone who doesn't know, can be sort of thrown through the weaving as they are very smooth (you can get ones with rollers on the bottom too) so it makes the weaving process much quicker. Wierdly owning one of there makes me feel rather grown up.

For anyone who's interested I am going to do a post with some pictures of the blanket in, and maybe some other bits of work, so you will get to see it!

We're off to potfest today hopefully, there are two potfests, organised by the same people and they happen two weeks apart. this one is the original, its slightly more of a free for all, as its first come first served gets a stand, as opposed to the one I posted about a few weeks ago where you have to apply for a stand and be chosen. So I'll tell you about that later probably! Happy Sunday people...

the doctor evil chair.

You guys, I'm super excited because this morning, a chair arrived. This chair is parker-knoll, it WAS black leather, a sort of wingback egg chair (I'm not good with the proper names). It had been sitting in the in-laws garage for many years, literally gathering a lot of dust, and generally not doing much. I begged, not much, since they were going to get rid of it anyway, and we got it. We've just had it recovered in a chenille that looks like needle cord in a champagne colour, and it returned this morning at a time too early to mention. I loves it! :) James reckons this chair is going to be his, but I have other ideas. I, after all, wanted it, petitioned the pa-in-law, chose the fabric, and found the upholsterer. No, it will be mine. So now, following the sorting of the spare room yesterday which ended up being a complete re-arrangement of the room, involving the help of ma-in-law, a not-to-scale plan of the room with all the furniture, and a tape measure, we get to do the same in the living room to fit the new chair in! Is it sad that I enjoy this? I love re-arranging rooms, and I can't wait to move so I can start again! Anyway, I'll finish this post with a photo of the chair, which is known around our house as the doctor evil chair.
Please excuse the mess, and the godawful carpet, its in the spare room at the moment until the old armchairs leave tonight (again via freecycle-if you want stuff, or want to get rid of pretty much anything, you really should join your local group)

todays etsy wants.

pincushion ring: artnestshop

A pincushion ring?! cute, dangerous, or just plain amazing? I think I need this...

ipod cozy: onaroll

I want one of these, it almost makes me want a proper ipod so that it would fit in here :) but alas, no money, so instead this idea is for Hannah (yet again, these days I find my entire blog is written for you!) since shes gettng an iphone soon.

I'm off today, waiting for parcels to arrive, and considering sorting the spare room as its where I work, but also where my parents are staying in a couple of weeks, and now where we're storing one of two super cheap sofas we bought last week. there isn't much room to move!

The Time Travellers Wife

book cover: wikipedia

I've just started seeing adverts for the film of the time travellers wife, a book by Audrey Niffenegger. I'm worried its going to ruin it for me if I go and see it. This is one of the only books I've ever read that I've cried at after reading, it is beautiful and wonderful and lovely. If you havn't read it do. I'm still thinking about seeing the film, I just think it looks too hollywoodified? Is this out in the states yet? has anyone seen it? I so want it to be good, but really? is it? opinions or reviews, please?

hydrangea update #3

Ok, I know these are usually boring, but I promise this one is pretty!! Any of you lovely people heard of freecycle? its an amazing way of getting things for free that you need and other people don't want. Anyway, I posted on there a while ago about wanting hydrangea heads to dry for the table centres, and today I went and cut these lovelies. I got about 20 heads, but I left plenty on the plant, i'm hoping she'l let me back later in the year to take more! They are so dreamy, like clouds of candyfloss. except one had an earwig in it. So theyre hanging in the garage to dry. I can't wait to see if this works. I really don't know how many I need per wreath, but thats what these are for I s'pose, trial runs and all that...

evening entertainment.

board games at a wedding! :D what a fantastic idea! because I think you all know by now I'm not what you might call the biggest fan of dancing...

via A Practical Wedding photo by the couples friends.

via a practical wedding, photos, not sure, please correct me if you know?

This is definately an idea I'm considering, I think it would make people feel far more comfortable about sitting around rather than feeling they have to dance. Opinions?

Umbrella love

It's probably just because of the rain, but I'm still loving the idea of cute umbrellas at the wedding...

vintage umbrella photo by Jenny Jimenez via A Perfect Wedding

I love all the different umbrellas in this shot, they look so cute together!

heart shaped umbrella photo by David Mcneil from Tea and Whimsys engagement shoot

I've waxed lyrical about my love for rosalies heart shaped umbrella before, but I just adore it.

rainbow umbrella shot by Jen Huang via Snippet and Ink

And I just love the rainbow golf umbrella, its obviously the most practical option, but really, practicality isn't always my strong suit. strangely, since I've actually got round to writing this post, its not raining. But isn't that just the way.