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31 October 2016

Latest Polly Playford fascinator design

I created this fascinator using tulle, netting, chain, studs and gold lamé. It has a hair clip on the back for easy fastening and looks bloody fabulous on pretty much every head, especially one with great volume to their hair. I wear mine as much as I can, down the pub, out dancing in a…

31 October 2016

Feather accessories for fashion shoot

  I was asked by the Vintage Showroom of Notting Hill to design and make some feather headdresses for a fashion shoot to help promote a denim manufacturer at Barcelona Denim Premier vision show on the 18th-19th of May. Doug at the Vintage Showrooms was the creative director and did an absolutely stunning job with…

11 July 2016

Vintage Kids Book Illustrations

Vintage Kids Book Illustrations I was helping my mum sort out her books when she moved house and we found a load of old books that belonged to my granny from when she was a child. I really love the illustrations and have used them in graphics. I used one of these in a record…

27 May 2016

Foraging

When I was growing up my mum took us on foraging trips where we’d pick Chanterelle mushrooms and edible leaves like wild garlic, Samphire seaweed. We picked muscles oysters and caught crabs. We’d often make dens (like the amazing one we made in the picture above) and build fires and sit around eating our foraged…

25 May 2016

Colour, Pattern, Texture and Shine

I love the shine of Mackerel scales and the rainbow of colours of petrol on water. It’s interesting to think that nature often uses these features to camouflage. Unlike my husband photographed at Burning Man, he takes shine seriously and wants to stand out, which of course he does. That’s why he made that fabulous cape…

5 February 2016

Money Tree

I made this tree for my sister’s 30th Birthday. They’ve just bought a house and need cash to develop it so I thought I’d help out financially. It’s not clear if any more money has grown on the tree since I made it but I remain hopeful. My friend Kirsty Obbard who I met working on…

29 January 2016

Iridescence

  A picture I took of a giant bubble engulfing my dad on the beach in Abersoch, Wales. It’s down the steps from the house we stay in called Rock End. My dad has been going every summer since he was a kid and the same for me. I learnt to swim in the sea…

27 November 2015

Organic Architecture

Guest Blog Post  – 26th November 2015 Frank Lloyd Wright’s so-called Fallingwater House rephrased the expression ‘organic’ in the history of architecture. His creation does not only borrow shapes and materials from nature, but actually becomes one with it. Forest, stream, rock, concrete and wood combined so organically that you become unable to tell the…

23 November 2015

Stock Imagery

Stock Imagery is often rubbish. 99% the images on istock and shutterstock is cheesy or cliche, especially when it comes to images of people.  Moonpig have a range of cards that allow you to upload your own images into the design. When I was creating them a range of photo upload cards I needed to find…

9 November 2015

Architecture and free creation

Architecture and free creation This Week’s Guest Blog Post – By Eniko Toth (Architecture Graduate) I wish. I wish gravity and rainwater didn’t make it so hard to create freely. Experimenting with masses, materials, textures and surfaces without having to think about heat insulation or load bearing beams sounds like a dream come true. And then…