Exploring Global Threads

This past weekend I ventured into Preston City Centre for a little mooch around the charity shops and to take a browse round the high street stores to see what new drops have landed. With not much going on there I decided to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city shops and ventured into the wonderful Harris museum.

I’m a great advocate of the Harris museum and was excited to view the Global Threads: Asian Textiles and Fashion Today exhibition on their opening day. The exhibition and volunteers at the launch party were full of energy and great enthusiasm for the exhibition. In brief, the Global Threads exhibition takes its inspiration from a set of historic fabric samples and details how these prints have influenced many designers work over the years and how they continue to do so.

Explore Global Threads

As part of the launch party people from all ages, young & old, were invited to customise a plain white T-shirt with Asian influenced fabrics – my efforts can be seen below! I don’t profess to have great sewing skills and I admit that I had help from a miracle double side adhesive invention, but I did find the event to be quite a therapeutic environment and it was a great to see how people adapted to the customisation challenge.

Plain white tee

Further information on the exhibition can be found on the Harris Museum website!

“Cuff her!”

It seems I have a penchant for cuff/bracelets, as over the past couple of weeks I’ve purchased three creations, all quite raw in their form; made from beads and leather. The most recent being the tribal cuff, a charity shop find one lunchtime last week… it will toughen up the most summery of outfits, a perfect punch of colour!

To cuff or not to cuff!

Until the next time friends…

Wardrobe nightmares!

So this picture confirms my fear - I don’t have anything to wear! Yes, you may see a huge wardrobe packed with high street and vintage finds aplenty, but when it comes to getting ready in the morning I get stumped. I said the other day at work that I had lost my fashion mojo – dear friends I believe this to be true…. Now if only I could find said mojo!

My wardrobe

I think what I need is one of those things people like to call ‘a clear out’! As is evident by the photo I don’t have many clear outs, they are very rare in my flat but times may be a changing! I need to get ruthless, who knows what old treasures I might find along the way.

Clueless just like Cher!

More to follow on this subject, that I am sure…

Come into my life

These amazing Miu Miu sandals have been on my shoe radar for some time now - need, want, must have!


Dot to dot...

 Image from the lovely people at Net a Porter

Lusting after…

I want one of these agate bracelets from Brook&Lyn so badly! I stumbled across the website and fell in love with everything in the ‘Surrounded Day’ collection!

How amazing are these pieces?

Mimi Jung is the artist behind the label, and her jewellery collection is focused around a group of stones she discovered on a trip to Hong Kong. The stones are surrounded in a layer of crochet and rope - I love the simplicity combined with the bold statement they make.

Good news for UK fans, these pieces are available from The Moon & Mars. Warning – you will want to purchase everything from this store too, they stock some great designers from the likes of: Surface to Air, Carin Wester and Stine Goya.

Belt up!

I thought I would share a relatively new furniture purchase together with a slight obsession I have with belts!

Haberdashery heaven

My wooden haberdashery unit was a steal, my lovely dad salvaged it from an office clearout where he worked. I snatched it up knowing the 27 drawer unit would be the ultimate place to house all my accessories; belts, scarves, perfume, jewels and make up.

Anyway, back to belts! I haven’t actually counted how many I own, must be going on for 40 maybe? To be honest there are some that I haven’t worn in a long time, but for some reason I love purchasing belts – more so those that I have picked up in vintage and charity shops for couple of pounds here and there.

A few new finds!

Pictured above, a few of my recent belt purchases… including a woven cotton belt, a beaded Peruvian leather belt picked up from Vintage Village, a neon skinny belt from Primark and a couple of charity shop finds! I hope you have just as much luck belting up!

Spring, where are you?

I had no photographer at my disposal today, meaning no one else was in the office this afternoon to snap me! Rather than trawl round the building to find someone to take a photo (who didn’t think I was totally vain) I decided to give the old self timer a whirl on the camera!

Spring has sprung

Well the results aren’t exactly Testino worthy but I think you get the jist of my outfit; a sleeveless blazer style dress from H&M (new purchase) with a sheer Reiss patterned top underneath for good measure, oh and an old faithful vintage belt. I am wearing this today as I am desperate to bring out some new spring goodies from my wardrobe – but with the weather not being too kind I am having to work in my new spring pieces with some old favourites! Hurry up spring and bring Mr Sunshine with you too!