Decorating
                                                                                                                                                              I bought a pink dress for 50p at the charity shop. I mostly bought it because it was 50p, and it fitted me. But when I brought it home, I realised that it was just too much pink for me. I was overwhelmed. So I began to draw on it, just doodling whilst I listened to the radio. And it turned out pretty well.

Dancing shoes


I had some grubby pumps from Primark, with huge black bows on them. When I bought them, a year ago, I thought they were very 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'. But they got mucky and frayed, and they looked silly. So I yanked off the bows, and I drew on them with permanent marker. I'm pretty happy with the end result, so here you are.

Palm Portraits

Much inspired by the beautiful work of Meridith Mcneal, a a little bit obsessed with the relationship between clothing and identity, I decided to make a 'palm portrait'.

 Mcneal uses vintage gloves of sheer fabric, and uses embroidery and beading to make copy the palm lines of her friends (a 'palm portrait' as she calls it). I found some old gloves in my dressing up box and traced the lines on my palm onto the glove, before embroidering - a little messily- my palm lines. The end result is actually pretty cool, and makes a witty addition to the otherwise princessy evening glove. I'm totally going to wear these to my first ball. 

Top image courtesy of: http://humantextilewellness.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/gloves1231.jpg

There's been a lot of hype around the Yayoi Kusama exhibition at the Tate Modern. Understandably so, her work is engaging, exciting and weird. So inspired am I that I've been polka-dotting all weekend. It is obviously very repetitive, which could drive you dotty (what a joke). Here are the results of my labour, most of them are actually pretty ugly, which is a pity. But at least I had a 'productive' weekend.

Top image courtesy of:  http://theredlist.fr/wiki-2-351-382-1160-1284-view-japan-profile-kusama-yayoi.html