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Dress a Girl Around the World
What if every girl had just one dress? Around a week before we were due to come to Cambodia, I came across a UK not for profit organisation on Facebook called Dress a Girl Around the World UK. They encourage and enable volunteers to make dresses and then arrange to...
Silk Farm, Siem Reap, Cambodia
On one of first few days in Cambodia, while we were still acclimatising to the heat (although speaking to people here I don't think you ever get used to it) and recovering from jetlag, we spent a very enjoyable afternoon visting the Silk Farm which is just outside the...
Preparing and Panicking
It's been a super busy week this week as we jet off for 2 weeks holiday today to Cambodia (where my parents live). I've been busy preparing for the next workshop as well as finishing a bespoke dress for a client and making myself some bits to wear on holiday. Here's a...
The Joy of Fabric Shopping
The internet is a wonderful place, granting us access to a miriad of wonderful things. Whatever you're looking for, you can usually find it online, this also applies to fabric. Green satin with pink polka dots, or crepe fabric in a million different weights and...
8 Essential Tools of the Trade
Everyone has essential tools that they use everyday in their job that make the work better or easier or even make it possible. Here's a list of my essentials. (In no particular order.) Measuring Tape Pins & Pincushion Unpicker / Seam ripper Metre Ruler / Metre...
A Gallery of Past Creations
You might be wondering what qualifies me to teach you how to sew? I took my BTEC National Diploma at Doncaster College and then went on to graduate from the Surrey Institute of Art & Design in Epsom (formerly Epsom School or Art & Design and currently The...
Victorian Inspired Prom Dress
One of my favourite things about being a bespoke dressmaker is some of the unusual requests that clients come to me with and how that allows me to get creative with styles I have never done before. Bryony came to me wanting a Prom Dress based on the Victorian Style...
Ethical Fashion & Me
Something happened to me last year - I started to care about who made my clothes and how they were treated. The catalyst for this was The True Cost documentary, which I watched on Netflix one evening when Gary was out. He came home to find that I had fundamentally...
Focus – My word for 2016
Each new year, for the past few years, instead of a New Years Resolution I have set myself a word of intention for the year. The word of 2014 was LOVE and in April 2014 I found the love of my life, Gary. That's a pretty impressive result from just setting my intention...
Lesson Learned – Do not be afraid to start
For such a long time already I have had ideas running around in my head about how I am going to make my dream come true of earning my living from being creative. I have had various false starts and had my fingers burned which had left me in a position of fear. Fear of...
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