I just wanted to share this lovely pic with you! Reminds me of vintage postcards. I’ve been playing around with settings on my camera and found some lovely filters that worked well in my editing programme too! I think the colours work really well. Let me know your thoughts too!
I love blues music, sad eye vintage pictures, moody broody guys peeping out from their long locks, grouping together on Monday mornings, sharing gripes… but I’ve been doing so recently with a bit of a giggle. I know its so fashionably chic to pout and practice runway scowls but I guess I’ve just got a case of the Happy January Blues!
January has traditionally for most been a depressing month, cue the cold weather and the post Christmas chocolate come downs, new council tax bills (OK bleurgh.. even I can’t get too happy ’bout that) but I am just so happy and grateful to start this new year.
I feel like I’ve been give a fresh new start, new diary, new lists and new lovely phone have all helped but I guess the biggest help and lifter upper (that is a new phrase for 2010 – oh yes it is!) has been to make time to meditate and listen to some wonderful hypnosis… calming, relaxing and blissfully reviving…
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You can find time for that right?
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I love the feeling of looking at something so well designed it inspires me to greater more well designed err designs…
Like this simple ceramic carton milk jug from Heals!
Ok maybe there are better examples out there, but I love this. So simple and for me beautiful.
HEAL’s are celebrating 200 years of just that this year, whereas I’m celebrating my first purchase from there! Eeep!
I remember a time as a young impressionable teenager venturing into the daunting glass temple of design wonder, my scratchy second-hand boots echoing loudly around their beautiful Kings Road store boutique, (silently vowing to myself that I must return someday in Pretty Women style and buy millions of pounds worth of items) It would of been some sort of gesture to show I wasn’t this uncouth youth now dwarfed by the beauty that surrounded me, that I some how understood the design and how important it was. Not that any of the staff would of cared, that’s not to say they wouldn’t of cared, I guess it was just more to do with me… I mean who really does care?
How I loved everything in there, such style and class. This love for design has always burned in me since watching old movies with my dad from the 60s and loving the pictures, the patterns, the wallpapers and rugs. An endless cornucopia of colour that made my eyes bulge. I knew then I was a gonna, a sucker, a true fanatic and would probably wind up collecting and hoarding as many of these items as I could get my mitts on…
Over the years that has proved to be the case, passing some on, selling some and eventually starting Extinct.
Sharing with you my love for design from such explosive eras as the 50s, 60s, and 70s.
“Ohhh tooo mUch”
I seem to while away these cold December evenings browsing many creative blogs, shops and crafting networks… through a stream of loveliness there are some seriously cool bits, here’s the flotsam and jetsam that just seemed to stick with me – love it!
(click on the pics for more info!)
1.Karl Largerfelt Finger Puppet
2,3 &4 Jennifer Loiselle Amazing Headbands
5. Adorable Creatures by Lou Lou & Oscar
6. Janice Jong – Illustrations
Jeff Koons
Rabbit, 1986
Stainless steel
41 x 19 x 12 in (104.1 x 48.3 x 30.5 cm)
© Jeff Koons
Excited to be taking in a day of Art on Monday – the first Extinct Christmas outing!
Will be taking in the delights of Pop Life at Tate Modern, Kienholz: The Hoerengracht at the National and if there will be time checking out all that’s on offer at the Hayward!
My own creations during my time as an art student at UCE were heavily influenced by Pop Art, being a lover of that entire age – the fashion, the design and the art work – the whole energy of that time still influences me today!
Looking forward to a day submerged in visual pleasure.
Have to say I’m thoroughly enjoying all the art programes on BBC at the moment too! Check out School of Saatchi on iplayer!
What a day! My first Graze box arrived and I greedily started to tuck into all the natural tasty goodness…
Oops – had wanted to take some shots of the box before I started unwrapping it all – was like Christmas day come early! Heh heh.
It’s just ideal for me, sitting at my desk wondering whether I should have that extra biscuit (damn those biscuits, I’m such a nibbler too)… I was so delighted to hear about Graze - it’s a lovely thing being surprised each time with a box of all your favourite treats delivered right to your door or workplace. I’m so in love with this!
Hurrah no more bored of what to eat, Graze have created guilt-free tailor made snack-a-thons, that will help me maintain my concentration throughout the day ~ ya know ~ just grazing…
In today’s box I got:
Korean Chilli Rice Crackers (simply gorgeous)
Pitted Kalamata & Amphissa Olives with Chilli, Garlic & Black Pepper (mmm my fave)
Hot Chilli Almonds (didn’t think I’d like them especially but found them very moreish, will be wanting more of those please)
Milk Chocolate Coated Peanuts (err? YEAH!)
The site is super easy to use and you can bookmark your favourite treats to be sent more frequently, I think I spent far too long of my working day ogling things like the savoury snacks, fresh and dried fruit, nuts and seeds and natural treats!
Plus I hear on the grapevine (see what I did there?) they are hoping to launch graze lunches soon, which will include a fresh fruit punnet and a lunch punnet (like a Tuscan Bean Salad) Yum yum yum.
What I find the most benefical of this idea is that it really will maintain my interest, its hassle-free and perfectly portioned. I was left feeling satisfied and wonderfully content, no large bag of nuts I continually chew through unaware… graze has done the thinking for me and gave me just the right amount of everything.
I was so impressed already ordered some gift vouchers for Christmas. You will be too!! (Gawd you’d think they’d of paid me to write this, but I just think it’s so fantastic and knew you’d want to know)
Paper, packaging recyclable/biodegradable, each box tailor made, nutritionally balanced, you can specify if you are looking to boost energy, balance blood sugar, sort out your immune system or lose weight… ya know? Absolutely everything a girl like me could ever wish for!!!
For your FREE graze box check out www.graze.com enter code Y4442YPW
Betty, Betty, Betty…
I’m loving this season of Ugly Betty loving the clothes the colours and the New York backdrop – so I’m dedicating this post to all things Betty!
Here’s my pick of Extincts very own Betty fashion…
Black and White Vintage Winter coat, with autumnal shades of leather patchwork bag, pretty pink graphic flowers pinnafore dress to set of black and green stripey tights, cool 80s zig zag shoes and fun and funky accessories!
You wear a pretty summer dress
Unfolding softly
Creaseless
Oh pretty rose, oh how pretty you are…
I was so happy to see you today, grow gracefully amongst the wisteria branches, how your perfumes will intertwine
In perfect harmony you both are
Nothing to worry, nothing to fear
Just being beautiful
What do you buy the boy who wants nothing? He certainly doesn’t have much and certainly doesn’t want it either….Hmmm a conundrum.
I’ve recently bought my beloved G a suit for all his important meetings (he usually can be found wearing an old Guinness t-shirt or Def Leppard whilst servicing your computer under a dusty desk somewhere, so has very little need for any Sunday Best clothes…) But wait – what do we have here? Only some rather fetching ties by Toybreaker!
I love the back bone and tongue tied the best – I love to see beautiful designs with some spine!
Feast your eyes!
I love you Etsy!
It’s been a scorcher of a day here must get my sunstroke on! 100% of the proceeds goes to Cancer for College Scholarship Fund.
I have been working on some new summer designs to top up your wardrobe with vintage inspired accessories! Launching soon!
It’s gonna be hot, hot, HOT!
