Etsy Shops part IV

How cool are these tights? even better if you colour co-ordinate your shoes with them! My first day this year tightless although I'm sure that wont last and I'll be back to the 40 denier in no time!
These are from BZR. Why is the shipping so expensive to the UK though? Perhaps this is DIYable.

A very long walk down a canal...

in London town.... and yes a sneaky little animated gif - almost worked.

bit wobbly dammit

Dirty Greens

I love green, also see here and here

Hans Wilschut Artist / photographer

I found out about this guy through the website Patternity, which if you havent already, you should check out. i particularly like his close ups of buildings and the patterns they create. His site is here.

Taking the piss out of the gifs

Love this site, having a laugh at fashions (and mine) latest obsession with animated gifs.

Turkish Supermarket Snack No 1

Mix Kraker 5 out of 10, good if you're trying to keep food down (Steve) particularly the fish shaped ones.

Milwaukee bus tickets

Just read about his in Creative Review. Kindra Murphy bought the lot from a flea market, they date from around 1930 - the 1980s. Read more in this months Creative Review. She has loads more on her flickr account. 

They remind me a bit of the dog racing tickets you used to get from Walthamstow dogs...

Florals on black

Makes florals a little less girlie and looks very vintage.... me likey, I would wear dressed down with black nails and boots.

 left by Mandy Barker, right by Stephen Eichhorn.

Top left: from Urban Outfitters
Top middle: Louis Feraud vintage from Farfetch
Top right: bikini from Miss Selfridge
Middle left: by Henrik Vibskov from Farfetch
Middle: Kimono style jacket from Biba
Middle right: from DollSkill
Bottom, old print from the shop Biba.

Top left: McQueen AW12 show, more pics here.
Top Middle: Beautiful McQueen clutch, also comes in a clear style.
Bottom right: Anna wearing the trend at the McQueen AW12 show.
Bottom middle: Ungaro vintage from Farfetch
Bottom right: by Vassilisa Natalia for around a grand!

Nerd Boyfriend

I totally forgot this blog existed until a few days ago couldn't remember the name. There is now a Nerd Girlfriend as well. They take old, often cheesy pictures and find the equivalent available to buy online.

Animated gif style video

Looks like the video director was perhaps influenced by all the animated gifs doing the rounds.... the song is not bad too! On Hold by Factory Floor - directed by AB/CD/CD

ON HOLD (w/ music by factory floor) from AB/CD/CD on Vimeo.

Got my eyes on you

The rugby's on, its pissing it down outside, therefore i'm making patterns. Steve says this one is very Gilbert and George. He keeps swearing, I'm guessing the rugby is not going well, I can't be bothered to turn round find out.

Jake Gyllenhaal in Dalston....

...why didn't anyone tell me?!

Triangular print

Lovely triangle print by Australian Line Secret Squirrel.

For travelling folk....

Should you need two clock faces, it's nice, and it's cheap, you don't see that very often... It's from New York store 'In God We Trust'

Matching or clashing with your wallpaper

Matching or clashing with your wallpaper, seems to be a trend at the moment.

By Parker Fitzgerald

by Thomsen

by artist Cecilia Paredes

from the Aubin & Wills lookbook

image from 60s?

House of Hackney

or how about completely blending in?!

not sure where this is from?

Blingtastic

Grimes on the cover of this months Dazed and Confused....

Beautiful Princelet Street

I came across these beautiful images online of a house on Princelet Street, off Brick Lane. Number 4 to be precise. I used to walk down this road everyday on my way to work and try and stare in the windows with not much luck. So it's nice to see these.You can see more on their site.

There is not enough wood in modern homes is there?! I did some more research and discovered that you could buy another house on the street for £2,250,000 (ouch!) Number 19 Princelet Street also looks pretty incredible, built in 1719. The first occupants were Huguenot weavers, much later in 1869 Jewish settlers errected a synagogue in the garden which I think is what is pictured below.

image from thebrimstonebutterfly.blogspot.com

You can read more about this place on this site. The place requires much needed funding apparently to save it, check out their site and donate. Finally, I discovered that 24 has been almost completely rebuilt, see below, an interesting article about it on Spitalfields Life.

image from Spitalfields Life

Split Personality

Stumbled across this, more pictures on The big addict.

Jelly Fish Lamps

Did you see these on Emerald Street today?! Lamps made with real jellyfish, froxen with liquid nitrogen and then made into lamps. Weird!

Band of Skulls - Paintings

I actually discovered this band through their artwork. It's possibly not true of music 'never judge it by it's cover' as the band are pretty cool too.

Bassist and vocalist in the band Emma Richardson has her first solo exhibition on at the moment in Shoreditch at the Londonewcastle project place. The album Baby Darling Doll Face Honey has her artwork on it. She collaborated with a creative team to produce the others. See bands website to listen to tracks.

images from jazjaz

A cloud in a room!

By Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde.  (read more here)

image from It's Nice That

Reminds me of this, from, I'm not sure where.

Kimono Mash Up

I love this outfit post from Susie Bubble. The kimono is beautiful and mixed with the green modern clothing and accessories looks fresh and fun.

pictures from her site

Do you Pinterest?

It took me a little while to get into, it's a bit like twitter, you need to follow the right people, otherwise it's a lot of sickly sweet images and pictures of hedgehogs. Could do with some more cool people to follow... I recommend AmySia for print and fashion. Follow me here.

Giffy gif gif

Will i ever get bored of these? The dangly earring is a classic, this one from here.

Not sure what this is?

Weird hippy, trippy pattern, incorporating a drawing of Kiera Knightly....?! this is what I get up to whilst Steve is watching Masterchef...

 

Broken Fab - Disco Beading

Found an old bookmark from a few years ago... Disco beading from Broken Fab.