I wanted to post about this before it got too old. The Paris fashion week was well, last week, and my overall favorite just has to be Jean-Paul Gaultier’s collection. Please do go check out the whole collection! It’s Mexico meets Aztec tribal fashion and it’s just great! I felt that the collection really did [...]

  Here is a quick update on my hat block quest! I’ve placed an order with Guy Morse-Brown! Yay!! I’m so excited! The blocks  above are part of my order - I also got a brim (plus a collar to go with it) and a block stand (it’ll make working easier). All this for a total of £562 (661 euros), that’s [...]

I’ve been to see the ‘Le Tissu dans Tous ses Sens’ (cloth in all it’s ways) exhibition here in Lyon, an exhibition of textile design based on ’intelligent’ fabrics. I must say I was really disappointed,  Iwas expecting a large textile collection but it all fitted into one room which only took half an hour to go [...]

  At the moment I’m looking into hat blocks to buy! It’s really quite exciting! I’ve been looking into a few suppliers (Van der Broek in Holland, Guy Morse-Brown  and Hazel’s Hats in the UK) and there is a lot of choice. I’m not quite sure exactly what I want yet, it all depends on the [...]

Not a real post today, I’m not well. Just a pic of a street here in Lyon, the Four Hats Street! The name cames from a hatter’s store that used to be there in the past. Thought it would be nice to share with you! Pas un vrai post aujourd’hui, je ne vais pas top. [...]

   I love looking through the second hand ‘vintage’ section on Etsy. There’s always lots of cool stuff  just waiting to be bought! I can spend hours browsing for clothes and I have recently found a really great Etsy shop, She Hearts Vintage. I just received today the two dresses you can see above, they [...]

This christmas I got given two lovely hats – a blue one made out of a fine corduroy fabric and a lovely headpiece made out of silvery leaves. Unfortunately, the blue hat is a bit too small for my rather big head! Both hats have veiling on them, I gave them a small steam to [...]

If any of you remember a Momiji doll contest  I entered a while back (if not, read this post), the results came out a few weeks ago! Unfortunately, I didn’t win (I wasn’t even in the top twenty sniff sniff), but they did send me a cool consolation package! There were loads of stickers, a [...]

Happy New Year! Now it’s back to work and blogging! I’ve been working on my Etsy shop, Chalkie’s Bazaar. I’ve made a new banner and have just put up a couple of new items (fascinators), which you can see below. I should make a new year’s resolution to work more on my Etsy shop, but [...]