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long lost suns
I did some styling for a band a couple of weeks ago, Long Lost Suns and got a chance to make use of the pheasant feather eyelashes again. Turned out to be a great day for photos- Can I get some LENS FLAAAAARE
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Enamore Baby
So here’s me as a nine months pregnant pin up- wearing my beautiful maternity camisole that Jenny knocked me up (pardon the pun) specially. If you want one then you’ll have to join the petition for Enamore maternity lingerie… perhaps posting in the facebook fan page would be a good start and while we’re at […]
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Strawberries and Champagne
I’ve been spending inordinate amounts of time trawling the internet for some vintage strawberry print fabric and it turned out the vintage textile dealer that I use had some all along! -and its much more beautiful than anything I saw on Ebay. Thanks a million to Sandie at Rag Rescue for hooking me up with […]
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sacks of feathers
This weekend I’ve spent almost four hours sorting the male pheasant feathers into these cute little muslin sacks, the tiniest one has little feathers that I’ll probably use for eyelashes – my favourite feathers are grey and downy at the quill moving through to a fawny brown with a black rimmed heart shaped tip. The […]
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Tags: feathers, pheasant feathers
pheasant plucker
My Dad brought me round a brace of pheasants that his friend had given him the other day- I had my first experience of plucking, drawing and roasting a bird all by myself (vegetarians should probably stop reading here!!) I think I’m going to use the feathers to make some fascinators for the autumn, hopefully […]
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Tags: fascinators, feathers, pheasant, rabbit fur, real fur
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