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Today I have been sewing like a crazy person and seem to have misplaced my brain. It feels a little fried, but I’m working on a store update for tomorrow. I’m happy that I’ve got quite a bit to add to Etsy and the online store. Need to take photos of everything now.

Anyway, looking at these homes has made me feel better and a bit more human. They look so cosy. Time for coffee now.

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Us Irish are more accustomed to pots of gold but I’m sure Conor J O’Brien (aka Villagers) won’t mind a bit of mercury, in the shape of The Mercury Prize.

Villagers’, fronted by Conor J O’Brien, nominated album ‘Becoming a Jackal’ has wowed critics and music lovers for it’s incredibly personal lyrics and it’s dark and intense mood. And yes I love it. It’s these qualities that keep me listening alongside the folksy simplicity of the album, that strikes a chord with me.

‘Becoming a Jackal’, the first single from the album, is a dreamy, wonderful and amazing track that comes with a slightly disturbing yet hauntingly beautiful video (watch out for the dancing pigs). It’s not the most recent track from them but for me, it’s always been one of my favourites.

I’m delighted that Villagers has attracted the attention of the Mercury Prize panel and I wish them the best of luck. And with their odds at the bookies jumping from 25/1 to 10/1, we might have an Irish winner on our hands. Place your bets. . . NOW!

Let me know what you think of the video and track.

Louise xx

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Here are some gorgeous sunday finds from a few Etsy treasury lists, these are all so lovely. Hope you love them as much as I do.

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Peering through the keyholes of other person’s home would generally be frowned on, also be a little weird. Not to mention difficult, you wouldn’t see much. So before you imagine me trying to spy into houses by kneeling in front of a keyhole trying desperately to see something interesting, I don’t…but I’ll curtain twitch. I am so happy that the people on the other side of the keyhole like to show off their gorgeous homes.

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Just an extra image of a workspace, it fits into two of my obsessions. A home office and storage solution. I have a lot of things that need a storage solution, or need to be sent away never to return (the scary clear out).
I like how they have cleverly used a tiny amount of space, even if it is a bit claustrophobic.

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This is how I store my hundreds of pens. In old mugs, tin cans and ceramic yogurt pots (In france I got a yogurt and it came in a ceramic pot!).

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I want crate shelves like this, it looks so pretty!

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Speaking of pretty…look at the amount of pink in this shot.

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Gorgeous frilly knickers…who doesn’t want a few of these. I definitely do want some and have some, but I want more. For a while I’ve wanted to make my own, but haven’t found any help on how to go about it. Lucky me though, I came across this video from Threadbanger by Clare Bare.

To make the pattern just take apart one frilly knicker, I know it’s not nice to part with any pretty ones. Go for the worst, I did. Trace around them for your template. I have yet to make some frilly knickers but I will definitely give it a go. So here is the video:

Ah I think I might talk about Love too much, I’m starting to wonder myself if I’m turning into a stereotypical hippie. No not possible, I like my monthly wash. Yes I am joking, I’m a fan of showering.

Well here is my new bag, this is the prototype or test. A simple shopper bag. With a hidden stretch of ribbon that wraps around the bag when it’s rolled up to keep it together. I’m thinking of making more of these with a different fabric but with the same print on it.

At the moment this is my favourite print, the ‘Love you’ print. Mainly because it’s new but also because it’s a pretty massive heart. I’ve already printed on some t-shirts (which I will add to the store soon), and will probably go crazy this weekend stamping everything with ‘Love you’.

I hope that you like this bag, or maybe even ‘love’ it. Haha. After driving myself mental today trying to understand PHP, which can’t be done, I’m going to do some much needed baking. I’ll make brownies, so excited! I’m hungry already, would it be wrong to eat brownies for dinner? That’s all I want, and milk.

After an extremely hot weekend, with basically no clouds. Today has taken a turn and there are large angry clouds casting a grey shadow everywhere. They’re ready to explode, hopefully with a bit of thunder.
Oddly all of this has left me calm and happy, the fresh smell of rain is lovely.

So here are 3 loves:

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1) I love the sound of heavy rain and thunder (and the smell of rain), it calms me down. (Today reminds me of singing in the rain, even though it isn’t even heavy yet).

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2) I love books so much, I try to read loads. Already I own a lot of books, but I’ve always wanted to fill a room full of my books and have a really comfy chair that I can slide into then read as much as I want.

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3) A few years ago I bought a Canon AE1 SLR, and oh do I adore it. It takes gorgeous photos and makes the most amazingly strange shutter sound, which makes it even more loveable.

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I can just see it now. The advert for the new video Nice Guys by We Are Scientists. And I think it’d go something like this.

Ever wondered about what those We Are Scientists guys were singing when they were em,.. singing. Well wonder no more. With their new video Nice Guys and working with some nifty video editing software all your unasked lyric questions will be answered, kind of.

In this lifetime limited time offer you get all the hilariousness of seeing We Are Scientist’s (WAS) new video Nice Guys for no money what so ever. And how can they add to this amazing empty offer??? They’re giving you the lyrics, absolutely free. That’s right, absolutely free.

So don’t delay. Watch the video today. Do what I say and you too can be the proud viewer of not 2 but 1 WAS member.

Hey, hey! I think I’m pretty good. The new video is indeed hilarious, it does only feature Keith from the band (Chris works the camera) and it does have lyrics. But what’s exceptionally funny about this video is what it parodies; those videos featured on youtube, where users take a perfectly normal music video and then add what they assume are the lyrics with comic consequences.

So instead of letting someone else have all the fun, those crazy creative and oh so dashing lads, using their phonetic prowess, have gone and done it for themselves. Sure why not. It takes mishearing a word to a whole new level and I dare you not to start singing the video lyrics instead of the real lyrics. I know I do. And keep an eye out for who I’m guessing is Chris Cain’s son about half way through, showing Keith up with his mad skills.

Let me know what you think of the video.

Louise xx

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The great thing about the internet, that I love, is we get to be harmlessly and openly nosy, we can read someone’s tweets or view photo libraries. It doesn’t seem, or feel, wrong to do a little virtual curtain twitching. I can easily get lost for hours wading through lots of different blogs and flickr photostreams, I mainly search for craft related things. I enjoy it because I feel a connection to it and I like to see other peoples passions.

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I especially love viewing images of craft studios. I have fantastical impression in my mind that most crafters have an amazing and creative studio space to work in. It’s great when I find images that prove that I’m right.

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Also though, another part of me lusts after these amazingly creative studio spaces because I wish mine was that way. Sadly my studio space doesn’t fit into the amazing category, so you won’t find mine here. I have to admit that while I have some cool posters on my walls, this is all marred by the hideous carpet + curtains + door. Well the curtains would be easy to resolve but I sort of don’t want to make new curtains because I don’t really like curtains. Silly, I know. Maybe I will be converted soon.

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This weekend I went to my first BBQ of the year, possibly the last if I believe pessimists that state that it’s not possible for the weather to be this amazing all summer and that it will rain! Even if the weather is not great it doesn’t matter, because if someone really wants a BBQ it’s going ahead. My sister got a BBQ going at night once, I watched her little ash covered face lit up by the warmth of the charcoal. I would have just grilled, but I love her commitment to charcoal tasting cooked meat.

The BBQ was great fun, but I got more excited by finding loads of cool vintage stuff. Helping my mum clear out old things worked out well for me, I got loads of gorgeous vintage clothes. I think there are still more to go through, I’ll be helping her again. There was one old suitcase, it might have been from the 60s, it was so lovely but was too damaged and rusty. I wish that was mine too, and that it wasn’t a wreck.

Oh well, I found some nice vintage finds on Etsy that I wouldn’t mind having either.

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