Camouflage

Friday 13th

Oh dear, i do not need any bad luck thank you very much! Especially when I'm designing my new collection! It's only 10am and I have already...

1.Missed my train
2.Have a spot on my chin
3.Broken a nail
4.Had the costing in for a new leather and its waaay over budget!!

Please let that be it for the day! I have a sightseeing/adventure weekend planned in Old London town with a very dear friend, we do not need any gloom hanging over us! Roll on 6pm.

Specs apeal

Oh. My. God. I NEED new glasses...I don't even know what i look like anymore! I hate wearing them as i feel like they steal my face from me, but as contact lenses are not an option, I must carry on my days as a four eyes until i can afford the super duper surgery to fix my defective peepers!

What do I go for? a block colour? Retro? Classic tortoishell...either way its a very expensive unknown identity on my face! All i want to do is be able to see!








Some pretty cool specs from www.retrospecs.co.uk

Hackney hater

Very funny and very true! And only 3 doors down from my boudoir. Have a wash, go to Marks and Sparks and get some new tights...and for goodness sake, brush your hair!

http://hackneyhipsterhate.tumblr.com/post/793555617/hipster-casualty-100710

Burberry AW10

AMAZING outerwear collection this Autumn, for both men and women. MILITARY through and through with khaki Melton riding jackets, navy wools with gold hardware and beautiful aviator sheepskins, I am currently designing AW11 sheepskins, leather and shearlings so this is just the inspiration I need!



I want this wonder so badly! Anyone have a spare three grand?!

Mixed media

I am loving London based graphic designer, Nikki Farquharson's cheeky mixed media art. Contrasting colour, line and form to create fun and sassy fashion illustrations.

Secret retreat

Yes please!

Love Celebrations!!!

A massive huge super congratulations to my little rabbit sister and her pickled husband to be!!! Living the love dream!

Makes me feel all happy and weepy and soppy and a million other things all at one time!

Congratulations Danny & Jade, love you both more than malteasers x



Keep a look out for lots of lovely weddingy ideas...

What is cool?

This is an ongoing arguement with me and my friends - what is cool?

Cool is something sleek, simple and bold, that feels effortless.

Forward-thinking, breaks boundaries, confident. Cool is the idea you wish you thought of first.

The audacity to be different for reasons that don’t need to be articulated & unconsciously achieving it.

Cool is what stands up - what makes you take a notice and appreciate something beyond the norm. When you see a product or a design or creation and your mind just screams at the want of it - or the appreciation to understand it more fully - that is cool.

Cool is what makes you think twice.

A mindset — being informed, relaxed, and expressing it effortlessly.

The word 'cool' is just confidence in aesthetic form.

Cool is wonderful, clever and beautiful.

Cool is a person not being affected by other peoples opinions, or behaviour - staying cool in a critical situation. A cool person stick to what he/she thinks is right no matter what. A person who works hard to appear cool is the opposite.

The new ideal; it is moving confidently forward into a better future, assured that things to come will be better.

A person/place/thing pleasurable to observe as it appears to fulfill its nature effortlessly and with signature style

Cool is all that is authentic and artistic and innovative...cool is confidence without the arrogance... cool is connected to spirits that seek instead of stagnate...cool is impossible to define because it's in a constant state of evolution.

Cool has nothing to do with the external. There is no object, gadget, fashion, or built environment which is cool by and of itself. The term is only manifest when the external thing becomes utilised and inspired by a person.

Cool is something so attractive and inspiring that people want to appropriate for themselves and for their creations. It's a subjective concept.

Something that makes you feel like telling someone else about it.

Cool is only a momentary flash of brilliance...before it transforms to conventional.

Anything that is described by the advertising media as cool, isn't.

Cool is the emotion we feel at contemplating the few brave, who express their originality, being loyal to their true selves and exposing it by doing so.

Cool is cool, defining it any further may just defeat the purpose...

lego rings

Hi Rabbit,

What colour logo ring would you like? we could be ring buddies....so american!

We can wear them when i come over for your belated birthday weekender
love you x

string gardens

impressive! found here

Lost Things

make this...

i'm going to have a go at this when i get from india, i'm sure i can find spare washers around the house ...learn how to here

Why?

Am I thinking about winter coats? I saw the coat of my dreams the other day in the Whistles sale (Its August I know), and I didn't have the dollar to purchase it! Now its sold out FOREVER and I can't stop thinking about it! I feel weepy at the very thought of someone else wearing that beauty!!

What if I never find the coat of my dreams ready for the chilly months?!

Beauty bar

Chocolate from Dubai, tagline: Dark chocolate formulated to make you feel gorgeous...
...on the inside love the inside wrapper

The Future of Publishing - created by DK (UK)

Mehndi Party!

After many years of being free and easy I have a paid mehndi (henna) job last night. It started at 7.00pm and finished at 12.30am. My fingers are fine but my back is unhappy. It was fun, and I think the client was happy... Anything to keep the creative juices flowing and breaking the norm routine. This is the brides sisters hand, lots of pressure! But she loved it. Second hand tonight. So what shall I do with your wonga (money) I’m thinking of investing it into another creative outlet...maybe a course in pattern-cutting and garment making (£63.00) a kitchen aid mixer (£200) oh the possibilities! But from the money I made yesterday a few more paid mehndi jobs are required, for the mixer, a thousand more jobs!
Hopefully last night will lead me to a few more paid jobs. Anyone?

Take me away...please

I need a break, a proper one! Too much work/partying/running around. I need a time out - wherever this is would be perfect! A cocktail or two...a good book, sat here watching the sun go down...sadly I'll have to do with a bath, painting my nails and an early night to try and revitalise this worn out bunny!

candy banana

hmmm....yum!

feathers of birds

There's something about feathers that I just love....the detail, the colours, how majestic they are.
I hardly wear them but I may change this the next I get invited to a fancy dress party

Image via texturism

happy birthday rabbit

...::: xxx XXX xxx :::...

.....:::love you load birthday girl!:::.....

love Capenter, the WHOLE carpenter family and mr.someone special

...::: xxx XXX xxx :::...

Happy ruddy birthday!

So I fought it, but it won, I am indeed 25 years old. I had an amazing party on Saturday with friends and my little bunny sister, everyone made me feel 21 again! Dancing, drinks, wrestling and more dancing! Cards and presents this morning before I dashed off to work, gotta earn the pennies to put beautiful shoes on my feetsies! Obligatory curry this evening and work drinks tomorrow, for someone who wanted to ignore my birthday, a lot of celebrating has taken place!

Rabbit meets Ricky!

Today has been the best day!!! First of all my birthday boots arrived are a beautiful! Then I have been feeling super creative! Then a Pug birthday balloon arrives in the post to my work, THEN I MET RICKY GERVAIS!!! In my work restaurant!!! He is on of my comedy Idols and it made my legs shake meeting him in the flesh! He was really lovely and looking very buff I must say! You can see from the photo that he is no longer a 'chunky little fu*$er'!



This weekend is going to be great, I can feel it in my ears!

Dogeared

This bunny is loving the gold Jewellery by Dogeared. Particularly the 'karma ring' necklace and matching bracelet and this wishbone pendant...maybe my next treat to me? I do work hard after all! I usually find it difficult finding interesting/quirky jewellery in gold, I want a necklace that i can wear all the time a goes with my beloved charm bracelet. The wishbone would be fitting...I do like chicken....



Dogeared Wishbone Charm Pendant £45.00

flowers on the wall please

what do you think rabbit, i love it. lets buy a house and floralise it!found it via 'cup of jo'

click here for more info

Supermarket Sarah

I was recommended this super cool site by a work pal, I really love all the random objet d'art, home furnishings and accessories. She set up her shop in her home around the corner from Portobello Market where she has a stall. It links to lots of other designers and artists selling their wears. I particularly love the Peter Ibruegger Naughty Plate 'Hunting' - £75. But not sure if Carpenter would do a mental if I put it on here! I'm going to hop down and see what delights I can find!
www.supermarketsarah.com

In mourning

Just to add to the melodrama - I'm wearing black (black lace to be precise!) at my birthday party - to mourn my lost youth!

It's my party and i'll cry if I want to

Call me dramatic...but I do not want to turn 25. Saying that, I don't wanna die....but maybe just stay 24? Or 22, yes I like 22. That would be nice.

My neurosis seems to be multiplied ridiculously - all because of a number. Twenty. Five. When i turned 21 I decided to become a lady, which involved stopping biting my nails...I have kept up the lady-ness (well my nails are still long!) And I have now decided to commemorate turning this dreaded number with becoming a woman, I have joined a gym to combat this 'mid twenty spread' round people talk about...I'm only 5 ft 2, I don't want to be wider than I am tall! I moisturise like a mad woman. No inch of skin is left uncreamed! I'm even using anti-aging creams/toners/cleansers...or de-creasing as I like to call it. I have become obsessive with my eyes, my hair, bingo wings, early menopause, babies - or lack of babies, am I going to dry up? How naked in acceptable on a night out, is it OK to booty shake in front of people I don't know?....Oh no, I fear this next week is gonna be full of age related ranting. For that I apologise in advance.

Love from, An old haggered Rabbit x

Have your cake and eat it

I really love this behind the scenes shoot from a Music video by the LA based The [AUDIO] girls. The Marie Antoinette theme is elegant and dramatic...with a good old fashioned food fight thrown in. All of the pastel shades are a massive trend at the moment, but the structured period dress is a huge contrast from the Jersey and lace peices on the highstreet at the moment. Bryan Hearn made all of the costumes in a week whilst he was studying at Fashion Institue of Design and Technology in LA. He now has his own labels and has done some costumes for Gaga.

flowers in the window...garden

Hats off to all who can be bothered to do gardening....it's a serious chore in my eyes!

photos my carpenter