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Made by the seaside, in England.Zoe Larkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02910743954563355724noreply@blogger.comBlogger162125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186915456177356037.post-17470916106453700602023-02-07T21:20:00.000+00:002023-02-07T21:20:05.062+00:00VALENTINES SEWING WORKSHOP TICKETS ALMOST GONE!<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, and what better way to get into the spirit of things than by learning how to sew a leatherette heart brooch? Join us at <a href="https://www.bobbysbournemouth.com/" target="_blank">Bobby’s Bournemouth</a> on February 11th from 10am-12.30pm for a two and a half hour workshop with Zoe from <a href="https://www.lovefromhettyanddave.co.uk/" target="_blank">'Love from Hetty and Dave'</a> as she teaches you how to make an iconic Amy Winehouse-style heart brooch. There are only two tickets left so act fast if you want to join us for this special event!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDt7KWbo1xWjG0SDhKUj83iV3DP7ZLhvM4j3mbaH0xJQYT2zeh3ryLmgCZ1EtWYGhYY4Y55TgWXUK2SWyZv3XeW2kcuQxjGqBSDSTExEmclmg21ppLHc2X5UixKViVFcVDoMbZXD3q-4ixAJkt_fI0wgfBnZQgtzjjldYMIGUse60Zhp5UxcADSDtC2w/s960/FB_IMG_1675519734334.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="475" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDt7KWbo1xWjG0SDhKUj83iV3DP7ZLhvM4j3mbaH0xJQYT2zeh3ryLmgCZ1EtWYGhYY4Y55TgWXUK2SWyZv3XeW2kcuQxjGqBSDSTExEmclmg21ppLHc2X5UixKViVFcVDoMbZXD3q-4ixAJkt_fI0wgfBnZQgtzjjldYMIGUse60Zhp5UxcADSDtC2w/w382-h475/FB_IMG_1675519734334.jpg" width="382" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">All materials will be provided upon arrival and Zoe will be there to offer instruction every step of the way. You will learn how to cut the leatherette, prep, sew it all together in your own unique design, and attach the brooch pin. This is not only a great hands-on activity that you can do with friends or family, but it also makes for an awesome gift idea! 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Grab one of the last two tickets available through <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/learn-to-stitch-an-amy-winehouse-personalised-heart-brooch-tickets-523609418867" target="_blank">Eventbrite</a> before they're gone!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">We look forward to </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: courier; font-size: large;">seeing you there!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: courier; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">xx</span></p><p><span style="color: #666666; font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Zoe Larkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02910743954563355724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186915456177356037.post-24727766359900398362015-07-06T18:40:00.000+01:002015-07-06T18:53:15.513+01:00Sewing Adventures in London<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="color: #444444;">Soooo/sew last week, on the hottest day EVER, I journeyed up to London to teach a bunch of rather super ladies to stitch leather flamingos and pineapples, at the gorgeous baby shop, <a href="https://www.carrymehome.co.uk/">Carry me Home</a> in Kingly Court, Carnaby Street.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Anywaaaaay, this time next week, I will be leaving the delightful Hampshire countryside behind for a couple of days in the Big Smoke... Ooh yeah, loads of you have asked if I would ever consider teaching my workshops in London, and now the time has come!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Oh hello there! It's been a while hasn't it..? As usual, busy life stuff has prevented me from writing, but here's what's been happening in Hetty & Dave World...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Having closed the bricks and mortar shop last summer, I haven't taught any workshops for aaaages. And you know what, I really miss them! So having had three separate emails in quick succession of each other, asking whether I'd be interested in teaching hen parties, of course, I jumped at these opportunities. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">First up, I headed off for the gorgeous town of Lymington one Sunday, to the particularly scrumptious Stanwell House Hotel, where the Katie's hen party had booked afternoon tea in their own private garden room. It was a delightfully sunny day, and the room was just wonderful.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">All the girls had brought along a pair of shoes to customise, and with myself armed with an enormous basket of leathers I led the way! </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">With a variety of different kinds of shoes, everyone got to work pretty quick, and most of the day was held in silence as they concentrated on their stitching... these ladies meant business!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Soooo, we're twenty days into January, and twenty days on from my blog post that proclaimed that I was aiming to blog more regularly... well, if I can squeeze another two in before the month is out, I reckon that'll be okay- works out as one a week on average, so it's a fairly good start!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I'm not really one for making 'New Years Resolutions' as such, I am more into giving myself goals throughout the year, one of which was to write 2-3 blog posts a week... hmmm...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Anyway, one such goal was the classic, 'lose some weight'. Except, I prefer not to be so vague, as I don't have much motivation unless there is a target, so mine is to lose two stone... So far? 4.5lbs. So far, so good. It involves eating A LOT of fresh fruit and veg, which I did before, but now I am cutting out the choco and cakes. It feels goooooood... and occasionally torturous walking past a cake shop.</span></span></div>
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<br />Zoe Larkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02910743954563355724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186915456177356037.post-14650910812203686742015-01-01T17:49:00.001+00:002015-01-01T17:49:43.185+00:00A New Year's Blog-a-lution<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">WOWZERS! It has been well over a whole year since I last blogged, and what a time that has been! Many moments I thought to blog, but never quite got round to it... So here we are, 2015 and a New Years resolution to blog waaaaay more frequently!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Last year was a year of absolute dreams come true! First off, I wrote a book, which was one to tick off the bucket list.... I was approached by a publisher just at the moment I was contemplating about how to go about getting published. Here is the result, which you can buy online here: <a href="http://lovefromhettyanddave.bigcartel.com/product/pre-order-your-signed-copy-now-love-leather-accessories-book">Love Leather Accessories</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So that was all written by February, and in March, my darling man whisked me off to Paris where he proposed at the Sacre Coeur:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">In May I made the decision to close my little shop, which had been the most stable and constant part of my life for almost the last 4 years- it was something I'd been mulling over for quite some time. With the online side of the business doing so well, I just didn't have the time to run the shop as well, so the decision was made, and the following two months were filled with the mammoth task of clearing everything out...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">August was manic, preparing for the wedding as well as fitting in a week's holiday in Cornwall. On the 23rd of August we got married at Salisbury Cathedral, and then celebrated in a small village hall in Sopley. Literally the best day of my life... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And then it was December... A busy start to the month, and then a truly delightful rest as I began plotting my moves for the year ahead. </span><br />
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Zoe Larkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02910743954563355724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186915456177356037.post-57889225349853233862013-09-05T21:53:00.000+01:002013-09-05T21:53:12.283+01:00Mollie Makes Feature<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">This week I popped over to my lovely new stockist Number 83, in Westbourne, which is just the other side of Bournemouth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">When I got there, it was so brilliant to hear from the delightful lady behind the counter (gigantic apologies- I've forgotten your name!), 'Oooh, I've just been reading about you in the latest Mollie Makes magazine'.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">So, thanks Mollie Makes for another great piece on Love From Hetty & Dave! </span></span></div>
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Zoe Larkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02910743954563355724noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186915456177356037.post-20871325330570778862013-09-01T19:45:00.001+01:002013-09-01T19:45:35.033+01:00Autumnal Awesomeness: Dates for the Diary<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">August is usually my quietest month of the year, but this year, just as I was preparing for a restful time sitting in the sunshine and eating ice creams, you all went completely bananas and kept me super busy with mucho orders for cherry shoes... </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">First off, this Friday (6th Sept) and Friday 20th September, I will be teaching a bunch of lovely peeps how to make these...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Then, on Sunday the 6th October, I will be heading up to London to sell my wares at The Crafty Fox Market. I haven't been at any London events to trade for aaaaaaages, so I am looking forward to catching up with all my creative buddies there, and seeing all my fabulous London customers again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I wonder how many Fab ice lollies and Mr Whippy ice creams are devoured during the month of August... </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Armed with, well, the leather arm cover for their Bongo, Em asked whether I could stitch a big badger face on it, to surprise her husband for his birthday. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Having bought a bag from the high street, Bianca sent it to me, and I got my pencil and paper out, and doodled a design to go on the front. Here's what I came up with:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Yup, a koala climbing up a kangaroo's tail, in a heart shape.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">And this was Bianca's reaction: </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Eeeps I love it!! You are fantastic! x</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">A pretty good reaction I'd say!! </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">If you would like to commission your very own bag, or whatever you like really, just get in touch via email zoelarkins@gmail.com and we'll see what I can rustle up!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Last</span></span> <span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Friday, I closed the shop early to panic over how I'd fit 8 people into the shop that evening, around a table, to teach them how to make a leather strawberry brooch/hairslide, while simultaneously drinking Pimms and eating crisps. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">So I dismantled a really heavy table by myself, and narrowly avoided dropping it on my sandal-clad toes. Dashed home to pick up another really heavy table (a different shape this time), rushed back to the shop, praying that it was the same height as another not-so-heavy table, and hope that the table cloth would cover both. It did. The tables matched in height. I'd scavenged enough chairs, and the Pimms was all mixed and ready to guzzle by the time 8 lovely ladies arrived at 7pm, raring to go!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">By 9.30pm (I knew we'd over-run a little!) everyone had finished their very own fruity accessory, and here they are modelling them:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Jennie's brooch is almost camouflaged with her amazing Cath Kidston train dress!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Emma and Alex pleased as (Pimms) punch with their magnificent stitchery...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">And last, but by no means least, Ianthe looking jubilant that she's wearing her fruity creation!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Sadly Suzie skipped off home, before I got a chance to snap her with her finished brooch, and her amazing outfit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Anyway, all in all, a fab evening, and everyone did amazingly well- I was so impressed with everyone's finished brooches and hairslides!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">"<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[45qqs].[1][4][1]{comment10153031169050724_21812567}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2]"><span data-reactid=".r[45qqs].[1][4][1]{comment10153031169050724_21812567}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[45qqs].[1][4][1]{comment10153031169050724_21812567}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0]">Had a fabulous evening, love my hair slide!! Looking forward to another one soon!! Thank you!" </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[45qqs].[1][4][1]{comment10153031169050724_21812567}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2]"><span data-reactid=".r[45qqs].[1][4][1]{comment10153031169050724_21812567}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[45qqs].[1][4][1]{comment10153031169050724_21812567}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0]">- Emma B</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[45qqs].[1][4][1]{comment10153031169050724_21812567}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2]"><span data-reactid=".r[45qqs].[1][4][1]{comment10153031169050724_21812567}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[45qqs].[1][4][1]{comment10153031169050724_21812567}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0]"></span></span></span><br /><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[45qqs].[1][4][1]{comment10153031169050724_21810220}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2]"><span data-reactid=".r[45qqs].[1][4][1]{comment10153031169050724_21810220}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[45qqs].[1][4][1]{comment10153031169050724_21810220}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0]">"Thank you so much for a fabulous craft & Pimm's filled evening! Can't wait to show off my strawberry brooch today. <span class="emoticon emoticon_grin" title=":-D"></span> Looking forward to attending other workshops soon xxXxx"</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[45qqs].[1][4][1]{comment10153031169050724_21810220}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2]"><span data-reactid=".r[45qqs].[1][4][1]{comment10153031169050724_21810220}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[45qqs].[1][4][1]{comment10153031169050724_21810220}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0]">- Ianthe</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[45qqs].[1][4][1]{comment10153031169050724_21810220}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2]"><span data-reactid=".r[45qqs].[1][4][1]{comment10153031169050724_21810220}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[45qqs].[1][4][1]{comment10153031169050724_21810220}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0]"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[45qqs].[1][4][1]{comment10153031169050724_21810170}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2]"><span data-reactid=".r[45qqs].[1][4][1]{comment10153031169050724_21810170}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[45qqs].[1][4][1]{comment10153031169050724_21810170}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0]">"Thanks for a lovely unique evening , I love my strawberrys... Ps that last pimms packed a punch= sore head this morning xxxxx"</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[45qqs].[1][4][1]{comment10153031169050724_21810220}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2]"><span data-reactid=".r[45qqs].[1][4][1]{comment10153031169050724_21810220}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[45qqs].[1][4][1]{comment10153031169050724_21810220}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0]"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".r[45qqs].[1][4][1]{comment10153031169050724_21810170}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2]"><span data-reactid=".r[45qqs].[1][4][1]{comment10153031169050724_21810170}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0]"><span data-reactid=".r[45qqs].[1][4][1]{comment10153031169050724_21810170}.[0].[right].[0].[left].[0].[0].[0][2].[0].[0]">- Jennie</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I am lucky enough to have two super dooper, wonderful nephews and a beautiful, adorable niece. One of my nephews, Zak, is a guitar playing genius, the other Dylan, a draw-er extraordinaire! </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Yesterday was Dylan's 10th birthday, and whilst I was babysitting him a couple of months ago, he'd drawn these pretty amazing new slug characters for me...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">And after promising I'd make Geoff, complete with monacle, hat, moustache, pipe and briefcase, I decided, why stop at Geoff, when I could make the whole gang?! </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">So this is what I did for his birthday present...</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Here's Geoff. He's very busy and important. A top notch solicitor, who drives a Rolls Royce.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">He can move at speeds of 40mph.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">This is Dino-Dan. He is very fierce, and can tear your limbs apart with his sharp teeth. He loves sandwiches, but his arms are too short to reach his mouth. He can travel up to 100mph.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">This one is Super Sally. She is a rude-girl, and a super hero, who will always rescue a slug in need, unless there is salt, then she's not even gonna go there blud. She moves at 0.00000000000001mph.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">This is Bob, my personal favourite! He is super fast, with the help of his jet pack. Sometimes he goes soooooo fast that he does little blow-offs with excitement. He travels at 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000mph.</span></span></div>
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To enter, comment on this blog post, with what his name might be and his best catch.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I should have taken a 'before' picture, but these ones taken a while back pretty much sum up how my work area had been looking for quite some time... PURE CHAOS!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">And what's more amazing, that over a week later, it's still looking just as tidy. I may have turned a corner gang! I'm actually enjoying putting things back where they belong, after I've finished with them. But for how long for? That is the question...!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Anyway, five lovely ladies came along to pimp their pumps- three of whom went for the cat design in various colours and styles, one made poodle pumps and below you can see the rather marvellous badger shoes by Sarah...</span></span></div>
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</section>Zoe Larkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02910743954563355724noreply@blogger.com0Pokesdown, Bournemouth BH5, UK50.728391 -1.823730000000068750.086053 -3.1146235000000688 51.370729000000004 -0.53283650000006877tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186915456177356037.post-9895557733324504292013-05-15T22:27:00.002+01:002013-05-15T22:27:58.375+01:00A Not Very Brief History of Love From Hetty & Dave: Part 1<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Soooo, the other day I was perusing all my sales on <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/LoveFromHettyandDave?ref=si_shop" target="_blank">Etsy</a> from waaaaaaaay back, and was reminded how it all began, and as I re-count this story at least 3 times a day to customers in the shop, I thought I'd tell you lot about it too, so here goes....</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">In 2001, I just about scraped a third in my Silver and Goldsmithing degree at Rochester. In all honesty, I chose the wrong course- I should have done fashion or textiles, but was too lazy at the time to change it! </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Anyway, having collaborated with my best friend for her fashion collection, and making the handbags and accessories for her final show, I discovered how delicious it was, working with leather. I never worked with metal again, which was a massive relief as I was rubbish at soldering!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Shortly after graduating, we're talking a matter of hours, I disappeared out of Medway and back to my hometown of Bournemouth, where I spent the summer (and maybe a little bit longer) labelling video tapes. Pretty glamourous stuff. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I did, in fact, get to the point where I could stick the spine label on one handed. I considered entering the Guinness Book of Records for my speedy labelling, but alas, I soon started to get the shakes from drinking copious amounts of instant coffee. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I was soon promoted to printing vinyl CCTV signs, apparently labelling videos wasn't mentally stimulating enough for me, although I believe it was more to do with placing me in a work area far, far away from the coffee machine, thus saving the company a considerable amount of money on hot beverages.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Every evening, after my tape labelling day job, I'd go home and play around, experimenting with leather (NOT in the kinky sense), until I came up with a simple handbag design, with a folky, South American inspired design:</span></span></div>
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<br /><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I called my brand 'Love From Hetty & Dave', after an old photo I got in a junk shop while I was living in Rochester. On the back, written in felt tip pen: 'To Mary and Bill, Love From Hetty & Dave'</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Aaaaaanyway, in 2005, I realised that the old folk of Bournemouth were never really
going to appreciate my kinky handstitched works of art, and I made the
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I moved into a teeny, tiny bedsit off of Portobello Road, and worked my fingers to the bone every minute I wasn't at work, stitching my appliqued leather handbag creations to sell on Portobello Market every Saturday.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Bearing in mind, that craft seller websites like Etsy didn't exist at this point in time, or if they did, nobody really knew about them, the only way of selling my product was through markets, and after listening to the advice of the other stall holders, I moved over to Spitalfields Market, where things really started to take off. But that's a story for another day...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="color: #666666;">* Bumped into a customer on the bus, who was sporting a ladybird brooch on her bag</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="color: #666666;">* Popped into Lazy Oaf where I had a quick catch up with lovely Gemma, and tried on this <a href="http://www.lazyoaf.co.uk/p2803/lazy-oaf-pineapple-bodycon-dress/product_info.html" target="_blank">AMAZING pineapple dress</a>, then couldn't decide whether to buy it or not, so left it... for now!! I have a funny feeling that as soon as the sun shines, I'll be getting my purse out!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="color: #666666;">I hung about George's for a while, wondering how the local residents feel about this peculiar museum piece of a shop and gazing at the windows above, it's tattered grey nets fluttering in the breeze, I hoped to catch a glimpse of the gent that owns the shop. No such luck, so I headed off to my next eery destination...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="color: #666666;">If you're fond of an eerie tale, check out this blog- one of my faves for peculiar stories: <a href="http://www.messynessychic.com/">http://www.messynessychic.com/</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Oh lummy cripes! I've been meaning to blog for like, a million years or something, but life has been a little hectic/stressful/completely chaotic recently... Anyhoo, I'm currently addressing the slightly out of control chaos, and here I am, blogging innit.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="color: #444444;">So it's official. I may have said this before, but now it is REALLY official- I literally have the best customers in the whole world, EVER!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="color: #444444;">I always knew all the nicest, most brilliant people came to buy stuff from Love From Hetty & Dave, be it at markets, online or in the shop, but this week it was truly highlighted by this adorable Japanese lady, Mayu, who came back on Tuesday after discovering the shop on Saturday, to buy 2 slugs!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="color: #444444;">Mayu told me that after seeing the slugs on Saturday, she had slugs on the brain, and did a couple of doodles. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="color: #444444;">And WOW! These doodles are just soooo brilliant! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="color: #444444;">Just pure wonderful-ness! Makes me want to make a life size slug rider out of felt to hang out in my shop window, although I'm not sure what the Pokesdown community would make of a giant topless lady riding a massive slug along Christchurch Road!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="color: #444444;">What a super dooper story!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="color: #444444;">I should mention, these aren't the first slugs to head out of the UK- We've sent slugs off to Japan before, as well as the Netherlands, Australia, New York, and one lovely customer tells us that the giant slug she bought before Christmas now resides with her sister in Berlin! International slugs- I love it!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I'd been toying with the idea of teaching others how to make my leathery stuff over the last 2 years, and finally gave myself a little kick up the butt and got organising! Truth be told, I had been feeling a teeny weeny bit nervous about it, but with my wonderfully calm assistant Ali, by my side, deep down, I knew it would be just fine...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">After purchasing many pairs of scissors, rather a lot of glue, and borrowing 6 vintage chairs from my darling friend Amber's '<a href="http://s422225725.websitehome.co.uk/decades/">Decades of Design</a>' retro furniture shop down the road, by Saturday evening it was all set up, and ready for four lovely ladies to come and get stitching. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">So after an early night, and a mouse incident involving 2 cats at 4.30am, I picked up some delicious treats from lovely Lisa at '<a href="http://www.trickytreats.co.uk/">Tricky Treats</a>' in the morning- posh cucumber sandwiches, and the ol' classic egg and cress, all with the crusts cut off, along with an amazing Victoria sponge cake with fresh cream, and cranberry, pecan and white choco cookies. Unfortunately two cancelled at the last minute, which meant we had a lot more cake to eat between us, and each had cookies to take home in party bags... what a shame!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">By 11am, everyone had arrived, from far and near. Amanda had driven all the way from Hereford, picking up Kate on the way, near Stonehenge. Suzie had come from Southampton and Alys just a stone's throw away in Poole. And WOW! What a super dooper lovely bunch of ladies they were!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">After a leisurely cup of tea and chit-chat, we got on with the job in hand: Making leather heart brooches in a choice of pink or red, and with turquoise or black lettering. I must say, I was VERY impressed with everyone's cutting skills on those tiny letters!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">This was just the perfect excuse to get out all my mismatched vintage crockery, and it all looked so pretty against the cute table cloth... Amanda told me she hadn't expected a lunch like this, and it felt like such a real treat. To be honest, it hadn't really crossed my mind to do it any other way, so that was lovely to hear!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">After lunch we finished the heart brooches in super speedy time, and everyone managed to make an additional brooch too! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Considering there were absolute beginners amongst us, it was really quite impressive!</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Finishing the day with another cuppa and some delish cookies everyone had 2 finished heart brooches, and we all agreed it had been such a lovely, relaxing day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Good work ladies, and a huge thank you for making the first ever workshop go like a dream!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">On Sunday the 24th February, we are holding another heart brooch workshop. You can book your place <a href="http://lovefromhettyanddave.bigcartel.com/product/heart-brooch-workshop-24th-february">right here, right now</a>!</span><br />
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Zoe Larkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02910743954563355724noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7186915456177356037.post-33065049111735579402013-01-24T13:49:00.000+00:002013-01-25T23:03:53.589+00:00Valentine's Pop Ups!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The Love From Hetty & Dave shop/studio where the workshop will be held, is only a 2 minute walk from Pokesdown train station, which is on the London train line. So if you don't live in the Bournemouth area, there's no excuse!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Does this tickle your fancy? Well, with only 8 spaces available, you can <a href="http://lovefromhettyanddave.bigcartel.com/product/valentines-brooch-workshop">book right here</a>!</span></span><br />
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