Amazing Animal Shoe Workshop!

Due to the mega popularity of the animal shoes, we've decided to show you how it's done at our Animal Shoe Workshop...

Join us on Sunday the 19th of May, at our Bournemouth shop/studio and customise your shoes, with creator behind the Love From Hetty & Dave brand, Zoe Larkins.

You will learn how to re-invent your shoes with leather details as well as stitching techniques that can be used to customise all the other shoes in your wardrobe!

Sunday the 19th of May from 11am - 3pm 

at

Love From Hetty & Dave

864 Christchurch Road

Bournemouth

BH7 6DQ

Suitable for beginners, £40 per person

Advance bookings only
8 places available

You will need to bring a pair of plain ballet pump style shoes or heels in your size to customise.

Examples of what you could do:
White shoes - Pandas, Mice or Bunnies
Brown shoes - Foxes or bears
Black shoes - Cats 

You get the idea... or contact us if you have any problems!

This workshop includes all materials except the shoes, sandwiches, tea and cake served vintage style, on delightful mismatched crockery.

Book your place here: 

http://lovefromhettyanddave.bigcartel.com/product/customised-animal-shoes-workshop-19th-may

Looking forward to helping you pimp your pumps!!

Tippy Toe Lovings

xx 

Strawberry Fields Forever

So, it seems like I might just have a teeny tiny obsession with strawberries.

First came the brooch, then the mouse amongst the strawberries purse.


Next the earrings and necklace.


The shoes...



And in between, amongst other strawberry designs, the upcycled strawberry table cloth skirt.


Then, this week, having spent a day making strawberry brooches and babooshka dolls, the two designs merged...


I thought I'd do a little google image search to see what other 'strawberry heads' were out there, and discovered this beautiful image by ELSA BESKOW-KORT.


It got me thinking, 'I want a strawberry dress like those ladies!' and then, on closer inspection, 'I want to ride around (albeit very slowly) on a snail too!'


Obviously the snail part might be a little tricky, but I am off to hunt down a lovely, juicy red jumper, to customise into a strawberry top for winter, complete with leaf collar.

Will keep you posted on progress!

Strawberries and cream lovings

xx

Shoe Story

I might have already told some of you this freaky story before, but I've just entered it for the Selfridges Shoe Story doo-da, to win many lovely shoes, and thought I'd pop it on the blog for your creepy pleasure...

This is a true story, and is a might be a bit diluted as it happened a while back now.

One hot summer's evening a few years ago, after a couple of glasses of wine, I was ambling to my bus stop on Oxford Street, when I was approached by a rather sweaty man, wearing very short shorts and steamed up specs.

He said he'd noticed my shoes, and I looked like I enjoyed shopping. He then went on to tell me he was doing some research into people's shopping habits for a book he was writing, and would I be interested in being a case study? Every shop he observed me in, he would pay me £10.


Let me tell you now, I was skint (I'd recently spent all my money on a pair of Miu Miu tapestry wedge sandals), naive (I hadn't been living in London for long) and did I tell you I'd had a couple of glasses of wine that evening?! Anyway, as I stood at the top of Oxford Street, I thought to myself, £10 per shop could make me A LOT of money, so I agreed, and he suggested we went into Clarkes where I should try some shoes on...

There were conditions though. We had to rush through this, as there were many shops to go to, and we didn't want to attract the staff's attention to slow us down. AND he had to put the shoe on my foot. I thought this all sounded reasonable in my slightly sozzled state, so in we went and as I stood there looking at groovy granny sandals, it suddenly clicked. This man wasn't interested in watching me shop, he was interested in putting shoes on my feet! I had attracted a foot fetishist!!!

Mr Foot Fetish obviously saw the look on my face, as my brain switched on, and he swiftly escorted me out of the shop, and asked whether everything was ok. I told him I felt a little uncomfortable, and had to catch my bus. He kindly offered me his phone number, in case I wanted to re-consider, but I sweetly declined, and fled as quickly as possible.

I haven't worn these shoes for a long time now, but whenever I re-discover them in the dusty depths of my wardrobe, I can't help but laugh... in a creepy sort of way!


Anyway, I will blog properly tomorrow.

I am too tired to do so now!

Shoe Lovings

xx

Bits and Bobs and Bunnies

I was too busy to blog last week (la-di-da!), so here's some nice bits and bobs to feast your eyes on.

Here's a lovely way to wear a pair of brooches and jazz up some boring pumps...


I discovered the ace work of She Draws. I almost did a little bit of wee when I saw this...


So I snapped that up, obv, and teamed it up with this ace little mohair cape I picked up for a mere £4.99 at the new Salvation Army shop that's opened up the road:


And this is what I'll be wearing on my fingers, when I wear my cape...


That's right, mouse rings. Makes typing a whole lot more entertaining. Add a real life cat, and you're done for! These are new, and you can buy them here.

Oh and I mustn't forget this hilarious commission I made for a lovely lady called Sophie, who serves up cricket teas at the weekends...


This is how Captain Fishcake looked in his younger days, when he was a keen cricketer.

I must add, yesterday was my last day trading at Spitalfields Market. So I'd like to thank all the lovely customers who came and bought from me there, and all the wonderful people I worked alongside, but after a good few years, it felt like it was time to break free.

I'm certainly gonna miss these two ladies, who bought practically every colour way possible of the swallow headbands!


So here goes another busy, busy week.

Lovings

xx