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 

Slug-o-rama!

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!

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!

 

Me, Mayu and George the Slug

Mayu told me that after seeing the slugs on Saturday, she had slugs on the brain, and did a couple of doodles. 

And WOW! These doodles are just soooo brilliant! 

Check out SLUG RIDER here:

 

Doodle by Mayu Yokouchi

And this amazing doodle is all about a Japanese superstition: 

'You'll be dead by the morning if you fall asleep with your socks on and dream of monkeys'. 

Total bonks!

Doodle by Mayu Yokouchi

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!

Anyway, after Mayu made her purchase of George (giant slug) and Mary (baby slug), she took them for a cuppa in Boscombe, like every good slug owner should!

 

George and Mary sharing a cuppa and a slice of cheesecake.

She tells me that Baby Slug Mary is now living in Charminster with her Japanese friend, and George the Giant Slug has gone back to Japan with her. 

What a super dooper story!

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!

If you fancy a slug in your life, you can buy one online here:

http://lovefromhettyanddave.bigcartel.com/category/slugs

Sluggish Lovings 

From the Queen of Slugs

(Yes, apparently I do carry that title!)

xx

Shop Shenanigans

Lummy cripes I'm tired.

It's been a busy day, in fact, it's been a busy fortnight.

With only a couple of days left til the grand opening of Love From Hetty & Dave HQ, I thought I would give you a sneaky peak of how it's all looking...


Rather fabby I think, although more than one family member has exclaimed it looks as though my brain has exploded in the shop. I'm pretty sure this is exactly what it looks like inside my head!


Mega thanks goes out to my amazing sister who stepped in, just at the right point this evening, to merchandise, before I collapsed with exhaustion. And wowzers, did she do a good job!?!

So, unfortunately due to shop duties, I won't make it to the We Make 'Meet the Makers' evening on Thursday, which I am rather gutted about, but just can't fit in a trip to London. Nevertheless, a pair of severed hands and LOVE/HATE rings are on their way up, to go in my show case.


If you happen to be in the Farringdon area on Thursday night, you must pop in to meet some lovely creative people:


And for all you gorgeous Bournemouth based people, I look forward to seeing you on this Friday between 6-9pm for the opening!


Whooooopla!

Super excited lovings

xx