If I could crochet I would make these....

This months Homemaker magazine has just landed on my door mat. If you want to start thinking about THAT day now it has tons of festive ideas (112 to be precise) plus many other gorgeous craft projects and a cool free gift too.  There's also a little feature on crochet frames, the prints in the frames are my designs. I created the designs last year for a feature in a summer issue (see it here).

Running up the hill...

From notebook doodles

From left: Emma, Pippa and me

And I did have to run up the hill to the Kate Bush Before the Dawn concert. HORRENDOUS train delays meant I was dashing across London to the Hammersmith Apollo in a frantic fashion. I made it, sweaty and pink but I got there. She was amazing, the show was fabulous, full of creativity and innovation. Fish skeleton masks, boats, seas, feathers, poems written on ticker tape, great lighting from start to finish and of course great music with Kates still wonderful voice. It wasn't a greatest hits gig, it was part concert and part theatre but she sang two of my favourites which made me cry happy tears. I have NEVER been to a concert where the audience has been so behind an artist from the very beginning. Most artists have to warm us up, earn our praise and applause. Not Kate, her work was done, 35 years of being the sound track to the ups and downs of our lives. It's her last concert at the Apollo today maybe her last live concert ever but I got a golden ticket and in a small way feel part of rock history.

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Copyright Design Hog 2014

Copyright Design Hog 2014

Copyright Design Hog 2014

Copyright Design Hog 2014

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Cute hey?

Annali Fabric by Stephanie Thannhauser for Dashwood

Dashwood ran two competitions over the summer, giving away some fabric, fabric scraps and bits and pieces pre-made with Dashwood fabric. The lucky winners have been busy making their own creations using the fabrics and they have shared some of those makes. You can see them all on the Dashwood blog here. Emma was one of the winners and has made this sweet cat cushion using the teal print from the Annali collection. Cool hey?

My love of fluo. highlights continues...

Kate Bush

In two weeks I am going to see Kate Bush. I am SUPER EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!! Can't bloomin' wait....

Butterflies and other winged things...

Sketchbook - Copyright Stephanie Thannhauser 2014

Butterflies are sooooo popular again at the mo. It seems that everything I have with butterflies on is selling fast and flying out the door  ; )

First Aid Kit

I'm not normally a big fan of folk music (I'm more of a rock chic) but I LOVE First Aid kit. The sound that Sisters Johanna and Klara Söderberg make is so perfect, beautiful and so in harmony it makes me stop for a moment and just wonder what it would be like to be able to sing like that.

Architects of Air 2

I know I have blogged about this before but it really is worth going to if you have a chance. This time we experienced the Pentalum. It is a celebration of the beauty of geometry, inspired by Islamic architecture, Gothic cathedrals, modern architectural innovators and nature. A 5-sided pentagon shape is the base for the main structure’s elements with the exception of the main dome, which, in order to achieve more volume, is heptagonal (7-sided) in form.
Its really quite magical experience almost other-worldly and it was right in the centre of Milton Keynes shopping centre. Since 1992 Architects of Air’s luminaria have made over 600 exhibitions in 40 countries. From Berlin to Brooklyn, Hong Kong to Hawaii, Taipei to Tel Aviv, Sao Paulo to the Sydney Opera House, these incredible luminaria have enchanted audiences around the world. To find out more take a look at their website here

Indigo - Paris

Citing - Cinnamon Joe is off to Indigo in Paris - Yey! Pop along and see them if you are there. They have some lovely stuff : )