Start wearing purple!

Just a quickie, but what better reason to start wearing purple than being told to do so by Gogol Bordello?



Oooh yeah :D

Colour

Each season or so I find a different way to make a colour palette which includes purple. In the past I've been inspired by dairy milk chocolate wrappers, glimmers of light on oilslick hues (when petrol prices shot up, gah!), and the chromatic abberations of old black ink. Any excuse really to use my favourite colour; though in truth it's a particular shade of dusky plum.


Recently I've been returning to nature, using natural dyes to make the most amazing colours. What better time to appreciate them than twilight, when magic is in the air and the heady scent of fragrant blooms swirls around us.
(The photograph is my own, taken with my Holga camera; I dyed the samples of fabric myself too.)

Trends

I love keeping one eye on happenings out in the big wide world, though I try to stick to my own little path throughout it all. Here I've picked out a few trends which I happened to be a part of anyway. If someone told me I should be making pink things next season, I would carry on regardless! Find the influences that speak to your soul.
Click on the images if you'd like to see them bigger!


The search for meaning, life caching.



Scrapbooking, handmade craft.



One of a kind



Ethics.

Some interesting links:
The fruits of imagination - Handmade
Interview Naomi Klein
Scrapbooking: The new Paste-up
The shift to the raw and the homemade
Inside global fashion trends
Trendwatching
The future laboratory, conscience consumers and the new austerity

Time to vote!

Vote now on the UK Etsy challenge for June! (Please? :D)
This month's theme is fairytales, and wow there are so many amazing entries to choose from!

The voting thread is here
You can find the flickr group with all the juicy pictures here

Happy voting! I hope you enjoy our creations.
(Just incase you missed it before Cinderella is my entry *wink*)