Happy (Belated) New Year! Welcome back to my website – it’s been a while since to wrote anything here. But a new year has a funny way of spurring you into doing things that have been lurking in the dark corners of your mind. According to my calendar, Monday 17th January 2022 is Blue Monday. […]
Poppy Fabrics Have Landed
Well, they took their time! New fabrics ideas can be a long time brewing, or just arrive, like a bolt from the blue. The idea for my new Poppy design was definitely one the latter types of inspiration. I was walking back into the garden from my morning walk with Poppy, our dog. In the […]
Denim Collection!
The Phone Buzzes…. ….and if it is from the legendary Mags, that means there’s a load of jeans ready to be collected from the Irish Wheelchair Association. So today I drove into Ennis to collect the latest collection of the good, the bad and the ugly of jeans. Every single pair are useful to me, […]
I Blame The 70s…..
The Origins of This Delicious Cake I was a child in the 1970s. There wasn’t the food culture like now. Exotic was a term leveled at garlic. Recipe books were rather unadventurous and tended to be a little dull. There were none of the food porn photographs of today’s weighty tomes extolling the delights of […]
Red Fuchsia, Purple Meadow and Christmas
Finally! Wow, has it been a while since I wrote a blog post. In early October I got a call from the RTE Nationwide office to say that the following day they intended to show the piece they filmed with me , as part of a package relating to the Local Enterprise Office “Women in […]
New Products!
A Little More Time Six months into life with Covid 19, the lack of large events like Bloom has meant that time I would normally spend creating lots of stock has been available to me for developing ideas that had been bubbling away for a while. Some, like the ability to customise my handbags […]
Emerging from Lockdown
At the start of Lockdown… … no-one knew how long it might last. Suddenly our world shrank to a 2km radius. I’d been used to hopping in the car to go to Miltown Malbay or Ennis, and suddenly that was not allowed. No more morning swims to meet my friends. No more Chapel Lane Market […]
My Backpacks Have (Finally) Arrived!
How long? Really? It’s take you how long? More than 2 years. For more than two years I have been saying to people who have asked if I make backpacks “Yes, I have the idea in my head, I just can’t get it from my head to the sewing machine”. Well hot diggedy dang, I […]
Looking Forward and Back – a true January Blog Post
Nothing Day? It is a long, long time since I wrote a blog post, and I’ve got slightly out the habit of writing them. So, seeking inspiration I decided to Google today’s date (16 January), to see if this date is significant in any way. Well, the answer was not helpful..”Each year on January 16, […]
Why and How I use Recycled Jeans to Make my Handbags
I’m regularly asked why I use recycled jeans in my bags. It would be easier to use new fabric that is handy to cut, for instance. Why do I say that there are Irish Jeans In Every Bag, or use the corresponding hashtag #IrishJeansInEveryBag? But when I started out making bags, I looked into how […]
A Celebration of Spring, Carnaval, International Women’s Day and Sunshine! And a Spring Promotion!
It’s the 1st March today, and I always think that March signifies the speeding up of the year. Once January and February are done, time seems to speed up and the days seem to fly by. Mornings are lighter, evenings stretch past 6pm. It’s an optimistic time of year. It’s also a busy time […]
Imbolc is here – and that’s a Good Thing!
According to Wikipedia, “Imbolc, or Imbolg, also called Brigid’s Day, is a Gaelic traditional festival marking the beginning of Spring. It is held on 1 February, or about halfway between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. Historically, it was widely observed throughout Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man.” Here in West Clare it […]
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