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Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:48:00 +0000

After a long and unhealthy relationship with tumblr, we’ve decided to up and move our pretty little blog to the wonderful world of Blogger.

We’ve got a wonderful new contributor to make sure all of our posts are on the ball and up to date,so go follow us in our new spot!

E&W ♥

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Say Hello to Ashley!

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:15:34 +0000

Ashley is our wonderful new bespoke designer in store, designing and making amazing crafted headpieces and veils for all you lovely brides…

‘With Love From… Bobbin’ is a luxury range of handmade bridal headwear and accessories for the modern vintage bride and bridesmaids. From the deco hair band to the 1940’s inspired cap with optional veil, Ashley uses fine silks, antique lace and embellishments to create a unique look for your big day. A bespoke design service is also offered where lace and trims are sourced specifically to match ‘the’ dress, incorporating heirlooms or trinkets for that truly personal touch.

Prior to establishing With Love From Bobbin, Ashley worked in fabric buying and sourcing for a number of high street brands including Coast and still designs textiles for the high street today. Now based in Wales, Ashley is rekindling her love for fine fabrics and antique trims to create a range which encompasses the glamour and romance of a bygone era.

Now available in store - bespoke items too!

A throwback to the beginning...

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:32:00 +0000

After a wonderful, inspirational chat with Catarina of Mrs.Crafting today, it’s a little post about our original inspiration point for E&W!

Having just started researching and guest posting for Something Kinda Cute’s new wedding blog (here) I loved the idea of Catarina giving us a helping hand with ours too! Seeing as I constantly complain about the lack of time and inspiration!

After our little chat about what we’d like the blog to revolve around - ethical fashion seemed to be the biggest presence. After all, that is what we’re all about! It got us thinking about a recent project that was done to discover people’s emotional attachments to their garments. Don’t pretend like you don’t have one - whether it’s a lucky pair of socks or your mum’s cardy, we’ve all got a special item of clothing that we just can’t seem to shake off.

The great thing about making clothes from old items (be it curtains or garments) is that they all come with a story…

When we first started E&W, piecing together bits and bobs to create our dresses we gave them their own identities. It started as a bit of a fun, but as it turned out people really loved reading about where their dresses story!

So, a throwback to the old it is! We’re heading back to our roots, letting you all know the stories behind your dresses, where they’ve come from so that hopefully you can add to it!

We’d love to hear about all your stories and attachments to your clothes!

Advent Art

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 23:05:39 +0000

We’re loving the Christmassy feel around Cardiff and with the temperatures dropping it’s time everyone else started feeling the Christmas spirit too! Alongside our Handmade Christmas Campaign, we’ve obviously made our Christmas a very Handmade one indeed. We’ve been busy making lots of little bits for the shop and we decided every shop needs an advent calendar!

Rolling with our very ‘natural’ Christmas theme, we’ve stuck to hessian, lace, cinnamon and flowers. The natural brown and cream colors aren’t necessarily associated with Christmas, but I think that’s what makes it look so special!

We covered a board with hessian, popped it in a vintage frame and strung some lovely vintage lace across. Each tag has been pegged onto the lace, individually done with numbers on the back ready to turn around each day!

Hope you like it! Would love to see your advent calendars this Christmas, who opts for something a little different (and less sugary!)?

Christmas at the Cupboard

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:19:11 +0000

In our little store, we can’t do anything but go all out and I’ve been SUPER excited about getting it all ready for the holiday season!

We have been running our ‘Handmade Christmas Campaign’ for about 2 weeks now, getting everyone involved and supporting the handmade scene in Cardiff as well as the wonderful charity Ty Hafan! So we decided to handmake our windows and pretty much all of our amazing decorations (except the lights - not sure I’d trust myself making the fairy lights!)

So here it is, our beautiful little store in all it’s Christmas glory!

Our windows are full of handmade snowflake decorations cut from your standard A4 white paper and some music paper mixed in! Also our pinwheels decoration add an amazing background to the display, I will be submitting my tutorial for them to the handmade Christmas campaign very soon! We have also made some super cute mini ones for the tree to sell in aid of Ty Hafan.

As well as these, we’ve adorned some re-cycled glass jars (anything from the fridge will do!) with hessian and lace to put in the front of the window with flickering (not real) tea lights!

I’m also in love with our vintage doily bunting and twig decoration over the counter! It looks amazing suspended with some beautiful decorations hanging from it.

I can’t wait for Amy Davies of ‘The Cardiff Arcade’s project’ to come back in and take some amazing photo’s.. Mine don’t quite do it justice!

Vintage Wedding

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:59:17 +0000

As what we do is such a niche market, we have a lot of interest in our lovely wedding collection. I make all my dresses bespoke to each person, designing and making around them and their vision for their big day!

With such a large interest, I decided to design a small collection of dresses - customizable to suit your style and made to measure! Check out the prototype on the wonderful Lauren

Each dress can be made individual to you, you can choose your sleeve length or have no sleeves what so ever! Choose whether you want polka dot tulle, lace or an all over satin, if you want the sleeves and top see-through or covering you up, choose your length and sash style, all from as little as £650.

Each dress is made from a true vintage pattern, adapted to your style meaning you get the fit and quality of a true vintage dress with the whole process being easy and suited to you!

What more could you ask for? Honestly!!Get what you really want...

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:52:19 +0000

What more could you ask for? Honestly!!

Get what you really want this Christmas… Purchase here or in store :)

Hello Blog!

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 20:13:21 +0000

I know I keep complaining about never posting anymore, and I’m going to complain some more!

It’s been a super busy few months and I’m struggling to find time to do anything, but today after a lovely trip to Worcester Flea Market and a detour to Baileys homestore on the way back, I’m feeling more inspired (and Christmassy) than ever!

If you haven’t heard of Bailey’s - you need to check it out!

It’s quite easily the most amazing collection of handmade, ethical and vintage products in one AMAZING barn conversion. Despite not being able to take any photos inside, the outside gives the most amazing impression. As soon as I turned up, I already felt inspired to get the shop up to scratch!

Pre-Christmas resolution - lots going on, BLOG IT!

Jennifer Wedding Dress - Simple & Elegant! Empire line,...

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:43:18 +0100

Jennifer Wedding Dress - Simple & Elegant! Empire line, capped lace sleeves and a detailed lace band

It's been a while...

Sun, 30 Sep 2012 22:19:20 +0100

Its been a very long time since we’ve posted much at all on our E&W front!

We’ve had a very busy few weeks and a few busier ones coming up but not to worry we are still on the ball with our making and picking our lovely stock, tomorrow we will be swapping all of our stock over to our handpicked winter goodies!

We are mid wedding dress, mid bouquets and button holes, mid bridesmaid dresses and mid veil! It’s all coming together very nicely :)

Take a look at our most recent bouquet for Corrine - made from heirloom brooches complete with matching button holes for her beautiful wedding last month!

We will be getting our act together soon enough, it’s been a bit hectic since moving in and we’re playing catch up!

We’ve also organised a vintage movie night, super excited! Check HC’s facebook for more details and to book tickets!

These lovely girls were at Hubbard’s Cupboard today,...

Sat, 25 Aug 2012 16:31:38 +0100

These lovely girls were at Hubbard’s Cupboard today, handing out leaflets and sweeties to everyone - dressed in the very best of E&W handmade!

Our hanging sign for outside our store has been made from 100%...

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 12:22:01 +0100

Our hanging sign for outside our store has been made from 100% re-cycled floorboards! We white washed the boards and painted our little HC logo on both sides ♥

Hubbard's Cupboard

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 12:16:07 +0100

We’ve been lacking on the old E&W makes and posts recently as we are due to open our very own little store in the center of Cardiff!

In true E&W fashion, everything is going to be re-used, re-cycled or eco friendly and we are going to support all the lovely talent Great Britain has to offer so not only will you be able to pick up E&W bits in store, but works from talented artists, makers and designers from around GB!

Check out the facebook or tweet us @HubbardsHQ

All of our blog posts from in store and around The Diff, including all our E&W makes and the featured bits and bobs in store will be right here, we’re not moving!

E&W ♥

Buttons & Buckles

Sat, 04 Aug 2012 22:27:18 +0100

We’ve been having a sort of our beautiful buttons and have mounted each couple onto very suiting cards! Busy sewing them all on watching Mo Farah do the Mobot and Jess Ennis storm the heptathlon! What a great day for GB! 3rd on the medal board!!

Recent News...

Sat, 28 Jul 2012 21:37:51 +0100

Still awaiting on our new little store Hubbard’s Cupboard, we have been trying to create and sort everything in time. Our items are in storage, pictures and almost ready to go onto our spanking new website coming soon.

We’ve also recently had the very talented Sarah join us on our eco mission, helping to up-cycle and will be helping us in store with up-coming collections. Check out what she’s been up to, we think its fab! She will be sending us updates of what she is up to so we can show everyone her creations!

We will have lots more amazing bit being posted up soon when we get down to business!

E&W ♥

Re-use

Sat, 28 Jul 2012 21:25:00 +0100

We have a strong brand ethos at E&W and we hate to throw anything out.
We will always find use for anything, from fabric scraps to odd buttons and most recently our empty cotton reels.

Check out our super cute display frame, filled with empty cotton reels and vintage fabric, stashed into an old box frame. Perfect display!

On sale now via our facebook store here!

♥

Suzanne’s wedding collection

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:32:32 +0100

Suzanne’s wedding collection

It's a day of W's

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 12:55:05 +0100

Website, Weddings & Work

After a few major mishaps with the shop opening, a lot has had to be re-configured so here’s the new news, a vintage wedding fair!

We will be hosting a month long vintage wedding fair in the new shop, for wonderfully quirky traders to have the chance of a temporary location in the heart of Cardiff. Here’s the deets

Get in touch if you would like to attend/sell! We will be having lots of events over the 5 full weekends with lots to see, do and get involved with. DIY bride!

Also, here’s a sneak peek at the preliminary unedited home page of the website!!

Super excited about this, especially as it is to have a ‘design your own 50s dress’ page!

As usual, its all go!

Will keep you updated every step of the way…

♥

Ooof new display bits! LOVE old cotton reels ♥

Mon, 02 Jul 2012 20:54:50 +0100

Ooof new display bits! LOVE old cotton reels ♥

Lace & Collars

Sat, 30 Jun 2012 22:53:43 +0100

Aloha,

We took a trip to the lovely town of Frome today to visit the first Vintage Rag Market in the Cheese and Grain hall and it was fantastic! We picked up some wonderful bits and bobs to get making and its really inspired us to crack on with it!

In particular, we spent double our budget on scraps of vintage lace (yes double) and I could have spent 10x that quite easily! With only around 15 stalls it still took us a little over 3 hours to rummage through the piles of goodies people had to offer at their discounted prices.

I spoke a while ago about our eventual attempt to get round to a bit of Miu Miu D.I.Y, and today having found a nice little lot of vintage lace and silk collars - we’re finally on that train of thought!

Here’s a few that I’ve managed to get all sewn up since we arrived home…

Lots more to come, embellished with vintage appliques, motifs and buttons - soon to be pearls, jewellery bits and bobs, fabrics, trims and peter pan collars!

Fantastic.

We’re on the case of button cards, up-cycled shorts, make your own skirt packs and loads more to be introduced to the new shop opening next month (hopefully)!

Its all go

As always

♥