Category Archive: Fashion

Jun
22

Spotlight on…Rachel Jinks from “Mog’s Togs”

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Rachel Jinks

If you love cats as much as I do you will love the cute cat collars Rachel Jinks designs and sells through her online shops on Etsy and Folksy. Rachel founded her cat accessory business “Mog’s Togs” in 2010. She lives with her husband Pete and her gorgeous rescue cats Lila and Mia in Surrey. In her day job she works as a trial statistician and she is also studying for a PhD in Medical Statistics.

When did you start making collars for cats?

When Lila and Mia first started going outside, they lost their breakaway collars at an amazing rate. I didn’t want them going out without ID tags, but with no pet shop conveniently nearby, I was concerned about running out of replacement collars, so I decided to look into sewing them myself from scrap fabric.

Rachel’s cat Mia – copyright Rachel Jinks

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Apr
14

Spotlight on…Lydia Niziblian

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copyright Lydia Niblizian

This week I would like to introduce you to jewellery designer Lydia Niziblian, who owns two online businesses “Shottle Bop”, which sells fun and funky miniature silver sterling bottles and “Lydia Niziblian”, which sells her beautiful hand-crafted silver sterling and gold jewellery. Lydia lives with her husband, two children, two cats and three Rhondda Blue chicken in Whitchurch, Cardiff.

Lydia initially learnt her craft in a City & Guilds course in silver-smithing when she lived in London, but has subsequently taught herself. Since 2009 she has been working from her studio TactileBOSCH in Llandaff North.

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Apr
04

Review – Chain maille kits

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copyright Helen White

This weekend I spent most of my time teaching myself a new technique I always wanted to learn: chain maille, which creates beautifully textured bracelets and necklaces by interlocking jump rings.

I ordered two chain maille kits from Beadsisters, a shop that specialises in chain maille and sells a wide range of jump rings in various sizes and metals.

As most colour options were already sold out, presumably due to a positive review in Making Jewellery magazine, I opted for the Byzantine chain maille kit in purple and red and the red and silver box chain maille kit.

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Jun
03

Bring back the hat

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Found this interesting article on the demise of the hat http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8074663.stm I think that hats are a good thing – they make people look nicer and kind of respectable. My dad almost always wears a flat cap, to keep sun and rain off his bald head. When I was 14,  I went through a phase …

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