Brooched, originally uploaded by The Wistful Republic.

This is the latest fruit of my fingers. They are all brooches with pins sewn snugly to their backsides. Felt, felt, more felt, upholstery, vintage fabric, vintage lace, many endless lengths of embroidery floss. That sort of thing.

The New York Times has recently published a seven page article on my favorite band and I've yet to read it because its mere existence makes me weep. I guess I'm one of those snobs after all. Or perhaps just an only child.

On a more mainstream note, please appreciate some Mariah-fu, courtesy of BFP, whose blog I read religiously and who makes the world a better place every day. And who occasionally reminds everyone to dance.



Meanwhile, silence springs eternal on all personal fronts. It's better that way, love, it always is.

xo.

Labels: accessories, music, the wistful republic

Tangerine Meets Circular Object, originally uploaded by The Wistful Republic.

Hello anyone who might still be reading this blog! I have not updated in a very long time. I'm going to be using this blog again, most likely in my dependably sporadic fashion, though the format is going to undergo some alterations. I still intend to post about all the pretty things I unearth during my endless hours spent wistfully window shopping on the internet for things I most likely will never buy but continue using to decorate the interior of my mind's imaginary Dream Home. So that won't be changing, yay!

The newness comes in right about here. I'm also going to post about the things I'm working on, crafty things, attempts at artwork, maybe even the occasional tutorial interspersed with a smattering of pretty things of the miscellaneous variety.

So! That said, let me tell you about the ball of fur in the photo and the round thing in front of her. My husband convinced me to watch a Monty Python movie at two in the morning and while it was on, I decided to finally getting around to making catnip-filled toys for our cats, which I'd been planning to do for a few weeks. I took some of my less favored felt, a stack I found while cleaning, cut out a few circles and started stitching. I'm reasonably happy with the design and the stitching on the top but the stitching around the perimeter didn't go as well as I'd hoped it would. It's alright though -- while I spent about two hours putting this together, our two cats spent a collective two minutes playing with it before completely losing interest. Tangerine, (pictured) decided that it was nowhere near as interesting as falling asleep on top of a plastic bag while Chloe (not pictured), who wakes up in a brand new world every five seconds, has ceased to acknowledge its existence. See, this is why I used the crappy pile of felt.