Sunny garden lunches and hydrangeas in the afternoon

THE FIRST: Our first ever collection finally photographed

Photography: Lillian Baker

Styling: Hannah Clement

Model: Jinx In The Sky

Garments: Doppelganger

My name is Lillian and...

 

I have a peanut butter addiction.

I eat it with a spoon. Straight from the jar. All the time. 

on a summer holiday

I've just returned to Wellington after a stunning summer holiday in the Coromandel. Gosh nothing beats a beautiful New Zealand summer! A good friend joined me for a few days and we had a mini tiki tour around Hahei beach and Cathedral Cove. Ahhhhhh!

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

i heart auckland

  

 

This is not a Merry Christmas.

wandering and pondering

 

"She left pieces of her life behind her everywhere she went. It's easier to feel the sunlight without them, she said."

- Brian Andreas, Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas

the importance doing nothing

thanks Kinfolk magazine and Nikaela Marie Peters for sharing x

a lovely message from a very dear friend xxx

I had a dream about you last night. I was walking up and down all the hills in Wellington looking for you. I finally found you on the top of the highest hill and you were crying because you had made something so beautiful it hurt. I miss you.

a Sunday drive

some words are found while wandering

found here

here's a peek inside

New Zealand Quilter, issue #84

This is the NZ Quilter article that Anne Scott so very kindly published about my latest textile work and award win. If you'd like to read the article, it was first published by the DIA and you can find it online here.

ps. I'm just a little teeny tiny bit more than pretty excited!

in all the world

one of my most favourite things IN ALL THE WORLD is when you spend so long in the bath your finger tips turn into wrinkly raisins x

life is chaos!

Everything is happening all at once. Life usually does that. Ebbs and flows...

Hannah and I (mostly Hannah, but I took the photos so totally claiming it too!) have just been featured on a fashion blog about our project with NZ Eco Fashion Exposed. Pretty cool!

Here's the link!

a little project

Me and my dear friend Hannah have been working on a little project and getting involved with NZ Eco Fashion Week Exposed. It's just a TINY bit exciting!

Over the next few weeks... we are making simple garments with sublimate printing, natural dye, and shibori patterning. Hopefully!

At the moment... we are sorting out garment patterns (mostly Hannahs job thankfully!) and testing colour with natural dyes. Here are a few of my initial experiments x

Dye colour test swatches with a lovely pink from madder root 

Collecting onion skin from generous Mr. Wilson

Onion skins create a warm golden yellow 

Silver dollar eucalyptus from Mt Victoria

Soft orange and pink colours from the eucalyptus dyebath 

 And even softer colours with mordants

Have a look at us on Facebook!

I've been published!!!

My textile work has just been printed in these two beautiful magazines Yay!

Cover Magazine

New Zealand Quilter

I'll post photos of the inside of these very soon.

lots of things have been happening...

Are you ready for a few updates?

not too far from penniless and wandering the streets of auckland

"Money is what people think is the most important thing in the world. It comes from the Government."

found things make me happy

words for today and the rest of my life

image found here

Winning!

I just won the Australiasian Graduate of the Year Award - 1st prize!!!! BOOM! So excited! Hurrah!

There are so so so many amazing people that have helped me over the last couple of years and I'm just so grateful x