Bonnie Scotland

Rain, Haggis, Mountains called Bens, Iron Bru, Kilts, Charles Rennie Mackintosh. I have had the most wonderful taste of Scotland. Arrrr WEEEEEE noooo, Ya weeee scottash Lassie.

During the visit this weekend I discovered the work of artist David Farrer. These paper mache constructed heads are his creation and are on display in Cameron House on the edge of Loch Lomand.

They are a fantastical light hearted approach to the traditional game stuffed and mounted. Much larger than you think, the sculptures are constructed from recycled materials. A wire frame gives the original shape and layers of paper mache (yes think back to those times when you were 5 and you made a terrific mess paper mache-ing of a saturday). He uses newspapers, magazines and images that often juxtapose (arty farty word) the creature itself. To give you an example, the Rames head is branded with Motorola. Up close the construction tells its own story.



Just to share with you a couple of our moody rainy Scotland pics.........
Loch Lomand itself.

When owls take over the world!

Happy monday fish friends.

I hope one day owls will take over the world. I want to share with you my 2 latest discoveries in the design field. Sass and Belle amazballs, cute label.

These guys have their own shop in covent garden garden and stock in shops up and down the country! They are synonymous with cute girly style and I appreciate their mixture of prints and patterns. I own the owl cushion, keyring and bunting and quite frankly that isn't enough.


The second discovery du jour is the work of Petra Boase I stumbled across this label after buying a sheet of lovely printed wrapping paper. Creating printed fabric, mugs, greeting cards, notebooks and much more in the cuteness department. With a sugar sweet colour palette and vintage influences this label crosses fashion to stationary to home.

Perfect for gift ideas and styling inspiration....so if anyone needs some gifting ideas (no not for me this time) then take a look!
This piece of wrapping paper is rocking my world right now! I bought it to use and now it is hung on my wall as art! Check out the beautifully collaged animals particually the owls!

How to be a unicorn!!

Greetings!
Forget the royal wedding I dressed up as a unicorn this weekend to celebrate the important landmark birthday of my friend Natalie! We partook in a little prancing round the park all in different animal costume under the gorgeous British sun!

me with the birthday tigress!

Here is your step by step guide to achieving the 'unicorn' look...
Firstly gather together a giant purple unicorn. Horses/ponies/zebra or any type of animal that looks pretty big will do. What you are looking for is to be able to fit your torso INSIDE that animal after a little tweaking.
Take a pair of scissors straight to the beast and cut down the belly and back. Then stick your hand right inside and yank out the stuffing.
All you need now is to yank your animal over your hips, attached some braces and VOILA you have your costume!
Time to hit the park! x x x

Royal wedding fever!!

Hello Kids!,

I am jumping aboard the royal wedding bandwagon! Tomorrow (day of wedding) I am settling down to watch the wedding from my tellybox....then later in the afternoon going to a street party in that there London town.

I thought I'd share a couple of my favourite pieces of memorabilia for the day. Unknown plate of awesomeness, Cath Kidston tea towel and Rob Ryan plate.

Particularly the "should have been me" plate, girls up and down the country are watching their chances of being a princess disappear before their very eyes.. there is still Harry I suppose!

Have an amazing long weekend y'all! x x x

Artsmart!!!!!

Happy easter fish fans!
Just For The Halibut is proud to announce its involement in ARTSMART!
A giant arts and crafts market hosted by University of the Arts on July 1st and 2nd, 10am- 6pm!

Yes indeedy! this is going to be a big one! 100 artists, craftmens and stall holders alike will be gathering in Chelsea College of art for a 2 day event! There will be food, live music and oodles of shopping to be had!

Have a gander at the website where you can view all the different stalls involved, buy advanced tickets and get all the lovely information! Here you can see the page with the stall holders including moi JFTH!

There will be some new products from Just For The Halibut.....and yes ! you will hear about it here 1st!

Ahoy there mateys, over and out!
x x x

Devon in Histamatic!

Devonshire!
Well fish fans, you may remember a couple of weeks ago I spent the weekend down in Devon with some lovely chums...Here are a couple of photos from the weekend!
I'm a big fan of the histamatic app on the iphone ( i don't actually have an iphone) but I manage to surround myself with people that do!
Dreamy, lazy 70's style photos, distort the colour and light and basically make it look like your parents photo album from 'when they met', minus the platforms and the hair.

Full credit to Jo (check out her blog here ) for these photos of the beautiful town of Dartmouth and a wonderful wkend spent with friends. To top it all off, its only bloody, 5 thousand bank holidays of easter/may fun coming up again, here's to royal weddings, resurrection of christ and the caramel bunny.
x x x

Invasion of the KittyKat!

This weekend saw the arrival of a new house buddy! 'Steven" the cat! Ok he's not really called Steven but we thought it would be nice to call him after one of us, so Steve, my housemate, was the lucky chosen one!
Steven the cat appeared outside our kitchen door this weekend and meowed until someone let him in!
60% of the house are keen Cattyfiles so it seemed stupid not to let him in and feed him tuna, cuddle him, take him upstairs and generally grow way to attached to a passing cat.

Am secretly hoping he will leave wherever he lives now, move in with me and we will be very happy together.
Hi to the landlord if you are reading this...all of the above didn't actually happen, erm.