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Fashionable Friday : Coochie Coo

18.3.16

{Fashion and Fluffballs illustration: Pink Petal Pies and Coochie-Coo © Shell-Sherree}

Coochie-coo, happy Friday to you !

One of the things I love so much about illustrating is that I can fashion up whatever I feel like in an ink and watercoloured world where pigment is currency and magic is an hourglass or two away.

While this concoction was tickling itself onto the paper, inspired by a real life gown and strategic placement of poetically licensed ruffles, I wondered if I might offer you a No Sew DIY Haute Couture Tutorial involving a 600 thread count Egyptian cotton sateen bedsheet, three metres of tulle, hemming tape and a smoking hot glue gun. But a packet of Turkish fairy floss caught my eye and that was the end of that.

If you're up for some fun, let's give the construction a whirl while we sip muddled-cherry-infused bootleg and play Pass the Pretty Kitty. Our fluffy fabric confection's lack of thread saves both a stitch in time and nine. By my mental arithmetic, that means we'd make it to dessert with dinner to spare. And on that note ...

Happy Fashionable Friday to you !

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Fashionable Friday : Frenchies in Paris, Blue, White & Red Too

11.3.16

{Paris Fashion and Fluffballs illustration: Blue White and Frenchies © Shell-Sherree}

With a view like that, shall we let a picture speak a thousand words?

I hope so, as I can't string a sentence together at this moment, let alone two. Come, pull up a languorous chaise, exchange those stilettos for ballet flats and we'll mollycoddle nonsense. Or you can craft Haiku while I eat all the éclairs. I'm fine with that too. And on that note ...

Happy Fashionable Frenchie Friday to you!

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Fashionable Friday : Babes Beehiving Beautifully

4.3.16

{Fashion and Fluffballs illustration: Beehive Envy and Kitty Cat Chic © Shell-Sherree}

Behold the beehive.

When having a bad hair day, a hat is always an option. But how better to use that engineering degree than constructing a beehive instead. Steel is so yesterday.

So come, let us don our long gloves, clink pink champagne and start misbeehiving. May the puns begin. And on that note ...

Happy Fashionable Friday to you!

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Fashionable Friday : Vintage Pink and Royal Frenchies

26.2.16

{Fashion and Fluffballs illustration: Vintage Pink and Royal Frenchies © Shell-Sherree}

Hello, fluffy fashionable Friday! Let's throw in a Frenchie and a fanciful fairytale for fun.

Don't ask me why we're waiting on a park bench while dressed to the nines. Let's just say if Breakfast at Tiffany's collided with Rear Window and a wee dram too much absinthe, this could be what we would find.

Melt-in-your-mouth croissants are on their way, and the coffee is bottomless. Henry Mancini might have braved Moon River with a Hitchcockian twist but I'm voting for The Pink Panther and a ukelele. And on that note ...

Happy Fashionable Friday to you!

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Fashionable Friday : Fluffing Around in Venice

19.2.16

Fashion and Fluffballs illustration: Venetian Pastel & Fluffballs © Shell-Sherree

Ah, Venezia.

Our languid wardrobe choice is a sympathetic reflection of your flowiness. It's been too long since we fluffed around while basking in your pastel beauty, crumbling as it is like sweetheart lollies long since tucked in lovers' pockets.

But we are here now ~ and a moment of regret is a moment stolen from the future to be squandered in the past. So let us keep our eyes firmly on the 'now' and stroll in our elegant sandals with not a displaced Roman in sight. The prosecco is crisp and the dial on the pizza crust wood-firing goes to 11. And on that note ...

Happy Fashionable Friday to you!

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Fashionable Friday : Agent Violet and the Powder Compact

12.2.16

Fashion and Fluffballs illustration: Agent Violet and the Powder Compact © Shell-Sherree

Agent Violet smoothed the skirts of her Dior and swirled her glass of Taittinger. The abandon of fine bubbles dancing in her champagne flute was a refreshing distraction from the potential gravity of her situation. She took another sip.

Having drawn a blank on The Gondolier's whereabouts, she was without a safe house in Venice. It was imperative that she find her way to Paris post-haste. Her passage on the Simplon-Orient-Express passed uneventfully aside from the somewhat delicate Chicken Incident between her feline and a nonna whose lack of humour was more than matched by her deft skills with an umbrella. Once fur and feathers were smoothed, Violet secured The Nonna's contact information. She would make a formidable ally to have on her side.

Her canine amused himself by changing breeds at every station. Her feline sharpened her claws. They were in unfamiliar territory in which a compass would be of little guidance even if they had one, but all was not lost. She still had The Harlequin Hat Box. Violet gathered her companions and they proceeded to stroll. She recalled the pretty gold compact The Antiquarian Book Seller had pressed into her hand with a knowing glance on her mention of The Gondolier. She removed it from her purse and decided to powder her nose.

What secrets had the shimmery light of Venice withheld? Would her apartment be occupied when she returned? Could she replicate the circumstances of her departure to cause an undoing of what had transpired? Let us graze on dark chocolate-shelled cherries and ponder from afar. And on that note ...

Happy Fashionable Friday to you !

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