Abbie Walsh - one-off vintage fashion accessories

Wednesday 31 July 2013

Anna & Elliot's Country Castle Wedding




At Lympne Castle in Kent on Monday 29th July Anna and Elliot Townsend celebrated there gorgeous wedding with a relaxed atmosphere, sunshine and beautiful country surroundings.

In March I had a lovely appointment in my studio with Anna, Anna knew which sort of design she wanted for her birdcage headdress and brought along her dress and shoes. We matched colours, played around with flowers, veil size and hairslides. The result is this beautiful vintage off-white silk flower with handbeaded centre using spare beads from Anna's dress, off-white veil with haircombs either side, so sits across the face for the wedding ceremony. The veil was then wrapped around Anna's bun for the evening, this gave a fresh new look without any effort, beautiful, elegant and relaxed, sums up the wedding.
The dress was a whimsical internet purchase which was a heavily beaded Sue Wong from America, shoes by Benjamin Adams. Anna's flowers were picked and arranged with her bridesmaids Jenny and Jo in Blooming green flower farm in Kent. Anna's little girls Ava and Olivia were her flower girls.

I also made a wedding garter for Anna as a gift from her Maid of Honour, Katie Greengrass, I used spare beads and embroidered flowers from Anna's dress to create a keepsake of her special day. It was a pleasure to be a part of Anna's wedding, best wishes and happiness to Anna and Elliot x

Saturday 20 July 2013

Summer Party



Thursday 4th July was the summer party for Abbie Walsh accessories. Hosted by Donna Tann in Faversham, Kent, set in her beautiful garden annex. It was a perfect English summer's evening, throughout the evening over 50 guests took a short stroll to enjoy a relaxing evening. Showcasing a beautiful selection of Fashion & Bridal accessories, handstitched, handbeaded, embroidered and vintage one-off pieces.

 Cuffs, Collars, wedding hankies and headbands.

Wedding headdresses, wrist corsages, necklaces, vintage feather tickling stick, cuffs, headbands, collars, vintage purses and personalised wedding garters.
Guests enjoyed Special offers on the popular flower wrist corsages, rosette headbands and pom pom wrist corsages, adding a bit of shee shee to any outfit.

Stunning flower wrist corsages, little piles of rosette headbands were placed around the displays and white & midnight blue ballet tulle pompoms on beaded wristbands.

















A rail of beautiful capes, jackets and collars made using amazing antique bead, sequin and print fabrics. A miniature frosty white glitter wardrobe displaying vintage necklaces and earrings on customised mini hangers. 


Guests enjoyed elderflower champagne cocktails, accompanied by freshly cooked and prepared sun-dried tomatoe & paramesan mini scones with a cream cheese centre, tomatoe & mozzarella toast with basil, paramesan & poppy seed straws and chocolate & pistachio strawberries. 


As the sunset we enjoyed the warm summer evening in Donna's lush green garden with tealights and the sounds of Mr scruff, Liane Carroll, Gotan Project, Matthew Halsall and Buena Vista Social Club. Guests left with a free gift, a handmade little flower brooch made with vintage fabric petals. The prize draw was pulled out by Donna's little girl Martha - Congratulations to Jemma Elliott who won a handbeaded showgirl wrist corsage.
Thank you so much to everyone that came, to Donna and Ollie Tann who opened up there super gorgeous garden and annex. To the two charming barmen and lovely Rose Morris who helped with guests.




Monday 8 July 2013

No Cigar with Hannah Murray wearing customised collar

Hannah Murray feature's in the latest issue of No Cigar, a London based fashion magazine, printed internationally every quarter. The 23 yr old Hannah Murray discuss' her acting career so far and future. This classy feature was shot at the La Suite West in London, styled by super talented and lovely Angie Smith and photographed by the cool Gael Delhaye. Hannah Murray wears an Abbie Walsh large black crepe bow collar, made for this shoot.