Desk of the Day and a giveaway winner!

Well, it's not really today's desk, it's from a few days ago but I love seeing these shoes together so much that I just had to share. I've had a few crazy days of catching up on emails and sending out shoes, so today I'm going to relax, eat hummus with my besties and bake pie. I hope you're all having a delicious, pie filled day too!

And a big congratulations to Tea T who won the Pidpenky giveaway! Tea gets to pick one of Pidpenky's adorable plush bunnies.

Wednesday Art Feature: River Luna

River Luna is an Etsy shop featuring the work of Marisa Redondo, an illustrator from the US. Her work is heavily inspired by nature, and arranged in beautiful colour schemes and compositions.

I love her use of white and space within her work, and the adorable bear and fox creatures she draws. Marisa has work that would appeal to everyone, from natural feathers and branches drawn in her unique style, to cute bears and birds.

 

[Etsy] [Blog] [Facebook] [Twitter]

Introducing Blogwatch

I tend to spend a lot of my time reading other peoples blogs, I find I get a lot of inspiration (let alone great shopping ideas) from them

So I thought I'd try and do a fortnightly post highlighting some of my favorite posts that I've read lately.

1. Katherine from Of Corgis & Cocktails shows us how to paint our own Fox Nails
2. Tottie from Pouting Penguin shows off her impressive leg tattoos
3. Lauren from Old Red Boots shows us her new pom pom headband in a colourful and fun outfit post.
4. Anne from Pony People counts her blessings and shares her amazing hand painted sofa with us. I need it in my house NOW!
5. I love Karen from The Quiet Owl 's Princess Bubblegum costume! How wonderful is her crocheted head piece?
6. Hannah from The Braided Bandet wows us with yet another gorgeous vintage outfit. I'm in love with the collar on this dress.
7. Rae from Say It Ain't So has a talent for finding the cutest vintage items! I love this little deer tea pot.

Etsy Shop Feature: Sweet Bestiary

Sweet Bestiary is a UK based shop selling adorable & unique sculptures & jewellery. What I love most about Sweet Bestiary is the attention to detail. Not only are these little sculptures beautifully crafted, but they're also hand painted with great detail, and photographed in a way that compliments the jewellery/sculptures so well.

Sweet Bestiary also has a facebook page where you can see more lovely work.
Which is your favorite Sweet Bestiary item? Mine has to be their adorable mini mountain landscape.

Young Explorer Stuff Giveaway!!!

Hey guys! I'm so excited to introduce you to the awesome new shop Young Explorer Stuff. I'm a big fan of their lovely crafts, their lovely nature inspired brooches remind me of Autumn. I'm very excited to introduce this Giveaway to you! The lucky winner will get to pick their favourite Large Brooch from the shop.

"Young Explorer is a collaboration between Elizabeth (me!) and Steve. We make zines, greetings cards, badges and brooches and have been selling stuff on Etsy for about three months now.

Despite the fact we live in the middle of Manchester, we're inspired by nature and the outdoors, especially woodland animals and mountains. Although our collection of animals is quite small at the moment, we're hoping to add some more to the shop soon!

I started making the brooches as presents for friends, originally, and when they liked them I thought I might have a go at making them to sell on our Etsy. They're very popular. I'm almost struggling to keep up with the orders!

We also have a blog that we update fairly regularly, where we go on a bit about the things we get up to in our spare time and the things we like."

[Etsy] [Blog] [Twitter]

 
This Giveaway ends 9/10/12 (10/09/12 in US dates I think?) and is open for everyone to enter :) You must be a follower of PonyChops the blog to enter!

Good luck!!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

High Top Crazy!

Hello there strangers! I know I've neglected the blog lately. But I promise next week I'll be back on track! I've had a fantastic week of cooking vegan goodies, painting pugs, sketching material designs, and most importantly planning a photo shoot for August!!

I put some new high top shoes in the shop. If you want to order your very own high tops email me at ponychopsshop@gmail.com I have them in most sizes, including mens!

Foxy Brogues

I thought I'd post some pictures of the fox themed brogues I did a week or so ago, I'm just so slow at updating the blog at the moment, sorry!
These are all available in my etsy shop.

And I did some cute foxy heels for me:

I also did some foxy canvas hi tops but I'll post piccies of those with the rest of the hi tops I've been working on soon :)

Foxy Friends

I've been painting foxes on shoes for the past few days. So I figured I'd see what etsy has to offer for fox related items.
Here's my top 9:

1. Wrapped fox sweater $58 from Dandyrions
2. Red fox painted rock $40 from Nature Trail
3. Sleepy fox brooch $12 from Hanako
4. Fox ipad sleeve $76 from BoutiqueID
5. Snowy fox brooch $10 from Little Happy Stitches
6. Plush fox pillow $20 from Gingiber
7. Fox embroidery hoop $42 from Ooooh Stitchy
8. Fox dress $82 from Qoo Qoo Fashion
9. Needle felted fox taxidermy $125 from Little Teeth Marks

Have fun with Faux Fur

Fur coats always look so warm and cosy, it's like hibernating whilst walking around. And although I'd prefer the hibernating in bed idea, it's not always an option.

I love the look and feel of real fur, but I can't help feel it probably looks and feels much nicer on the animal itself. So I'm all for a bit of faux fur.

Here are some lovely faux fur coats I've found for this Autumn/Winter:

Colour Blocking Coat: $66 PickledVintage 

Leopard Coat: $60 Batoko

White Faux Fur Coat: $450 KMKostumes   

Peach Faux Fur Coat: £60 BooHoo

Faux Fur Panel Coat: £110 Topshop

Amazing Leggings!!!

I have just stumbled upon an amazing etsy shop. Qoo Qoo Fashion. I am in LOVE with these amazing bear leggings:

They also stock some pretty awesome non-bear-related items:

Skirt Suits Love!!!

At the moment I just LOVE the look of skirt suits, that well groomed Chanel style look. And good news, they seem to be appearing on the catwalks for this Autumn/Winter/Spring.

Chanel: Spring Rtw   Alice+Olivia: Fall Rtw   Oscar De La Renta: Fall Rtw

Check out some of our lovely Pony Chops Vintage skirt suits we have on offer!

Parisian Pink Skirt Suit: £19     Leopard Print Collared Skirt Suit: £25 

And in even better news, it looks like we will see an abundance of teddy/creature inspired fluffy winter hats again!! Check out this gorgeous outfit from the Anna Sui Fall 2011 Catwalk Show:

I'm ever so tempted to get this faux fur fox hat from River Island: