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Month: October 2011

Harvey Two-Face

30/10/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized18 Comments on Harvey Two-Face

So, we don’t do Halloween here in Australia.   But in the last few years; each year it seems my children are attending parties that have a Halloween theme.  Different from how it is in other countries; just invited kids…

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Wave-y welts; a how-to

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Some mistakenly thought my wave-y welts were ric-rac; well they’re not!  I made them myself!… although if you do have access to such a thing as giant ric-rac (I have never come across any such thing! but then Perth is…

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Wave-y orange welts

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I made a little sundress. First impressions are that this is just a very plain little thing with minimal detailing.  Note … first impressions.   The apparent plain-ness is intentional because I wanted for the one and only detail to…

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Cat’s eyes

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(a mixture of BYS Mint Condition and Bright Light) As soon as the weather warms up enough to bare the ol’ tootsies I like to get some funky nail varnish on to my toenails.  The weirder and wilder the better.…

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the winner is…

26/10/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized2 Comments on the winner is…

Thank you so much to all those who entered the giveaway and left such nice comments about my L(ong)BD.  Your kind words never fail to put a smile on my face and make my day!!

Turning old jeans into a skirt…

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…  I decided it was high time for another refashion since I still have a small mountain of perfectly good fabric in the form of old clothing sitting in my stash.  eep!  Do you remember these jeans?   They had…

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Pattern Magic 3; ponytail top B

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I’ve made an interesting little top…   This from the marvellous book Pattern Magic 3 by Tomoko Nakamichi.  I’ve nicknamed it my “ponytail” top (version B), because of the way the pieces are pulled together, bunched up and held together…

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An apology, more on cropping, and patterns!

21/10/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized15 Comments on An apology, more on cropping, and patterns!

I would just like to point out that it wasn’t my intention to offend anyone yesterday with my reference to the “typical” blogger’s stance.  So some people like to pose and smile like this, well that’s great!! and please don’t…

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