Labour Day; to commemorate the rights of workers, is always held here in Western Australia on the first Monday in March. So, that is today, people… Specifically celebrating the utopian ideal for all workers of a day comprising eight hours for work, eight…
Year: 2011
Sunday, and thoughts on black
Me-Made-March, Day 6 I’ve decided to try wearing clothes I hadn’t worn during Self-Stitched September, to mix it up for that group a bit. That means going through the wardrobe and pulling out things that haven’t seen active duty for…
Garden of Weedin’
Gettit? Oh, I’m such a comedienne… not! This post so named because I got a whole lot of gardening and outdoor tidying up done today, haha. As well as, the silk for this dress is printed in a heavenly…
Not your daughter’s dress
Me-Made-March, Day 4. OK. Want. Autumn. Now. If I look less than cool, calm and collected here, it is because I am. Less than, I mean… I’m actually wondering if I should give this dress to Cassie. She looks so…
Keepin’ cool
I’m sorry I’m not very exciting today… just keeping cool. I flopped slid gracefully into the pool as soon as I got home from walkies. And this is the second day in a row Sienna has wanted to be in the photo…
Burdastyle 10-2010-111A, a pattern review
Remember I wrote I’d made some matching shorts to wear under this little sundress? Well, here they are. Whew, they are so so short and flimsy I probably wouldn’t be wearing them on their own like this if I didn’t…
First day of Autumn!
And the first day of Me-Made-March, and the all-self-made self-challenge. So here we go with the daily photos… Neutral today. Surprise! Playing it safe again. Well, hopefully still nice with the lace-y embroidery and all. And I just needed to…
Smoky short sleeved mens’ shirt
I made for my husband another shirt using the Kaffe Fasset shot cotton from purl soho. This fabric is so wonderful to work with I’ve considered a few times sneaking off with it to make myself something instead of for him… but…
