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Month: October 2012

Slender Man

31/10/201215/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized38 Comments on Slender Man

Have you ever played Slender? Hands down.  Scariest.  Game.  Ever! Our family has been playing this free-downloadable a bit…  and if you can first-time play this in a darkened room without emitting even one girly scream….? well actually I do not believe…

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A petticoat and an ISTJ

30/10/201215/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized24 Comments on A petticoat and an ISTJ

OK, so I have posted about this new… er, thing before; and in a comment janesewandtell expressed surprise that a petticoat should have a zip … the answer of course is that even though I did describe it as a “petticoat”…

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Perchance to dream

27/10/201215/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized19 Comments on Perchance to dream

I have made some rather daggy baggy shorts, but don’t worry.  Style has not flown out the window.  After today, these are my new summer PJ bottoms! I used a too-small-for-anything-else piece of polycotton, crazily colourful and wildly patterned; given…

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HongKong seams and the hemline

25/10/201215/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized23 Comments on HongKong seams and the hemline

Hong Kong seams are a tidy and very handsome way to finish raw edges… but what happens at the hemline?  The seam gets folded up on itself twice, and if you are working with a flimsy fabric and especially if you…

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Khaki military shirt; 6 different ways

23/10/201219/06/2016 Carolynfashion, Uncategorized27 Comments on Khaki military shirt; 6 different ways

Oooh, it’s been a while since I did one of these posts… which is silly since I do get a big kick out of these myself.  Playing in one’s wardrobe, the bestest play a grown-up girl can have, no? Sometimes…

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Of the palest blue

21/10/201215/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized44 Comments on Of the palest blue

I still have one or two really lovely pieces of fabric given to me for pressies last Christmas, as well as from my birthday last year (blush) Beautiful fabrics that I have been too chicken to take the scissors to.…

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Handwoven “rag-rug” placemats

21/10/201215/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized26 Comments on Handwoven “rag-rug” placemats

Another set of hand-woven and -stitched items from my teenage years… and I cannot believe I have so far overlooked these very frequently used items in my documentation process!  :O To the best of my memory, this is probably my very…

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Hand-woven

17/10/201215/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized25 Comments on Hand-woven

Every now and again I come across another handmade item in my house that I have not yet documented on my blog here… This is a set of serviettes, handwoven by me!  Yes, I have dabbled in weaving, in a…

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