Today is Australia Day, and what better cuisine to enjoy than a meat pie and sauce served on a paper bag. Mmmm mmmm. Fabio approves. Wishing all a perfectly wonderful day!
Year: 2012
My darling Clementine
I have made a new top! A nice floaty loose top perfect for our fiercely hot summer days. And we’ve sure had a few stiflers lately :S so I will be wearing it immediatemente. I used Rowan shot cotton… again.…
Coming to my senses…
Employing that pleasing dichotomy of minimal with steam-punk in my outfit today… yeah? Dichotomy. Is good stuff. Now, I’ve had a re-think. And thank you all for helping me to come to my senses! I did feel a…
Crunching the Numbers…
I’ve been pretty inspired by reading some posts by other bloggers on the sum total of their clothing expenditure; particularly Waves with her very interesting breakdown of her clothing costs for 2011 and her feelings and thoughts on the same, and Terri…
Hot pink shorts; 6 different ways
So, shorts, and particularly linen shorts are always going to be a warm weather thing and perhaps not an obvious candidate for “see how useful this item of clothing is!”…. But I am an Aussie after all, and typically lead a…
Blue-collar crime
The charge; gratuitously making for myself the same shirt, a second time. Namely the Vogue 1248 triple collared shirt. Well, how many collars does a girl really need?? (tsk tsk) No plea entered, as the defendant is so clearly guilty as charged.…
Burda 8071; a rogue’s gallery
In my previous post I mentioned flippantly that I had used this pattern nine times, well I was wrong! I have made ten dresses using this fantastically versatile pattern, or at least using key elements of it… and I like…
Sorta Missoni
Firstly, thank you so much for all those lovely comments on my cardigan! I was overwhelmed to read so many kind words… and with regard to my little rant; also to stress that I am not down on Burdastyle per…
