Saturday: meet my evil twin… can you guess which is me and which is she?? No, I didn’t think so 😉 I got a question in the Flickr group, do I have a body double… um, no?! and I only have one of this dress too…!
I admit my photoshopping skills are pretty horrific, a strip in the middle of the photo appears twice but hey, it’s my first composite! and anyway, it should be all about the handmade clothes, right? I thought this the best way to show both of the items that I wore today.
Today I wore my mustard bandage dress, and looked like the lefthand version of me all day. I took that photo at around noon. Then in the evening we were going out so I added my ivory trench coat and took that photo at about 5pm. I am “glowing” a bit more in the left one, but that is hardly surprising given the difference in the light at those two times!
So, I looked like the right hand version from 5pm until midnight.At that time I turned into a pumpkin.
min 8C, max 23C, fine and sunny
Details:
Dress; Burdastyle magazine 09/2010, pattern 122, mustard coloured ponte, details and my review of this pattern here
Coat; McCalls 5525, ivory drill with satin lining, details here and my review of this pattern here
Socks (not seen), handknit by me to a 60’s pattern, details here
Thongs; Havaianas
Boots; Sempre di, from Zomp shoes
Today in my family’s MMM13, Cassie wore this shirt, and Sam wore this jacket…
Cassie’s shirt (I originally made this for me, but it looks a lot better on her, so it has migrated to her wardrobe ;); Burda 7767 modified, details here, and my review of this pattern here
Sam’s jacket; Burda 7767 modified, details here and my tutorial for making the welt/patch pocket here
Sunday: sartorially, I have another bout of couldn’t-give-a-toss-itis. Meh.
The good news is that yesterday I learnt how to write a link in flickr descriptions, so now my descriptions look much more neat and tidy, with the links directly back to the original garment post, which is a much better arrangement. So, now I have a word document saved with the code written on it:
whereby ADDRESS is the
web address of your post that you are linking to, and TITLE is what you want
the link to say. Looks so much cleaner now 🙂
min 12C, max 24C, fine and sunny
Details:
Tshirt; self-drafted, refashioned from two old childrens’ Tshirts, details here
Skirt; my own design, refashioned from a pair of old Burda 7863 corduroy jeans, details here
Shoes: Enrico Antinori, from Zomp shoes
I am the only member of my family wearing me-made clothes today…
Monday, Monday… Busy busy busy but not too busy, which is a very good kind of busy to be!
min 13C, max 22C, fine and sunny. And windy!
Details:
Skirt; lace with coffee silk lining, details here
Tshirt; self-drafted, white jersey, details here
Cardigan; self-drafted, black snakeskin-look stuff, details here
Sandals; Misano
and Craig is wearing this shirt and Sam is wearing this hoodie…
Craig’s shirt, Burda 7767 stripe cotton with contrasting yellow facings, details here
Sam’s hoodie; self-drafted, details and my tutorial for making the hood here
Now that first picture makes one look twice !! Great effect. Love that dress. Very elegant. Lots of great outfits as usual. I remember when you made that skirt. It is lovely.
I love them all!
You can right the book on 'how to look great on a meh day' and make a mint.
The snakeskin cardi just made me look twice. Very cool idea Carolyn.
I have the trench coat pattern waiting for me to sew – it looks lovely, as do all the other outfits. I thought your FS skills were very good.
Love monday´s outfit!!!!!!! The skirt is awesome and the cardigan is sooo cool!
I need to learn how to do that flickr thing. My links are ugly… unlike your outfits. Very happy to see the lace skirt get a run today.
Love all the shots! Your sartorial "meh" is, for me, a day when I put a little effort into dressing "up" more than usual lol! My bet is that you never ever really look badly dressed. You Saturday and Monday outfits (and photos) are outstanding!
Clever girl! Love those colours on both of you.
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Evil twin!! Hahaha! I love it 🙂 Oh, and the outfit too – great colours.
Too funny with the twin, your photoshopping looks great to me. Once again, wonderful job on the MMM 2013.
Oh, you saved your best for last (May is almost over) My two favorite outfits are that bandage dress and that lace skirt.
Your photo skills are just plain mad, no question.
I think your photoshop skills are great. I would never have guessed that you just learned the HTML link thing. I remember when I first learned it, I would often have to go back and search for slashes or missing quotes. It's much better to save it and cut and paste I think.
With all the sewing you do I think it would be worth investing in a body double! Even more accurate than a dress form. And you can send her out to do the photo shoots while you lounge and eat those peppermint creams. 🙂
haha! Wouldn't that be handy though?! 😀
I like the daytime version of the dress and would not have noticed any of the problems with the composite if you hadn't pointed them out.
Gorgeous outfits, love them all!
That twin photo is fun, and I love the black cardi. Not sure I followed the business about the code, but I'll fiddle around with it another day when I'm not visiting Charlotte!
Thanks for the flickr code. I will be adding that to my flickr album too! As always your outfits are gorgeous!
I love that ponte dress so much, and those mustards and ochres look so pretty on you. I made that same pattern in an ivory ponte and I really want to make another, maybe the skirt version. It's really easy to wear!
Really enjoying your me-made-may posts!