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Month: June 2014

Jim jams

26/06/201415/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized32 Comments on Jim jams

Mundane, but oh so welcome and necessary.  I’ve been absolutely freezing!!! at night lately and my old winter jammies were as thin as! so this was highest of high on my list of priorities.  But it had to still sit…

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the spoils from Scandinavia…

26/06/201425/04/2019 CarolynUncategorized26 Comments on the spoils from Scandinavia…

I totally should have posted this before, sorry!… some fellow fabric enthusiasts expressed interest in seeing my Scandinavian purchases; the spoils sought and acquired, packed and repacked, schlepped through cities, one cobble-stoned street after another; and once safely home to…

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Fashionary tape; and a giveaway

23/06/201415/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized77 Comments on Fashionary tape; and a giveaway

I was thrilled to receive recently Fashionary’s newest and latest invention; the Fashionary tape.  This is a dressmakers’ tape measure, but it’s not not just any old ordinary tape measure.  The measuring tape has all the body measurements a person…

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Magicka robe

22/06/201415/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized21 Comments on Magicka robe

Have you heard of Magicka? That’s OK, I hadn’t either until less than a week ago.  Now I consider myself an expert, at least on the attire.  This weekend is Supanova weekend in Perth and Sam wanted a Magicka robe.…

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Fabric shopping in Scandinavia

19/06/201425/04/2019 CarolynUncategorized35 Comments on Fabric shopping in Scandinavia

When going away I like to buy at least one piece of fabric or some yarn from a place, so I can make for myself a wearable souvenir.  So how fortunate that fabric shopping in Scandinavia is fantastic!! Our first…

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a travel wardrobe; Scandinavia

17/06/201415/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized35 Comments on a travel wardrobe; Scandinavia

Travelling!  We’re home from a perfectly delightful sojourn in Scandinavia, back to a house full of the noise and busy-ness of offspring and animals, of cooking and cleaning.  Not to mention a mountain of washing.  I’ve done 3-4 loads a…

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