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hiking in Italy/Norway; a travel wardrobe

26/07/2025 Carolynfashion, Uncategorized7 Comments on hiking in Italy/Norway; a travel wardrobe

hello!  We have very recently returned from a long hiking holiday, which involved some clever packing of seasonal extremes into a small suitcase with a 15kg limit.   Challenge accepted!  I shall now proceed to discuss my travel wardrobe and…

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South Korea and Japan; a travel wardrobe

13/04/2025 Carolynfashion, Uncategorized4 Comments on South Korea and Japan; a travel wardrobe

hello! so as I mentioned in my last post we have just got back from a nearly month-long trip through east Asia, and just for fun I’m assessing the usefulness/workability of my travel wardrobe as usual… BTW; if you’ve ever…

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2024; a retrospective

31/12/202403/01/2025 Carolynfashion, sewing16 Comments on 2024; a retrospective

Hello!  it’s the very last day of the year, which for this blog is the day that I look back on my year of making/creating/wearing and summarise such things… first off, here’s a favourite outfit/photo from each month of the…

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Maldives; a travel wardrobe

11/12/202411/12/2024 Carolynfashion, Uncategorized2 Comments on Maldives; a travel wardrobe

hello!  So as hinted in my new bathers post just recently, we have been on an absolutely gorgeous holiday to the Maldives… this is our third visit, each time as well as this time staying on Velassaru.  I know, I…

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Bali, Indonesia; a travel wardrobe

13/07/2024 Carolynfashion3 Comments on Bali, Indonesia; a travel wardrobe

Well! it’s taken me an awfully long time to get around to this!  several years in fact… I’m a little hazy now as to why I never posted this draft post before but well, I didn’t…. however, as mentioned it…

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#use12 capsule wardrobe

30/12/202131/12/2021 Carolynfashion, sewing, shoes6 Comments on #use12 capsule wardrobe

Ta da!  IT IS DONE… I can finally present, in entirety, my #make12, or #use12, capsule wardrobe… yes, that funny little project I’ve been chipping away at all year… hurray!  Phoar!  I cannot be more thrilled with this funny little…

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crimson rosellas

24/06/202027/06/2020 Carolynfashion, sewing17 Comments on crimson rosellas

{Sooo, what’s going on?  It’s actually been well over a month since I made this dress, took these pictures and half wrote this whole post too so maybe I should say something about my absence.  Later. Meanwhile, over to 6-weeks-ago…

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2019; a retrospective

31/12/2019 Carolynfashion26 Comments on 2019; a retrospective

It’s the last day of the year; the day in which tradition demands a bit of looking back on the year gone by and pondering on what I would like to do for next year.  First of all, I’m picking…

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