Me-made May, Day 9: Isn’t it dreadful when someone with nothing worthwhile to say insists on saying something? So I will refrain from sharing the tedium of my mundane little non-thoughts today. You’re welcome. 🙂 Except to say: my best wishes to…
Ombre dyed velveteen skirt
So, this is the little dyeing experiment I was referring to; I finished it last night and just couldn’t wait to wear it today! My new skirt! I made the skirt using Vogue 1247, of bright lipstick-red cotton velveteen from Spotlight. I…
Banksia…
… is the name of the plant beside me. Actually the name given to huge range of plants, this one is a bush, although banksias also come in the form of trees and groundcovers. Did you know that Western Australia…
Looking deceptively dressy…
… for chucking a ball for the dog in the park, no? But actually, nothing I am wearing is dressy in my book, so I’m good. This is another example of comfort dressing, like yesterday. This dress is stretchy-knit…
Comfort…
On a sartorial note; today was one of those disastrously uninspired days when I contemplated and rejected just about everything in my wardrobe. Everything felt hideous to me! Finally just settled on this blah blah ensemble… not very put together…
The Daughter of Woman
I am paying homage to “The Son of Man” the 1964 painting by Rene Magritte. Today’s mini-challenge within the me-made May group is to be pictured with food, or to be eating or drinking something. So I took inspiration from…
Day Tre…
… one has to say it the Italian way to get the poetry in my title there… Another gal over on the me-made May challenge posted the weather stats on her photo, which I thought was a terrific idea. It…
Tree, with sunrays
Heya! Hmmm, what to say; well maybe something about the photograph… I was glad my list of daily activities took me past this spot today. It is usually deserted and to my mind utterly, ethereally, beautiful. And I managed to…