I’m sorry I’m not very exciting today… just keeping cool. I flopped slid gracefully into the pool as soon as I got home from walkies. And this is the second day in a row Sienna has wanted to be in the photo…
Burdastyle 10-2010-111A, a pattern review
Remember I wrote I’d made some matching shorts to wear under this little sundress? Well, here they are. Whew, they are so so short and flimsy I probably wouldn’t be wearing them on their own like this if I didn’t…
First day of Autumn!
And the first day of Me-Made-March, and the all-self-made self-challenge. So here we go with the daily photos… Neutral today. Surprise! Playing it safe again. Well, hopefully still nice with the lace-y embroidery and all. And I just needed to…
Smoky short sleeved mens’ shirt
I made for my husband another shirt using the Kaffe Fasset shot cotton from purl soho. This fabric is so wonderful to work with I’ve considered a few times sneaking off with it to make myself something instead of for him… but…
Grecian ball dress
I made this ball dress in 2004, for a conference function we were attending in the Louvre in Paris, where I couldn’t look underdressed. It was an important event in our calendar and I needed to dress to impress. Thankfully…
Mineral Green socks
How much do my feet hate me right now? So much, and why? oh let’s not get onto the weather again… Which brings me to this, I apologise for all the whinging yesterday. I always promised myself I wouldn’t whinge…
Another hot day… and some glove stuff
Strange thing. When I logged onto my blog this morning, it popped up and said I am following no blogs! How did that happen? I don’t recall going through and un-following any blogs… perhaps I am a far more active and…
Little yacht romper
A blast from the past for today… This is a little romper suit I made for our eldest Tim when he was tiny. I have no memory of where I got the pattern, it might have been a TopKids design,…
