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A short break…

11/01/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized21 Comments on A short break…

I’m just letting you know that I am going to be away from regular blogging for a short while. We are travelling overseas; visiting friends and going skiing.  I am a very bad skier, which is hardly surprising given that…

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Tim’s quilt

10/01/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized9 Comments on Tim’s quilt

I’m a bit embarrassed putting a picture of this up here now, because it’s quite old and worn now and has really seen better days, but that is the nature of quilts, right?  That they are supposed to age gracefully…

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The Sandwich Bag dress

08/01/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized30 Comments on The Sandwich Bag dress

I finished a new dress… I love this new little thing; we are expecting more really hot weather around here and I wanted some more really cool floaty things that can waft around my body, if not picking up any actual…

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A walk in the park

07/01/201121/12/2016 CarolynUncategorized7 Comments on A walk in the park

A day of colourlessness (ness, ness) is often followed by a more colourful day, in my world. And today is a bad hair day, sorry.  Thus the pony.  I am getting my hair cut this afternoon, and I am so…

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The two things together

06/01/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized14 Comments on The two things together

I’m not sure if this outfit is too severe.  Perhaps.  But this is the thing; I wanted to see these two pieces both together as they were designed to go with each other.  Both being from the same designer.  Japanese…

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Canary yellow suit-y thing

05/01/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized12 Comments on Canary yellow suit-y thing

Digging into the archives… This is a photo of a suit-y sort of a thing that I made to wear to my brother’s wedding, twenty years ago…  actually I still have this outfit and it still fits like a dream…

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Scrap dress

04/01/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized23 Comments on Scrap dress

You know how after a sewing project is finished you nearly always end up with scraps, sometimes of such a decent size you can’t toss them out… but not enough to do anything with on their own.  So sometimes I…

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All dressed up with no place to go…

03/01/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized10 Comments on All dressed up with no place to go…

This dress is sooo cool and light and easy.  It’s funny to think this was last year’s Christmas dress… it’s done pretty well.  Perhaps getting a bit “round the house-ish” but still quite nice.  So here I am today, all…

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