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Further from yesterday

28/11/201021/12/2016 CarolynUncategorized4 Comments on Further from yesterday

Thankyou so much for your thoughts yesterday … and many of your comments resonated quite clearly with me and my own thinking on this subject; I also read a little bit more on Natalie’s findings and summary of her yearlong…

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The makeshift project

27/11/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized7 Comments on The makeshift project

Oh, I am in a much better mood today since my family turned up here last night… I swear I was getting a minor case of …something mental… here all by my lonesome and carrying on one-sided conversations with the…

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Thoughts on coat-hangers

26/11/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized12 Comments on Thoughts on coat-hangers

A smocked dress for a coat-hanger…? A friend was telling me recently about a local woman whose business is to come out and assesses one’s wardrobe.  Yes, apparently there are some women out there who do not do this simple…

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Bored…

25/11/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized13 Comments on Bored…

Yah, so I must be bored with the same old same old blogger poses… though I’m probably not going to be attempting this one too frequently…  could be the collective subconscious of all those teenage souls inhabiting the general environs…

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A difficult dress

24/11/201021/12/2016 CarolynUncategorized9 Comments on A difficult dress

Oh, so much for horrific leavers rowdy stories… so far I’ve only come across small bunches of delightfully friendly, polite and sweet teenagers who immediately want to pat Sienna and make friends with her.  Having a dog takes down a lot of…

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The lull before the storm

23/11/201021/12/2016 CarolynUncategorized10 Comments on The lull before the storm

My title is not referring to the weather, but the fact that I am down here in Dunsborough again, “minding” the beach-house during leavers week.  Yah, the town is expecting thousands of teenagers to rock up any minute now and…

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Eating humble pie…

22/11/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized10 Comments on Eating humble pie…

Yah, OK, so I went to the vintage fair.  And it was pretty cool. What can I say, the last post I wrote I was still feeling grumpy and unsociable, heat waves have that effect on me.  Sunday brought a…

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Thoughts on the “vintage” trend

20/11/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized11 Comments on Thoughts on the “vintage” trend

A friend passed on to me tickets to a Vintage Market on this weekend, promising “Vintage and Retro Men’s and Women’s Clothing and Accessories”, and sorry, but I can’t help but feel a bit yawn-y about the whole thing.  And…

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