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On mixing prints

15/09/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized8 Comments on On mixing prints

Yikes!  Mixing prints!  So easy to get very very wrong…  Now (confession) I am feeling a leetle out of my comfort zone here with the mixing of prints this morning; well on choosing the python print top I did plan…

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The pseudo shirt-dress

14/09/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized5 Comments on The pseudo shirt-dress

Quiet day here, doing office work at home, so dressed comfy and casual-ish.  Walked the dog this morning.  Doing laundry and will hit up the supermarket later.  Blah blah. This outfit is what I’ve come to think of as my…

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Ladylike in brown

13/09/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized11 Comments on Ladylike in brown

This morning attended a ladylike morning tea to celebrate a friend’s birthday, so have thoroughly enjoyed the last hour sitting in the dappled shade of the jacarandas sipping tea from a charmingly cracked and mis-matched pretty china set, ahh, just…

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Comfort dressing

12/09/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized6 Comments on Comfort dressing

Self-Stitched September day 12: Woohee, taking one’s photo everyday has been quite a challenge, not to mention the embargo on reaching for the same old same old favourites from the wardrobe.  Everybody has favourites and comfort zones and there are…

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Green Day

11/09/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized8 Comments on Green Day

Aaah, social whirling over and life is back to normal around here for a while…  I do like to go out and get dressed up once in a while and the social season is certainly upon us now spring is…

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A glitzy lunch-date

10/09/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized7 Comments on A glitzy lunch-date

Ahhh, another day, another fashion parade and champagne lunch…. and no, I’m actually not joking.  Just quietly I’m getting a little fashion-paraded out, and I never thought those words would ever come from me! ….hehe.  No, really, I have seen…

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The colours of Spring

09/09/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized19 Comments on The colours of Spring

Today I attended a very glamourous luncheon and fashion parade with friends, and am now exhausted…   so please excuse any crazy bad spelling or random ungrammatical remarks in this post… For this occasion I wore my new pink lace…

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New greige top, with a shoulder experiment…

08/09/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized9 Comments on New greige top, with a shoulder experiment…

“Greige”; not a word found in any dictionary, but one adopted by the fashion industry to describe this colour that is not quite grey, not quite beige…   I love it.  And going by my latest fabric shopping binge carefully-considered…

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