I know Mother’s Day is celebrated on different days in all the different countries of the world, but here in Australia we celebrate it on the second Sunday in May: which is today! My parents kindly had sent me…
Tag: accessories
Bottle green Basic
I made a new skirt! This latest is the result of wanting a little quick and easy skirt that I could just throw on for any occasion, something like my olive green corduroy skirt that is such a staple in…
Knotty blue scarf
It’s been an embarrassingly long while since I did a re-fashion. My big bag of toss-out garments is still sitting there, taunting me. And this re-fashion is so … trite, it’s barely worth the label “re-fashion”. Still, in my defence,…
Birthday bag
Do you remember me posting about a top secret project I was working on last weekend? Well today is my sister-in-law S’s birthday and I was making her a gift. It’s a little bag she can use to hold make-up,…
Pistachio and lilac
The last time I went op-shopping at the Salvation Army I found this stunning lilac suede skirt. Yes, you read correctly, suede!! I cannot believe the lovely things people throw out sometimes… It has a very slightly graded frill around…
Knotted rope necklace; a tutorial
Even though we are technically well into autumn, with a forecast of 32C today it’s still feeling a lot like summer. Not counting last week’s storm, that is. The past week has been absolutely glorious. So everyone is still dressing…
Evening bag, specimen 1
So a new year brings with it a new round of birthday prezzies to be conceived. For M’s birthday I made her this little evening bag. It is made out of some leftover silk hessian (remember the heather purple dress?),…
“What a curious feeling…”
When I sat under this tree today I felt a bit like a gypsy-ish Alice in Wonderland. I had this big solid tree comfortably at my back with its branches swaying and drooping, its canopy of foliage like a whispering…
