Oh hey! I made a dress for my daughter! it’s a rather special one actually… 😉 So where to begin…well of course I’m teasing; my darling girl recently married her man D and this is her wedding dress, that I…
Tag: beading
An olive and a skull
I’ve made some necklaces. Cassie discovered the Bead Post in the old Post Office in Fremantle, just across from the railway station, and we paid them a visit. Oh my gosh, so many beautiful beads! A few years ago a…
A handmade Christmas, II
some Christmas decorations… a series of mittens and gloves, of a single width of felt and decorated in various ways. These made nice and simple little gifts for friends. The little glittery gold bell was made by a 4 yr…
A handmade Christmas
I do admire other people’s Christmas trees, the ones which are all glitzy and sparkly and beautifully colour co-ordinated, sometimes even with a new colour scheme each year, but it is just not for us. We have a small artificial…
Glossy wooden beads
Got heaps of office work to do today, so may not enter the laundry (where my sewing machine is situated, taunting me) until it’s all done… I also had a few errands to run, so took time out to sneak…
Chanel style belt
From Chanel, Spring/Summer 2010 RTW How cool are these gold chain belts by Chanel this season? Often a designer piece inspires me to have a go at reproducing the “look” myself. It’s not that I’m setting out to reproduce a…
Strings of pebbles, washed smooth and soft…
This is a necklace I made a few years ago at the height of my beading phase. I loved these uneven lumpy beads that remind me of ocean-smoothed pebbles on a European beach in that particularly gorgeous mix of smoky…
Not to judge a book by its cover
Today’s shirt pattern is familiar to those following this blog, I’m even getting a little embarrassed at how often it’s appeared here. It is Butterick 4985 again, this time with the addition of some little pockets on the front with…
