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Daffodil Day

27/08/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized6 Comments on Daffodil Day

Today is Daffodil Day in Australia. Like just about everyone, cancer has touched my life too.  I have lost family members and friends.  One close friend is a survivor.  It’s nice to have a reason to buy flowers.  I would…

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TGl Friday

23/07/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized3 Comments on TGl Friday

Today was meeting friends for morning tea, and another friend for a walk later (and afternoon tea afterwards, no doubt!)  It’s a tough life.  My office work can wait until tonight, methinks… and it would be a crying shame to…

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Olive and grape

11/06/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized4 Comments on Olive and grape

Hilariously I started out this morning dressing with a view to wearing my suit jacket I’ve been talking about.  But it didn’t look as good over this dress as well as I’d envisioned in my head, and a few discarded…

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Dress with weird bodice…

28/11/200915/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized1 Comment on Dress with weird bodice…

I made this dress for last winter from Burda 7897 from a dark olive green bamboo/cotton mix fabric from Fabulous Fabrics.  It was a pretty good basic dress that I wore a lot, but the bodice was a bit weird…

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Morticia? Is that you?

16/10/200915/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized1 Comment on Morticia? Is that you?

Friday, 16th October 2009 This is one of my more recent creations, made in the last few months. I was inspired by Prada’s Autumn/Winter 2008 collection of black lace “suits” (see below). Yes, I realise its taken me quite a…

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