For my Christmas dress this year I have visions of a dreamy floral dress; tight bodiced but with a big big skirt… this is not a look I’ve worn very often, if at all so it’s quite possible I am…
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Floral floaty dress
Finished! In sequinned and embroidered silk chiffon from the Alannah Hill outlet in Melbourne, and using Vogue 1152 again. This second time in making up this pattern I followed the pattern faithfully. Except to add about 5cm in length because…
An unappreciated skirt
Rummaging around in my wardrobe I came out with this skirt which has only been worn a mere handful of times; poor thing. I was so pleased with it when I had finished it, so I’m not sure why I…
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…
An essential petticoat
The first time I wore this new cocktail dress was at a standing cocktail function; and all was hunky dory. Felt a million bucks and the dress was perfect. The second time I wore it was to a sit-down lunch…
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…
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…
Pink lace dress
I’ve made a new dress for spring, but I’ve persuaded Bessie to model it for today… because I’ve started to think about Self-Stitched September coming up where I’ll be documenting my handmade daily outfits everyday (hope that’s not going to…
