So, a new year, a new Refashioners challenge…last year we did jeans, this time the thing to be updated is A SUIT. Most disappointingly, I could find no one in my family or circle of friends to donate a suit…
Tag: own design
cha-cha pink stooff
Hello! Our recent holiday was a pretty multi-locationed one, covering a lot of ground and involving buses, trains, ferries, sea planes, also including a few long loooong waits in airports thanks to flights getting annoyingly delayed by fog, and two…
boatin’, campin’, bikin’ and hikin’ stoof
We’ve just come back from a holiday in Alaska, USA and British Columbia, Canada; had the most AWESOME-est time of course! but more about that later… I made a few bits and pieces to fill in some gaps in the…
french navy forsythe dress x2 and some tights
hello! I’ve made a couple of new dresses lately… followers of my ootd blog may have seen these pop up over there already. Remember back in January I made up the free Orla dress pattern designed by Sarah May of French…
a red wine pinafore
I’m wearing a new … thing. Is it a dress? Dungarees? An overall…? we used to call these pinafores. Or a pinny. I think it’s pretty cute anyway 🙂 I used to dress my children in corduroy dungarees when they…
more liberty lingerie… and why do I make my own?
On the “news” * the other night they had a little segment where Kmart introduced their new range of $5 bras, which is insanely cheap… and all over again I got to thinking about why I make my own in the…
…getting a Brazilian…
Olá! Soooo, I mentioned my brother’s BIG birthday? well to go with it he had a BIG birthday bash! with a Brazilian theme. I stupidly procrastinated about my costume, ended up going shopping for fabric the day before the party and…
black leather clogs (shoes)
Hello! I’ve finally finished these black leather clogs; that have been on the go for nearly a whole year now…. eeeeek!! these soles are the ones on the left; the ones on the right went on to become my teal suede wedges…
