Hehe, in order to avoid falling into a rut and boring you with repeat photos of the beach I’m making an effort to seek out new locations, variety is the spice of life, so they say. Thus, the toasty tones…
Tag: own design
Downgrading a “good” dress
Does anyone else downgrade their dresses? Move the snazzies out of category “with heels and make-up only” and over to “OK to walk the dog in”? Last year this dress was a “good” dress. I wore it to lots of…
Three Grim Reapers
OK, we don’t really observe Halloween here in Australia. Trick-or-treating, definitely not. But sometimes there is the odd party happening at this time that adopts a Halloween-y theme and thus provides an excuse for people to dress up in weird outfits. So,…
Bathers, 2010
I’m feeling veeeeery brave, putting a picture of myself up here, in my bathers! Last year I was way too shy to do this. Please note I’ve modestly veiled my face, so no one can recognise me… (lol) So I’ve…
Red halter-neck sundress; 6 different ways
Ha! The last time I wore this for my blog and I was writing a description, I was about to segue into rhapsodies about how useful a garment it was when it occurred to me I hadn’t done a 6-way…
Fair Isle knitted jumper
Today’s photo is good for a bit of a chuckle, no? The above is a photo taken of my husband and me at our engagement party. I know, we look like babies… this was over twenty years ago. On a…
How to make your own tights
Before I went to Melbourne I had bought from Fabulous Fabrics some wonderful stretch jersey, printed to look like distressed denim, and I knew it just had to be tights… When I made my last tights I had a few requests for…
One year in cyber-space; and a Give-Away
Today exactly one year ago I started blogging here about my sewing, and as it turned out, some other stuff too! 🙂 To mark the occasion, I thought it might be fun to wear again today the same dress I…
