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making your outfits “pop”

04/03/2017 CarolynUncategorized20 Comments on making your outfits “pop”

Like most bloggers, when taking my pictures I usually try to pick some nice location as a backdrop to my creations, something that has the colours and the “feel” and/or just some general overall appropriateness in subject matter or whatever, that I…

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watercolour silk dress

23/03/201515/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized52 Comments on watercolour silk dress

I’ve made a new dress  🙂 Every year, my friends give me a Fabulous Fabrics voucher for my birthday; aaaah! they know me so well…!  🙂 and last year I spent it on this gorgeous, water-colour-y silk charmeuse.  And have…

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photo maisonette

03/06/201315/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized25 Comments on photo maisonette

Hello! My friend Yoshimi and I have a new venture; photo maisonette, a daily visual diary of our two different lives in our two different worlds in Japan and Australia.  The new blog is inspired by the wonderful site 3191 Miles Apart, a…

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Mayday

01/05/201315/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized40 Comments on Mayday

So, I said I wasn’t going to post a photo here every day during me-made May, since I’ve had comments on my blog about how boring it is, apparently.  Sorry.  But today is the very first day and I’m kinda…

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new toy

13/04/201315/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized25 Comments on new toy

After tonnes of deliberation, I’ve bought a new lens; an early… something? present for myself  🙂 My old lens is a 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6, which is a really fantastic little lens that produces great shots.  But for a while I have…

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On lemons, cats and hearts in the grass…

30/06/201215/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized11 Comments on On lemons, cats and hearts in the grass…

Fabio contemplates boughs laden with lemons, and dreams of a summer awash with limoncello… a furry feline line… and verdant love in unexpected places… May and June were lean in handmaded-ness… but soft! all is now beyond sweet memory since…

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Tree, with sunrays

02/05/201215/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized11 Comments on Tree, with sunrays

Heya! Hmmm, what to say; well maybe something about the photograph… I was glad my list of daily activities took me past this spot today.  It is usually deserted and to my mind utterly, ethereally, beautiful.  And I managed to…

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Yoshiki Hishinuma top; more details…

26/04/201215/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized17 Comments on Yoshiki Hishinuma top; more details…

…in response to comments, and thank you for your interest! Barbara wished to see the Yoshiki Hishinuma top on, so here it is.  It doesn’t really go perfectly with this skirt .. back in the day when I used to wear…

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