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…the place, the walk-in-robe; time, first thing in the morning.  Our protagonist is rummaging frantically around in her wardrobe, looking for a dress, not just any dress, but the dress, the winter dress she has firmly set her mind on wearing.
Mutters, “…must be here, somewhere…”
Hangers, two and sometimes even three deep in garments are flying back and forth across the rail…
Thinks: surely I haven’t tossed out that dress.  I like that dress!
Five more minutes of mad rummaging, during which our protagonist climbs up onto a stool and starts to ruthlessly toss stuff from the top shelf, going through the mess of scarves, gloves, tights and other assorted accessories that live on the top shelf.  Well, mess, let’s just say it wasn’t a mess before she started on her quest…
Suddenly she stops short, climbs down and races (uhuh, half-dressed, it’s a good thing everyone else has left the house…) to the cupboard under the stairs.  A vacuum cleaner, mop and broom are removed from where they have been shoved haphazardly and in an unloved manner just inside the door, and are stacked against a dining room chair, where they inevitably slid off and crash onto the floor.  Our half-dressed heroine hasn’t noticed.  She has cast aside some tennis racquets, blow-up mattresses and a doll’s pram.  She emerges finally with a suitcase and pauses to unzip a small aperture, checks inside with a handy torch before diving back into the cupboard for the next suitcase.  Finally a little aha! of triumph, and she extracts the elusive dress from amongst other winter-y woolies in, like, the last suitcase.  She puts it on, and stops to survey the incredible mess she has created, but she is already late, so off she goes to run her errands before meeting her friends for morning tea.  But she gets home, the chaos is still there.  Obviously…
I need to get my act together, sort out those darn winter clothes…

Details:
Dress Burda 7897, dark olive green bamboo/cotton mix, first seen here  (this is the one I always wear with a scarf over the front, since the bodice is kinda funny-looking…)
Scarf; Colinette chenille yarn, my own design, details here
Belt; emu leather, from Luxxe
Tights; Metalicus
Shoes; Django and Juliette, from Zomp shoes

…sorry.
This is traditionally my day off from being stylish and put-together.  This is me being a dag.  In fact if one so desired (which I totally understand most couldn’t care less, but still) one could check back through my Sunday outfits for any of these me-made challenges and probably the same aura of dag-icity will be a constant.  But hey, days for comfort dressing are a necessary and realistic part of one’s week.  I am spending the day chucking a ball for the dog (did this activity after our brief photo opportunity here, as usual), sipping cups of tea and reading the paper, and a bit of cooking and sewing will be achieved too, no doubt.
Wishing you all an equally lovely weekend!

Details:
Shirt; Burda 7767, pink linen, details here (originally made for Craig, but Tim has hijacked it permanently and I borrow it sometimes too, hehe)
Jeans; Burda 7863 with modifications, rust-coloured corduroy, details here
Socks; not seen, but handknit too, I’m wearing these ones
Boots; Andrea and Joen, from Uggies in Dunsborough

Another important day today; it is our oldest son’s birthday!  Which also makes this the anniversary of our last half a day as a coupla dinks…  (double-income-no-kids, remember those 90’s acronyms?)  I have made Tim something for his birthday, and will get a picture of it, soon.
In the meantime, here is my Me-Made June piccie for today.  Including my new umbrella, that I bought the other day.  Cute, no?  Yes, it is black (yah, I know, blah blah boring, sorry) but it does have a cute frill around the edge, which redeems it somewhat and rescues it from predictability.  It’s kind of exciting that I managed to get out in the rain for one of these pics, I was wondering if it wouldn’t happen at all this month!
Thank you so much everyone for your umbrella comments the other day!  I did go and check out those links.  Whilst I do harbour fantasies about covering my own umbrella one of these days, the immediacy of winter necessitated this purchase; I got it the day Sam and I went out for shopping and lunch together for his birthday.  Sooo fortunate that I did, because it started to pour when we went out to go home!!

Details:
T-shirt; self drafted, navy and ivory striped jersey, details here
Skirt; skirt “d” from Unique Clothes Any Way You Like by Natsuno Hiraiwa, silver grey crepe, details here, and to see this skirt styled in 6 different ways go here
Jacket; my own design, a refashioned pair of three quarter pants, details here
Boots; Andrea and Joen, from Uggies in Dunsborough
Umbrella; Charlie Brown, from David Jones

Not that long ago double denim was a fashion crime.  No one but no one, dared to put a denim top with a denim bottom.  Then last year it suddenly became a little bit cool, one saw it on a few cool kids here and there.  Albeit the shapes and colours were a little different.  The denim jeans were either wide-leg, flared or skinny; not straight, a silhouette which seems firmly stuck in the daggy category.  And denim or chambray tops of all shades of almost-faded-to-white through to full-indigo started being a cool option to pop on the top, and with the denim bottoms!!  It was like, whoa! hold the phone! what’s going on?!   Has no one noticed the double denim happening here??!!
As it turned out, all hell didn’t break loose, and the earth didn’t stop in its tracks.  Life went on.
The double denim didn’t look so hideous as it had in our bad old 80’s memories.  It actually looked kind of fresh and interesting.  I liked it.
So it seems double denim is actually OK again…
So today I gave it a whirl.  Yeeks!  But for good measure I didn’t just go with the double denim, a half-baked option if I ever saw one, no? but pulled out the stops and went for the triple denim!
Just waiting for the fashion police to call, now…

Details:
Dress; Vogue 1152 with modifications, chambray, details and my review of this pattern here
Shirt; Burda 7767 with modifications, chambray, details here
Tights; self-drafted, made of denim-lookalike stretchy knit fabric, details here, and my tute for drafting your own custom-fit tights
Shoes; Francesco Morichetti from Zomp shoes

(the mini-challenge for Me-Made June for today is to pose with a loved one.  I have my usual loved-one, since my other loved ones are busy.  But look below, is that not the look of love?)

Me-Made June; Day 14
Another wild windy day.  And lots of lovely dam-filling, garden-watering rain overnight.   The evidence was there in lots of large puddles dotted about.  🙂
The river had burst its banks.  Don’t see that everyday…  :O
I’m taking Sam out to lunch today.  🙂
And I plan to buy a new umbrella since mine flew inside out as soon as I left the house this morning… and several of the little spokes have bent irretrievably out of whack.  🙁
I often wish the frames of umbrellas were so super sturdy that they lasted for years and years, and that one could seasonally recover the frame with the fabric of a colour and design of one’s choice.  How nice would that be?  😀
And am planning and sewing another birthday surprise  😉

Details:
Dress; Burdastyle 08/2009; 128, ivory/beige raw silk, details and my review of this pattern here
Jacket; Vogue 2894, red silk hessian, details and my review of this pattern here
Tights; chocolate brown, Kolotex
Boots; Sempre di, from Zomp shoes
Gloves; chocolate leather ones from David Jones

Me-Made June; Day 13:
It actually feels like winter is in the air.  The wind had a definite nip to it this morning, and rain has been forecast for tomorrow.  This is is awesomely good news.

Details:
Shirt; my own design from a mix of patterns, made of black cotton with skull buttons bought in Japan, details here
Skirt; Burdastyle magazine 10/2010, 136 (the Karl Lagerfeld skirt), with modifications, made of black suiting, details here
Tights; self-drafted, made of denim-look jersey, details (and a tute on  how to make your own custom fit tights) here
Knotted scarf; made from an old tank top, details here
Coat; McCalls 5525 view B, made of grey wool, details and my review of this pattern here
Shoes; Django & Juliette, from Zomp shoes

Me-Made June; Day 12
Love ma uggies.  I could say that slipping on my ugg boots is like slipping a pair of comfy old slippers… except that’s exactly what they are.  So, of course it is, hehe.
So, in the interests of reality in footwear; these rip-toed, beaten-up old uggs really are what my feet wearing for, like, 95% of my day, with the tiny exception of walking the dog, which we are doing right here, and for which I actually had on little sandshoes.  That’s the reality.  But, to get “reality” I toted my ugg boots along to the park to change into just for this photo.  Ha!  Oh the irony…
Because the other reality is that I never ever wear these out in public.  Well, really, just look at them.  One has a big hole in the toe, which has been mended and re-ripped.  Mum would be horrified just looking at this photo…  But I can’t ever get rid of them.  I suffer from this hopelessly sentimental attachment to them.  But maybe I should patch up that hole again… give the old dears a bit more dignity?

Details:
T-shirt; self-drafted. leopard print jersey wool-mix, details here
Pants; Burda 7863, khaki stretch gabardine, details and my review of this pattern here
Hoodie; KwikSew 3667, pale grey marle fleece, details here
Socks; barely just seen through the rip in the toe there, but still handknit by me, details here
Uggs; had forever