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Back to my usual haunts…

02/05/201122/12/2016 CarolynUncategorized9 Comments on Back to my usual haunts…

… and back with my usual walking companion   🙂 I think she’s missed our little outings.  She sure was happy to get out and about this morning, and was quite the scamper-puppy. It seems to me, from casual convo’s…

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Lacey, sort-of Duro dress; 6 different ways

15/04/201122/12/2016 CarolynUncategorized16 Comments on Lacey, sort-of Duro dress; 6 different ways

Oooh, I do enjoy doing these more than is healthy.  Playing about in my wardrobe, I mean. I made this dress, a modified version of Simplicity 3745 out of white dotted swiss voile and a crocheted lace for the border…

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Autumnal shades, and a dilemma

13/04/201122/12/2016 CarolynUncategorized25 Comments on Autumnal shades, and a dilemma

Just been enjoying those lovely fresh autumnal days lately, feeling the sunlight warm but not harsh on the skin, breathing in that fresh crisp air.  When the days are just that little bit fresher like today I get to employ…

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Roundabout

28/03/201121/12/2016 CarolynUncategorized12 Comments on Roundabout

Me-Made March, Day 28 This morning my Monday morning gal pals and I were discussing Mad Men and the fashions within, and it was fortuitous that I happened to be wearing this dress and my friends noticed and admired it……

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Sunday…

20/03/201122/09/2017 CarolynUncategorized14 Comments on Sunday…

… and a walk in the park avec husband and doggie. It’s funny; I made this blouse following one of those wardrobe advice articles in a fashion magazine, that every woman should have a crisp white blouse in their collection.…

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Mad dogs and Englishmen*

15/03/201121/12/2016 CarolynUncategorized13 Comments on Mad dogs and Englishmen*

That old line about mad dogs and Englishmen going out in the midday sun kept popping into my head as we were out here this morning.   Although technically speaking, it is before nine o’clock in the morning and nowhere…

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Chocolat

14/03/201121/12/2016 CarolynUncategorized12 Comments on Chocolat

This is another dress made years ago, that periodically gets worn a lot, and periodically gets shoved into the back of the wardrobe because I’m tired of it, only to periodically rediscover it with cries of joy when those hot…

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Burda 7723, a pattern review

13/03/201121/12/2016 CarolynUncategorized17 Comments on Burda 7723, a pattern review

These shorts aren’t new here on the blog, I made them over a year ago and have worn them a zillion times since, although not for Me-Made-March yet.  Since this version here was my first attempt at this now fairly…

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