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The wind and the tides as our companions…

07/08/201021/12/2016 CarolynUncategorized6 Comments on The wind and the tides as our companions…

Walking along a wintery morning beach. The wind whips at our hair, tying curly tangles in sudden lusty gusts, prompting me to seek the warm sanctuary of my cosy handknit hoodie about my ears and saving the hair from a…

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Rocking the double denim look

05/08/201021/12/2016 CarolynUncategorized18 Comments on Rocking the double denim look

So here is my new dress, Vogue 1152, with more me-appropriate sleeves (for the “before sleeves”, see the post below).  I’m very happy with this now, will be perfect for a casual day-dress suited to the simple warm days not…

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Takes the Bronze

30/07/201021/12/2016 CarolynUncategorized22 Comments on Takes the Bronze

My new cocktail dress… I’m kind of in love with it.  Wish I could be wearing it all day, if that was in all way appropriate (might attract a few sideways glances in the supermarket, for one)  And as for…

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Black, gold and beaded cocktail/ball dress

27/07/201021/12/2016 CarolynUncategorized8 Comments on Black, gold and beaded cocktail/ball dress

This is not a new dress (although I have finished my new evening dress and will show it here soon!)  This is an old dress I made about  three years ago, out of lovely matte stiff silk taffeta for the…

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On growing old gracefully

26/07/201021/12/2016 CarolynUncategorized3 Comments on On growing old gracefully

Today met my girlfriends for a get-together and debrief after the school holidays… {You know how when something is troubling you, a good bit of advice is to write a long letter to yourself where you can purge all the…

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Oversized knitwear

16/07/201021/12/2016 CarolynUncategorized3 Comments on Oversized knitwear

The latest Vogue magazine has been singing the virtues of oversized knitwear for this winter.  This isn’t a look I go for very often, but I thought for once in a while, why not?  Granted the fashionable colours for this…

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Noro baggy beanie

14/07/201021/12/2016 CarolynUncategorized5 Comments on Noro baggy beanie

So, here is the other baggy beanie I’ve made for this winter.  This is made using one ball of Noro Kuryon? I think?  I bought it a few months ago, and have lost the tag so colourway is unknown, sorry!……

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Splitting up a suit

09/06/201021/12/2016 CarolynUncategorized4 Comments on Splitting up a suit

Challenging myself to wear everything in my wardrobe: I’m still coming across old winter skirts that have seen more fashionable days, but are still perfectly good.  Today’s is another one.  Do you remember this skirt?  I had got a lot…

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