So the title explains it all really, hehe… I’ve been reading the blog Lil’ Blue Boo by Ashley Hackshaw… partly for chicken stuff since Tim and Kelly got chickens recently and the whole family has been invested in their care…
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Sydney jacket
have you guys seen COLOSSAL… ? Bet you can’t guess where I am here… Yeah, I know, it’s a tough one. Some locations are just so obscure and far off the beaten track, but I do like to…
more liberty lingerie… and why do I make my own?
On the “news” * the other night they had a little segment where Kmart introduced their new range of $5 bras, which is insanely cheap… and all over again I got to thinking about why I make my own in the…
deep teal, suedette dove blouse
Hey! I’ve made a new blouse. It’s the Dove blouse by Megan Nielsen patterns, in an lightweight but warm, faux suede from Spotlight. So, the recommended fabrics for this pattern are shirt-weight stuff like voile and crepe de chine and chambray and linen… not…
bunny top
I’ve made a new little top… I really wanted to debut it today seeing as it’s strewn with beautiful bouncing bunnies. A bunny-tastic, rabbit-iferous Easter-rockin’ top! 😀 You know when you go to Spotlight for a handful of bits and bobs, not…
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…
white Issey Miyake shirt
Self-explanatory, really. #endblogpost 😉 Pattern; Vogue 1384. It’s a vintage pattern, hailing from 1984, sorry. Yeah, it’s annoying when people make things in vintage patterns that you can’t get a hold of anymore. But I’m sure this is not particularly aspirational…
finishing an edge with bias binding
Now, I promised to write this tutorial to show my Mum how I applied this finish to her top… and others expressed an interest too; thank you so much to everyone else who did… I finally did it, yay 😉 Mostly I would use this…
