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Comfort dressing

12/09/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized6 Comments on Comfort dressing

Self-Stitched September day 12: Woohee, taking one’s photo everyday has been quite a challenge, not to mention the embargo on reaching for the same old same old favourites from the wardrobe.  Everybody has favourites and comfort zones and there are…

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Green Day

11/09/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized8 Comments on Green Day

Aaah, social whirling over and life is back to normal around here for a while…  I do like to go out and get dressed up once in a while and the social season is certainly upon us now spring is…

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A glitzy lunch-date

10/09/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized7 Comments on A glitzy lunch-date

Ahhh, another day, another fashion parade and champagne lunch…. and no, I’m actually not joking.  Just quietly I’m getting a little fashion-paraded out, and I never thought those words would ever come from me! ….hehe.  No, really, I have seen…

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The colours of Spring

09/09/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized19 Comments on The colours of Spring

Today I attended a very glamourous luncheon and fashion parade with friends, and am now exhausted…   so please excuse any crazy bad spelling or random ungrammatical remarks in this post… For this occasion I wore my new pink lace…

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New greige top, with a shoulder experiment…

08/09/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized9 Comments on New greige top, with a shoulder experiment…

“Greige”; not a word found in any dictionary, but one adopted by the fashion industry to describe this colour that is not quite grey, not quite beige…   I love it.  And going by my latest fabric shopping binge carefully-considered…

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Chambray shirt

07/09/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized13 Comments on Chambray shirt

After finishing my chambray/denim dress I had a leetle bit of the fabric leftover, too much for scraps, not enough for another garment.  I had enough for the fronts of this shirt.  So then had to go back for some…

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It’s a jungle…

06/09/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized4 Comments on It’s a jungle…

Self Stitched September: Day 6; Trying to zip my way through my winter options now as the weather heats up, and truthfully I’m a little roasting in this jumper here today…! I was very inspired by the Marc Jacobs A/W…

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Father’s Day on the beach

05/09/201021/12/2016 CarolynUncategorized7 Comments on Father’s Day on the beach

Self Stitched September day 5: The weather has been absolutely glorious, so after the obligatory Father’s Day breakfast in bed, packed up the dog and the husband (not necessarily in that order!) and headed to the beach for a stroll.…

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