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I’m gonna party…

24/09/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized32 Comments on I’m gonna party…

…like it’s ma birthday… ‘Cos it is!  Hehe, and I’m going to take full advantage, by doing exactly as I please… which means very little office work.  Sadly Craig is working all today  :((  but we are all going out…

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Heya…

23/09/201127/12/2016 CarolynUncategorized6 Comments on Heya…

… and thank you so much for your kind well-wishes yesterday.   Sorry, I’m still a bit flat.  Today our schizophrenic weather who doesn’t know if it’s Arthur or Martha, turned so so beautiful.  This was such a contrast to…

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Back again

22/09/201127/12/2016 CarolynUncategorized11 Comments on Back again

Hello. I’m feeling a bit woolly-headed so I’m warmly rugged up and back to standing in a familiar place for self-stitched September today.  So I’m not feeling very imaginative.  But fortuitously so; I think the thickly clouded whiteness of sky, the smooth…

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Having a cuppa…

21/09/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized12 Comments on Having a cuppa…

Self-stitched September, Day 21 Today’s mini photo challenge, to be eating/drinking. I whipped up a new Tshirt yesterday. Hehe, “whipped-up”, a phrase that is music to the seamster’s ears, no?  Don’t you just love the very thought of it; whipping…

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Shades of grey…

20/09/201127/12/2016 CarolynUncategorized14 Comments on Shades of grey…

Self-stitched September; day 20: Awkward time of the year.  Donned tights again this morning because of a pessimistic weather forecast, only to later find myself too hot.  Lol! And not sewing or handmaking related at all, but still exciting… the…

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Unique Clothes, top “p”

19/09/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized25 Comments on Unique Clothes, top “p”

A new top; this one is top “p” from the Japanese pattern book Unique Clothes Any Way You Like, by Natsuno Hiraiwa.  I was intrigued by and loved the look of this little thing from the first, and always knew…

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Having a blast

18/09/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized13 Comments on Having a blast

… it’s a crazy windy day here in Perth!  I was thinking today how wind machines are probably obsolete around here, the real deal being present in such a massive way. Last night we had a fairly intense storm and…

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The dreaded flannie…

17/09/201127/12/2016 CarolynUncategorized9 Comments on The dreaded flannie…

When I first made this shirtdress I received a comment on Pattern Review that it was “like the dreaded flannie“, but so much nicer”  Of course this was the exact effect I was absolutely hoping to evoke… ;D It’s comfortable,…

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