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pink jeans
Thursday: I think I'm super strict with my colour palette. Bright colours scare me a bit and while I like them in theory, in practise they freak me out and I just have to isolate them, visually;...
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my home town
The theme for the today's mini photo challenge in me-made May is your home town, so ta da!!!! I walk past this view nearly every day, but my photos will attest to the fact that I usually position my...
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Sat, Sun, Mon
Saturday: meet my evil twin... can you guess which is me and which is she?? No, I didn't think so ;) I got a question in the Flickr group, do I have a body double... um, no?! and I only have one...
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Paprika legs
I have made some new tights! and now I have paprika legs. You know, paprika, the hot n' spicy stuff.I like the idea of hot spicy legs ;) you see, my initial impulse was to go with "oompa loompa"...
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Black tights and striped Tshirt
So yesterday I mentioned I would need some black tights to see me through winter... well I made some, tout de suite. Nothing like striking while the iron is hot! I used some lovely fine-knit black...
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Boring black Tshirt
The penultimate day of me-made May, and I have a post planned to spew out some vitriol reflect on my experiences. Only kidding there. I have no vitriol, of course. Well, very very little ;) hehe,...
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red
The photo mini challenge for today, the last day of me-made May is "red".min 6C, max 19C, fine and sunnyDetails:Jacket; Burdastyle magazine 08/2010, 113, chocolate brown faux leather, details and my...
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paper doll project
I'm still doodling about with my paper doll project! I didn't put any pages in my blog during me-made May because it seemed kinda overkill, but I think for the sake of having it all here... If you...
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photo maisonette
Hello!My friend Yoshimi and I have a new venture; photo maisonette, a daily visual diary of our two different lives in our two different worlds in Japan and Australia. The new blog is inspired by the...
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Navy and white striped Tshirt; 6 different ways
A striped Tshirt seems to be the wardrobe staple of a certain kind of girl, a very stylish and chic kind of girl, that I think is not very like me. I mean, I like to think of myself as a...
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White Bombshell
G'day beach babes! OK so I admit it is winter here in Australia now. I can explain...The very clever Heather of Closet Case Files has dropped a literal Bombshell on the sewing world with this, her...
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Browning a couple of things
Remember my Sew Bossy dress, below? It was very… sweet, wasn’t it? I mean, I wish I could wear really pretty things like that, but I think I cannot! But I thought it had promise, it just needed...
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Navy stripes
It was Sam's birthday a few days back and I made a shirt for him. The fabric is from Spotlight, a medium-weight cotton twill in a heavy cream colour with navy blue stripes. Ahem, stripes again, I...
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the paper doll project
(I've pledged to wear only clothes handmade by me this year and to sketch my daily outfits in my Fashionary. I'm calling this the paper doll project)30th May-4th Junefrom left:ivory jeans, black...
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I dye...
... literally. I'm dyeing heaps of stuff lately.My ultramarine corduroy skirt. I was bored with it, and didn't wear it at all during me-made May even though it was season appropriate. That is A...
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One way to sew a flat-felled and split seam
A split side seam is a nice feature that adds a bit of visual interest as well as some wearing ease to a straight-hemmed garment, and flat-felling is a smooth and clean finishing technique for seams;...
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Gemini
Gemini, the twins. Of course my boys are not twins obviously, they are separated by several years and have one sister in between them too. But they are both Geminis! That picture cracks me up btw......
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Future Grrrrl!
Whoa! who is that babe?It's FUTURE GRRL!So; Cassie was going to a Futuristic party... and had a firm idea of how she wanted to look. To make this sartorial vision a reality she wanted a flamboyant...
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Supreme Commander Servalan
Put him on the fastest scout ship available and send him here. No flight plan is to be filed. That's against Bureau standing orders, Commissioner. Who do you think wrote those orders, Borr? I did. So...
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the paper doll project
(I've pledged to wear only clothes handmade by me this year and to sketch my daily outfits in my Fashionary. I'm calling this the paper doll project)17th-22nd Junefrom left:dyed corduroy skirt, white...
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