Last week I showed you a dress I hadn’t blogged about but it went down quite well so I here are the details. I wanted to make the Colette Truffle bodice into my go-to dress bodice block as it was so close to being perfect on my Christmas party dress. I made a rub off …
Me-Made-May 13 – week 1
Well hello! May is upon us. And for everyone in Europe we had a bank holiday to kick things off too! I managed four out of five days in me-mades this week. I had agreed with myself a goal of six out of seven days in each week but hey, this was a short week! …
V8469 review
The eagle-eyed of you will have spotted an unfamiliar dress in my blogger meet up post. In honour of the day I decided to dress up! I wore V8469. This is from their Very Easy Vogue range and I have to say it was pretty darn easy. I used a polyester I’ve had in my stash for …
How was your weekend?
“So what did you do this weekend?” “Oh I went shopping in London with 50 strangers off the Internet and we took over a Lebenese restaurant. What did you do?” I want to say that this weekend’s meetup in London was so tremendous that I’m finding it hard to describe. I tried to summarise proceedings …
Birmingham Rag Market (aka how to spend your pay packet in one day)
I’ve already told a fib. My pay packet didn’t just disappear at the famous rag market in Birmingham but also at the Bull Ring shopping centre across the road. Now I wouldn’t say I live particularly close to Birmingham. The first time I ever went was for Marie and Kat‘s wonderful blogger meet up at …
“What’s that girl? Timmy’s fallen down the well?”
No need to send out the dogs to find me. Lassie can carry on fighting crime and saving children through the power of barking.* I’ve just been having some time off and some technical issues! I’ve been busy beavering away on a dress and two tops but illness, family bereavement and a new job haven’t …