Recent Posts Tagged With 'sewing'

• A Lady Di moment

  Posted on Tuesday December 30th, 2008 at 23:56 in sewing, princess, dress, new year, ken, diana, fashion victim, lady di

  One of the most famous images of Lady Di - before she married Chuck - was the picture of her outside the daycare centre with the see-through skirt. Remember that? Well I discovered that when I walk in sunlight the same thing happens to my dress. Yes ...

• How I get to work

  Posted on Monday December 29th, 2008 at 19:54 in work, coffee, sewing, fashion victim, coffee machines

  The last thing I do before leaving home every morning is fill my coffee cup for the drive to work. I love my coffee machine.  If Groover and I ever split up I think custody of the coffee machine might be a contentious issue. And today I’m back...

• Help! I’m addicted

  Posted on Monday November 10th, 2008 at 05:19 in sewing, sudoku, hobbies, extracurricular

  You know, I have a pretty busy life. I work full-time, I run a household, I walk four times a week (well, I will be), on Thursdays I go to sewing lessons (see photo), I blog, I listen to several podcasts, I read books,  I talk to my husband and kids...

• The Dress Project - part 1

  Posted on Saturday October 25th, 2008 at 05:36 in budget, sewing, dress, extracurricular, project runway, fashion victim, dress making

  Inspired by Project Runway, a colleague and I are determined to learn how to sew and even - you know - make something. So today I went to a fabric shop in Subiaco and picked out a pattern and with the help of the shop assistant got all the bits I nee...

• My Space - seriously kid unfriendly

  Posted on Sunday September 28th, 2008 at 06:28 in myspace, house, sewing, cleaning, teenagers

  We are lucky enough to have a granny flat out the back of our place called affectionately The Cabana.  As we don’t have a shed it comes in handy as a place for storing all that stuff that somehow accumulates when you’ve lived in the same...