Old Burda makes and daleks

I made this dress a few years ago. It's a Burda magazine one - sorry haven't got the details handy - and I really loved it. From memory I only wore it once, then I put on weight. I can't do the back zip up at the bodice (but you can't really tell in the photo...I am spilling out of it though - thanks menopause). The skirt part was a piece a friend gave me from her stash, just a polyester satin (thanks Marian) and the bodice part was a remnant of duchess satin from Gardams for $3 from memory. The hem is rolled on the overlocker. I really love the colours and feel of this dress and I'm aiming to get back into this. It's a great summer dress that looks smart but doesn't need a lot of care.

This top is also a Burda magazine make from about the same time ago. This is the second iteration of this top. I loved the first one so much and wore it to death but it faded and pilled. I made it out of this lovely polished cotton from Spotlight a few years ago - it was last of the roll and only $5 per metre.

This top has some lovely details - the bottom part of the top has 3 pin tucks on each side and is supposed to have a casing for a tie under the bust, but I didn't put this in as I don't need it. I love the cute little buttons.

I made the little button loops from some cord - it was so fidgety but worth the effort for the nice finish, it's also faced with some 1" satin bias. You don't have to undo the buttons to get into it. Well that would be if I could get into it - when I made this one I forgot to add the seam allowances so it doesn't fit - don't you hate that!

Yes, that bad looking cake is supposed to be a dalek (thanks Karen for the comment that made me realise I spelt this incorrectly). My son turned 10 recently and we had a little party at a great skate park nearby. He wanted a dalek cake - it's not my best make but the kids recognised it. The cake stood about 30cm high so there was a lot of cake.

That my hand to show scale. The computer in the background trying to get ideas.

One part of the skate park. There was a whole huge ramp built as well just behind here. There were about 20 late teenage boys there and our boys felt a little intimidated at first, but they all took their turns and there were not problems or falls. When we cut the cake, I took over about half of it to the teenagers and they were ecstatic - seems like you can never be too old for cake!

I've traced and half cut out a Ottobre raglan t-shirt. I need some basics for winter and I have nothing casual for school drop off and around the house. I want to make up some jeans or trousers but I'm feeling really low and flat - that's how the cold makes me feel and it's not even that cold yet.

Happy Mother's Day tomorrow for all the Mums to there. Enjoy your day.

Paris, river cruise 2022 - photo bomb!

(this post has been in my drafts since July 2022 due to life circumstances. I'm just going to write just a little and then just show some photos) My friend worked on a Superyacht for many years and through this connection was offered a friends and family deal on a river cruise in Europe. It was a deal too good to miss even though it wouldn't have been a first choice for me for a holiday. She had done this trip before but during the winter taking in the Christmas markets. We were going in June 2022. We decided to have 5 nights in Paris (where I'd been 5 times before) and 2 nights in Amsterdam where my friend lived for 2 years in her youth. We flew into Frankfurt... not because we wanted to but because these were the only flights we could get but we worked with it. Remember great deal! So ok, a short (5hr), fast ride on the ICE/TGV trains got us to Paris eventually (one was late which missed the connection to the earlier TGV but there was one a bit after). We knew that w

YFASMA - Fabric shopping in Athens

I promised this post in March! Fabrics from Euro1 per metre! I didn't buy anything in this shop but there was some lovely fabrics. I did buy the green and pink one above on the right. A satin finish rayon. It is lovely. There was a lot of lovely fabrics in this shop. It wasn't cheap Euro 8 p.m. but I didn't have a lot of room in my bag and I wanted something I would really love. I also didn't buy anything in Paris this time. I did buy the fabric for a table cloth just across the way from this shop. I also bought some orange/white weave linen fabric for Euro 4 p.m. at another shop, which I think I'll make some summer trousers with. As I was going to the airport, I saw this dress on the platform and I really liked it. Very easy to do too, I went to the Benaki Museum while in Athens. There is actually 2 locations. In this one I saw lots of Greek and Cypriot cultural crafts. This was a bridal bed in Crete. There was lots of clothing, embroidery and gold jewellery.

The saddest dress, then a few more.

Well hello. It's been a while. It was 8 months from the last post to the previous one to that and it's a bit longer this time. The last day I wrote was 10 Jul 2021. On 12 July my son and I were finally seeing Tim Minchin after booking it before we went to Europe at the end of 2019. It was going to be April 2020, but changed a few times and although it was a school night (year 12 for Alex) we went for dinner and sat in the show. My Mum had gone to hospital that morning and my sister was still at the hospital with her. Just after interval I got a message on my phone, "get to the hospital now". So we raced out and to the hospital where. although it was a lockdown and no visitors allowed, all 10 of us were allowed to see Mum as she was end of life. I won't go into the whole thing but Mum didn't die that night, but because of lockdown, we were not allowed to go and see her until a week and a half later when we were allowed just to discuss palliative care. By the n

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