Bonjour! I am just back from a fantastic weekend in France celebrating my brother's 40th - 70s style! Everyone made such an effort with their costumes and the whole party was really colourful and, thanks to my amazing husband's DJing, non stop dancing till the early hours! It was so much fun!! I'm pretty knackered
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Me Made May – Week 1…
Good morning birdies! I'm happy to report that I had one of the best weekends ever! My amazing sisters took me on a surprise trip to play a brilliant team game akin to the escape rooms -complete with piecing together a glockenspiel to play Lady In Red by magnet and rubbing bones with a locket to
My Hen Party dress in Liberty fabric from Abakhan…
Well hello there! It's been awhile... but then I did warn you I was going to be quiet up until the wedding so I'm going to try not to let the usual guilt set in this time! Oh who am I kidding?! I feel guilt for not blogging more most minutes of most days- I'm
I MADE A COAT!!!! (Waffle Pattern’s Pepernoot Hooded Coat)
Sorry (not sorry) but I just can't get over my excitement with this one... a freaking COAT! I'm so so sooo happy!! Every time I see it I grin like an idiot for ages... way longer than is appropriate actually... like I'm actually a bit obsessed with my coat. Anyway.. PICTURES!!! The moment I saw
Sophia Sew-a-long… #2: FABRICS & NOTIONS
Happy Monday everyone! I hope I gave you lots of ideas for your Sophia outfits on the inspiration board last week. I got so inspired by all the options that I'm now planning on making a lace version to sew-a-long with you all and will hopefully have it finished by the end! So today we discuss fabrics
The Refashioners Challenge VS Lilith & Eve’s First Pattern
Evenin' all! I have had a mammoth sewing to do list these last few weeks and most of them I can't share yet but there has been a note on this to do list for months now; "Get Shirt & join in The Refashioners 2015 project by 27th Sept"... TICK!! So the Refashioners challenge is about
Outfit Along 2015… Lilou and Plain Jane!
Well hello there! I do apologise for my intermittent bursts of activity and silence on this blog - summer is a hard time to knuckle down and do some laptop-y stuff as A-it's too nice to not be outside or sewing and B- it's been a whirlwind of busy times with festival gigs and then