I've been in a bit of a slump all around really - mind you that 6 week virus followed by 4-5 weeks asthmathtic-bronchitis will kinda suck the life out of me especially as it was winter.  I tend to get the seasonal glums by the end of our thankfully short winter.  But spring has sprung, and it's blue skies baby ( Read more... )

So well done - must see it again so that I can use more words.

Here's some quick nerd research I did on the subject of white dresses in what's called 'regency'  and it includes Jane Austen era clothing. Given Jane died in 1817 (just a few months before Princess Charlotte died in childbirth), I picked An 9 or most of 1801 when she'd have been 26. So not a young debutante and slightly on the shelf ( Read more... )

So nice to see a movie with a friend after too long a drought. Mind you now I'm not coughing I won't go to the special hell with the people who talk.  medusafox and I were going to see one last week but we both ended up not being able to. (I was asleep by 8.15pm ( Read more... )

Probably not the first time it occurred to me, but early last year when I caught the train to Canberra I thought how useful a custom made pillow tote would be. I have a spendy pillow which I hate to leave at home, but equally clutching a pillow in changeable weather to/from a train or bus station has some drawbacks.  So with only the purchase of ( Read more... )

I'm being forced to admit to brainfail - I forgot to pack some underwear and Catelyn's wig. and my prescription meds but missing 1 day won't hurt as much as leaving the wig at the other end of a 3 hour train trip ( Read more... )

I haven't seen snow or snow falling since I left London in January 1987, and even though pretty it's not fun to live in if you don't have the right clothes or equipment ( Read more... )

Okies so I have 16 weeks until the Wentworth Falls Regency weekend in the blue mountains.  It's a 2 day event, with a ball.  so of course I want a new ball gown. The 1818 gown in the Snowshill collection that I obsessed about last year for JAFA but only got as far as supplies. http://sewaddicted.livejournal.com/656106.htmlBut hey, I have the ( Read more... )

I don't often talk about what I'm reading, which may or may not be a good thing ( Read more... )

The beginning of last year I was drooling over some fabric on FFC and a plaid wool cloak in the MetWell early in June I came across some plaid wool fabric being sold on ebay AU during a sewing studio clean up.  And there was 5 metres, and under $10 pm. I bagsed it in a heartbeat because there's enough for a cloak, and it's lightweight which suits ( Read more... )