tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56052726296425615892024-03-14T16:02:00.004+10:30Ruffles GazeboThe adventures of a young and curious seamstressAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10591078010829649352noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5605272629642561589.post-78858834356393303632014-01-20T13:19:00.002+10:302014-01-20T13:19:19.205+10:30An Amazingly Hideous Christmas Shirt<div style="text-align: center;">
<strong><em>So Christmas is well and truely over... and I haven't posted in months....BUT WHAT THE HELL!!! Here's a post!</em></strong></div>
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Who would have thought Christmas fabric can actually be quite expensive?!?!? Ridiculous! $25 a meter? Really?.....Do people make serious things from this fabric to warrant the price? Because honestly, I could never make something out of Christmas fabric that wasn't mostly a joke...<br />
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<b><i>Like this shirt for example! </i></b></div>
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I made this for a friend for his work Christmas party ...we couldn't find any online that would have arrived on time, as they would have to come from the US, and that mostly only Christmas jumpers were available...and it is very much summer here. </div>
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I bought two fabrics, the main shirt fabric which is green, and the contrast picture fabric, which all came as one piece like quilting fabric with lost of different pictures. That was the expensive one....I orginally would have liked to make it all from that one, but I actually really like how it turned out, less intense, and a little bit more summery for our Aussie Christmas. </div>
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Personally my favorite part are the reindeer.<br />
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I asked my friend his size in his most bought brand of clohting, went online and looked up the measurements for his size on their website, and just used the block we had at TAFE for his size.</div>
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The only thing I did was make it short sleeve for the Northern Territory summer.</div>
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Does anyone else find that domestic button hole functions, ALWAYS....ALWAYS at least screws up once, more likely twice? I have a decent expensive(ish) machine...and still every time I go to do a buttonhole I worry...</div>
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And my other favorite part....THE SINGLE CHRISTMAS TREE BUTTON!</div>
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Hope y'all had a fine Chrissie and a darn dandy New Year!</div>
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Xoxo Ruffles</div>
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This is almost a month overdue. Oops. That's what studying does to you! (which will pay off for you when I can show you the things I just completed!!)<br />
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I did succeed with my Me May May 13', the reason it was mediocre was simply due to the fact that I had a very busy May. Well actually I think I am always this busy...but I really wanted to try and step it up a bit for this month.</div>
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Reasons I feel it was mediocre are also because....well the first week of May I was sick....it was sucky, and it meant for a lot of days I didn't get changed out of pajamas.... </div>
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I also didn't get nearly as many photos as I would have liked, when I put these pics together I thought I had taken way more...apparently not!<br />
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I did go on a hunt at the beginning of May when I was sick and bought a tripod from cash converters for $12 which was a part of my Me Made May plan to take lots of selfies....But alas....it had no camera plate....and seeing as I have never bought a tripod before I thought this wasn't going to be an issue.</div>
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IT WAS! I had one i had ordered from eBay thinking they were surely all the same....they aren't. I ended up watching tutorials on how to make them out of wood and made 90% of a functional plate that fits....but I didn't have a drill to finish it off :'( so sadly it was never finished.</div>
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I jumped my housemates on the few occasions I saw them and made them take some dodgy lounge room photos with horrible lighting.... </div>
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PLEASE BELIEVE ME I DID WEAR SOMETHING I MADE EVERYDAY I SWEAR!!<br />
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I actually felt that if I didn't I would have been letting myself down and would have felt awful if I had.</div>
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I did on a couple of occasions in the evening when I went out wore dresses that I hadn't made....but i wore something during the day that i had made so I'm not sure what the rules might be here? I felt guilty...but I felt it was kinda reasonable.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I figured a lot of things out during Me Made May', especially about what huge blaring gaps exist in my me made wardrobe. I lack basics.... a lot... the<a href="http://sewaholic.net/too-much-frosting-not-enough-cake/"> </a></span><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://sewaholic.net/too-much-frosting-not-enough-cake/">'Too much frosting, not enough cake' </a><br />that <a href="http://sewaholic.net/too-much-frosting-not-enough-cake/">Sewaholic</a> blogs about definitely applies here. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I ended up making some cake (two basic cotton t-shirts) during me made may which really helped :) However because of school I didn't manage to get much else done!</span><br />
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I think now that this is over I am going to joining the<a href="http://seamlessblog.wordpress.com/the-pledge/"> Seamless pledge</a>! Go have a look! I wish I had seen it sooner :)</div>
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I hope everyone had a fun Me Made May, I will definitely be doing it again!</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10591078010829649352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5605272629642561589.post-56237454085204484322013-05-22T21:49:00.001+09:302013-05-22T21:52:27.509+09:30A Wish List of Shoes<div style="text-align: center;">
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So I obsess over shoes.</div>
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These are the ones that have stuck with me for a while now and might need to be added to my collection if my funds can bare it....</div>
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I will sadly probably never own any of the WXY shoes. They are so beautiful</div>
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Im not going to deny it...this is the first time in....well....ever, that I haven't desperately wanted something from the new Melissa range...I'm seriously unimpressed by this...</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10591078010829649352noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5605272629642561589.post-40412470377457723032013-05-21T22:41:00.001+09:302013-05-21T22:43:10.748+09:30Lovin Bloglovin' & 1930's underwear<div style="text-align: center;">
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Finally jumped on the Bloglovin' bandwagon!</div>
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Can't believe how easy it is and that I can follow all the blogs I like from everywhere ^_^ </div>
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Yay it's like a dream come true! Why did no one force this upon me sooner?<br />
AND I already apparently have 2 followers via Bloglovin', which is definitely the most exciting part haha!</div>
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Anyway, now there is a lovely little widget on the left hand side! So get following....</div>
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Wait....if your reading this you probably already are....</div>
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It all started with a $4 Millers linen dress bought from the Vinnies down the road. </div>
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How embarrassing and shameful. I only just realised then when posting about Me Made May '13.<br />
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This will be my first year participating in Me Made May, run by the lovely blogger <a href="http://sozowhatdoyouknow.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/me-made-may13-sign-up-here.html">So, Zo...What do you know?</a><b><i> </i></b><br />
Last year I had only just started my blog, so I had not had the chance of discovering such fun blog related challenges yet! This year however, I am jumping right in, and here is my pledge below!<br />
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There is an amazing button shop here in Adelaide! with over 350 000 buttons inside!<br />
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He bought me a cute little sewing related button which I then turned into a broach!</div>
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First place, first dress in a new home, first complete dress made in Adelaide, first dress for the first day of being back at school, first dress in a very long time where I have chosen to make a whole toile to begin with!</div>
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I made this dress by drafting a simple shift dress by combining my blouse block, and my skirt block. I moved the darts into the side seam and created a curved french dart which I liked from another pattern I had.</div>
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I made a full mock up of it and you can see in the pictures below that I made a fair few changes!</div>
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Unfortunately, I did not re fit the sleeve....and when I went to make my first version of this dress, it was too tight. This dress also needed lining as well....as I think it is some wool/acetate blend? I got it from the fabric shop when it was on sale, and it is really gorgeous and fits perfectly, but the first time I wore it the restricted arms annoyed me so much that I cut them up....and now I have to un-pick them all together and put tiny half sleeves on!</div>
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The night before my first day at he Adelaide College of the Arts doing my Costume I decided it meant i needed to make a new dress. I bought fabric a couple days earlier...but didn't anticipate making it so soon.</div>
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When I finally get around to finishing those sleeves, ill do another post! The dresses both look so different, I can already tell I like this pattern ^_^</div>
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My friend Ben who visited me from Canberra came and stayed for a few days not too long ago, he is a lovely Canberra photographer, and we had some few adventures where he took some lovely photos, and I will share a post which features those very shortly! </div>
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Easter for me this year means....work....every day of the long weekend...except for today! So I can finally share with you some lovely pictures from a very fun wedding I attended last year....as the dressmaker! </div>
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So this is a post pretty much highlighting my biggest sewing achievment to date..... </div>
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The first wedding dress that I have ever made. The longest sewing project I have ever embarked on, the most tiring, stressful, and the one with the largest commitment, the most patients and skill....and the most rewarding :-)</div>
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Below is a link to the first blog post in this two part series, just giving an overview of the process and construction: <a class="GFJVYHBBPB" href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5605272629642561589#editor/target=post;postID=2696003814522202327;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=0;src=postname" style="border: 0px; color: #1155cc; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Our Big Day - Ruffles Made Wedding Dress Part I</a></div>
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The wedding was last year in November at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. </div>
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I met Samantha at the Sebel Playford Adelaide to dress her before the ceremony. </div>
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In between the ceremony and the reception we played old style games in another area of the gardens!</div>
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Long time no blog!
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But finally something
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waiting to be able to do since like....last November!<br />
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As a bit of a recap, in late 2011, Sam, a girl i worked with
approached me and asked me to make the dress for her big day! After
(finally) agreeing, we worked together with the above picture on her
dress over the next good part of a year! There were no photos available
of the front of the dress, so we designed it together, using lace from
her mothers wedding dress to embellish it. <br />
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Samantha
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wedding! Yayy! I took some at the wedding, but im no pro
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The main reason i did not blog much throughout the process was because her fiance had no idea what the dress was going to look like, so I had to keep it on the down low and not leak the design all over the internets :p<br />
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Her mother made her own wedding dress, and Sam and her other both wanted the lace from the top incorporated into the design. So I cut it all up and trimmed into it and
reworked it onto the bust line of the bodice, and all around the basque. What a horrifying thing it is cutting into
someones old wedding dress! <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thank you Lauren, of
<a href="http://sewlonnie.blogspot.com.au/">Sew Lonnie</a> for nomination me for the Liebster Award! I have
enjoyed reading through her blog as of late and looking at some of
the nifty little things she gets up too!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So, this may have
happened about two weeks ago? For that I apologise for my quite late
reply!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Answer the 11
questions posed by your nominator
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Nominate up to 5 other blogs and ask them 11
questions of your own
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Link
your lovely nominator's Blog!</span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
award is targeted at bloggers with less than 200 followers to show
them off and spread them round and hopefully get more followers for
all! What is a Liebster? The meaning: Liebster is German and
means sweetest, kindest, nicest, dearest, beloved, lovely, kind,
pleasant, valued, cute, endearing, and welcome. </span></strong></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">To begin, I will list
my 11 facts about myself which will explain why I have been pretty
absent of late on the blogosphere!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I ran away to
Singapore and Tokyo in early December and was there until Christmas</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The beginning of
January I was accepted into the Adelaide College of the Arts, for a
Diploma of Costume for Performance</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I drove with all
of my belongings down to Adelaide (2 days in a car with just me, my
I love Canberra Teddy, and Podcasts)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am now living in
an amazing little maisonette with two Canberra friends, one of which
is a Glass blower (he was accepted into the Jam Factory to work for
the next two years), and a painter, who I have known since year 6
and used to live around the corner from me. Best house ever.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I avoid using my
laptop when I do not have a computer mouse. Did not until yesterday
and cannot stand using the little touch pad on my laptop as it hurts
my RSI pretty quick :'(</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The other day I
found a pop up op shop around the corner where I bought an amazing
Rotary White pedal sewing machine on a table with draws and all its
matching feet from 1913!!! (loving Radelaide already....obviously!!)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And now for the other 5
facts about me which aren't related to the last 2 months!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I miss my adorable
cat that I left back home in Canberra, her name is Maya... :'(</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> (WAIT THAT IS VERY MUCH RELATED TO THE
PREVIOUS!)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have completed a
Cert IV in clothing production, a corsetry short course, a bra
making and swimwear short course, half of a Cert II in Millinery and
now hope to do a short course in Shoe Making at TAFE SA! They have
the most amazing selection of sewing related short courses here :)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am a complete
Ebay and shoe addict</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I tap dance and
play soccer</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Here are my answers to miss Sew Lonnie's questions!</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">How
long have you been sewing for and how did you learn?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> I
have been sewing properly...I think since about year 8? Abouts13
years old...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">2.</span><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">What is
your sewing process, do you choose the pattern or fabric first?</span></span></div>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 1.14cm; text-indent: -0.64cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Ahhhh that's hard. A bit
of both, but mostly the fabric decides what its going to be. I don't
often go searching for p atterns, I'll either make the pattern if im
dedicated and enthusiastic enough, or ill stumble across one I really
like on either burdastyle or a blog and dash over to ebay/etsy and
get it sent to me, then i'll spend forever finding a fabric, or it
will be put away until I find it again and go YAY I now have the
perfect fabric in my stash</span></span></div>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 1.14cm; text-indent: -0.64cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">3.</span><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">How would
you describe your style?</span></span></div>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 1.14cm; text-indent: -0.64cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Umm.... well I think to
be honest im going through a little bit of a 'style change', or
perhaps 'style reversal'. Reverting a bit back to my younger self's
tomboyish look...but a bit more stylish and mature. But the other
half of me really also enjoys vintage and lolita inspired syles. So
lets just say when the transformation is complete, a nice mix of them
all. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">4.</span><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">What is
your favourite self-made item? Share a link! </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Ahhhh idk! <a href="http://www.burdastyle.com/projects/sail-away?all_images=1#project-shot-all">Maybe this top</a>?? I go through phases....</span></span></div>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 1.14cm; text-indent: -0.64cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="Img_5394_large__large" height="400" src="http://assets.burdastyle.com/project_images/assets/000/221/851/IMG_5394_Large__large.jpg?1314982908" width="266" /></span></span><img alt="Img_5393_large__large" height="400" src="http://assets.burdastyle.com/project_images/assets/000/221/853/IMG_5393_Large__large.jpg?1314983016" width="266" /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 1.14cm; text-indent: -0.64cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">5.</span><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">Have you
ever drafted your own pattern?</span></span></div>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 1.14cm; text-indent: -0.64cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yes! It's fun and I love
it, but frankly im a little bit lazy and should do it more often. I
learnt advanced pattern making through my Cert IV and now im back at
school I will be doing some there which will be lovely :)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">6.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">How do you
find the time to fit sewing into a busy lifestyle?</span></span></div>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-left: 1.14cm; text-indent: -0.64cm;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Late nights! What else
haha. Or doing it instead of something else important. Or shutting
off from the world. But now that I have moved to a new city where I
don't know many people, I have had a lot more time to sew (blog posts
eventually to come haha). So being isolated isn’t all that bad :p</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">What
are your favourite clothing stores?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Hmm.
I go through phases or very much avoiding clothes stores or buying
from them to be honest... They either make me annoyed at their
outrageous prices, make me poor...or the best outcome is make me
inspired!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">So
a couple I guess are, Veronica Maine (part of the Australian brand
which also does Cue). Melissa shoes, which is mainly online for
me.... and I am really struggling to think of anything else....is it
bad for me to say asos?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">8.
What has been your most challenging project?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last
year (and for about a year before that) I was making a wedding dress
for a college! It was super stressful, but super rewarding! I learnt
so much about construction, fitting, self discipline, self belief,
working with a client and many other things!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Do
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ah,
not really where I was in Canberra, which was maybe good and bad?
Bad because I had no one to rant about sewing with, good maybe,
because who knows, would I get super territorial about my hobby
which for so long has been a bit of a just me thing? </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
have a friend who I was meant to teach how to sew? And a friend who
moved to Melbourne who also sews and we talk about it when we catch
up and used to a lot in high school too. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But
now that im doing a costume course, I think this statistic is about
to change considerably! </span></span>
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">If you had
to choose one, what would be your favourite band?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Finally
an easy questions! The Shins! Im pretty bad at getting into music and
finding bands I really like. The Shins have been number one since I
was 16 and I was so happy to see them live last year in Sydney :)</span></span></div>
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Where do you buy most of your fabric from?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Op shops generally.
Honestly I am a bit of a bargin hunter (or you can say stingy haha)
or occasionally Spotlight when I am in there for other things and get
distracted.....or very occasionally online, really depends on what I
want to make and what from :-)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><b>Meg
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<a href="http://sugardollhouse.blogspot.com.au/">Sugar Doll</a></span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><b>Angela
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><b>Lisa
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What is your favourite hand made thing by someone else? Pick if you
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If you get someone else to make something for you, what would it be?</span></strong></span></span></div>
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What is your blogging goal for the year? </span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">9.
If a web designer came along and offered to spice up your blog for
free, what would you ask him to do?</span></strong></span></span></div>
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What is your favourite food?</span></strong></span></span></div>
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If you could learn to make anything what would it be? eg. Bikes,
furniture, home made beauty products, veggie patches, silversmithing</span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">You
can read a little more about the origins of the Liebster Award here:
<a href="http://sopphey.onimpression.com/2012/05/liebster-blog-award-origins.html">http://sopphey.onimpression.com/2012/05/liebster-blog-award-origins.html</a></span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Where
she has tried to hunt down when this fun first started!</span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Anywhoo i hope y'all be well!! I will try to update again soon ^__^</span></strong></span></div>
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<b> So my short first year of blogging has come to an end....</b></div>
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<b> W</b>ooo 14 followers already. I'm going to be pleased about that regardless of how many you may all have. I'm building my empire slowly...</div>
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So, as every blogger on the planet has already done, lets do an overview of my sewing life in 2012.</div>
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<b>Started my certificate II in Millinery, made many hats, entered fashion on the fields!</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: yellow;">Undertook a short course in Bra making and Swimwear - yet to get my bra back from the Tafe...</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: cyan;">Made 5 matching dresses for the Melbourne based swing group - <a href="http://www.theswingsisters.com.au/">The Swing Sisters</a></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">Made a fully corsetted wedding dress! (still waiting on the pro photos!)</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: magenta;">And here are some things that were made inbetween.....</span></b></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10591078010829649352noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5605272629642561589.post-53648363339364228002012-12-15T23:38:00.000+10:302012-12-15T23:38:06.286+10:30Burdastyle Vintage Dress 05/2012<div style="text-align: center;">
I finally got around to getting a friend to take some sneaky piccies for me.</div>
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This is as the title suggest, is burdastyles Vintage Dress 05/2012 pattern. </div>
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Ever since they released it i knew i would have to make it. Originally i was hoping to draft a different dress for the wedding, as i wrote about many posts ago. Unfortunately, that was a bit ambitious and so this dress was choose.</div>
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The fabric is poly crepe and was $3.50 a metre from emgreenfields. Woo! Fully lined with silk also bought from there. I originally bought 6m of the crepe as i planned to drape the dress. Lots of left overs now....</div>
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I made the dress completely at my grandmothers house, and if i wasnt over seas i would put up some pretty pictures of her house and awesome sewing machine. For a later date i guess.</div>
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I made this in the two days leading up to the wedding (that i made the wedding dress for) and was pretty much finishing it as i was going there haha. I really wasnt feeling overly sewy before the wedding, seeing as id spent months making the wedding dress. I also made a matching fascinator as well, which i decided i didnt really like and then made a new headpiece to wear with the dress te next time i wore it. (my original one can be found now <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/116244717/dusty-pinkbeige-handmade-sinamay?ref=pr_shop">here</a> on etsy ;-)</div>
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I made a toile for this dress, and didnt make too many changes. Should have bought up the bust darts i realised when i finished the final one, but oh well, i think thats something only i will ever notice. I used my own skirt block for the skirt, as it takes too many bum alterations to make a fitted skirt fit. I also should have moved the shoulder seam back about 3cm, but once again oh well, its not a end of the world thing. </div>
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Didnt really enjoy the instructions on the pattern....no pictures, and so much of it made ver little sense to me. I mean to be honest it was pretty straight forward, however i didnt find one seam that didnt match up on the pattern at all, and that was the side seams for the bodice? what the hell!! i thought i had cut it incorrectly but i went back to the pattern and was like right..... anywho, there is very much a chance that somehow that was my error somewhere along the line....but id like to think maybe not :p</div>
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I really like this dress in the end, and i think i will make it again at somepoint. The only thing is, it very much does need little clips to hold it to the bra, otherwise it slips off the shoulders, but i guess thats to be expected.</div>
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Pictures of the wedding dress will come along eventually, but at the moment i dont really want to post my amateur ones, as im still waiting on the professional ones, and id really like to use those instead of my shitty ones!!</div>
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Anywho, im totally in sinagpore atm!! wooo, go to tokyo in 2 days!! will post with some pictures of all the prettiness that is seen over there.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10591078010829649352noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5605272629642561589.post-68062260828417157492012-12-04T22:42:00.002+10:302012-12-05T16:00:15.937+10:30Kinetic Fashion Parade - dissonance<div style="text-align: center;">
Saturday was the Canberra Institute of Technology's Graduating Fashion Parade.</div>
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I modeled for a girl called Netti Clarke, and her label 'Dissonance'</div>
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Her collection was inspired by a piece of music (sorry I am not sure which one), and it was about creating anxiety for the audience. Each look was inspired by a section of the music and the mood that it created, and then translated into her clothings through shapes, fabric, and space.</div>
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The look I wore included a magenta leather jacket/neckpiece which was made using techniques in Takomo Nakamichi's pattern magic, as well as the top which was based around 'wearing a circle'. The pants were tight fitting and were made from upholstry fabric, so had the plastic like backing on the inside.</div>
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We were the first group to start off the parade, and I came out second. SCRAY!</div>
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All 6 looks from the collection as we came out together are shown above</div>
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We had makeup from 8:30am, hair at 2pm, inbetween promoting the parade, and from 4pm makeup touch ups and rehersals, and the parade opening at 7:30pm! Oh and then the afterparty of course...wooo! One long day!</div>
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Below is the collection from a girls collection called 'Reading Clare'</div>
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She used canvas, reflective light film and carbon fibre in her collection. </div>
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I assisted her in machining, fitting her models, and did the pattern making for the shoulder piece on the 3rd model. It was a lot of fun, and I am really glad that I got to assist her and was able to play with some materials and techniques I had not used before. </div>
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I will upload pictures shortly of the construction methods and a better close up.</div>
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Mitch Thompson created a collection for his label 'Perpetually Five' it was a really fun collection playing with mens wear and using childrens drawings as inspiration and for the print of his fabrics. It would have been a lot of fun modelling for him, if he wanted a tom boy model I would have been all over that! </div>
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Jade Sargent with her label SOVATA, a girl who I was studying Millinery with all this year created the above collection. She created a zero waste pattern making method where she wraped strips of fabric around 3D patterns she made. Her final millinery pieces were amazing and I couldn't stop looking at them. They were really incredible and her collection was meant to be a unique racewear collection.</div>
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Above is a picture of the finale were we all walked out. </div>
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Hope you enjoyed some of these pictures! It was a truley fun day and it's always a pleasure to see what they come up with. Seriously the best bit about mdoeling and also being a seamstress, I get to see everything up close and find out how they made everything.</div>
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The best!!</div>
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Last week I had my interview at the South Australia College of the Arts, for a Diploma in Costume for Performance. </div>
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A friend of my who is an architect offered to help me re-do my portfolio, real design student style</div>
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After explain to him I currently had a larger than A2 portfolio, he offered to assist me in redoing it on the computer using illustrator and photoshop.</div>
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It took a while (well not as long as it take to glue and make an A2 one look pretty). And the end results were pretty awesome. </div>
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It also meant I got to learn about some programms I haven't ever used before</div>
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What I had never really though about before when it came to my portfolio was that, did it ever say in the criteria you had to have all your design process documented as well? No....I did just assume you needed to put that in there. Which is annoying.</div>
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But this portfolio is just images of the completed projects. Which I actually really like. I mean I clearly made them, and if I am showing you my portfolio I am going to explain to you how and why.</div>
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He helped set up templates for the project pages, and for the mood board pages, so everything in the portfolio flows seemlessly and is totally awesomely formatted. <br />
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I had my interview with two ladies, and it was the most relaxed interview for a course I have ever been too. I have done 3 fashion interviews and an interview for a textiles course, and they were all kinda horrific experiences. This one was so great they told me to come back next year and they wanted to keep my portfolio to show!<br />
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So here's a couple of pages, my favorite ones. Me thinks everyone should hook themselves up with a computer based design friend. They prove oh so handy!</div>
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Oh and the best bit, because he teaches at the uni here, we went to the workroom and used the printing, and laser cutter. My friend who studies there says she has to pay $2 min for laser cutting....<br />
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So in conclusion, next year I will be moving to RADELAIDE! yay!! I go to Melbourne to leave for Japan next friday, and in the mean time I'm working EVERY day. So it's kinda making packing, both boxes, and bags, a little difficult! Still have to find a removalist....eeeep!!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10591078010829649352noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5605272629642561589.post-56155654996592666312012-11-23T21:58:00.000+10:302012-11-23T21:58:57.606+10:30Pencil Skirt Project & First Outfit Post!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have been planning a my winter wardrobe for my adventure over to Japan over the holiday period.</div>
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I have decided knits are the way to go, small, comfy, can be stylish, and mainly, dont need ironing!!!</div>
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So this is my first piece that I have made. First fitted skirt I have ever made myself.</div>
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I found a skirt in Witchery I quite liked...however it was just a very heavy stretch fabric and literally a tube (or 'knit pencil skirt' as they liked to call it). I know for a fact that something with no shape around the backside will not fit my sway back at all. I sometimes wish I had never learnt about fitting, so I could wear clothes and be completely nieve to the fact they dont fit where they should....</div>
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I was determined to make one myself because even though it was then reduced by a further 20%....i still didnt want to pay that much... haha im stingy!</div>
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I made my skirt from a red pointe....not sure the fabric content...It was a remanent, so only cost me $7.30 for the meter!! Then $2.50 for the elastic. Thank you $10 skirt!!! I was a bit hesitant about the bright red at first....but there is always room for red in my wardrobe to be honest.</div>
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I made the skirt by drafting up something prettty simple with my measurements which I was at my grandma's house in Radelaide. After that I cut it out, ended up adding a seam down the centre back, which the Witchery one actually had as well. Although I dont understand why, because there was no shaping at all, and that's why I added one in mine. </div>
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I then literally just sewed it on my gandmas machine until it fit well, then top stitched the three edges and did the elastic and hem.</div>
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Now that I have this I will be able to make many more and use this skirt as a template. Think Ill make another soon.</div>
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This skirt makes me happy because it goes so well with my Dita Cardi, which, until now I have really had nothing bomshell worthy enough to wear it with and so have considered selling it on ebay....</div>
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NOT ANYMORE! Wooo</div>
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I actually tried on another skirt in Witchery, which unfortunately I can't find a photo for which was a jersey skirt which I think I will try and drape....it won't be hard, but finding the time might be!</div>
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I'm not going to lie, it's taken me a while to do any outfit posts for 2 reasons. </div>
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Top: Wheels and Dollbaby Dita Von Tease Cardi</div>
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Skirt: Made by me</div>
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Belt: Op shop find!</div>
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Shoes: Gorman</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10591078010829649352noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5605272629642561589.post-86905472894800067542012-11-22T22:02:00.000+10:302012-11-22T22:02:20.038+10:30Pretty in Packaging (Bodyline order)So...yes been very absent lately...Sorry!!<br />
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Thought i'd just share something small, but totally made my day (although the last two days have already been super good!)<br />
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Just got back from Adelaide where yesterday I had an interview with the Adelaide College of the Arts for their Diploma of Costume for performance....More about that later ;-) but lets just say it went really REALLY well!!<br />
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I came home and I had a package from Japan, a Bodyline order which included a pretty dress (quite pink tho....might have to do something about that) and a pretty cutsew top :)<br />
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Last time i was in adelaide....which I also need to post about, a girl i meet working at a second hand lolita store told me to join the Adelaide lolita facebook group....and so i did. I cannot wait to dress up and meet new people ^__^ i also bought a $29 bodyline skirt from there which is very cute and then jumped on there website! The two pieces i got including postage ($10) were $90 in total! How good is that? and both fit!!!! And both are decent fabric too!!<br />
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anywho! check it out for pretty things....i will post again soon ^__^!!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10591078010829649352noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5605272629642561589.post-71346355756963906772012-11-09T17:33:00.002+10:302012-11-09T17:34:58.461+10:30a super quick sneaky peak Ahhh....soooo busy. I'm down in Radelaide at the moment, and the wedding is tomorrow....i've been slaving away getting a few things done.<br />
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Last night I made up a toile for my dress. Not much to change there thankfully! Yay! That is thanks to me using my own skirt block for the bottom half instead of the one from the pattern and altering it.<br />
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The picture of the front was so bad i didnt even want to upload it, so here's a pic of the back! <br />
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The rest of today i have spent scrap booking, im making sam a book with all the pictures i took at her fittings, and of just the general process. The other thing i have been doing is working on my fascinator for tomorrows wedding. Here are pics of the finished thing! I really needed just a short break before I start sewing my actual dress....so why not do a blog post!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10591078010829649352noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5605272629642561589.post-6029433902626111002012-11-01T23:36:00.002+10:302012-11-02T11:53:40.459+10:30The 'Wedding Experience'<div style="text-align: center;">
No....not yet the wedding I will be attending for the lovely lady I made a wedding dress for...ANOTHER ONE. </div>
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Well not a real one. A fake one. One where I paid $55 and went with a gay friend from work to eat a 3 course meal with wines. </div>
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I wore a dress I made 2 years ago for my portfolio, a vintage head piece with velvet flowers (drool), and Alannah Hill Cardigan, bag from Saba, white stockings (as always) and of course Melissa shoes!</div>
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There were also two other pictures of me and my friend in other publications around town. We really did manage to do a good job on the publicity front that afternoon!</div>
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I don't know! But somehow I have grown a strong disliking to Christmas, or at the least Christmas at home with the family. I think this is pretty evident by the fact that I have volunteered to work Christmas day the last two years at the Hyatt Hotel Canberra. I would say though, if you were to work Christmas then my job was the best you could do! On bell at the hotel, you stand there and greet people for 8 hours and take photos and bounce around being generally joyfull! <br />
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Oh and you know, you also get paid like triple time, so that makes it a very generous Christmas Day! <br />
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This year I won't be working though....this year on the 13th of December I will be jumping on a plane and running away to Singapore and then TOKYO for Christmas and New Year's!!!!!!!!!!!!<br />
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Let me here you say WOOHOO!!! Could Japan be the best place in the world to celebrate Christmas? All pretty but with no real meaning behind it? Perhaps for me!<br />
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For some reason I find Christmas very stressful. My parents usually go nuts, especially if for any reason we are having people at our house. And I know it sounds ridiculously selfish, but my mother always manages to miss with the present mark by huge margin....I never really ask for much, but I do always tell her the few things I would like, but somehow they never make it to the Santa pack and then there's all these random things which I will never use, and I think she would like more than me....<br />
However I do have to give her credit, last year she did get me a huge amount of costume books, but then forgot the one tiny thing I asked her for :p<br />
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This year my parents will also be going overseas, leaving on Chirtmas day. My Dad won a huge amount of frequent flyers randomly through AMEX and so he's taking her on a surprise trip to Europe (none of us actually know where they are going for a month)<br />
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OK OK so enough of that. Tokyo at Christmas. From what i've been reading, is all about 3 things. <br />
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Sound like something I could get used too. Christmas period is meant to be the equivelant of the best Valentines day a couple could think of, and people pre order KFC for Christmas eve! Apparently there are the longest lines, and they dress up the Kernal as Santa haha! I guess he has the looks for it!<br />
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Oh and who am I going with you might ask? My ex boyfriend! He now lives in another city but we think we will make an ace travelling team. He is super knowledgable about EVERYTHING because he did a history and politicts degree...and then I am really good at organising things and doing itineries and budgets and such things. I am also pretty stingy so im good at finding things cheap hehe.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also he just started his own blog! Quite different to mine clearly, head over and have a<strong> </strong></span><a href="http://moneypowerblog.blogspot.com.au/"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">read</span></strong></a><span style="font-size: large;"> of his first post!</span><br />
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My friend and I went along wearing cosplay costumes that I had made us earlier this year for our 'Turning Japanese' themed 21st. </div>
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<b>Firstly.</b> A big WOOHOO to the fact that I have 10....THATS RIGHT</div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;">So thank you to all of you double digit followers. </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;">(and to <span style="font-size: small;">the one person who <span style="font-size: small;">I know is email subsribed ;)</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Secondly</b>. I am so close to being done with<span style="font-size: small;"> this wedding dress <span style="font-size: small;">I can taste my sewing freedom!!</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Th</b><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ird</b><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ly</b>. I thought people who had left comments were going back and deleting them, which was making me very upset that someone would<span style="font-size: small;"> eve<span style="font-size: small;">n bother to do that</span>.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">However turns out that <span style="font-size: small;">some were going to spam<span style="font-size: small;">?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Can anyone shed some light on why that would happen?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Fourthly. </b><span style="font-size: small;">Tomorrow is FRIDAY. But most importantly it is OTAKUFEST, <span style="font-size: small;">at the <span style="font-size: small;">local comic book store where I will be dressing up <span style="font-size: small;">in <span style="font-size: small;">cosplay and <span style="font-size: small;">hope<span style="font-size: small;">fully winning some sweet <span style="font-size: small;">sweet free anime!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Stay<span style="font-size: small;"> tuned for more piccies!!</span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">To all m<span style="font-size: small;">y lovely follows, and everyone else on the <span style="font-size: small;">bloggersphere and interwebz, goodnight for now, and enjoy your <span style="font-size: small;">Friday!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strike><i>....or wh<span style="font-size: small;">at ever other day <span style="font-size: small;">it may be due to time zone difference<span style="font-size: small;">s</span></span></span></i></strike></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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