easily distracted by shiny things…
Posted in shopping on Mar 27th, 2012
The Great Spring Cleaning of 2012 has begun. Actually, it began a few weeks ago when I wore one my my beloved pairs of Jeffery~West shoes and they gave me a blister. Again. At that point I finally had to concede that I’m not a size 40, no matter how thick my socks are, and [...]
Posted in inspiration, shopping on Jul 19th, 2009
Over the years I’ve collected and been given quite a few vintage clothing patterns – most of them from the 1950s. Unfortunately most of them were too small for me to actually sew and wear, and although I have an abiding love of 1950s clothing, I’m really not a 1950s shape. It’s taken me a [...]
Hooray, my new clogs have arrived! Anne is right, and Walkley clogs don’t really have curved enough soles for dancing in. But these were the only pair of clogs on Ebay, they happened to be in my size, and they were very cheap indeed. So these are the clogs that I’ll have to make do [...]