Protected: what I did over summer break…

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more buttons

Cut, re-matched, and sewn with high-contrast matchy-matchy thread:

pansy is as pansy does

I have decided that I need a pansy suit. Yes, seriously…I am home sick today with something light enough but unpleasant.

a wardrobe becoming real

Another sweater reclaimed from moth holes and horrible plastic faux-leather buttons. This one is a Scottish-made brown wool, suede-front cardigan.

that darned sweater!

My first project since the learning of O. I am quite fond of it. One could consider it an old skin horse sweater… It was a quarter, hanging on the thrift rack, moth-eaten and lonely, un-loved. Such a gorgeous Aran sweater with a downward life.

bringing in the new while wearing the old…

I spent new year’s eve and day with Mr. Big & Beautiful. We attended a breakfast-for-dinner party hosted by part of his clan. I cooked up some excellent French Toast. To be more specific, I cooked up some raisin-bread-eggnog-nutmeg-and-omg!-awesome French toast… Too bad eggnog is only available seasonally. Of course, I broke out the fancy-schmancy […]

dapperkink

A new post is up over at my wordpress blog: dapperkink. This one summarizes the backstory of my developing personal style, in words and image. Let’s call this the precursor to the year-end wrap-up posts… My life has set upon a path that gathers all the random occurrences into a single, tight thread, wound upon […]