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Another tote to make

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Look at the zip on this one!

Totes to make

Totes to make

One of the bags from a Japanese magazine I want to make soon.

French Chic

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Found a stunning French made jacket today while I was thrifting.

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as you can see it has the most wonderful features…like the sixties style buttons.

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I also found an artisan necklace and a bracelet in the most fabulous shade of green. The exact shade that is in the jacket!

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Earlier this month I found a purple bag in the softest of leather and it is the perfect compliment to this jacket!

The jacket was eight dollars…the necklace six dollars…the bracelet four dollars …the handbag was six dollars….incredible I know!

I am delighted with this outfit…it will be perfect for our unseasonable spring weather and be wonderful next winter with skirts in plums and browns.

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If you like any of the clothes here or in my thrift clothing gallery I would be more than happy to look out for special items for you. All I need are your measurements and an idea of your tastes. I have quite a collection of designer clothes in various sizes….I may have just the thing you absolutely need…at ridiculous prices too! Even with a finders fee your wardrobe will have stunning clothes at truly stupendous prices! Oh and if you see something here you like let me know…I am very approachable and have been known to take the shirt off my back before!

Mix and Match

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I have returned to sewing with a vengeance. Here is my latest tote WIP. At the moment I am ready to quilt the bag and handles. Tonight I found the wadding I needed in the garage and as soon as I finish sewing the binding down on Dragonfly Horses I will start on the quilting. Am thinking pink perle cotton in a largish stitch.

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In the background are our new Marie Claire mix and match dishes. My nerve damage was affecting my hands so badly we had to get a different dinner set. I had been using Corelle the shatterproof servingware but when I dropped the dishes etc, which is often, the things exploded upwards and remnants richocheted almost blinding me on several occasions. So the solution, mix and match porcelain which is a reasonable weight and does not explode when dropped.

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The fabric I used for this bag is Moda Soiree which I won from Miss Mabel Studios some months ago in a giveaway. It was a charm pack and easily went together in this bag as the work of choosing co-ordinating fabrics was already done for me. Unlike the Marie Claire seringware which took two shopping trips …one to the city and one to Bondi Junction!

This bag is for a silent auction at my friend’s son’s high school in October, the bag should be just right for Summer 09.

Japanese Tartan

Vintage shopping gods have again been good for me this week with some wonderful pure wool skirts from the seventies. I finally found the tartan skirt which I needed

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for my upcycled handbag..the one in the Japanese craft magazine you may remember I found in Kinokiniya a few months ago?

Well now I am going to make it into a tote bag after I found the gorgeous suede handbag above this week. Can you believe it is also Japanese? It is by Tokio Yoshikawa. I can’t find out much about the brand but some of the bags are going on ebay for between ninety and four hundred dollars. The inside of this bag is delightful, its pure cotton and a little like a William Morris print in dark patterned beige/gold.

Earlier this week I found another stunning skirt

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which should also work well in a tote bag. The necklace set I bought [from a trader who was going out of business] for an unbelievable five dollars…could not make it for that price!

So this week I have really had a lot of fun vintage shopping and was able to donate a few large bags of clothes which are too big for me now so it was all good..as they say!

The  tartan skirt was eight dollars

The handbag was also eight dollars

The turquoise tweed skirt was five dollars!!

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