I received some mail from her the other night: she had sent me a little apron as an early birthday present – it has little cupcakes and tea cups on it!!! So appropriate for me ^-^ I am really looking forward to wearing it ♥

You should all check out her shop on Etsy, and keep an eye out for her!

xx

It’s steadily approaching that time of day where I need to start considering what I want to wear to church today: I want it to be pretty – whatever I choose – it’s difficult though as it’s going to be a warm Australian summer day, and I simply still haven’t managed to pull off enough weightloss to be truly comfortable wearing any summer attire. It’s superficial, yes, but truly – what is a girl to do?

Those who know me may have a little giggle amongst themselves when I say: “This reminds me a lot of where I was perhaps a year or two ago”. These days I tend to dress to match my mood rather than to try and achieve a certain image or appearance – not always as practicality does have to enter in at some point, but I do still have all my old clothes and have contemplated dying my hair blue-black again (and I still use newspaper in some of my art)! When I stumbled across this on flickr though, it did bring a small smile to my face.

Generally lolita fashion is made for those who are small and petite – which I am neither and it always upset me! I’m tall, broad and awkward instead!

As an additional note, I’ll be doing some maintenance on my blog tomorrow night. I doubt it will affect access to my posts/comments etc, but in case things start showing up strangely – I thought I should warn you xx

Why, oh why, did I allow myself to be introduced to lookbook? Goodness it is addictive. Probably good for me to browse it though for inspiration as I start moving towards making all my own clothes, and possibly making some items to sell and/or giveaway.

I already have a few sketches of items I’d like to attempt to make, and when I’m back working again, it is my hope and intention to have a look through ebay in search of some vintage patterns. Should be good!

Today will be a day of cleaning as I keep putting it off, and putting it off. Today: it gets done. Or started at the very least. The place looks like a bomb has gone off, so it may take more than one day to get back on top of it all.

I wish I were capable of staying tidy and organised – but apparently I’m not. I’ll keep trying though! I won’t give up!