Author: christinahopgood

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Friday, Frocktober the 11th! Victorian Maiden again!

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This is my favourite dress.  Victorian Maiden’s Adele Bustier Dress.
I do find it hard to wear though.  I have to wear a blouse underneath, and it needs to go together nicely… so here I’m wearing another VM blouse, which I bought secondhand.  I love the little wing-a-lings on the sleeves.  The cardigan is by Alice and the Pirates, so it looks like I’m all in brand today!
Love the bias cut skirt.
Thankfully it’s not so hot today so yay!  I’m selling some dresses and stuff on the sales community, so take a look if you like my style!

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Thursday, Frocktober the 10th! Victorian Maiden!

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Today I’m wearing a favourite of mine – Victorian Maiden’s Rose Stripe Shirring dress. 
It goes quite well with my Miette cardigan that I knitted.
Today I’m having lunch with a friend, and it’s forecast to be 31 degrees today!  31!  That’s just like summer already.  So I may be forced to change into a cooler dress later.  Even though this is a “summer” Lolita dress, it’s quite warm.  There’s a lot of fabric, and all that shirring feels like someone’s giving me a warm hug.  Plus petticoat.
Yesterday I finished my part of mum’s jacket, now she has to hem it and do the closures.  I’m really pleased that it’s mostly finished now!  I’ve also done 5 rows on my crochet project (full post when it’s done).  Today I hope to do some more crochet and maybe try looking at that dress I’m sewing!  I like writing my to-dos here, it keeps me doing stuff!
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Wednesday, Frocktober the 9th! Emily Temple Cute

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Today’s dress is Emily Temple Cute! I bought it at a local Lolita swap meet… gosh I can’t even remember who I bought it from.  I’ve been considering selling this dress for a while now, but it is so darn cute!
 I like it best with a cardigan on, because it hides the weird straps at the top.  They look like they’re on backwards because they’re just black ribbon with white spots.
 It’s a dress-print dress!  A meta dress!
 This is the other side of our cute little kitchen.  Today I’m going over to mum’s to FINISH THIS JACKET of hers finally.
Here is my current list of projects: 3 knitting projects, 1 crochet project, 1 dress, 1 jacket (mum’s).  I finished that pair of undies and I started doing my crochet blanket again – that deserves a full post.  But yesterday I discovered that my sewing machine has a STRETCH STITCH – and I don’t know how to work it.  So I can’t do my dress until I figure that out.  There aren’t enough hours in the day!  I’m still behind from daylight savings!