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Tuesday, Frocktober the 8th! Dressed for a coffee

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A couple of gooby photos today… apparently I kept talking and got photos of me in the middle of words!  These were the two best photos out of 9.
I’m in our kitchen!  It’s tiny.  This dress is from Felt, a cute little shop in civic.  I’m fairly sure it’s upcycled from an old dress.  Very casual and simple!
I’m glad to be home after such a tiring trip to Newcastle.  Today I’m meeting a friend for coffee (soon) and then I’m going to focus on finishing some craft projects before going to my brother’s house for dinner.  I keep starting projects and not finishing them!  And now my house is full of half-done projects. Things I need to finish: 3 knitting projects, 1 crochet project, 1 pair of undies (sewn), 1 dress (sewn), 1 percussion composition.  I’m not allowed to start anything new until some of that is done!

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Monday, Frocktober the 7th! Newcastle shopping day.

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Today we did a bit of shopping/eating in Darby Street, Newcastle.  It was very fashionable!  We were in Newcastle doing some of Charles’ ipad music, with our friend Jonathan, pictured here:
 I’m afraid that’s the only photo I took today. After we did some shops, we came home!  The traffic was really bad since it was the last day of a long weekend, it took us a looooong time to get home.  Since that was the only photo from today, here’s one from frocktober last year so you can see the cute top of the dress:
It was a nice trip to Newcastle!  The three of us stayed in a huge apartment. All very good!
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Sunday, Frocktober the 6th! Electrofringe in a garlic dress?!

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Today we got up super early in the morning to drive to Newcastle for Electrofringe!  The reason we had to get up so early is because we were scheduled to perform at 2, and today Daylight Savings started!  Newcastle is about 5 hours drive away, so… we got up at 6:30 (old time) and only just got here in time.  We did stop for breaks though!
It is hot here!  This photo was taken at about 7pm when it was cooling down but it was like 33 degrees earlier.  
 This is my Garlic dress… because I bought it at Gilroy outlets in California almost exactly one year ago.  Oh and Gilroy is famous for growing garlic and the whole time we were there it stank of garlic.  It was this swelteringly hot day in Gilroy and the garlic fields got smellier as the day got hotter.  Imagine living in Gilroy if you didn’t like garlic.
Neck gear today is a cool dinosaur necklace my friend Pete gave me, and my electrofringe artist pass!  Electrofringe is associated with This Is Not Art (TINA), which is a pretty big arts festival on this long weekend here every year.  Next year I’d like to go for the whole weekend, not just sunday!  We’re staying overnight and coming home tomorrow yay!
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Saturday, Frocktober the 5th! Blue vintage dress

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Today’s dress is one I got from the Canberra Vintage Fashion Fair earlier this year.  I think it’s vintage 2008 though, not *real* vintage.  Unfortunately the pattern is so bright you can’t really see the nice design of the dress – but it has skirt pleats!
Today Charles and I went out and looked at houses.  There were 4 open houses this morning.  We’re not seriously considering buying a house just yet though!  But it was a bit of fun.
One can dream right? 
This necklace was my nana’s, my mum’s mum (I think).  I often think of her while I wear it!
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Friday, Frocktober the 4th! Modcloth’s Indie Darling Dress

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It’s FRIDAY, FRIDAY, GOTTA GET DOWN ON FRIDAY!
 Today’s dress is Modcloth’s Indie Darling dress. This is the first thing I ever bought from Modcloth, and it started a long and glorious relationship with the website. Unfortunately this dress was (and still is) much too big for me really – the armholes hang down, the lace neckline is scandalously low, and it’s generally baggy.  It looks ok here, but let me tell you it is loose.  It’s also a pain to iron, all those fiddly shoulder bits!  Incidentally the cardigan is also from Modcloth but it’s gone now.
Today I’m going to go to my parents’ house and do some sewing with mum.  I’m helping her finish a jacket she started making about 4 years ago.  We started yesterday and almost finished the outer shell, today we’re doing the lining.
I realise now that I’m wearing my tights backwards and you can see the heels at the front of my ankles. Just pretend you didn’t see.
And appropriately, my necklace has sewing shears, a thread spool, and a safety pin!  I got this necklace in a cute shop in Sydney (can’t remember the name)… such fun!