My grandmother wants all of her old photo albums scanned, so I will probably post a few old family photos here - there are great clothes in some of them. We haven't really got started properly yet, but I took the opportunity to have this photograph of my grandfather and my mother on his Matchless motorbike scanned - I think it is some version of ( Read more... )

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I just won an auction for these babies:


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Tired, but more hungry than tired at the moment and I love eating in the middle of the night - I should probably be thankful that I don't eat in my sleep. I had a friend who couldn't keep any food in the house, because she would sleepwalk to the kitchen and eat anything that was available, without waking up.

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Meme nicked off ofkvlt_kitty .

The rules are that for 8 days you have to post something that made you happy that day. Disregarding the chain mail bit.

I really thought about this yesterday, but I reformatted my computer the day before yesterday and so I'm late. Anyway, yesterdays little bit of not-too-intimate-to-share-on-LJ happiness in my life was a short ( Read more... )

Edit: found another photo that is nice, but not very clear either - it's taken at the masquerade in indoor lighting, so the colours are pretty much gone and the sharpness is less than stellar.


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Apparently there's another Halloween party tomorrow - a bit of Halloween overload, I say, but I suppose it'll be fun, and A wants to go. It's just that awesome local band Agent Side Grinder (seriously good, go have a listen) are playing at an awesomely geeky local industrial club, too, and I'm not going to miss that either, so it seems we'll end up ( Read more... )

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I got the main fabrics for the dress yesterday - the pink dupioni, which is eye-wateringly bright in large amounts, and pink cotton to flat line with. There was a dupioni in the same red as the warp in the pink fabric, which I assumed would work as a contrast, until I looked at them next to one another. It doesn't work. At all. The hot pink brings ( Read more... )

As I suspected, there isn't quite enough of the piping to go around. I bought everything Mattson's had, which was almost two meters less than I needed, so I crossed out some details where I wanted it and hoped that it would cover the rest. It doesn't, though, so I will have to skip putting it in the sleeves, which feels a bit Spartan. But I asked ( Read more... )