A showcase of personal and professional dressmaking and designing projects alongside images and dresses that inspire, interest and tickle me.
Saturday, 5 February 2011
Monday, 31 January 2011
More Bike Drama
Not impressed with the idiot who did a hit and run with Lizzie. Knocked her down and left her leaking her life blood onto the road (oil). Luckily I remembered to get breakdown cover and the nice man in the Yamaha shop said he would look after her. Poor baby.
Cirque Du Soliel - Totem
And The Human Glitter Ball descended from the ceiling.

Hmm, not sure whether I like the make that the ink left on the back better than I do the actual image.
Friday, 28 January 2011
Bike Drama
Thought lizzie was having a strop at me for ignoring her for a week and refusing to start but it turns out that Lizzie's loyalty was not in question, merely my intelligence, as what was really wrong was that I had forgotten to turn the choke on! Will not jump to conclusions regarding the reliability of my little bike again.
Stink Eye
Wednesday, 17 November 2010
130 Mile Bike-a-thon
So on Friday me and The LZR started our 130 mile journey by running out of petrol right next to a car cleaning garage and were rescued by an old man called Reggie who took me in his squeaky clean van to the nearest petrol station to pick up some magic juice.
We then ran over a dead badger at 50mph and actually managed to get some air as if the badger was some kind of twisted skate ramp and I was an extreme motorcycle sports fanatic. Despite the grotesqueness of the situation I couldn't help chuckling to myself for ages afterwards.
After we'd spent a while on the road together my little bike told me her name was Lizzie and so she was christened Lizzie the LZR. I spent a good deal of the journey chuckling (yes, to myself) over Austin Powers' 'Mini me, stop humping the laser.'
We trundled on as the sky turned darker and the rain clouds rolled in, and managed to avoid getting hideously lost, but then turned onto an A road that was more like a four lane motorway and had to grit my teeth and remain calm while 3 lanes of traffic whizzed past me.
We arrived home sopping wet and aching, but buzzing, to find that my amazing flatmate had run me a hot bath & cooked me dinner.
Thanks M and thanks Lizzie for getting me here safe and sound.
Being Emma Watson's Double

Rights of Passage Dress and Shack
Thursday, 11 November 2010
Flapper Style
Making a flapper dress for a 1920's night for my friend's birthday, all dark blue soft satin and cream, and if I get time loads of beading on the bottom. I'm guna try to keep it quite authentic with the right length for the period and the right quality of fabrics etc. I'll post pictures when it's done.
The Lazer - My New Bike
Well, her numberplate is LZR, how could she be called anything else other than The Lazer.

I just got al the way down into Stroud before I realised I didn't have my L plates on, so had to do a quick stop at Halfords where the nice man, who recognised me from my bar maid days (such is the way of small town life), helped me to work out a way of fixing them on. They don't make it easy!
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