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Framboise

Beautiful. This reminds me of holidays in France.

Found via : étiquettes boissons from agence eureka

Jim Goodyear - the great man himself!

It was indeed a very happy Father's Day for my family and I this year, because we very nearly lost my lovely Daddy in February and so to be able to still have him with us and for him to have recovered so quickly is nothing short of a miracle :-)

Here he is at his happiest, working on his allotment !

Monday Sadness

This story has made me really sad today, I had encountered him several times through the company I work for and he was always very quiet and polite, with none of the arrogance so often associated with such a job.

It is so awful to think that someone so young couldn't see a way out of their sadness and had to take such a drastic measure.

The new dress challenge

So - considering I spent 3 years of my life studying fashion design and pattern cutting I really felt it was time to put this to the test as I have been cheating a little recently with pre-printed patterns...

My latest love is 50's style dresses, like this one:
My challenge is to cut the pattern myself from scratch and make it in the black and white colourway of the following Alexander Henry fabric (maybe) I might bottle out and go for a safe option but I think it could be quite funny.....

My cat's moustache

"Sleep, sleep cat of the night,
with episcopal ceremony
and your stone-carved moustache.
Take care of all our dreams;
control the obscurity
of our slumbering prowess
with your relentless heart
and the great ruff of your tail."

Cat's Dream by Pablo Neruda

Holiday in Dorset