tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25926235826633233722024-03-05T23:07:12.368+10:00Flora Fascinata's FripperyIncluding images of my work in the creative craft of corsages and millinery.
And, a few other moments that make life sweet.Flora Fascinatahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02307285983019254214noreply@blogger.comBlogger394125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2592623582663323372.post-42855945884242031072016-01-31T19:12:00.000+10:002016-02-06T15:35:13.637+10:00Hats Off!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In June 2015 I packed myself up to join <em>Hats Off to Brisbane</em> run by the </div>
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<a href="http://millineryaustralia.org/event/hats-off-to-adelaide/">Millinery Association of Australia</a>.<br />
I found my tribe.</div>
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I signed up for workshops that taught a hat-making technique without </div>
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a block and lots of flower-making.</div>
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It was wonderful.</div>
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As far as I know the next convention is 2017 in Adelaide.</div>
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All the big names in millinery will be there.<br />
They were in Brisbane, too.<br />
I have showcased just a few here.</div>
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The convention is quite serious business; there's no licking of thread, aprons must be worn, and<br />
only a heathen doesn't use a thimble.<br />
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Don't even start me about your posture.<br />
Sit up straight and don't wave you arms around while you are hand-sewing. <br />
Elbows must be tucked in neatly.<br />
Work on your aproned lap, cradling that creation with light hands.<br />
Any heavy handiness might get you thrown out of the class.<br />
<em>You have been warned.</em></div>
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The venue was the Tafe at Mt Gravatt.</div>
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Compared to the chalkface I am well acclimatised to, it seemed </div>
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flash and well-appointed. </div>
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I had a cursory glance at the industrial sewing machines in one room.</div>
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They still made me break out in a cold sweat as I remembered wrestling <br />
with the overly-sensitive accelerator pedal in <em>Design for Clothes 101</em> back in1986.</div>
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If you've mastered those things, you've got my vote.</div>
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I didn't travel as organised as this black and yellow trolley, preferring to </div>
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pack my things in eco-bags and boxes.</div>
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Not ideal. I will know better next time.</div>
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The class requirement lists were pretty long and specific.</div>
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And, to be honest, they caught me a bit unawares.</div>
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Here's some of the materials to collect prior.</div>
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<em>Anyhow,</em> here are the fruits of my labour in part and a bit of process. </div>
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<a href="http://www.serenalindeman.com.au/">Serena Lindeman's</a> raffia flower classes.</div>
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Brenda Wilson feather flowers.</div>
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<a href="http://www.neilgriggmillinery.com/">Neil Grigg's</a> top hat without a block.</div>
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Catherine Kelly from <a href="http://embellish-hats.com/">Embellish Hats</a> showed us a 'language of flowers'.<br />
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I really enjoyed the week and have since put the skills learnt to good use.</div>
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<em>Good People</em>, I am back.<br />
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I am nothing if not unpredictable.</div>
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I would be lying if I said I haven't enjoyed the break.<br />
But this hiatus has placed me in a bit of a dilemma.<br />
I have a lot to report back on.<br />
So in truest of form I am going backwards detailing the last six months or<br />
so of frippery. Click away if you are going to irked.<br />
You've been warned. <br />
I do enjoy the reliving the past.</div>
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I have still been avidly <em>fashioning frippery</em>.<br />
I have been part of Mercedes Benz Fashion Festival in Brisbane again.<br />
Included with a little fashion shoot in the promotional magazine.<br />
From there I did a week of millinery tuition with the <a href="http://millineryaustralia.org/event/hats-off-to-brisbane-millinery-convention">Millinery Convention</a>.<br />
Concluded with a masquerade ball, dubbed <em>Imaginarium.</em><br />
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It was all a bit fabulous.<br />
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Between popping off to Holland, Belgium and Paris in September.</div>
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And, a Paris bus-stop poster.<br />
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I have eaten my way through Marche du Macaron's range of confections.</div>
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I am not complaining.<br />
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I have made time to hand-bead this large disc shaped headpiece base.</div>
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I started it in the airport lounge.</div>
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A large curly feather will finish it nicely.</div>
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I can now put a 'Hand-Made in Paris' label on its sparkling visage.</div>
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If checking out clichéd nonsense is not your thing.<br />
I would click away now.<br />
It's no secret.<br />
Paris is my sort of town.<br />
They let dogs in just about everywhere.<br />
And there's pastries and cakes. <br />
I have become obsessed looking at each baker's 'signature' style.<br />
There's plenty of them.<br />
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There's no flies on the produce.<br />
Only French bees.<br />
Buzzing around the sugary goodness.<br />
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You can sit on a giant macaron, or a sweet biscuit or liquorice all-sort.<br />
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You would never have to cook a single thing again.<br />
It's all there for the taking for you to claim as 'your own'.<br />
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Even the souvenirs are irresistible.<br />
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You can walk and walk.<br />
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There's hardly any hills.<br />
But, you have to look up.<br />
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And across.<br />
And around.<br />
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And down <br />
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The door knockers are charming.<br />
The flowers encroach the footpath.<br />
The local council couldn't care.<br />
No-one is policing footpath space.<br />
You just get right out of the way.<br />
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The town halls are adorned with cherubs.<br />
Here's our local.<br />
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The gardens are perfection. <br />
The domes gleam.<br />
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There's all kinds of niche frippery.<br />
This is the highly acclaimed fan and headpiece designers maison Duvelleroy. <br />
Just at the end of the street.<br />
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Here's the Plaza Athenee with all its glorious red geranium filled planter boxes.</div>
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The French seem to be able to put a garden anywhere.</div>
Dior has its headquarters around the corner.<br />
Nicely played.<br />
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The Plaza's art Frenchie.<br />
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Paris is the home of the camellia corsage.<br />
Here's Monsieur Legeron's lovely pieces.<br />
The epitome of elegance.<br />
Ready to be shipped.<br />
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The department stores are stunning.<br />
You can sit under this dome at Galeries Layfayette, sipping coffee for not much more than <br />
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And, finally the ubiquitous snail eating tools.<br />
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En route to a medieval city we caught the Thalys to Bruges. </div>
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Via a quick change at Antwerp Station traveling to Northern Belgium or Flanders.</div>
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The Antwerp station clock tower was nothing short of spectacular.</div>
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It held me slack-jawed for twenty minutes or so while Mr Fascinata</div>
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actioned our train tickets.</div>
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The Hotel DeTuilerieen, Bruges is the next home away from home.</div>
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I approved the décor.</div>
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The hotel is described as 'elegant' and 'patrician'.</div>
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The original house built in the 15th century, belonging to a group of ruling class families.</div>
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Good thing, they liked dogs.</div>
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Here's its lovely topiary prisms.</div>
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And its cheery yellow façade.</div>
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Interiors were painted with a blaze of red paint. The specific red that gallery walls</div>
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were painted before the 20th century.</div>
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Then there's the exposed beams.</div>
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If you like to get a head start on Christmas then you will love Bruges.</div>
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I think they leave these decorations out all year 'round.</div>
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If you like your fairy-tales a bit Brothers Grimm book your ticket now.</div>
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Bruges is your go-to.</div>
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Here's part of the main square and its Gothic glory.</div>
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The Provincial Court in Markt Square.</div>
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Once where governments met.</div>
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You can visit the markets and buy all sorts of hand-made things.</div>
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Mr Fascinata purchased two hand-woven linen scarves.</div>
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Janis Rozentals weaves the pieces for six months of the year in Riga, Latvia.</div>
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Hunkered down during winter.</div>
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The rest of the time, he and his lovely wife sell the work.</div>
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If are so inclined you can order from www.weavedesign.eu</div>
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Here's the loom. </div>
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You can buy a waffle in any permutation.</div>
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Try wheat sheaves.</div>
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Here's the fairy-tale you have been looking for</div>
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and Bruges' Golden Inlet or canal. </div>
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The historic centre of Bruges has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2000.<br />
Here's the Belfry of Bruges.<br />
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All this sight-seeing and a girl can work up quite an appetite.<br />
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Here's Cathay Pacific's 'The Wing' lounge vista.</div>
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A runway in Hong Kong and those steamy mountains.</div>
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People, thank you for missing me while I am abroad.</div>
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Amsterdam, Brugges and Paris.</div>
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Here's Amsterdam's Keizersgracht.</div>
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En route to The Dylan Hotel.</div>
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The first thing I noticed about the people in the Nederlands is that they speak three or four languages.</div>
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They offer you a greeting in three or four; you then choose which one to reply with</div>
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I usually felt like a complete nonsense having 'only English'.</div>
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I really enjoyed seeing how effective the bike-riding culture is in the city and how the roads' infrastructure and prevailing attitudes are geared towards cyclists and not cars.</div>
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No-one is building car-parks, nor wasting money on paying for parking.</div>
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Everywhere you look there's those beautiful moth orchids. </div>
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White Phalaenopsis.</div>
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And tulips in many varieties.</div>
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Here's the view across from the queue to see Anne Frank's house and the family factory.</div>
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Russians liberated Amsterdam from the Germans.</div>
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And, Otto was freed and she never knew.</div>
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Here's the Rijks Museum.</div>
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Rembrandt's 'The Night Watch' lives here.</div>
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A Dutch Golden Age Masterpiece.</div>
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Here's the Rijk's lovely gates.</div>
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The architecture and those Dutch Masters paintings give quite an atmosphere.</div>
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This is The Dylan hotel's courtyard from Room 20.</div>
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I trotted out most days looking a bit old Dutch Masters myself. Once again, half the clothes I packed won't be worn and two or three items will be worn over and over again.</div>
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I will be popping in to see Monsieur Legeron in Paris again, too. To run my eye over his corsage making salon. This red fleur in his from last time. I thought I packed it safely but it go quite crushed. But have no fear; I have a plan.</div>
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I ate a whole tin of stroopwafels from the Dylan's room service fridge, so know I have a tin to protect it when travelling.</div>
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Vermeer's Flora on the canal with red fleur.</div>
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This beats most Westfield's, I know. Below is a shopping centre.</div>
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Magna Plaza.</div>
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In 2012 it exhibited Rembrandt's paintings.</div>
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I enjoyed how there is a string of quaint old bordellos lining the base of one of the oldest churches in Amsterdam and there's Art. Just in case you forget where you were.</div>
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Jesus looks after the oldest profession in the world.</div>
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Those canals are every bit as lovely as you imagined.</div>
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Three crosses are on the Amsterdam flag.</div>
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Supposedly Saint Andrew was crucified on a cross that looked like a cross. </div>
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Here's the oldest windmill in Amsterdam.</div>
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It's now a very popular café.</div>
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The Dylan. We didn't do anything by halves, people.</div>
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I am emotionally preparing myself for Paris.</div>
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Here's Antwerp train station. In case you haven't had enough.</div>
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We are getting on board Thalys going via Brussels to Paris.</div>
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Au revoir, tot ziens, vaarwel and goodbye. </div>
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I am enjoying the change in work life balance.</div>
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Spending time with the <em>Dog of the Year</em>.</div>
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Watching my every move just in case a macaron drops out of my pocket.</div>
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I have turned this lovely feather tree in to a Flora one-of-a-kind.</div>
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As light as a feather to wear, and a gorgeous head-wear statement.</div>
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I have been eating <a href="http://www.marchedumacaron.com.au/">Marche du Macaron's</a><em> macarons</em> with gay abandon.</div>
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At least they are fuelling my productivity.</div>
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<em>I have been busy.</em></div>
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These pretty pieces are in at <em>The Hat Box</em> in the Brisbane Arcade.</div>
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Waiting for <em>good homes.</em></div>
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I have become <em>acutely interested</em> in dyeing feathers.</div>
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Have some decorum.</div>
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I will let you know where it all goes.</div>
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I've had a nice mention in Brisbane Arcade's latest retail promotion mini-magazine.</div>
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A timely promotion with the Brisbane Arcade designers group show for the Mercedes Benz Fashion Festival.</div>
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One yellow, one blue Flora photographed atop two sweet faces.</div>
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As below.</div>
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<em>Thank you.</em></div>
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In case you were worried.</div>
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I am back.</div>
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And, thank you for asking.</div>
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I have been up to all sorts.<br />
Sorry to go <em>awol.</em><br />
Not quite visiting the Queen in London, but<br />
I had to take life by its horns and make a few changes.<br />
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I have re-booted my chalkface life.</div>
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Risen up against the tyranny of workload intensification</div>
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and found myself a lovely little alternative to my usual </div>
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<em>Life is good.</em><br />
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I have time to notice the <em>small things</em> again.<br />
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That old adage is true; a change can be as good as a holiday.</div>
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There's a<em> work-life balance</em> now going on.<br />
But, it did take some determination.<br />
And careful planning.</div>
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I am still gainfully employed.<br />
And loving what I do.</div>
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But have a bit more time for the important things.</div>
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Like cake-making.</div>
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Chocolate Mud.</div>
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Pear and Almond Tart.</div>
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Lime and syrup cake.</div>
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Time for pondering.</div>
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Blogging.</div>
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Flower arranging.<br />
The odd soiree.<br />
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Appreciating the little things.</div>
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Some feather flower-making.</div>
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Slowly fashioned.</div>
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I've picked up a few more millinery techniques thanks to the Milliners' Convention</div>
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which was held in Brisbane this year.</div>
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I will show you more on that later.<br />
I promise.</div>
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On a sad note.</div>
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I am missing my little poodle companion terribly.</div>
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I can still imagine him walking around the <em>House of Flora</em>.<br />
I keep googling <em>unwanted poodles</em> in my region.</div>
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This lovely portrait of Coco Chanel with hers by artist Marie Laurencin is one</div>
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of my favourites despite the melancholia.</div>
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How's <em>everything?</em></div>
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Making any changes?</div>
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Marie-Therese is also a co-editor at <em>Textile Fibre Forum</em> magazine.</div>
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One day I hope to meet her.<br />
She found me via the enthusiastic comments I would leave on her blog.<br />
<em>I meant every word.</em></div>
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My friend J, came over and shot the high-resolution photos.<br />
That was the day the light-box bath-tub got the flick.<br />
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I am a cover-girl, well, just inside it anyway.</div>
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Cooking and dogs.</div>
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Both had to be in the <em>affirmative.</em></div>
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I have kept up my end of the deal.</div>
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<em>Thankfully.</em></div>
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He has bought me many beautiful cookbooks.</div>
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<em>The Artist's Lunch</em> is about how art and cooking is a happy marriage.<br />
Haven't road tested it, but I should.</div>
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<em>Stupefied.</em></div>
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Then in another sixty seconds pounding a lump of dough on the bench.</div>
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Boom!</div>
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Here's Rachel Khoo's brioche, sausage and onion recipe.</div>
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<em>French Hot Dogs.</em></div>
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If you've got room to spare around your middle or not, try it.</div>
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<em>It's comforting.</em></div>
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If I am caramelising onions I might as well do a whole bag.</div>
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I can't stand the frippery of chopping and dicing.</div>
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Bit graphic I know.</div>
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<em>Then caramelise.</em></div>
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Wrap the dogs up in pastry.</div>
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Serve the Hot Dogs with onion jam and mustard.</div>
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And tomato sauce, if you are inclined.</div>
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By the way who is reading AUS L'Officiel?</div>
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Where is the June edition?</div>
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In pressing news it is very late at my news-stand and no-one seems to know <em>why.</em></div>
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<em>Anyone?</em></div>
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I have been reading Dale Carnegie.</div>
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Written in 1954.</div>
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It is still sage.</div>
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I am <em>eagerly awaiting</em> my cousin's <em>imminent arrival</em> back from living in America.</div>
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Her daughter is<em> my God-daughter</em>.</div>
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And I long to see them both.</div>
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My God-daughter said one of the most important things<em> I have ever had said to me</em>.</div>
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On my Engagement the three of us were looking for frocks.</div>
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<em>The dress</em> for my <em>Engagement soiree</em>.</div>
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Of course, I thought I might buy 'one a size smaller'.</div>
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To <em>whittle down into</em>.</div>
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My God-daughter's reply was succinct.</div>
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<strong>"Just buy a dress that fits".</strong></div>
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I have since applied this advice to many things and it works.</div>
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Dale Carnegie agrees.</div>
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Megan Hess would agree.</div>
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Have you bought her little book of fashion plates?</div>
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It is lovely.</div>
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Megan Hess gets fully endorsed here because recently</div>
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in one of her interviews she thanked her Art teacher.</div>
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Who is actually my old chalkface colleague from a time ago.</div>
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How lovely for her.</div>
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Quickly flick through the pages.</div>
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I hope Megan doesn't mind me doing a bit of PR for her.</div>
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But I couldn't resist a quick book review.</div>
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If you have $29 AUS to spare or a gift to buy, get a copy.</div>
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Sorry, should have put the contents first.</div>
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Meanwhile, I need to follow Carnegie's Rule 1 for the next two months or so.</div>
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<em>Plenty of action.</em></div>
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I am under the pump with all sorts of work to do at the chalkface and </div>
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there's plenty of <em>Flora Fascinatas</em> that are looking forlornly at me.</div>
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<em>I miss them.</em></div>
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I have had to endorse some sort of<em> Lenten fasting</em>.</div>
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<em>Hair vest wearing.</em></div>
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Things have to change around these traps for a while.</div>
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I am tightening the <em>time-management belt</em> starting with eradicating <em>daily macarons.</em></div>
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Sparkling at soirees.</div>
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*sniff*</div>
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Cake-making with alarming regularity.</div>
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Sunday lunches.</div>
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<em>Et al.</em></div>
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Desserts every night.</div>
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I am not even going to look at you <a href="http://www.marchedumacaron.com.au/">Marche du Macaron.</a></div>
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<em>I am serious.</em></div>
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Just before I go.</div>
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And in no order of importance.</div>
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Have you been to any rallies raising awareness of the effects of forced closures </div>
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of Aboriginal communities?</div>
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Go. I have.</div>
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You will hear music and see dancing. </div>
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Hear people and highly respected Elders talking about First Nation culture.</div>
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There's dignity and grace.</div>
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There's been two rallies in my city outside City Hall.</div>
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Here's City Hall with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags sailing for </div>
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a celebration week last year. <a href="http://www.naidoc.org.au/">NAIDOC Week</a>.</div>
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I felt ashamed and annoyed at the Council that the flags were not out for the rally.</div>
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Lots of sadness in and around the traps.</div>
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Massive earthquake in Nepal.</div>
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Two Australians executed alongside six others in Indonesia.</div>
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Lots of rigour at the chalkface.</div>
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And, finally the house-muse is no more.</div>
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Here he is in better days, <em>just sleeping.</em><br />
After a bedtime story.</div>
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Last week the house-muse retired to the <em>biggest poodle parlour</em> in heaven.</div>
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Over the <em>Rainbow Bridge</em>.</div>
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That lovely soft euphemism that includes all pets</div>
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Thank you for your kind thoughts.</div>
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I have been sad for days.</div>
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He was my constant for sixteen years and never disagreed with</div>
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a thing I said.</div>
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I liked him.<br />
Nature permitted him nearly 18 years in total.</div>
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I went against good advice and gave my heart to a dog to tear.</div>
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It'll mend slowly.<br />
I'll let it take its sweet time.</div>
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Thanks to the stunning blooms at the Orchid Society's Species Show.</div>
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<span>There is sorrow enough in the natural way <br /> From men and women to fill our day; <br /> And when we are certain of sorrow in store, <br /> Why do we always arrange for more? <br /> Brothers and sisters, I bid you beware <br /> Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.</span></div>
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<span>Buy a pup and your money will buy <br /> Love unflinching that cannot lie-- <br /> Perfect passion and worship fed <br /> By a kick in the ribs or a pat on the head. <br /> Nevertheless it is hardly fair <br /> To risk your heart to a dog to tear.</span></div>
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<span>When the fourteen years which Nature permits <br /> Are closing in asthma, or tumour, or fits, <br /> And the vet's unspoken prescription runs <br /> To lethal chambers or loaded guns, <br /> Then you will find--it's your own affair-- <br /> But ... you've given your heart to a dog to tear.</span> <br /><span>When the body that lived at your single will, <br /> With its whimper of welcome, is stilled (how still!) <br /> When the spirit that answered your every mood <br /> Is gone--wherever it goes--for good, <br /> You will discover how much you care, <br /> And will give your heart to a dog to tear.</span> <br /><span>We've sorrow enough in the natural way, <br /> When it comes to burying Christian clay. <br /> Our loves are not given, but only lent, <br /> At compound interest of cent per cent. <br /> Though it is not always the case, I believe, <br /> That the longer we've kept 'em, the more do we grieve: <br /> For, when debts are payable, right or wrong, <br /> A short-term loan is as bad as a long-- <br /> So why in--Heaven (before we are there) <br /> Should we give our hearts to a dog to tear? </span></div>
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I've been working on this <em>pretty pink frippery</em> where <em>too much is never enough,</em></div>
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Don't click away because you are about to meet <em>mezzo-soprano</em></div>
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<em>You will be smitten</em>.</div>
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She is the loveliest.</div>
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I shut up the <em>House of Flora</em> last week and traipsed out with Mr Fascinata to enjoy <em>Dido and Aeneas</em></div>
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I would be lying if I said I didn't<em> love it</em>.</div>
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who played poor old Dido the Queen of Carthages.<br />
The story is <em>thin on the ground with me</em>, so if you beg to differ, <em>please do.</em></div>
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Dido was overlooked by that Trojan hero Aeneas and some witches cause all sorts of frippery.<br />
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That's about all I could understand.<br />
The acoustics were brilliant, it was my heathen ears.</div>
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The venue was City Hall.</div>
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<em>That I do know.</em></div>
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In keeping with the Italian theme we had a<em> Prosecco</em> before-hand.</div>
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<em> Brisbane Baroque</em>.</div>
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Every thing is a weird shade of blue under the dome's arch.</div>
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Elizabeth sang at our Wedding.<br />
Here she is at the 'do back in 2011.<br />
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She sang three songs: <em>Ave Maria, Panus A</em>ngelicus and <em>It's a Wonderful World</em>.</div>
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<em>You won't be sorry.</em><br />
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<a href="http://www.elizabethlewis.com.au/">Here's Elizabeth's details</a>.<br />
You better get in quick.<br />
She is in Melbourne at the moment studying with Opera Victoria.<br />
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Apart from sitting through a Baroque opera<br />
I am about to re-read Dale Carnegie's book, "How to Stop<br />
Worrying, and Start Living'.<br />
Written in the 1950s.<br />
I had to re-read the dead dog analogy a few times but it does make sense.<br />
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There's also another anecdote about how a man de-stressed by watching his wife do the dishes<br />
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<em>I know</em>.<br />
How are you getting on?<br />
Is too much, too much?<br />
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I'll be honest with you, <em>The Performing Nurse</em> resonates with me.</div>
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<em>The Performing Nurse</em> is my friend L's one-woman comedy show about her<em> service</em> to the <em>vocation of Nursing</em>.</div>
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<em>Midwifery</em> was her area of expertise.</div>
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She is part of <a href="http://anywherefest.com/">The Anywhere Festival</a>, all over the place, including Brisbane and Sydney.</div>
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Supporting the Arts.</div>
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I've had all sorts of frippery <em>breaking out</em> at the chalkface.</div>
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Lucky I know to <em>Find Joy in the Ordinary</em>.</div>
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But, for a bit of respite.</div>
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As a nod to <em>Yves Saint Laurent</em> and his creativity I donned a turban and </div>
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<em>Saint Laurent.</em></div>
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I can't tell you <em>I really enjoyed it.</em></div>
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It was about a dark and stormy period of his life.</div>
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About ten years of <em>drug addled angst and disturbances</em>.<br />
Arguments between shareholders.</div>
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Not enough frocks in my opinion.</div>
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Only a scant look at some shoulder pads and head-wraps.</div>
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And, I didn't win the best dressed award.</div>
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*Sniff*</div>
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At least the <em>Prosecco</em> was refreshing.</div>
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The following night I invited myself to <em>Starr's abode</em>.</div>
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You've been there before.<br />
I hadn't been in quite a while.</div>
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Starr is a brilliant <em>one-woman show</em>.</div>
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Responsible for <em>all and everything</em> in her working life.<br />
A <em>micro-manager</em>. I approve.</div>
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No-one writes her pay-check every week and no-one gives her a 'to-do' list either.</div>
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She manages it all beautifully.</div>
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She came to the chalkface once and talked about this on International Women's' Day.<br />
I said she was a <em>role model</em> and she had to do it.</div>
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<em>I loved what she said.</em></div>
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Starr and I met many years ago when she dropped by</div>
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We were really chalk and cheese.</div>
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<em>She remained commited</em>. We paid her a packet of <em>Tim-Tams</em> for her <em>volunteerism</em>.</div>
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One packet per day, once a week.</div>
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I knew I'd made a friend for life.</div>
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Even with our ups and downs.</div>
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And a close-up of <em>Vegas</em>, as above,</div>
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I love these <em>stencilled hearts</em>.</div>
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I've got one.</div>
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There's always <em>little vignettes</em> around the place.</div>
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Starr always says, 'she learnt it from me'.</div>
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The Eiffel Tower is <em>gloriously illuminated</em>.</div>
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Starr washes her paint-brushes <em>beautifully</em>.</div>
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She knows them <em>bristle by bristle</em>.</div>
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Her little black poodle <em>Hollywood</em> always does a long hello and goodbye.</div>
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There's <em>beauty in the ordinary</em> even in Starr's kitchen.</div>
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And gets out the <em>good glassware</em>.</div>
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I'll be back soon, Starr.</div>
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I left the <em>dog-of-the-year</em> at home and quietly slipped out to a special event this week.</div>
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The Hat Box's Winter Launch.</div>
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I can honestly never say I have been disappointed by a Hat Box 'do.</div>
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This week's <em>Winter Launch</em> was no exception.</div>
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Held at the The Emporium Hotel's cocktail bar.</div>
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It was truly lovely.<br />
Here's Dale, The Hat Box's proprietor and doyenne of millinery style, looking the goods in white lace.</div>
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If The Hat Box was a club; I would be happy to be a member.</div>
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I have found my tribe.</div>
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Rich, poor, married, single, children, no-children, workers in-the-home or other.<br />
Young, old, short or tall.</div>
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Don't under-estimate any of us.</div>
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You must differentiate.</div>
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The are no hollow stereotypes here.</div>
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And, we are are somewhat <em>fierce </em>looking.<br />
Yet, very kind.</div>
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And, that's the way I like it.</div>
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We enjoyed at bit of this. </div>
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A bit of that.</div>
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Popped on all sorts of frippery.</div>
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Watched the Show.</div>
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<em>Thirty pieces worn by the loveliest models</em>.</div>
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Who brought their personalities on to the catwalk showcasing</div>
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feathered and felt finery.</div>
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I was chuffed to see my Chanel inspired fleur, lace and coque feathered headpiece out for a viewing.<br />
The promptly purchased by a kindred spirit.<br />
<em>Thank you, Lovely.</em><br />
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The piece came up a treat; even if I must say so myself.</div>
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Stunning orange blocked felt with sculpted feathers.</div>
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Don't even start me on the green boater.</div>
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<em>Love.</em></div>
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I <em>gilded the lily</em> and wore an embroidered lace number.<br />
My old black sling-backs from a decade ago. <br />
I know, <em>shop in your own wardrobe</em> is good advice<em>.</em> </div>
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A matched Flora carnation trimmed headband.</div>
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I might need to be stopped from buying this pink felt top hat, as below.</div>
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What are we thinking?<br />
<em>J'adore.</em></div>
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It's nice.</div>
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I am gearing up for a bit of time away from the <em>chalkface.</em></div>
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<em>Holidays</em>, hooray for Easter!</div>
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I know stress is <em>fashionable.</em><br />
But, people I have been b-u-s-y.<br />
There's been all sorts of things going on here.</div>
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<em>Hottest weather</em> for February in seven years.</div>
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I've had a little <em>Hat Salon</em> in my own home.</div>
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<em>Thank you</em> to all those who attended and supported <em>Flora's Frippery</em>.</div>
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You know who you are, and I love you.</div>
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We had a lovely time, taking tea and eating sweets.</div>
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R's lovely gift to me of a hydrangea flower ball was burnt crisped within two days,<br />
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I am keeping the fleurs a little longer, because <em>hoarding</em> is at my very core, people.</div>
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I've insourced as <a href="http://atrayofbliss.blogspot.com/">Mimi</a> puts it and cooked up an <em>expensive Italian late-lunch.</em><br />
Last weekend.<br />
I sent Mr Fascinata a bill for $440.</div>
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Whipped up that gorgeous tomato, basil and bocconcini salad.</div>
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Spaghetti and meatballs.</div>
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Started an all-gold-Midas-touch head-piece.<br />
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A old gold Prosecco bottle was my muse.</div>
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Lounged around a bit.</div>
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done for the chalkface's belated <em>International Women's Day</em> lunch.<br />
I am nothing if I don't like a little <em>irony.</em><br />
Catered for the lunch with the help from the little workers.<br />
And bought the guest speaker a rose bouquet.</div>
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Begun sourcing Easter chocolate.<br />
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Rested on the laurels of Chanel and Cartier's hospitality.</div>
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Nearly run off the road when I discovered the old shop around the corner</div>
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<em><a href="http://www.marchedumacaron.com.au/">Marche du Macaron!</a></em><br />
Sacre bleu!<br />
Feel free to visit me!<br />
You know what I will be serving!</div>
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Trotted off to Cartier's opening after all.<br />
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The invite appeared in the Inbox at <em>late-notice</em>.</div>
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Thank you,<em> Maison Cartier.</em></div>
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I re-purposed a diamante brooch into a headpiece a s a nod to Cartier's diamonds.<br />
And took my International Women's Day gift from Mr Fascinata.<br />
My new Marcello de Cartier handbag, in the iconic red colour.<br />
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We sat at the the <em>Love</em> table.</div>
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The whole evening was bathed in Cartier red light.</div>
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<em>Dessert.</em></div>
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The iconic panther.</div>
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Tried on a panther satin, leather and diamond cuff.</div>
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<em>Why not.</em></div>
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Worth nearly half-a-house.</div>
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What are you up to?</div>
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Are you getting paid enough?</div>
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Let me know.</div>
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If you know me well you will appreciate that I do not like parting </div>
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I do not subscribe to high-end labels because of some sort of <em>status-anxiety</em> either.</div>
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I love Chanel's couture and ready-to-wear clothing and accessories because of the artisan quality.</div>
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The seamstresses are well looked after and remunerated.<br />
They have ateliers for all sorts of aspects of design and spend hundreds of hours making.</div>
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What is not to love about this separately stitched in place hand-dyed feather ruffles and those little flowers</div>
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(as above) that were once a layer of wet paint, dried, rolled extra-smooth and then cut out?</div>
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Hand-beading comes next.</div>
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So, you can <em>imagine my surprise</em> when my friend C,</div>
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who has been one of Flora's muses for many a year invited me to a Spring/Summer 2015 Show.</div>
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Just fourteen of us, and Chanel staff in a beautiful fine-dining restaurant.</div>
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With lovely models <span style="background-color: white;">parading</span> the 'looks' before dinner.<br />
<em>Crème brulee.</em></div>
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<em>Cheese platter.</em></div>
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<em>Pinch me.</em></div>
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Wrestling with that satin and wire inspired camellia was worth it.</div>
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<em>What a reward.</em></div>
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Thank you, dear Coco.</div>
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Were you watching me? I did not think you would mind.</div>
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Here's C and me in situ at Chanel's lovely table.</div>
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C's painted pearly CC bag.</div>
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Colour was certainly key.</div>
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Coco's signature orchids were part of the décor.</div>
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At the risk of sounding like my mother; even the bathrooms were <em>accessorised.</em></div>
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I trotted out my <em><a href="http://www.akira.com.au/">Akira Isogawa</a></em> full-length <em>shroud-like Japan inspired gown.</em><br />
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Hand-beaded, and with a nod to Chanel <em>accessory-wise with a cuff and brooch.</em></div>
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Just so you know, Akira's left Australian shores and is in Paris as we speak.</div>
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I turned off the studio lights and went out and had the time of my life.</div>
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The <em>Spring/Summer 2015</em> Show in Paris for Fashion Week was all about women's rights and <em>standing up for yourself</em>.</div>
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There was all sorts of hand-painted protest signs including peace signs.</div>
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Not sure what the signs really stood for; if you know tell me, <em>thanks.</em></div>
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Good on you, Karl. <em>Vote Coco.</em></div>
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Just in time for <em>International Women's Day</em> this Sunday March 8.</div>
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That's the strap of a satchel that looks like some vandal <em>graffitied</em> it with a <em>nikko pen</em>.</div>
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The hand-painted then digital treated silk looks were stunning.</div>
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Jackets and capes are lined in tweed for a bit of <em>juxtaposition.</em></div>
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Yes, thanks. The <em>whole ensemble</em>.</div>
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Sequins over digital printed silks.</div>
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This ensemble was paraded and my heart skipped a beat.</div>
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There was also this natty little cuff with a map of Paris on it.</div>
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Go straight to <em>Place Coco</em> if you get lost, just off <em>rue Cambon</em>.</div>
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Coco aside.</div>
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What are you up to for International Women's Day?</div>
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<em>Tell me.</em></div>
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I will celebrate next week with the workers with a lunch and we have </div>
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<em>Bit excited.</em></div>
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I'm doing a little story for a textiles magazine.</div>
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Frankly, I am excited, but we'll see how it goes.</div>
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I might end up on the <em>cutting room floor</em>.</div>
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Can happen.</div>
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My dear friend J did the shoot.</div>
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She is an absolute perfectionist.</div>
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Very generous with her time and attention.</div>
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She wouldn't have a bar of my light-box bathtub.</div>
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We had to do the <em>full catastrophe</em> set up on the rear deck.</div>
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A <em>flashing snoot</em> included.</div>
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Silver 'umbrellas'. The works.</div>
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My little light-box was not needed.</div>
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<em>Sniff.</em></div>
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I will stick to what I know.</div>
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<em> People</em>, <em>Cartier </em>has finally opened in Brisbane.</div>
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The good news is Flora has been included in a lovely fashion editorial</div>
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promoting all things wishful in the <em>Q Weekend</em> lift-out from the weekend papers.</div>
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But alas, no invite to the Opening Night.</div>
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<em>Sniff.</em></div>
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I've slipped from the <em>A List.</em></div>
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Who said I wasn't 'serious?'.</div>
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Here's my Christmas card. Now, where is my invite to the Opening Night?</div>
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Here's the store carefully barricaded from prying eyes while the jewels </div>
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Now opened.</div>
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Tradesmen need not have applied for the shop fit-out.</div>
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It's a job for <em>craftsmen</em> only.</div>
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Anyway, by 6 degrees of separation, it's </div>
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<em>Flora and Cartier</em>.</div>
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No argument.</div>
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Here's the lovely head-piece.</div>
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It's hand-tooled. Layered, stitched, trimmed and dyed.</div>
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With pale pink spear feathers.</div>
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Just in case no-one else does, <em>Lovelies.</em></div>
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The <em>Pink Fleur with Feather Spears</em> is available at <em>The Hat Box</em>.</div>
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<em>Merci</em>.</div>
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My lovely niece C has just held her own group Exhibition of visual Art:</div>
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Pineapples, Ganesh, skulls, tattoos, social media bits and pieces, computer game icons, owls and energy drinks</div>
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all got the nod.</div>
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Whatever was <em>in </em>this <em>Season</em>.</div>
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She did a nice job talking to all the young things (and old things) in the crowd.</div>
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I'd be lying if I didn't say I was <em>proud.</em></div>
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My other niece was a participant as well.</div>
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She's made some beautiful metal fleurs!</div>
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<em>Corsages.</em></div>
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Made out of empty energy drink cans.</div>
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Here's her artist statement.</div>
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She does this drawing too, called pyrography.</div>
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Carefully burning into wood.</div>
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I've warmed up the workers for <em>Wearable Art.</em></div>
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I've held a in-class tea-party.</div>
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Prepped up and served in record time.</div>
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Mimi, I used your mint green icing and chocolate cake inspiration.</div>
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A little shabby chic, but tasted great.</div>
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I have lots of lovely comments on the blog.</div>
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Can I just find a moment to<em> thank you.</em></div>
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But, one of my favourite comments was from a lovely</div>
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young thing who just commented with, 'Fierce'.</div>
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I liked it. This is a little bit <em>fierce,</em> even a little <em>barbaric</em>.</div>
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Do not be afraid.</div>
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I have been shaping and glitter coating found quills.</div>
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<em>Ethically sourced</em> from the road-way.</div>
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Lightly wired and arranged on a fabric covered band.</div>
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<em>Gilded with glitter</em>.</div>
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Studded with some black beads.</div>
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A lovely match for the <em>Akira Isogawa.</em></div>
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You either get <em>Akira's </em>aesthetic or you don't.</div>
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<em>That's fine.</em></div>
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I am a number one fan.</div>
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This bias cut gown was half-price.</div>
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I went giddy.</div>
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I popped the feather piece on my tonsure to see these fabulous things</div>
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<em>Shonen Knife.</em></div>
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All girl band. A kind of Japanese style Ramones.</div>
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They were<em> fierce</em>, although they don't look it!</div>
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Here's the venue at the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.</div>
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<em>Up Late</em> for Gallery Viewing of <em>Future Beauty: 30 years of Japanese Fashion</em>.</div>
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Have you been yet? <em>Get cracking</em> because it bumps out on Sunday 15th February.</div>
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But here's R from <a href="http://parisallons-y.blogspot.com/">Paris Rendezvous</a> in her kimono.<br />
I would be <em>lying</em> if I said I didn't <em>love her</em> <em>style.</em></div>
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Pardon my <em>absentia.</em></div>
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I have had all sorts of things breaking out that needed higher attention</div>
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than <em>fashioning frippery</em>.</div>
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<em>Sniff.</em> </div>
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Anyway, I am back.</div>
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I have made this lovely double fleur headpiece.</div>
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It's tulle, satin and organza.</div>
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Fluffed and frayed and formed to make two lovely roses in bloom.</div>
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<em>I am smitten.</em></div>
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It will be available at The Hat Box, soon.</div>
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Here's the inception.</div>
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I am not sorry I have kept this magazine for over a year.</div>
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Its quiet pink hues got me going.</div>
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Too much is never enough, <em>dear Karl</em>.</div>
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An abundance of flowers.</div>
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Feathers.</div>
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Lace and tulle.</div>
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Big hats.</div>
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Nothing not too love.</div>
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And, finally I have joined Facebook.</div>
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<em>Flora Fascinata</em>, thank you, very much.</div>
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A neat little Business page that is my online Visual Diary.</div>
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I found this lovely pastel artwork by Albert Breaute while idling my time.<br />
<em>Woman in an Interior</em>.</div>
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A beautiful soul wrote this under the painting.</div>
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<em>The Window to the Universe Opens Inward and Outward.</em></div>
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Look after yours.</div>
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Both inward and outwards.</div>
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If you wanted one, and you have a place of your own to create.</div>
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<em>Count yourself lucky.</em><br />
I, do.</div>
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Yesterday, Mr Fascinata and I did a road-trip.</div>
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Down Murwillumbah way to see Margaret Olley's <em>place of her own.</em></div>
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Margaret Olley's home studio.<br />
Margaret Olley is a national treasure artist.</div>
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After her death the rooms of her house were carefully packed up and restored in a </div>
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<em>The Yellow Room</em> and the <em>Hat Factory</em>.<br />
Her creative place is an inextricable part of her art.</div>
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<em>You must go.</em></div>
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There's always a few other shows on at the gallery, too.</div>
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It took about fifty minutes to leave the city behind and see</div>
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Margaret Olley was born in the area.</div>
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It was a truly beautiful day.</div>
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Sculpture that nods to the surrounding dairy industry.</div>
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Here's Margaret.</div>
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She died on the 26 July, 2011 at 88 years. The day before she was painting.</div>
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She got around on a walking frame adorned with a tattered old Chanel ribbon.</div>
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If you squint you can see it, here.</div>
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The frame is in the gallery, for keeps.</div>
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So is the ribbon.</div>
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The walking frame has seen the pyramids in Egypt.</div>
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Margaret travelled all her life.</div>
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Margaret did countless still-life and interiors of her creative space. Here's 'Afternoon With Corn Flowers' (1990).</div>
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There's many more where this came from.</div>
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There was also a range of black and white photos of Margaret's studio, captured<br />
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Here's the dining room table, below.</div>
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Margaret was a great cook and loved to entertain.</div>
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She would rather stay in, than go out.</div>
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She said that when she went out, her creative processes stalled.</div>
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Sometimes dinner parties would take place in and around the props</div>
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Her creative space really was the epicentre of her life.</div>
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and the people she knew and loved in the last few years of her life.</div>
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She wasn't precious about 'things'.</div>
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In other news, the tree's packed up and put away.</div>
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I have weaned myself of Christmas and am getting ready for 2015.</div>
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Do you have a place of your own?</div>
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I have been given an <em>edict.</em></div>
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The tree must come down today.</div>
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That tree is definitely a trigger for all sorts.</div>
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I will be wrestling mine down today.</div>
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<em>I promise.</em></div>
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a couple of Frida inspired headpieces.</div>
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Late last year I had the fun of making a couple of Frida Kahlo inspired headpieces</div>
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for A, who was going to luncheon.</div>
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I worked with two fabric characteristics, one including using the bias (or stretch) of the woven grain.</div>
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That is the lovely rolled edge and ease you get when you cut fabric on the 45 degree angle.</div>
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The curves are lovely.</div>
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I arranged the fleurs in a little bunch and added turquoise leaves.</div>
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The second headpiece used heat to curl and twist cut fabric petals.</div>
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That's a shot of our real-life rosemary and chilli.</div>
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<em>I know.</em></div>
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For the last few months instead of asking virtual friends for silk thread, fairy floss, a donkey</div>
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or three bags of yam for our farm; there's been real-life farming and I want to share the</div>
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In between my <em>fashioning of frippery</em>, Mr Fascinata has been quite <em>busy.</em></div>
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First, you will need to limit your garden of any plant that 'doesn't serve any purpose' as my farmer friends would attest.</div>
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Or, at least in our climate are water-savvy.</div>
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Leave a few bromeliads if you must; they are quite pretty.</div>
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Clear the beds for the things that matter.</div>
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Place newspaper down and top dress with a few bags of soil and mulch.</div>
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In no time you will have this:</div>
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Start with seeds (it's the cheapest way), but so you know <em>where they are and what they are doing</em></div>
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<em>Water gently.</em></div>
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It also needs regular pruning so it doesn't get out of control.</div>
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Don't go on holidays and forget about them.</div>
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When you transplant when they look strong enough don't try to</div>
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separate the plants, planting little clumps is fine.</div>
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Sometimes you can do damage if you try to pull the seedlings apart.</div>
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A wooden stake is also good to support the tomato plants.</div>
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They seem to grow much better.</div>
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You can also use a fertiliser if you wish.</div>
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So far, I will admit we have <em>copious chillies</em> and only seedlings of coriander, basil and thyme.</div>
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Rosemary's growing well, as with the chives and parsley.</div>
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I will keep you updated.</div>
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The chillies are also as<em> hot as hades</em>, so half a chilli flavours a dish for a <em>family of eight</em>.</div>
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And, we do like spicy food.</div>
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This is pesto, chilli and penne pasta.</div>
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In other New Year news we have said, 'goodbye' to this:</div>
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And this:</div>
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<em>I am as sad as you are.</em></div>
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At least these don't have any calories. </div>
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What are you up to?</div>
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Any little projects?</div>
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Are you farming, <em>real-life or other</em>?</div>
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