Dressmaking, getting older and a vintage peplum jacket.

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Dressmaking, getting older and a vintage peplum jacket.

Of course it is not everybody’s style but the thing to take away from this posting is that you can make what you want, taking ideas from fashion magazines, movies or historical costume and just have a go. Think about the key points you want in a garment and look to mix and match elements and find the style that really reflects your personality. In the end, getting older is all about being yourself - not a mum, a wife, a job - just yourself.

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Making an embroidered clutch bag

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Making an embroidered clutch bag

Clutch bags seem impossibly glamorous to a vintage girl who spends most of her days in Jeans, but this one is pretty special. In fact this posting has been marinating in my draft box for a very long time and I am so happy to finally be able to write about it. During these long months of lockdown, ‘making things’ has been so important to me and I know to lots of other people too and it has also been a chance to finish up some things that have for whatever reason been dragging their threads…so to speak. This charming project has been one of them and I really can’t explain why it has taken me so very long to get around to finishing it.

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Visiting Salt's Mill - a UNESCO world heritage site in Yorkshire

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Visiting Salt's Mill - a UNESCO world heritage site in Yorkshire

I was so happy this weekend to finally get to venture out to actually visit somewhere and especially happy because it is one of our absolute favourite places in the world to go…and what’s more it is right here in Yorkshire. Salt’s Mill remains, for us, a surprising gem in the textile heritage of the Yorkshire landscape.

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