eco-dressing loveliness...

  

remember this?

the stunning, amazing, glorious gift of eco-colour loveliness from

the stunning, amazing, glorious India Flint?

(this might jog your memory) 

welllllllllll

given that I have more chestage than the original dress allowed for
and I have a small girl child with the perfect colouring 

and spirit to inhabit a dress of distinction
I chopped and nipped and tucked the original

added black bias-binding around the neck and armholes

and a bit of left over black linen to the hemline
(from a skirt that needed shortening to match my short stature!)

then we plonked a big satin ribbon around it all 

(EJ likes black satin ribbon)

 and now its a dress of dreams for a small creek gal

AND its goes perfectly with EJ's Kiandra Akubra
(that's her special 'cowgirl' hat) 
some little girls ask for Barbies and pink dresses -
our EJ asked for an Akubra for her birthday earlier in the year...

I think she's the perfect embodiment of a wood sprite in her magical dress

(and so does she)

ooooo and I have left overs for another special project too

bonus!


I'm feeling grateful for the blog-o-sphere today

looksee what I recently received in the post from the ever-so-talented Roz...
(after the parcel seemingly took a detour around Antarctica)

its a 'pair' of specially commissioned, one-of-a kind
 silver earrings etched with personally significant symbols

these are my 'thank-god-I've-finished-all-that-study'
celebration earrings
and when I don them I feel all jingley happy

(and something of a special sprite myself)

thank you Roz

thank you India





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