collars galore!

i've been trying to take photos of these guys for ages, but it seems i keep choosing the wrong time of day/place/weather... so these will have to do!

over the summer i visited the liberty store in london, specifically the fabric floor, and fell in love. my mum then bought me some remnants at a craft fair she went to, and her friend sent me some after i came back here! so i was surrounded in the beauty of liberty fabric.... there was just not enough to make anything from. or so i thought.

then it hit me: removable collars!

(the grey actually isn't liberty.... neither is the crocheted one..)

i wore this one with a simple outfit most recently:

the bird fabric is probably my favourite... but fits with least things because it was my first successful one and i was still testing things out. (i did wear it reversed with my halloween costume though)

unless i come up with another moment of genius, i'm probably going to make as many collars as possible until the fabric runs out... watch this space!

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halloween! (and celebration of a working camera)

hooray! my camera made it back safe and sound and functional... and just in time for halloween festivities!
i didn't want to cart it around though, especially after having waited so long, so we just took some quick snaps before we left:

 we were mod-stronauts! as in, people from the 60s dressed in astronaut helmets..(which i made myself)
i also made my dress and the collar that you can't see (but will be in a post soon because i have made a whole load of them)

and i forgot to take a photo of the back last night, so here's a quick shot of our mod target to finish the look!

 we had a blast, there were so many people out, and most of them had actually made an effort with their costumes, which i guess is what you get for going out in a city rather than a tiny little town/ my own house haha

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the start of camera's adventures (take 2)

well, i finally sent my camera off for repair.
which led to a strange occurrence. and by strange i mean "oh isn't it a small world, my dear?" said in an old lady voice strange, not really strange.
after packing and stuffing my camera and a surplus amount of bubblewrap into a cosy little box, we found the ups store (which in itself was strange, because we thought it had been abducted.. turns out it was just further down the road than we had remembered. true and unfunny-to-anyone-else story).
the ups man then unpacked my camera, repacked with vigour and a lot of packing tape, asked me lots of questions, and then we both discovered we were from the motherland. (he still has an accent though so my job was not very difficult)
and that's not the strangest part. actually it's not really strange at all because it seems every english person thinks the best thing they can do in their lives is move to florida* plus there's all those theme parks around. but no, we have also lived in the same county. and the same town. and it was all weird and stuff using english place names and someone actually understand me for once, instead of the usual "oh that's nice, you're talking gibberish, why did i ask you where you were from again?" look that comes across most people's face once faced with my hometown's name.

i fear this has turned into a ramble, when all i wanted to do was express my surprise.

in which case.... every blog needs a photo or six... here's what i've dug up from past times of my hopefully now travelling camera:

*may or may not be entirely true

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