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If I could sing, I would love to sing like Sophie Madeleine

January 27, 2010life

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B96wv6Tfmg&w=500&rel=0 And played the ukulele as well. ♥♥♥ Sophie Madeleine on Facebook.

Tagged as: music

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Blog problem

January 26, 2010life

Several readers have been having problems accessing my blog. I really don’t know what’s causing it as other people don’t seem to have it. I’ve tried cleaning up the codes to see if that might help, but the problem is still there. Maybe it has got to do with old cache of my blog. So [...]

Tagged as: blogging

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Stylish Dress Book 2: D (uhm, sort of)

January 26, 2010womenswear

I think I got the winter blues. I haven’t made a single thing since New Year! My sewing room was too cold, and then I just couldn’t get myself to start a thing. Being uncreative made me restless. Has any of you experience the same thing? Or maybe I was just getting lazier T.T This [...]

Tagged as: Japanese pattern, sewing, Stylish Dress Book, top

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Sesame photoshoot

January 18, 2010life

About a week ago, Sesame magazine (a Japanese kid’s fashion magazine) contacted us and invited Sidra for a photoshoot. This is the second time Sidra had a photoshoot with them, the first one was done in Tottori, just two months after Sidra and me moved to Japan. This time, they wanted to photograph Sidra in [...]

Tagged as: photoshoot

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My truly honest scrap

January 15, 2010life

Still no new sewing projects. I’m so sorry, these last few days have been so cold I stay in the living room most of the time, curling in the couch like a spoiled cat. But here’s an ‘Honest Scrap Award’ that Trudy from ‘Sewing with Trudy’ has awarded me recently. Thank you, Trudy! Sorry for [...]

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Suwako

January 6, 2010life

A short trip to Suwako, a little town in Nagano prefecture. Once there, we took a short bus trip to Kirigamine Ski Grounds to find more snow and play slide. It’s the first snow for me and Sidra! We stayed one night in a hotel by the Lake Suwa, and had a very nice dinner [...]

Tagged as: holiday

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New Year

December 31, 2009life

This is a New Year card that Sidra made yesterday. The writing says: あけましておめでとうございます (akemashite omedetou gozaimasu = happy new year). He drew a tiger’s head there because next year will be the year of the Tiger. The blue building with television antennae on the far right is our apartment building. Tonight is the second [...]

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Makeup pouch – upcycled placemat

December 30, 2009bags and purses

This is a makeup pouch that I use everyday. The outer fabric is blue Japanese cotton with pretty white floral pattern on it, and the lining is blue cotton. But I didn’t sew the lining myself because this pouch was actually a rectangle placemat with lining already attached. I found a set of pretty placemats [...]

Tagged as: pouch, sewing, upcycled

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Iro-iro

December 30, 2009life

Iro-iro is a Japanese word for ‘a bit of this and that’ , and that’s what this post is all about. ^.^ I want to say thank you for all the comments in my last post, and also for all the emails! They mean so much to me and I’m sure that everybody has nothing but [...]

Tagged as: in progress

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Hello! (and some non-sewing related ramblings)

December 27, 2009life

I just want to say hello and welcome to my new blog address! Hope everyone is having a great holiday! Maybe you’ve noticed that the address of this blog has now changed to verypurpleperson. The blog is actually still hosted by Blogger, but I use the custom domain feature to redirect the visitors to my [...]