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Taking tea with the Wellington Sewing Bloggers

The afternoon tea* craze is well established in Wellington, with at least one dedicated afternoon tea shop, and various restaurants doing their own afternoon teas. And a new afternoon tea shop has just opened in Kilbirnie (a suburb/village on the eastern side of Wellington, near Weta Workshops), and I’ve been meaning to try it. You know who else likes afternoon tea? The Wellington Sewing Bloggers. We also like fabric shopping, and meeting non-Wellington Sewing Bloggers. So when Penny from Dresses and Me (OK, only kind-of a sewing blogger, but close enough!) let us know she was coming to Wellington, of course we had to meet her, and take her fabric shopping, and to afternoon tea. And of course I suggested the new tea place so we could try it out.** But first, to work up an appetite, we went fabric shopping: (many thanks to Silly Billy Sewing for all the photos in this post that include me) I completely blew my fabric budget at The Fabric Warehouse, buying silk-merino blend jersey (I’m actually wearing a …

The Sunshine Dorothy Lara 0Degrees frock

Published by The Dreamstress

It’s been a few weeks since I’ve done a Wellington Sewing Bloggers 0Degrees post (read all about it and see the other links here) , and the challenge has hit some slight hiccups in the form of jobs, children, and viruses (as is inevitable), so we’re still trying to catch up and fill in some of the links, but there is quite an impressive chain formed. And now, time for my link! This is my ‘Sunshine’ Decades of Style Dorothy Lara dress: Sunshine is definitely something that we need at the moment – the weather prediction for the next 10 days is all 12 & 13 degrees, and I’m huddled in front of the heater in layers of merino looking a lot like this. So it’s nice to remember that not that long ago it was warm enough to wear little silk frocks and bare legs, and that eventually, a long time from now, that kind of weather will come around again. This dress links to both Nina’s Dorothy Lara (along with my feathered Dorothy …

Privacy, perfection, and blogging

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Lauren of Wearing History just blogged about perfection and blogging. It’s interesting timing, because I already had a blog post about perfection, reality, and blogging sitting half-finished in my drafts folder. Every once in a while I pull it out, add a bit more to it, tweak it, and think about publishing it, and don’t. So I guess now is the time. I haven’t published it, because it’s not just about blogging, reality, and presenting the idea of perfection: it’s also about privacy. Even talking (well, writing) about privacy is more revealing than I generally like to be. You see, despite the fact that there are thousands of photographs on the internet of me that I voluntarily put there, and despite the fact that there are hundreds of blog posts about me, that I voluntarily wrote and published, I am an extremely private person. I can count the people who know my biggest worries and secrets (the sort of things that Lauren blogged about) on one hand. I don’t share, and I don’t talk. I’ve …