All posts tagged: Australia

The corset class in Melbourne

I’m sure you have all been waiting to hear about the corset class in Melbourne and how it went. Well, it was amazing, fantastic, wonderful. Not because of me, but because all the people who came and took it were amazing, fantastic, wonderful. Just the loveliest group of people you could ever hope to spend the day with. There were 10 fascinating women, each totally different and unique, but all kindred spirits in their love of creation and sewing. I had the best time meeting them, seeing what fabrics they picked for their corset (so many delicious options!), and getting to know them as we worked through the corsets. And Thread Den was such a fabulous space to work, and so helpful. I wish I lived down the block from it! If you are in Melbourne I definitely recommend paying it a visit (and doing a course there if you are really lucky) – and it’s just down the road from the Fabric Store Melbourne. So the day itself: I was a little …

What I did in Melbourne: the wrap up

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I’ve told you lots about the Melbourne trip already, but I wanted to give you an overview of the week, with lots of pictures. So what did I do? Got lots of exercise: Went to three shows in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival: Ate lots of delicious food: And, of course, went to concerts! I’ve already told you about Great Big Sea, but we also went to see Brian Setzer’s Rockabilly Riot. The show was great, but the audience was unenthused. They didn’t dress up, they didn’t dance, they barely bobbed their head. They applauded. They seemed to like it, but they just did’t get involved! We dressed up of course. Catch me going to a rockabilly show and not dressing up! I managed to get Theresa’s hair into perfect Victory rolls, and wore my Love at First Flight dress. And we danced! We bobbed up and down and tried to lead each other (man, I suck as a lead) until someone finally asked us to dance. And then another couple saw us and was …

Melbourne fretwork

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So Miss Theresa and I are engaging in mutual blogging. She’s blogging about the Great Big Sea night (all the bits that I was too bashful/restrained/euphoric/discreet/giddy/shy to write about) and I’m sitting next to her blogging about Melbourne fretwork. She said “didn’t you already blog about Melbourne fretwork?” And I said “only about the idea. I have’t shown them pictures! ” And I haven’t taken 200 images of buildings in Melbourne with amazing wrought iron (which is probably what it properly is, not fretwork) not to show you some. The fretwork just fascinates me. It’s all over the place: on almost every single house. I wonder who made it? Was there a whole industry in Melbourne? Or was it imported? When do all the fretwork buildings date from? I can do a reasonable guess at architecture dates in NZ and the US, but I’m not at all familiar with the architecture styles in Australia. Theresa also pointed out to me that many of the houses around Melbourne have names. We looked at the names together …