2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

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4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 13,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 3 Film Festivals

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The reason for my silence…

Hello everyone,

I know, I’ve been very silent over the past months. Sewing just wasn’t in my priorities, nor even on my list at all. The summer period has been the busiest ever at the office, and at the same time, I was struggling with personal challenges.

About a month ago, I underwent weight loss surgery in Brugge, Belgium. It wasn’t an easy decision to make, but for the sake of my own health, it had to be made. Before surgery, I had to lose a certain amount of weight and believe you me, it wasn’t easy. So I spent the whole summer under a lot of work stress, coupled with a weight that just wouldn’t go down. Messed up metabolism, you say? You bet!

Anyway, I somehow managed to lose the weight while keeping a minimum level of sanity (I appologize to my colleagues who had to suffer me ), went under the knife and emerged as a new person. The weight is coming off at a rapid pace now, but I would be lying if I’d be saying it’s easy! It’s hard to break life-long habits. But I absolutely don’t regret my choice.

Losing weight also means my beautiful creations don’t fit me anymore I want to give them a good home, so watch this space. They’ll be added to my Etsy shop very soon! I’ll be back shortly with a list of the dresses for sale.

Until then, happy sewing everyone!

Spring Flowers Project – the photos, finally!

It all started with a collaboration idea. I sew the dresses, she takes the pictures. After weeks of hard work, for both my friend and I, here is the final result, for your enjoyment: Photos credits: Dauna Kraag. Follow her on Facebook! It’s a strange feeling to see my work turned into ‘fashion art’! A […]

Summer sewing hiatus

Long time, no write! Let’s say that late spring/early summer is never my most active sewing period in the year. I’m definitely more of a winter sewist. My sewing room is up in the attic and it usually gets way too warm up there for me to sew. And with vacation, outdoor activities, peaks in […]

The blushing bride

I apologize for the delay in posting, let’s just say that the past weeks have been busier than ever work-wise, and that doesn’t leave much time or energy to do anything else… Here are finally some pictures of the beautiful bride (if I say so myself) on her special day. This is why I enjoy […]

Here comes the bride! (well, almost…)

I will not share the full pictures until after the wedding day, but here are two very sneak previews of what I’ve been working on the last few weekends. The dress and accessories will be hand-delivered tomorrow, and there will be time for a very last minute fitting session. Hopefully the real thing will fit […]

Gertie’s New Book for Better Sewing: available for pre-order!

I don’t always do free advertisement, but this time I can’t let it pass because I’m so excited! One of my absolute favorite blogger, Gertie‘s New Blog for Better Sewing, will release her first sewing book in a few months. It’s now available for pre-order on Amazon. This book will be a must for anyone […]

Sunday at the fabric market

It’s that time of the year again, when the fabric market makes a stop in my town. Dozens and dozens of stands, filled with fabric bolts of all types and colors. So tempting! But contrary to last year, I didn’t make a huge loot. Not that there wasn’t choice, they just didn’t have what I […]

Spring Flowers Gowns project – Lily of the valley

I couldn’t resist. I had to make another dress. When I first discussed the project with my friend, we agreed on 3 or 4 dresses. Because of the time crunch, I decided to aim for 3 dresses. But I enjoy this project so much that I did everything I could to fit a 4th dress […]

Spring Flowers Gowns project – we have a tulip!

Well, at least that was the plan. Looking at the dress, it looks more like a red rose than a tulip. So here it is, the third (and last? more on this below) evening gown for my friend’s photography assignment. My inspiration was the tulip, one of the most famous symbols of the Netherlands – […]