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My sustainable wedding dress: The reveal
Sustainable Wedding Dress

My sustainable wedding dress: The reveal

Why hello, sewosphere, hope you’re still here! It’s been ages, I know, but you know I had a good excuse: getting married and the honeymoon and all that. So now, the big reveal, right? Well, the professional pictures have not arrived yet (when do they ever give them back on time…?) so you will have to contend with a few bad ones taken with my phone. This is teaser I got from the photographer, so I’m teasing you with it too. EDIT: now updated with more pics below.

3 November 2015
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A sustainable wedding dress odyssey – Part 2
Sustainable Wedding Dress

A sustainable wedding dress odyssey – Part 2

Friends, I’ve almost beaten the procrastination and made a bit of progress with the wedding dress project… At least, on the prep side. As I was telling you in the previous post on this topic, I decided I not only wanted to make my own wedding dress, but I wanted a sustainable one at that. And my way to go about it was to buy an old dress off eBay and take it to pieces to recover the fabric and make a new dress I designed, from scratch. Soooo, a few weeks later, I did just that. It took me three…

5 August 2015
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A sustainable wedding dress odyssey (Part 1)
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A sustainable wedding dress odyssey (Part 1)

Heya boys and girls, just a quick, cheeky mid-week post to tell you about something that’s making me really excited at the moment! You might have heard about me getting married in October in the Caribbean and that I’m mad enough to make my own wedding dress. Daunting, I know, but I did choose something really sensible and hopefully easy to put together, so I will keep my sanity (and by extension, my finance’s). I really have no more excuses to procrastinate – I did get my amazing sewing room a little while ago, so even the feng shui is working in…

9 July 2015
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