Gold Digger

I think we did the right thing coming back from our festival early, it's hardly stopped raining since. So what to do when the weather refuses to play nicely and you can't be arsed leaving the house? Get creating. 

Just like last year, I'm obsessed with off-the-shoulder tops. I can knock one up in around an hour and they're ideal for using up scraps of fabric (or vintage scarves) and leftover trims. I made the two I wore at last weekend's Acoustic Festival using a different tutorial to the one I'd used before (find it HERE) which I altered slightly by making a couple of inches longer so it sat on my waist rather than under the boobs. The 1970s striped knit fabric on the left was part of the bumper pile Jayne sent me earlier in the year trimmed with some multicoloured pom pom braid from the local market stall. The top on the right was a vintage silk scarf Lynn gave me when we traded at Stockport last month. The turquoise pom poms were already in my stash.

You might remember this bolt of vintage gold lamé I bought from a charity shop back in March. I'd started to make a jumpsuit but the fabric was a bit too stiff and it didn't look right so I remade it into yet another top (this time trimmed with some Indian metallic fringed trim bought from a car boot sale last Summer).

When the rain showed no signs of letting up I ran up a maxi skirt to match (and there's still loads left, you'll be sick of the sight of lamé by the end of summer). Fortunately it was dry for a few hours yesterday so I could pose in my finery. A normal person might say they never go anywhere to dress in head to toe gold lamé but I say, own it and the right occasion will arise (although I've never claimed to be normal or to ever have dressed appropriately).

Those of a Tory disposition look away now.... 

The two smaller bangles on my left wrist are the handmade pewter ones I bought from Alan last weekend.

I'm wearing my Jeremy Corbyn badge 'cos I'm a Labour supporter (I won't be visiting the polling station today, I sent my postal vote off a fortnight ago). Vote for whoever you want to but please, please, please exercise your democratic right and go out and do it.

We managed a chazzing trip out yesterday. Amongst the heap of stuff we found was this tassel trimmed vintage scarf crying out to be refashioned into another top so, using some of the elastic I got in the car boot stash last month and some bargain thread (50p for 500 metres) from the market, I did just that. It's perfect with the 1990s linen gypsy skirt I found in the Everything £1 chazza and the stack of plastic bangles from the same shop. Maybe I'll be wearing red tomorrow to celebrate.

The van's in for an MOT today and guess what? It's raining! Looks like another day of sewing.

See you soon.