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Congratulations to Kathryn! Who is the winner of my Giveaway from last week! YAY! It was my birthday, and I want to thank you for ALL the lovely messages you sent from all corners of the world! So much love and gush! We're having a party this weekend and I'm planning on wearing my Sophia Holiday Vay Cay Dress (AKA the one with the planes) because my friend and I wanted to play dress ups, so we chose a red theme! A heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone who left a comment, and some of you who didn't get to - grrrr Disqus, it's 2015, you should work on all platforms! (I also included Rachel/House of Pinheiro and Ali/Daisy Crumpet as well as they left me a note on twitter and instagram) And yay to Kathryn, who can now choose a Megan Nielson Pattern for herself (and don't forget you can choose one for me too! I have the nursing top in a storage box at home - so no need to choose that one!) and I'll send you an email so we can chat notions and fabrics as I'm headin...

Hi! I’m excited for it’s my BIRTHDAY today! YAY! AND, I have planned a very sweet and small giveaway for you! I’ve just recently posted 1000 blog posts AND coincidentally 1000 Instagram photos, so I thought it’s time for a little celebration and to help out I called on a very old blogging and sewing friend… Meg! You know Meg, I'm sure, from Megan Nielson Sewing Patterns! Her Briar Sweater & Tshirt Pattern is probably one of the most sewn & blogged tshirts I've seen online and this year she has not only rebranded a bunch of her sewing patterns , they’re still available as hardcopy too! YAY! Meg has also launched a smart phone APP to help you keep track of your sewing patterns of the digital kind… but she’s also started working on some children’s sewing patterns as well. What a busy amazing woman! Meg was one of my first sewing friends in the online sewing blogging community, and she has always had a strong sense of design and her own fashion & style. It’s so ...

*Stare Out The Window* *Stare Out the Window Some More and Put Your Hand Just So* *Hands On Hip and Look Down at Dress* *Turn and Put Hands On Shoulders While Staring Down At Dress You Made With Your Own Hands* Hey guys, guess what? I don't think I've used captions on photos in my blog before... have you read that Twitterer (have no idea which one, and no time to find it) that started copying the Daily Mail or some UK paper's photo captions...? It's quite funny from memory, as copywriters obviously get very drained writing captions for the newspaper and they were just SO literal... just writing what was happening in the photo. Anyways! I've got some 'free' news... and I like 'free stuff' and I'm sure you do if you're thrifty like myself! My Sewing School is called Couture Nomad ... and it's a very small wonderful & welcoming sewing group here in Shanghai AND Teacher Catherine has been working on some new patterns! To celebrate, Coutur...