Category Archive: African style

What a maharani wears on her day off

It’s a good question, don’t you think? What DO exotic royal ladies wear and what do they get up to when they’re not ruling kingdoms? In the nation over which I rule (that… Continue reading

Get Redressed – my challenge for February

You know how you take some things for granted until they’re pointed out to you? That happened to me recently when Redress invited me to take part in their Get Redressed Challenge. The… Continue reading

LMFF: Pier pressure

It was a whirlwind week, but LMFF is over for another year. Did you make it to any of the shows? If not, here’s the action you missed – away from the runway*.… Continue reading

From tent dress to temptress (?!)

 As regular readers of this blog would know, I’m rather partial to batik and African prints. So there was no way I was going to pass up this tent… er… dress… when I… Continue reading

GIVEAWAY: Beads for Wildlife

 A little while ago I put up some pics of me strutting around in my garden wearing amazing African bead jewellery with no explanation for my crazy antics. Well, there is always method… Continue reading

Zoo-lander: the teaser

I’m not going to tell you what this is a teaser for because that would ruin the surprise, wouldn’t it? But you can possibly guess a little bit from the title… anyway, even… Continue reading

Jewellery heaven

Regular readers of this blog will know that I’m in love with ethnic jewellery. So it was not exactly a hardship for me to attend Alafia gallery (121 Ormond Road, Elwood, Victoria) last… Continue reading

18 years in the making

Have you ever belittled yourself for procrastinating or not finishing things you started? What’s the longest amount of time you’ve ever needed to complete a craft project? I’m thinking I could be in… Continue reading