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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Instax Sunday - Accessory Storage
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Wednesday Wardrobe Challenge - Shiny
Today's wardrobe challenge was shiny - I'm not the kind of girl who has a whole bunch of "bling" lying around so I decided to wear this dress as the fabric is quite "shiny".
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Monday, August 29, 2011
Domo Pillow!
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Sunday, August 28, 2011
Instax Sunday: Malaysian Food Festival
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Saturday, August 27, 2011
Sunday Walk - Lyall Bay to Island Bay
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Friday, August 26, 2011
Ukrainian Festival
We both love festivals and markets and I have always wanted to visit a lot of countries in Eastern Europe (sadly I haven't made it there - yet) so we decided to check it out.
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Here's a photo of the table where the plates were laid out - I thought it was really striking.
I thought I'd finish off this post with one of my favourite things from the festival - some AMAZING cross-stitch. I love folk art and I am a cross-stitcher myself and I can't even begin to imagine the number of hours that would have gone into making both of these amazing pieces.
I assume the man at the top is some important Ukrainian spiritual or religious leader? I really don't know enough about the Ukraine to say - but I do know he must be fairly important and fairly loved for someone to spend HOURS cross-stitching his portrait for a wall hanging.
The second piece of cross-stitch is a photo of a much larger table runner which was just beautiful. So many hours of hard work and sore finger tips would have gone into making it.