Lots of family fun and loads of fabrics this weekend.
(This is going to be a long post.)
To make space for all the new stuff that was about to come into our house I eventually found the time to do something that had been on my list for a while - declutter our wardrobes in Clara's room. I took radical measures - empty all the contents of the closet.
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So much more fun with the help of two lovely ladies.
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And my parents' she-dog.
(the men were watching sports in the living room)
Before:
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And after:
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Very proud.
The thrifting could start!
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Clothes from a church sale on Saturday (remind me of
Clara's Clothes...).
A couple of weeks ago in my
chatter from the sewing box I kind of asked the blogging universum for a knitting basket. I got an answer from a basket that had been in an attic for twenty years (my parents').
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A knitting bag full of vintage fabrics from the Eighties from the East (Soviet Union, bought by my mama) and the West (Western Germany,
I had a grandaunt who was a textile designer, the basket is also a one of her gifts).
And then my grandaunt Ilse, who was also very well-traveled, went to the Soviet Union and bought these tunics (the left one is hand embroidered with cross stitch).
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Those tunics were only available in hard currency shops called "Beryoska"("little birch").
Filled with these fabulous fabrics I thought I was pretty immune to the big Dutch fabric market (more about it in this
post) that comes to Oldenburg twice a year.
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Pretty immune.
PS: A new entrant to the
Doll Couch. For weeks and weeks I have been hearing a certain b-word over and over from Clara. So I said: if Barbie, then thrifted.
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befitting her rank on the vintage chaise longue