Kiss!

Posted on April 8, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged cloak, dress, Fun, Kiss, life mock mayor, Lord of misrule, mayoress, Memories, Newcastle-under-Lyme, reenactment, Straw hat, white wig1 Comment

Six years ago I played the Mock Mayor of Newcastle under Lyme and hubby played my mayoress. It was based on the idea of having a fool in charge for a day. Like the idea of the lord of misrule. We had fun playing with the idea of being able to order pies for everyone, or ale and cakes. The crowd would have been let in the local pubs for free. The point was that ordinary people were given the power that they normally lacked for a short period of time. Hubby loved the day. He always enjoyed acting. His great booming voice grabbed the attention, and he could be heard above the crowd. The photographer took a picture of us kissing, me in a massive white wig and staff and cloak and him in a straw hat and a psychedelic tee shirt and one of my dresses. We had 43 years together. This shows our love.

Mad dress

Posted on July 14, 2023 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Choir, Colour, dress, Flags, Life, Music, patchwork, Performance, Time, wrap around dress6 Comments

I’m singing at the weekend and I needed a mediaeval type dress for a pageant. I found this in the local store. It’s very “flaggy” or like a patchwork. I’m going to wear it because it’s long enough to cover my legs and that means I can wear warm leggings underneath. I hope the weather is better than it has been all week. It’s been raining and cold.

It’s a wrap around dress and I had to move the button inside to slacken it off a bit. Anyway, wish our choir luck, we are going to need it if we aren’t going to get very wet!

Elegant

Posted on December 19, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Clothes, Drawing, dress, sewing pattern, Sketching, skirt, topLeave a comment

Sunday’s #bandofsketchers prompt was elegant. My elegant idea was to draw a sewing pattern with a figure in a dress. I was inspired by 1970’s patterns which had elegant ladies sketched onto the sewing pattern cover. But my drawing does not really get the feel. It’s more like something I would have drawn as a teenager! I’m also showing my age. I’m sure I had a stripey skirt a bit like this, that flared out when you moved.

Red

Posted on August 26, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Childhood, deep red, dress, Life, Maroon, Memories, polkadot, RedLeave a comment

Red is the colour I loved as a child. Not pink. I had to have a bright red polkadot dress. I remember seeing a red setting sun for the first time when I was small. I liked red sweets, though I don’t remember the flavour. Red roses were beautiful, and red toffee apples were tasty.

Even now I like wearing red, but I’m a bit more adventurous, liking deep reds and maroons and bright reds. I still don’t like pink though.

Filtered design

Posted on March 4, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, artillery attack, chain reaction, dress, Molecules, nuclear power plant, Pattern, Sketching, VintageLeave a comment

Just a filtered version of the vintage dress I drew yesterday. Trying to keep my mind off Ukraine 🇺🇦 and what is happening there. Russians fired on a huge nuclear power station and set part of it on fire. It made me think of nuclear chain reactions if it blows up. It could be worse than Chernobyl in 1986. Funny how a pattern can spark ideas. I pray for peace.

Vintage

Posted on March 3, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, Drawing, dress, fifties, Life, Pattern, sixties, Sketching, VintageLeave a comment

Today’s #bandofsketchers prompt was vintage. OK, so I looked up vintage dress on my phone then made up a pattern. I think I’ll call it ‘molecules’. I was aiming at one of those 50’s/60’s patterns I remember from my childhood. The background was just to try and make it stand out.

Red

Posted on January 5, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Autumn, bright red, cadmium red, Colour, dress, favourite colour, Red, Young2 Comments

Red is my favourite colour. It was never pink. I had a red dress with white dots on it when I was little. I loved the shade of it. Bright red, cadmium red probably.

I’ve always loved autum leaves when they are red. There is something about the transformation from green. And I love copper beech trees, and strawberry jelly. And having my hair dyed red.. Yes I just love that colour.

Mallaband-Brown

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