Thanks mrsbrown

[elegentry]

Thanks mrsbrown , Anne's delivered. Good black wool/cashmere for $25/m. Brunswick fabrics has lots of coating but lesser quality, some interesting colours and cheaper. There was a fabulous bright, large check which I thought about but resisted. Sadly no emerald green for erudito . Anne's had really heavy dense green wool but I think it is meant for billiard tables. You could make hats out of it but not garments I think. She had a green of a nice colour but very poor quality- it's a bad sign when it is pilled already on the roll. For those interested- she had nice mid weight white linen for $15/m. Good stuff but not cheap,cheap.

Now I need to either buy a coat pattern, take one off my brown coat with alterations, or draft from scratch. Probably the second option. That requires my morning brain, so not now. Need to make style decisions, trim, buttons, lining etc. I have lots of lining fabric but no pieces big enough to line a long coat. Would have been good to have patterned before buying fabric but these places are not open Sundays and I don't mind having a bit extra black wool cashmere in the house.

I'm having an upside down day. Dressed up for fancy birthday breakfast for giddyaunt  this morning. Lovely fun. Then at noon I had my 6mthly haircut. I was distressed that my hairdresser near work seemed to have closed. Turns out they are refurbishing and will reopen, whew. I tracked my man down at their city store and went there after our (looong) breakfast. Hair man was most cute as usual and seemed pleased I had followed him. He even got a second chap to work on my hair with him for a bit. "Goodness, two of you at once!" I said. The retort was "Yes" (pause) "you'll have to go to church after". Much fun and I even got a nice haircut.

So very social start but quiet finish. I'm vaguely annoyed I didn't manage to set anything up for tonight. Generally I only have the emotional energy to ask twice. If I get turned down by two lots of people, I end up spending the evening alone. Never mind. I shall experiment with stuffing some home grown capsicums for dinner.

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[montjoye.livejournal.com]

Yes it was rather fun. I can't quite sort out the orientation of my hair man. I *think* he is straight but definitely metrosexual. It matters not of course but one likes to have an opinion. He does have the nicest tattoo I have ever seen. He also likes my hair and always says nice things about it. He gets points for that.

[catchmyfancy.livejournal.com]

What's Mr Hair Man's tattoo of?

Yes, it was a looooong breakfast wasn't it? I didn't need (or want) to eat again until about 4.45pm. Yowza!

I am at home being tired. Have cried off my engagement for this evening - it was a group birthday partay and the birthday girl will not lack for admirers and gifts. But after the early start and then down to Brighton for chiropractic and then a fairly lengthy session and then into the city to try and find some music then back here to do some housework then back into the city for my ella bache appointment-I have run out of foof!

I also need you to make me a coat. (preeeeetty please?) I can find nothing I like and my body shape seems unsuited to everything. Humph.

Always wondered about Anne's Fabrics, they're just down from spotlight, yes?

[montjoye.livejournal.com]

Tattoo- inner forearm from wrist to elbow. All black. "La Belle Vite" (hope i have that right- the beauty of life?) in expansive curly cursive script. The wrist bit extends to form a bracelet. I actually almost covet it. Or maybe the forearm it is on?

Now I've been here a while I am not unhappy to be home. I did not eat again until dinner though I did have a starter of cheese and bikkies about 6.

Making coat huh? I'll think about it. Takes much time you know? Usually I have to know someone really well before I am willing to put that much time in. Or come to some mutually agreeable arrangement. Let me get mine done. I have more sewing plans than I could possibly do in many years (while working full time, hmm). On the other hand I like working with people. I keep threatening to set up a sewing business.

Ya south from Spotlight you first get to Brunswick fabrics then Anne's just south of the corner of Albert St. Mostly rubbish but some good stuff hiding in there.

[catchmyfancy.livejournal.com]

Chill, baby. Coat-making would, as you say, take a LOT of time and effort, and yes, it is a further-down-the-track thing methinks. If ever. Possibly I will have slimmed down enough by that stage to have more choices in the shops anyway. Also - I suspect you would have to have goddess-like powers before you could make me the coat i want - one that keeps the wind out and is snug; and yet gets magically less heavy in the milder weather; that's groovy and yet intensely stylish and somehow classic and yet classical.

There's a whole website devoted to literary tattoos:

/www.contrariwise.org/

[montjoye.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, garments that fill all possible needs all at once- one has to be careful with those. Generally it is more sucessful to only include a practical number of goals. Try for too many and it doesn't work for any.

I had a look at contrariwise. I still think hairdresser man has by far the best one. Though that site has more appealing tattoos than I usually see, worth the look.

[quatrefoil.livejournal.com]

If it's French, I'd suggest it should be 'La belle vie' = the beautiful life, or just beautiful life.
Alternatively vite is an adjective meaning fast, which would make it mean 'the fast (female) beauty'.

Judging by the "Viking" "Rune" tatoo of my former assistant, it's possible that the tatooist was not a French language expert.