I have come to notice that in recent times, dolly fashion have evolved to become more complicated in terms of design and really miss the time when dolly dress were of simple lines (some 10 years ago @@) So I decided to try out a simple looking a-line mini dress with adorable puff sleeves. I think I am addicted to puff sleeves now!

These 2 little dress sets come paired with autumn coloured tights... I luv dolly tights! And a little neck warmer with little crochet lace details.


Dresses have been fray checked and have metal button clasps.

Each dress set is priced at 38 usd each

International Shipping is 3.50usd ( I ship from Singapore, registered mail)
Pls contact me at fuzzie_dud@yahoo.com

or visit my etsy shop at :
https://www.etsy.com/shop/Frigginfuchsia 






Alice Autumn Dress - Orange flowers





Alice Autumn Dress - Purple flowers

Food craft - Felt Macarons

For those who know me personally, they would know am a food stylist based in Singapore.
Off work, am an avid crafter who often experiments with different forms of crafts. So when I was approached by Ruth of The Happyshop to teach another class at The Workshop with a food theme, I was just over the moon!!!

Come 29th March 2014, I'll be conducting a little felt macaron workshop at The Workshop.

Details can be found here and I hope to see you there. :)

Terrific Thursday!

Its back to basics with Terrific Thursdays Twelve Dollars Specials!

Each dress is lovingly made both by hand & machine. Edges are either pinked or machine over-locked.
Material used are a mix of Asian & Japanese cotton fabric.

Fits: Blythe doll
Color: Pinks & Blues
Style: Baby Doll Dress
Qty: 1

Etsy Link:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/Frigginfuchsia

Upcycled Bath Towel

Here's a simple upcycling project I've recently completed.
A simple old bath towel being snipped up, over-locked at the edges, followed by simple home-stamped labels (I prefer the clean-up towels at home to have designated uses and labels help us keep to that).

This project took no more than 2 hrs, am a tad slow in sewing.

So here's my little contribution to saving our earth :)

Happy Valentine's Day

Do you remember the first time you leaned towards yr partner to plant that first kiss?

Butter Cookies with dark choc. flakes

A little flour
A little butter (maybe a little more than a little)
A hint of salt
A scrap of vanilla
A little egg white
A tad of dark choc

A lot of satisfaction :)

More DIY Xmas ornaments

Little .. well not so little ornaments created with a styra-foam ball, ribbons and fabric & an online inspiration.
Now all we need is a tree....

It's Beginning to look a lot like Xmas

I've been a little down... but thankfully I've been trying to keep my spirits up by working on our tree's Xmas' ornaments. This is the second time I'm attempting to make my own Xmas ornaments as an annual affair :) I am loving it so far and can't wait to see them up in the tree.

Mushrooms! *non magical ones ;p

This is all Jamie Oliver's as well as all the other cookery shows being aired on telly. You know, the type of cookery shows where the chefs just effortlessly harvest a couple of herbs, vegs etc and dump them in a pan and magically produce food?

Its kinda long shot to achieve the above as I live in a little flat in tropical Singapore. But guess what?! I can now do that now with the 4 oyster mushroom logs I've purchased! Thank goodness for mushrooms being an easy food to mix and match. We've prepared them with stews, bbq, stir-fries and more.

Sure it proberly costs less to just buy them from the supermarkets and takes more effort to grow them, but the taste of freshly harvested shrrooooms just makes such a difference in the dishes. (after harvesting they can be kept for up to a week in a zip-loc bag)

Here's a couple of pixs of their growth stages.

Little mushroom sprout

3rd day from the appearance of mushroom spouts

Lovely plump Oyster mushrooms ready for harvest

Lovely plump Oyster mushrooms ready for harvest

PS: Oyster mushrooms are known to have higher nutrient levels, reducing hyper-acidity and cholesterol and blood pressure.
info from : http://tempoafrica.com/2011/03/mushrooms-growing-food-on-waste/

Turquoise Safari

Been into Manicures recently and here's my Mani. for the week

Source: Uploaded by user via Biona on Pinterest

Kindi Dresses

It's been a few weeks of TRYING to finish these dresses! It wasn't getting the inspiration to sew of playing with the details but rather getting the time to finish them due to positive issues such as looking for a new home, a couple of incoming styling jobs(I'm a commercial food stylist) & a wonderful vacation I just had.

Anyway, here they are. Thank you to those who had been asking me about them. Am very grateful for your patience :)

A little background now. It had been a while since I had garnered the inspiration to sew or to fabric shop. All it took was for me to get lost in thoughts and Chinatown and fall in love with this fabric which in turn triggered my urge to create these 3 dresses. The prints are of the old skool illustration style... too adorable for me to pen dwn in words :)

There are 3 variations of this dress set.

Materials used are Japanese cotton & old school polyester pleated lace



Kindi Dress ~ Boy


Kindi Dress ~ Bunny ( reserved )


Kindi Dress ~ Girl ( reserved )


Each dress set comes with stripped socks and is priced at 32usd each.

International Shipping is 3usd

Pls contact me at fuzzie_dud@yahoo.com

more pix can be viewed at http://www.flickr.com/photos/rayne

Loving Denim

Hi everyone,
If you were to see one of my post awhile bk, I had mentioned that I wanted to take up the challenge against over-consumerism and trying to reduce my carbon footprint, thus the inspiration of the material usage in this set.

It's now close to winter, and what better way to warm up in denim. Denim, our staple throughout all seasons will now function as a tunic over a long sleeved tee to help keep the gals tidy as they finish their late autumn farm chores.

All tees will have a vinyl print of every girls' favorite animal : )

There are 4 variations of this dress set.

Materials used are up-cycled cotton and denim.

*pls take note of the little denim rip in set2, I kept it as part of the design for a more rugged look but do understand not everyone might like it.





the tees with vinyl prints
*Close up of the 'worn' out feel, pls take note that the vinyl prints were intentionally heated a bit more at the edge to make it appear 'worn'


Each dress set is priced at 36usd each.(Only set 3 left)

International Shipping is 3usd

Pls contact me at fuzzie_dud@yahoo.com

more pix can be viewed at http://www.flickr.com/photos/rayne

Little October Gal

I can't believe i started on the dresses' 1st prototype 6 months ago! The only thing positive about taking so much time is that I could revisit the embellishments used on the dresses a few times to be sure they've all co-ordinate well.

There are 3 variations of this dress.

Materials used are cotton, white lace and tiny gold beads as buttons.





Dress 1 > Red with white polka-dots with dotty yolk
Dress 2 > Dark red base with stripped yolk
Dress 3 > Stripped base with dark red yolk (on Misa in photo)

Each dress set is priced at 26usd each.(All dresses sold, thank you)

International Shipping is 3usd

Pls contact me at fuzzie_dud@yahoo.com

more pix can be viewed at http://www.flickr.com/photos/rayne

Club street with the gals & dolls

Its been a long while since I've had a dolly day out... here are the pixs...

Of course we had to start up with a cuppa @ Shots



8 Ang Siang Hill, Singapore 069788
Tel: +65 6224 8502
http://www.shots.com.sg

Our mandatory dolls who joined us shot



Having to demostrate how much I lurve red and white polka dots!!!



We strolled down to the loveliest kitsch store



Its impossible not to take more pixs there even though I only had my iphone with me.

7 Ann Siang Hill
Singapore, Singapore, 069791

http://www.thelittledromstore.com/

After hanging out at a few more stores.... we definately had to rest all our little feet :D

When was the last time you cooked together?

In recent conversations with my better half, we began to realise that the little things we do together such as cooking have been taken for granted. It's come to our realisation that we are pretty much gratful we've both got similar taste in food and luv cooking together which is sometimes obscure in some relationships.
On more creative days we try to recreate recipes from our childhood as well as concoct new ones... here's one of our ways of storing the recipes besides in our iphones. We personalise our own reciepe cards by printing our own designs on recycled xmas presents' packaging and the backs of xmas cards.

Recipe Cards, originally uploaded by frigginfuchsia.

Hoarder!

Am a hoarder and I admit it.
I loveeeeeee keeping paper scraps, have dozens of loose widowed buttons and as part of my job now, have loads of scrap fabric. Add the above to my goal for 2010 to recycle and buy less newly produced resources and here is something I came up with for one of my latest styling job.





Yes, they're home-made napkins with home-made napkin rings.

Hope this idea is well -liked :D

Flight

Home should never make us feel caged in.
Home should always be a freedom of space no matter how big or small it is.



Curtains created from a single panel of Ikea's Wilman Curtain that was cut into 2, followed by little applique birds stitched onto them. 5 birds were then stitched onto the base panel followed by 2 birds on the other panel to give an effect of depth and lightness of flight when the light shines through.
Total cost for this little project is approx. $6-7usd.