Past lives...

It's been a slow week as far as finished sewing projects go - just sampling a kazillion little hats and trying to get back to that bag pattern I'd hoped to have finished by now. I had to delve into the archives to be able to finish my Blogtoberfest post-per-day pledge. Otherwise I might have just put my feet up, poured another glass of wine and called it Friday night....

Let me take you back... way, way, way back...

Ten years ago.... I was in Ireland, doing things like this. Very classic leathergoods - some with a slight Celtic twist. Most of the leather was hand-dyed (and my hands were mostly dyed, too). I was also making tweed and Irish linen hats, and tweed bags.

Fifteen years ago... I was making lots of hats, and started to make quirky sculptural bags. When I chanced across a job-lot of snakeskin and mock-croc pvc I went on a bit of a dinosaur tangent......even "dinosaured" the footstools I was making. (I sold LOTS of these at the time... anyone reading this buy one..?).
Twenty years ago..... I was making chiffon cocktail dresses (..??!!).

I'm practising saying the f-word so I can pronounce my LOOMING birthday... I look at past work, think about the different "lives" I've led in different places... and STILL I can't believe so much time has passed. Yikes - life goes too fast.