There’s something special about being given a dress once owned and worn by a woman you admire. Here’s a hand-me-down 80s vintage number. Sans labels, it was bestowed on me by a hard-working, farmer’s wife from Tunstall, Kirby Lonsdale, Cumbria, England. The centre of this tiny village’s life, she defines all that is great about the Women’s Institute. [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘handmade’
November 13, 2007
Bazaarly happy
I only go to church once a year – to pay homage at the Christmas bazaar. On that blessed day, musty church basements are filled to the rim as revellers line up to buy homemade gingerbread, pies, jams and relishes of every flavour, handicrafts and used tat. What bliss! This year I even volunteered (a little). The [...]
