Me Made May 2014

So after much deliberation about whether or not to join in this exciting challenge I have firmly decided it's a yes!

Due to this being my first Me-Made-May I am going to be realistic and gentle with myself considering the fact I haven't got a huge amount of self-made garments to wear during the month; so I aim to be pragmatic and practical with my pledge.....

 'I, Caroline of CJ Made, sign up as a participant of Me-Made-May '14. I endeavour to wear one home-made / customised item of clothing / accessory from Monday to Friday for the duration of May 2014'

The reason I have had to leave out Saturday and Sunday is because I am doing some pretty hard-core house rennovation and will be wearing this outfit every weekend. No joke!

The Jackson-Pollock-esque emulsion splats on the purple fleece counts as customisation right?!
And my worn away trousers have been lovingly patchworked with a variety of fun fabric scraps from my stash!!

I haven't yet figured out the logistics of recording my outfits yet - do I photograph them / sketch them / get a friend to photograph me? I will have a think about it and it seems practical that it will probably be a combination of all three in a round up at the end of every week.

Have you signed up for Me-Made-May 2014 yet? 

Music and DIY

I have had a jam-packed month or two with lots of things happening at home, work and getting the chance to squeeze lots other things in too - just not ANY sewing stuff!

Let's start with the Music

I went to see the US band called Warpaint at the O2 Brixton Academy on 30th November. They were great; the only downside was my friend Mel needed to get the 11.05pm train out of London so we left the gig at 10.30pm only to find the underground had ground to a halt due to an incident... Soooo we grabbed a cab but there was a diversion on the way to Kings Cross. Mel missed her train. We could have stayed for the whole set after all!! Annoying...

Warpaint image from standard.co.uk

Check out their music here: http://warpaintwarpaint.com/

The second musical foray was after a crazy few days at work during an Ofsted inspection. Chance tickets for The Killers was on the cards - It was meant to be! The Hammersmith Oppollo was an excellent venue - a great atmosphere and amazing showmanship from Mr. Brandon Flowers...

The mad crazy DIY

Its a case of a classic do-it-yourself attitude with house renovation... Let's just knock this built in wardrobe out and see how the room looks.... and then you can't get away from the fact you now have a huge gap in the wooden floor. 

Oh, and yes the ceiling dips slightly in the middle - well we had better get that down to re-board and plaster. Two weeks of dust, rubble, swearing and bags and bags of plaster later and we have a nice freshly plastered room. My boyfriends dad and I did the manual labour a friend of the family did the plastering. Looking forward to painting it over the Christmas holidays.