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Daffodil Yellow for the Welsh St David's Day. Dress 344.

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 March 1st every year is St David's Day in Wales. Not yet a national holiday but lots of people voted for it to be a national holiday, even if they had to sacrifice a different day to replace it by St David's Day. The colour is yellow, for the yellow of the Daffodil.  However, the flag of Wales is green, and white with a red dragon.  This was the flag of the first Tudor King, Henry VII, who preceded the more famous Henry VIII of the 6 wives. I wore yellow, green, white and red, mostly yellow and green. I hunted all over the web for yellow, then decided to check my own wardrobe.  Yellow Wrap 'Dress' I had a yellow wrap dressing gown. I never wear it because it is too long. Time to stop leaving it hanging up doing nothing. Time to start thinking, live every day as if it were your last.  I am also getting more ruthless about taking out the scissors and altering clothes to fit whatever my size is now. I could not go out in the garment. It would get dirty, and trip m...