Dress Of The Day with Angela

  I never wear gray. Isn't it the world's least favourite colour? So why did I wear gray today? I rescued a gray scarf from the dump. Americans call it dumpster diving. It was a long thing bedraggled looking gray scarf. The label is The Venetian Macau. I washed it and unfolded it. It was large.  Large enough to make and over the head shift dress.  I looked on my rail and there was a gray and white skirt, a rescue from a pair of trousers, slit up the centre seam to make a skirt. I now had an outfit. I cut the scarf across the neck using pinking shears. The scarf  was semi-see-though. I added my tote bag with cats, which cost 4 Singapore dollars in Daiso. I tried two different hats. The scarf has speckles of silver on one side. You can wear the plain gray for daytime, the silver speckled side at night. I have bought a set of fabric dye in colours. But not silver nor gold. I have also used gold felt tip pen and gold speckles on a broken porcelain lamp base. Now I am won...

  Ear-ring clips  Most of the ear-rings you buy on-line and elsewhere have tiny clips.  Two styles are sold. One sort has hinges. Another type has a screw. I have tried buying the clips alone from: 1 Craft shops and  2 Online jewellery making suppliers and  3 A jewellery sales and repair shop on the St Ann's mall opposite the railway and bus stations in Harrow. The jewellery shop is upstairs on the first floor. (Americans would say second floor. The British have ground floor so the first floor is the upper level). As a result, when I have time to spare and I am in a shop or department store, or second hand shop, I often look at the ear-rings. If a pair of ear-rings is cheap and has a large ear-ring clip, I buy them. Even if I don't like the style. The latest, fourth idea is magnetic ear-rings. How do they work? Just two round magnets. One goes behind the ear lobe, the other in front. Amazingly the magnet works through your ear lobe. You can stick a button, or an...

 Silver boots from Clarks. I bought them in a sale in Brent Cross Shopping Centre.  I lost a button. I went back to the shop a year later to ask if they could supply a button or cover a same size button with silver leather. They could not. As I was leaving I glanced at the sale section. Another pair of boots - the same style. A size larger, but I only wanted them for the button.  When I got home, I found that by wearing a thick pair of socks, I could wear the larger pair, which were intact. The pair with the missing button could be worn with long skirts which covered that area.  Search for silver boots, leather boots, or Clarks boots, or Brent Cross opening hours. Useful Websites https://www.clarks.co.uk/ https://www.facebook.com/ClarksShoesSG/?brand_redir=1515304195459652 https://www.clarksusa.com/ https://clarks.sg/ https://www.clarks.eu/gb/en/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._%26_J._Clark Please share links to your favourite blog posts.