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As the Yaberoo Budjara Heritage Trail enters the Yanchep National Park bicycle riders have one more walker-friendly barrier to negotiate. Oh down the track is another access option but you have to negotiate a gate to come that way.
From here into the park’s recreation area is all good riding which is nice.
Built in the middle of the 4th Century AD as a hunting lodge by a Roman patrician (it is not known for sure who the owner was) the Villa is home to some of the best preserved and extensive examples of Roman mosaics spread over around 3500m2.
These extraordinarily vivid mosaics, probably produced by North African artisans, deal with numerous subjects, ranging from Homeric escapades and mythological scenes to portrayals of daily life, including the famous tableau of girls exercising in their “bikinis”.
the lined boxy jacket is pinned and tacked. next i'll take it apart as i reassemble i'll use the sewing machine. the collar, below the book, may then be attached
lining the jacket wasn't straightforward but hopefully it will come together ok in the finish
oatmeal fabric with flecks wool blend 2 metres @ £8 per metre
green lining 2 metres @ £2 per metre
both 1.50 metres wide
i'll be following the classic boxy jacket downloaded pattern from this reference book flic.kr/p/2q55djV
'the dressmaking book' by alison smith mbe publisher dk
alongside the reference book i use you tube tutorials that i search for when more explanation is needed
for the lining i'll follow the instructions where the boxy jacket has a collar
How to Sew Darts | Beginner & Advanced www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9x-i-txyfo
5 Tips on how sew non-pointy darts! www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8M_TLn_do4
How to Sew an Invisible Zipper
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaza9t-CAiQ
How to Sew an Invisible Zipper - Updated
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG8CSr11kjA
How To Sew Invisible Zipper On Shirt / Dress | Sewing Technique Tutorial
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHNrRoCSxaE
Invisible Zipper
www.youtube.com/shorts/npDSSAMzNNc
Super clever invisible zip trick
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UyfKL5G-Bw
how to understitch www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFz4tsplENI
what is understitching?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnRDeKqKgto
ten top stitching tips www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDRXfYgkU4k
Top and Dress
Detailed Sewing Tutorial For A Beginner : Simple Linen Top, Bias Binding Neckline【Free Pattern】
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cFiT8UcU54
Download the Pattern
www.madebysachi.com/2021/09/27/super-simple-top/
LINEN DRESS DIY【Free Pattern +Easy Draft】Step by Step Guide for Beginner /back opening /Skirt Pleats
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDFRlF_yEtA&t=0s
Download the Pattern
www.madebysachi.com/2021/09/27/super-simple-top/
BASIC SEAM POCKET
www.madebysachi.com/2022/07/09/basic-seam-pocket/
How to Sew Pleats | Box Pleat, Knife Pleat, Inverted Box Pleat
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRlHcPh38MY
Forming Box Pleats
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNXJ_BIsb1E
Inverted Pleat
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfdE3DlJdFQ
setting the sleeve www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqo-SIy8MXY&t=178s
coat pattern instructions www.sewmag.co.uk/free-sewing-patterns/serena-wool-coat#lo...
How to properly sew a shawl collar jacket/sewing techniques for beginners www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjeqgIfSt9c
Easy Way To Sewing shawl collar | Coat Collar Tutorial Cutting and Stitching | Sewing Tutorial www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsUZjA9JErI
my sewing machine JL220 flic.kr/p/2odruLA from john lewis www.johnlewis.com/john-lewis-jl220-sewing-machine-pepperm...
sewing machine maintenance flic.kr/p/2q9GVTh
How to Use your SEWING MACHINE (for Beginners)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmaZBTMzkoY
A Beginners' Guide To Using Your Sewing Machine
www.youtube.com/watch?v=imryOl_LNaw
Beginners Sewing Course - Day 1 - The Basics
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGITrkYdjJs
Seam Finishes
10 SEAM FINISHES Without a Serger || Basic to Couture
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYt7JxC_bIc&t=596s
7 Seam Types and How to Make it- Sewing Lesson for Beginner
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax6JDDP_6O8
French Seam Pockets
How to Add Pockets to a Side Seam using French Seams
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aatWJL_aAYY
Lining
How to add lining to ANY dress pattern | Sewing Tutorial
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENKI3fSBQBo
How To Sew a Slip Stitch by Hand
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjky55Cp1_I
Buttonholes
3 Sewing Tips to Make Buttonholes Neatly and Quickly
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oOz28Ybk8I
How to Machine-Sew and Custom-sized Buttonhole
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6P-TKK3tjg&t=135s
Place and Sew Hooks and Eyes Correctly
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d06GhQx_Wg
How to Fix a Low Neckline
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U-W6W5fh-4
Interfacing
How to fuse iron-on interfacing to fabric
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7idVbAkUBTU
reference books
i'm a complete beginner at dressmaking. posting photos of progress to encourage myself to continue www.flickr.com/photos/connect2012/albums/72177720305370633/ i'm not making any recommendations ...
Tokufuji Temple (東福寺 普門院).
Architect : - (設計：－).
Original completed : 1236 (創建：1236年).
Location : Honmachi 15-778, Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto, Japan (所在地：京都府京都市東山区本町15丁目778).
From just ground shot. I enjoy seeing details of sand background people and temple.
As grutas de Alvados foram descobertas em 1964 por um grupo de trabalhadores das pedreiras de mármores da Serra dos Candeeiros, cuja curiosidade foi despertada ao ouvirem o cair das pedras num algar que lhes pareceu desde logo ser profundo; estas nele lançadas, demoravam a ouvir-se cair. Assim prepararam uma primeira descida às grutas, equipados com cordas e lanternas. Maravilhados com o que encontraram, rapidamente espalharam a sua descoberta. Centenas de homens trabalharam durante dois anos para a abertura de túneis; a gruta é constituida por uma sucessão de salas de estalagmites e estalactites, ligadas entre si.
"Voltarei brevemente"
Langley Wood, New Forest.
Shen Hao 4x10". 210mm Fujinon W. Ilford FP4+ in Pyrocat HD. Scan from contact print on G2 Lodima.
"... Já mocito, o meu cavalo
era um ruano, ouro nas crinas,
festejado pelas chinas
que o chamavam - 'Sedutor'...
Formava um jogo de cor
sob os reflexos da aurora
co'os cabrestilhos da espora
e os flecos do tirador..."
Fragmento de "Pingos", de Guilherme Schultz Filho
Esteio, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
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As you drive out of the village along the lane for 1/2 mile then you get to the parish church - beautiful scene..
As the sun went down on the plains the rain clouds were close behind.They caught me before I got home.But it sure was an awesome sight...Hope you like it...I've been wanting a sunset shot for ever,,,, since I've been on flickr and I love this one.My first night out for sunset shots, always miss them, or not in the right spot.....This time I chased it.....I wonder if that's what others have to do?.....
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...fences allow us to journey close to the edge without falling to our deaths!
As you can see, kite flying is quite an exhausting sport. Rosebud Kite Festival. Rosebud, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
As the last unpatched Southern Pacific unit is headed for repaint at Little Rock, one of it's sisters leads the NS 23N bound for Memphis, Tennessee into a brilliant Georgia sunset.
As the clock struck twelve, two Typhoons appear in the distance. A slow & sad flypast as the RAF flag is lowered for what is the last time as the handover to the army is complete.
Goodbye RAF Leuchars.
As is true of many places, Badlands National Park near Wall, SD is at its best in dawn light. Here, the rosy light at sunrise transforms the normally off-white landscape into something more resembling Southern Utah.
As I'm not able to go out I've started to look through some of my unpublished shots and found this one of the view from Lewes Castle, East Sussex to work on.
As we ventured our way through the backyard of the abandoned mansion we discovered the owner once had an incredibly beautiful garden to walk through. It has now overgrown with weeds and long grass but still carries the charm of this old abandoned mansion.
Get this skirt on etsy
Had a little chat with my co worker last Friday she asked if I had spoken to Jess the girl who came out the other day. I said I had and that she was doing OK. we carried on chatting and my co worker said she can't understand why people don't just let us live life how we want to. I explained a few reasons and got on to how much it changes us as people. I said to her that she might have noticed how I have changed since being more comfortable being me. she responded in a totally unexpected way by saying. I don't see you has M anymore I see you as Helen.
Well I could have just hugged her there and then. I did tell her that not like we don't hug in our office because we do ut we normally have reason like her being upset or such like. It was so nice for her to say that and she isn't the first to do so.
Things are changing in my world once again.
As each new family party arrived they were greeted by loud joyful whooping from previous arrivals -it almost seemed like they were being questioned about the latest news from Iceland!
Framed by a friend.
Continuing my theme of posting my early cross-dressing efforts between the period of November 2000 and December 2003 I am posting another picture from my first few efforts at learning how to cross-dress as a woman.
Unlike in my younger years by the time I emerged from the closet and finally gave in to my desire to dress as a woman the Internet had arrived. I naturally began to use it for research about my transvestism as I still had big issues with my wanting to dress as a female back then.
In the course of my research I came across pictures of transvestites that made my jaw drop and I recall being awestruck. How could they have cleavage? How could they have a flat genital area? How could they have such female looking eyebrows? I was amazed by a great many of the transformations I saw. Then, something I was disturbed by, I knew these women were really men but I found them attractive! I eventually came to realise this was testament to their skills in creating a female appearance. Despite knowing they were men they did such a fantastic job of looking female I could only see them as women. As much as it was disturbing for me as an heterosexual male it was also incredibly inspiring. My ambitions to emulate their achievements gathered momentum.
I soon learned on the Internet the techniques for the cleavage and flat genitals and realised if one wanted a female eyebrow shape then the reality was you had to commit yourself to actually plucking them into a thinner more shaped brow. This is something one cannot hide so initially I was nervous and only did token amounts of plucking and shaping. These days I prefer a more defined shaped eyebrow and now have enough confidence to keep my eyebrows regularly plucked.
When I discovered that if one shaved their chest and used adhesive tape and shades of blusher they could create cleavage I was so excited I just gad to try it for myself. I did find it very uncomfortable and over a period of time it was physically painful but the illusion of having cleavage made me giddy with excitement. Once I wore a bra, fitted my breast forms and combined that with the taped up chest and make-up shading I was totally thrilled with the result.
This photo, in fact it is actually a still frame from a DV video camera taken in December 2000 as I did not have a stills camera back then and digital cameras were very new to the market in that period. I would video myself and capture a still frame on my computer using a computer card I had bought precisely for this purpose. The images are very low resolution as a result but at the time it gave me the privacy I needed to get stills of myself cross-dressed. I needed to chart my progress and see how I was doing with my explorations into transvestism.
I can see I was very inexperienced as the cleavage is a not too subtly shaded in the picture and I find my choice of wig back then well…interesting…but this was quite a powerful moment for me on an emotional level. I admit I was terrified and elated at the same time but after two decades of suppression dressing up and taking this picture was quite a moment!
I think it fair to say I was thrilled with how I felt that evening, never as a man had imagined I would actually wear make-up, put on lots of mascara and lipstick, a wig, have cleavage, the sensation of breasts, a flat female looking genital area, shaved chest and legs, wear a skirt and high heels and generally lose myself in feeling girlie…it was wonderful, absolutely an amazing moment in my life to do this. Why oh why had I suppressed it for so long? All those wasted years!
I have decided to produce a video documentary this year about my being a transvestite, the time has arrived where I need to move my cross-dressing to a new level and have new experiences. For fifteen years I have had little confidence or belief in my abilities to look like a woman. Posting on Flickr and reading the comments has had an effect upon me plus the personal support and encouragement from certain wonderful ladies. I now owe the current Helene to these ladies and to all of you who have written such kind and complimentary words about my efforts to look like a woman.
I genuinely felt I failed in my efforts and looked hopeless but I am now having pause for thought about this. So many kind people tell me I can look like a woman that I realise the thing that is holding me back is me, I am my own stumbling block.
Something is changing within me and it fills me with great excitement for the future. I feel I now need to actually set free Helene and when I dress as her I need to be her. Part of me desires to be a woman, I am a transvestite but I do have an element of the transsexual that adds to my desire to pass as a female. I think rather than blanking things I should utilise them to enable me to more complete as a person. This means freeing Helene now and again but making the experience more fulfilling rather than being frightened in private yet emotionally delighted I have become a (temporary) woman. The time to step onto a new path is here.
Making a video documentary is something I have wanted to do for several years now but of course just sitting in a room or shooting pointless shots, like my driving video, is all a bit dull and aimless. I have a story of my own and how it has influenced and shaped my adult life and I know how elated I feel as Helene. There are issues that troubled me I have got over and others that still persist. I now want to open up about this and make a record of it. Making the video will be a rewarding experience for me though I suspect I am being highly self indulgent and it is probably a vanity project.
It would be fantastic to meet up with other transvestites on the video and hear their own experiences and motivations, we are after all quite a diverse social group and yet most of us have to keep our gentle desire a secret in our lives. At times I could weep.
Thank you to you all you have changed my self perception, my belief and encouraged new ambitions for my female alter-ego. I feel enthused and more convinced about my appearance. You are all lovely people.
Helene x
Why do I love becoming a woman? A question I often ask myself as well as hearing from others who know of my liking to take ion a female persona. Do I regret being a man that desires to dress as a woman? Where is it all going to end up?
Questions, questions…
I accept we all have our own motivations and aspirations for expressing our desire to dress as women and which can also be a desire to inhabit a female persona. I have my personal feelings, emotional needs and ambitions for my female alter-ego which are not necessarily a reflection of how others feel about their own situation. For me, I have a need to actually pass as a woman and be perceived as being female when I cross-dress. I will admit to frustration over the years through a combination of my lack of skills in the art of male to female transformation, limits imposed by my physicality (being male) and I’m sure well meant advice telling me to forget passing and just enjoy it. To forget passing undermines everything that motivates my female side. When I become Helene I want to be a woman not simply a man dressed up. I dream of having a feminine appearance and emotionally being female rather than male. If this all sounds like serious transexual characteristics and an urgent need to start transition then let me say with utter certainty that is not what I want.
I don’t buy into the simplistic view that if you have a powerful desire to be a woman then the only answer is to transition. Nothing is that straightforward that you can boil it down to a one or the other answer. There exists a huge area of crossover. I genuinely like my male life and like being me. The idea of killing off my male self and only existing as a woman is not something I want. If I were to indulge in being simplistic, I could say I want it all, to be both a man and a woman. However, I know, especially now I am sixty years of age, how my feelings operate in terms of my transgender feelings. I can see now I have real intense moments of wanting to be female and this are all consuming when they occur. I do understand though, that these intense desires being too diminish and I am happy to return to being a man again. I would say that is reasonably creative cut as to why transitioning would not be a happy course of action for me.
I doubt I am alone in having these intense moments of wanting to be female forever but knowing they will at some point ease off. I will admit that it is these feelings that drive me to want to actually look convincingly female and to behave as a female both physically and emotionally when I transform myself from a man into a woman. It’s a fundamental part of my being and needs to be set free now and again.
In recent months my focus and aspirations for my female self has shifted towards passing myself off in a believable way as being a real woman. I find myself observing real women more and more and noting their choices in clothing, footwear and make-up. I also observe what men find attractive in women they encounter My goal is to be accomplished enough to be perceived as being a female and I too want to behave and respond as a female with any social interactions be that shopping, a polite hell, having a coffee in a cafe, visiting a gallery, having a meal and even creating some intrigue and desire with men. In short my aim for the few hours I take on my female persona I want o be able to cease being a man in every way and exist as a female.
Having outlined my feelings and aspirations does that answer any of the questions I began this narrative with? I think it partly addresses them. I do have many regrets about being a man that dresses as a woman. I kind of regret I never accepted this part of myself throughout my life. It caused me a lot of angst and made me a shy not very sociable person. I think I was far more transexual as a teenager and young man than I am now. Once I settled into a career I liked and a relationship that means more to me than my own inner desires and then had a family, everything took on a different level of contentment and also responsibility. My wife and family far outweigh my lifelong desire to become female, I would hate to cause any disruption to that. I do regret my cowardice as a young person not to act on my inner feelings in regard to desiring to be female. I chose the easy option of denial and suppression. Inevitably, I failed in that attempt at self control and had to come out as being transgender at the age of forty one. I do have regrets that certain people I came out to have used it against me, I misjudged their trust. I have regrets I don’t have breasts, a female body and look female, I dream of being feminine. Im not feminine though so this does distress me somewhat and I regret the lack of femininity.
Despite the regrets, they are not enough to crush me as I do enjoy my life, it’s an aspect I can handle, I know it is down to my own inaction that these regrets exist. I try to not let them intrude as I do enjoy my rare moments as a woman and find each opportunity incredibly rewarding and fulfilling.
Recently I was asked by a female friend where all of this was going to end up? It really made me think and I wanted to answer as honestly as I could. At the moment I think in the next few years I will start to spend time out and about as a woman not a man. This is a reflection of where I am going emotionally and also I do have personal ambitions in regard to the challenge of existing as a (part-time) woman. I want to do it well and never be considered as a man when I head out as a woman. I therefore see an increase in this kind of activity and a change in my wardrobe, hair and make-up to reflect this. I did consider what would occur if I were single. I don’t want to be single but it was a hypothetical scenario I felt I should muse over. I believe I would likely spend a lot more time as my female self if I were single but I’m pretty certain I would not transition. I still like my male self so I see such a scenario as being a less inhibited opportunity to fully express myself more freely.
It has taken me pretty much fifty years to accept myself and I don’t feel I’m still quite there yet, there is a lot more self acceptance I need to embrace. I think it’s my fear of damaging my relationship with my wife and family, who all know I have a female alter-ego, that prevents me from pushing things further. Al I can say is I do feel a lot more at ease with my inner female self than I did in past decades.
as i looked at this pic, it appeared as if there was a light in the base of the lily and it just reminded me that outer beauty is nice but it is what is inside that counts!!
Tomorrow is national get outside day guys! Lets celebrate with a sunrise or a hike, spending some time out in nature. You could give me all the money in the world and my favourite thing would still be just being out in nature watching the sun rise.
Here's a shot from this morning at Corfe Castle. Seeing some epic shots in the mist during the week, I just had to get myself over there. No mist sadly, but still some lovely cloud and interesting light. I had to desaturate this one as it just didn't look right on the screen! A fantastic morning at my favourite castle ruins.
Happy Sunday!
As we left Fagaras Fortress, we caught up with this groom and bride party. Their pictures were taken inside the castle and they were probably on their way to the reception.
"Built in 1310 on the site of a former 12th century wooden fortress (burned by the Tartars in 1241), Fagaras was enlarged between the 15th and 17th centuries and was considered one of the strongest fortifications in Transylvania. The fortress was surrounded by a deep moat which, in times of war or social unrest, could easily be filled with water from a nearby mountain brook. A bridge over the moat provided the only access point. The fortress boasts three floors and five towers." (www.romaniatourism.com/castles-fortresses.html#fagaras)
During the 1950s it was a prison for opponents and dissidents. After the fall of the Communist State in 1989, the castle has been restored and is currently used as a museum, the Fagaras County Museum, displaying Roman artifacts, a collection of medieval weapons and traditional folk crafts. The museum also hosts a beautiful collection of icons painted on glass.
As the sun brilliantly sets, CTA Purple Line (Evanston) Express train rounds Hubbard Curve, just north of Merchandise Mart station. The new building to the left occupies a space opened up by the easing of Hubbard Curve.
A very rare appearance at Kings Cross - SECR 592, based at The Bluebell Railway, reportedly being used as part of the film set for 'Wonder Woman'.
The locomotive is a South Eastern and Chatham Railway 'C' Class, constructed in 1902.
The front of the smokebox is slightly 'weathered'; the opposite side of the engine has been heavily weathered for filming requirements, as opposed to this gleaming side of the locomotive.
Published in 'Preserved Locomotives of British Railways (2016)', Platform 5
When a white painted bike appears somewhere, it was put there as a memento to an accident in which a cyclist was killed. It makes me very sad every time I pass by such a place.
I must say however that if we really want to reduce the number of deadly accidents with cyclists, then it is not helpful to point fingers only at car and lorry drivers while ignoring the cavalier attitude many cyclists display concerning safety. Bike lanes should be used, helmets should be worn, lights should be used at the front and the rear, bicycles should be maintained, easily visible clothing should be worn rather than black spandex, and there should be general understanding that traffic rules are there for a reason.
Every victim of a traffic accident is one too many, and things must change. We can't just go on with the old mindset and hope that somehow things will get better even if we don't, because that is not going to happen.
Camera: Nikon FM2n
Lens: AI-S Nikkor 85mm f/2
Film: Kodak Portra 400 professional grade colour negative film
Developed and scanned by www.meinfilmlab.de
As we walked the Virginia Creeper Trail, we could look through the trees and see these horses and birds.
Candid shot new Orleans, Louisianan, USA.
The trombone is the one brass instrument that has a worldwide musical influence, be it within or outside the brass banding world, and so we took the view that we therefore had to look at all musical idioms in which it prominently features. From classical to jazz from pop to brass bands.
The Players:
1
J. J. Johnson is listed (or ranked) 1 on the list The Greatest Trombonists of All Time
J. J. Johnson Third stream, Hard bop, Jazz
2
Joseph Alessi is listed (or ranked) 2 on the list The Greatest Trombonists of All Time
Joseph Alessi Classical
3
Tommy Dorsey is listed (or ranked) 3 on the list The Greatest Trombonists of All Time
Tommy Dorsey Swing music, Big band, Jazz
4
Christian Lindberg is listed (or ranked) 4 on the list The Greatest Trombonists of All Time
Christian Lindberg Classical
5
Frank Rosolino is listed (or ranked) 5 on the list The Greatest Trombonists of All Time
Frank Rosolino Hard bop, Bebop
6
Jack Teagarden is listed (or ranked) 6 on the list The Greatest Trombonists of All Time
Jack Teagarden Swing music, Big band, Jazz
7
Urbie Green is listed (or ranked) 7 on the list The Greatest Trombonists of All Time
Urbie Green Jazz
8
Wycliffe Gordon is listed (or ranked) 8 on the list The Greatest Trombonists of All Time
Wycliffe Gordon Jazz
9
Bill Watrous is listed (or ranked) 9 on the list The Greatest Trombonists of All Time
Bill Watrous Jazz
10
Glenn Miller is listed (or ranked) 10 on the list The Greatest Trombonists of All Time
Glenn Miller Swing music, Big band, Jazz
As I left Worcester on the afternoon of the 15th July 2017 there were dark clouds everywhere and I wondered why I was driving to Leominster, but the chance of seeing double headed DRS 37s on 1Z08, the 15.20 Swansea to Huddersfield return of 'The Retro Welsh Dragon 2', was not to be missed!! Not until I hit the Teme Valley did the skies begin to clear and the sun came out!!
37602 37606 tnt 57306 pass Leominster bypass road bridge at 18.29, about 5 minutes late but going very well!!