Singapore | organised castle

Today was my day off and I had arranged to meet some friends at the coast. We had morning tea and a long chat in a park and it was after 1pm by the time I headed off. I had planned to use the trip and petrol consumption wisely by incorporating a visit to East Coast Fabrics. I am regularly disappointed by the range and quality of fabrics available at Spotlight and Lincraft so when I heard advertisements for East Coast Fabrics on the radio recently, I made a mental note to check them out.

Since I am working through my stash of existing fabrics I am loathe to buy too much so I was fairly restrained. I bought these two pieces to make some more skirts. The mint green piece is linen and the other is a lightweight denim. The fabric plus a zip for each skirt cost $18.91 which I think is pretty good for two skirts. I will be using the same pattern that I used for this skirt I made recently.

I am planning to take these skirts when we go to Singapore in September. I have worked out which tops I will wear with them. There is this one that I made a few weeks ago.

I have chosen another three tops.

My thoughts are that all of the tops will go with the denim skirt, all except the yellow can be teamed with the green skirt and the striped skirt can be worn with either the yellow or white tops.

I plan to add 2 pairs of sandals, a pashmina, bathers, sarong, hat, fabric shoulder bag and umbrella. A pair of pyjamas and some underwear and I will be set for pretty well anything that a week in Singapore can throw at me.

What do you think?

We have a guest who is having a sleepover tonight.

Psycho Dog is on the left and Cousin P on the right. Cousin P belongs to my sister who lives about 20 minutes drive away. It is great that we can share the dog-sitting when either of us go on holidays or simply will be away overnight. The dogs get on well together and seem to enjoy the company, although they are usually both exhausted once the other goes home.

The other news of the moment is that we have booked our flights to Singapore for a holiday later in the year. No other details have been arranged although I will look for some suitable accommodation before too long. Unlike our other overseas trips we will not be touring. We will spend a week in Singapore, hopefully close to the centre of town. There will be no changes of accommodation and we will simply use public transport to make our way around.