On our recent holiday to Pembrokeshire, I found that my environmentalism, which had been difficult to keep at the forefront of the way I live what with house moves and renovations, parenting, worries about money, clothes and religion, not to mention trying to rediscover some kind of social life after the hermitude of COVID, was burgeoning again. I love that I now have some completely unique items for very little cost too. I'll definitely be less afraid to take the plunge and customise things in future before I think about getting rid of them. I'm thrilled with how these came out! I didn't tie my elastic bands tightly enough so I didn't get clear lines, but I really like the colours and I think I will wear all of these items much more. But I feel that keeping items working in my wardrobe for longer is better than donating or reselling them, as once they're out of my hands they could end up in landfill, which is what I'm trying to avoid. This was probably not the most environmentally friendly of dyes, so if I was going to make a habit of dyeing things I would research my options better. This was kind of spur of the moment - I picked up a dyeing kit for £3.99 in Aldi (and still have enough left to dye another three items). And I still have more t-shirts I could do this to, if I need more strappy tops next summer.Īpologies for the terrible composition and random things in the background of the photos in this post! I originally took them to send to friends rather than to post here.! I'm really pleased with how it turned out - it's obviously a DIY, but to my mind that's a plus. I'd only tacked it loosely to check the fit, but I liked it so much I ended up wearing it that day, before I'd sewn it together properly. Using a top I liked the fit of as a template, I cut down one of my oversized tops and quickly sewed the sides back together. I have a lot of difficulty finding summer tops that I like, but a plethora of oversized tees - suddenly the answer was obvious. I was just steeling myself to donate some of these items or resell them through Loopster, when I had a sudden brainwave. In my case, a pinafore that I thought would be versatile but I never bother to wear because it's pretty boring a pair of hot pink cargo shorts - I love cargo shorts, but the colour goes with nothing else that I own a number of oversized t-shirts and a pair of black and white patterned harem pants I got bored of years ago (plus I have a secret suspicion they make me look a bit frumpy). Not to mention that we all seem to have those few items lurking in our closets that we know we don't want to wear, but that we are hanging on to, mainly out of guilt (at least, I'm assuming it's not just me). I know, I know, this flies in the face of common minimalist logic and the pervasive urge to declutter.
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But I've started to learn how to avoid this, and the answer is simple - get rid of less. I still, on occasion, get rid of the wrong things and end up regretting it later. But I was pleasantly surprised by how close I could get to the look I wanted, using items I already had. Now that I had a better idea of how I wanted to look and dress, I'd been worried that I'd immediately want to go out and buy a bunch of new things. Two years later, this has still not happened, and I've begun to accept that my existing wardrobe contains something that will tide me over for most occasions, with a little ingenuity.
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In my first shopping ban attempt, I lived in fear that I would be invited to a black tie ball or some event with an unusual dress code and have nothing to wear. Prism: Zeiss and Baader big field Binocularĭate/Time: / 22.24 - 22.49 and 23.00 - 23.One thing I've become much better at this year is 'shopping my wardrobe'.
Telescope: Astrophysics Starfire d=130mm / f=838 mmĮyepiece: Televue DeLite 18,2 mm => Magnification 46x Thanks for watching and clear skies, Jens
It was half past one and my body reserves were running low. Before that, I observed the current comet Atlas, and also the comet was sketched at the end. After seeing many galaxies in the big bear up to about 11 mag area brightness clearly in the Astrophysics Starfire 5 inch, M97 was also very conspicuous, I made one detour to the lion and have finally scetched the Leo triplet at the Baader "big field-Bino" with the Starfire. The air humidity was only around 30 % at 2 ° C air temperature! During the day we sometimes only had 11-12% Humidity. The little bear was complete visible, the wind only weak and the air dry-cold. initially I was skeptical, after detect the cirrus clouds in the sky, but the night was better than expected! I was warmed up well in the in-house sauna and after that i decided to take a look at the observatory.
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