Embroidered jeans

Our Simple Living Toowoomba co-ordinator, Margy and I were brainstorming the other day about the coming year and she showed me a pair of jeans that she had embroidered. They looked fantastic and I would imagine would be so easy to do.

She has used an assortment of stitches which stand out well against the denim. When I see the young girls in their 'ripped' jeans I am always tempted to ask them if they would like me to mend them for them. LOL! I can't believe people buy jeans that already have holes in them! How different the culture is to when I was young and a hole in your clothes had to be mended ASAP.

Margy has done a great job on her jeans and hopefully she will hold a Boro - Visible Mending workshop during the year....

...as I am sure we would all be able to pick up a pair of jeans from the Op Shop to experiment on. I was looking at Vinnies today and they have heaps of them in stock. If you aren't a local but are visiting our city and are interested in Op Shops then do check out the Vinnies store on the corner of Long and Ruthven Street, Toowoomba as it is one of the best in town. There is also a Lifeline store around the corner from there as well.

As I was quite intrigued by Margy's jeans I asked my friend Margaret to bring hers along last week when we were catching up as she had worn them to our break-up workshop in November and they were quite unusual.

Although they were made in China they were designed by Didier Parakain of Paris. I had no idea who he was but obviously Margaret did when she was able to pick them up from an Op Shop for a song.

A combination of machine embroidery and hand embroidery has been used for this pair.

They probably cost a fortune in the boutiques so it just goes to show that you can really pick up some bargains in the Op Shops. I'd love to see some photos if any of my readers have embroidered their jeans.

It has been so very dry in SE Queensland with day after day of temps in the thirties which really is cool compared to what those in the southern states have been having to cope with but anything over 30C is much too hot for me these days. I haven't been trying to keep most of the veggies alive apart from some beans, silverbeet and a couple of cucumbers as so many plants are also being eaten by hungry insects and birds I imagine.

However, the CEO has planted a lot of seeds in the front garden no less and now we have about twenty melons of various sizes which look to be doing reasonably well. He bought a melon which the salesperson in the fruit shop said was a Candy Melon and dried and planted the seeds. When I was at the Farmers' Market on Saturday a lady there was selling similar coloured melons which she said were Honeydew Melons. So now I am confused about what exactly they are. I always thought Honeydew Melons were more of a green colour but I guess I will have to wait till ours are ripe and see what colour they are inside. Hmmm, I love a mystery!

You may have heard about the tourists who are flocking to our region to take selfies in the sunflower fields out in the country. Well, if you don't want to venture too far you can just visit Queens Park in the city as the gardeners have planted lots of sunflowers for visitors to take selfies with. I took this photo on Saturday at the entrance to the park across the road from the market at the Cobb and Co Museum grounds. So do visit if you are in town.

Have a great week everyone!