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Beautiful old sewing machine

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Beautiful old sewing machine

This weekend I picked up this beautiful old sewing machine from Brenda, @Thehouseofwindsor. She makes beautiful hats.I had been looking for weeks on ebay, gumtree and other online marketplaces.It was such a coincidence that the sewing machine that I have been looking for was from my friend Brenda. Or was it meant to be? My grandma used to have one of these SINGER foot operated sewing machines ages ago. I remember the sound of the foot going up and down rhythmically when I was a child. My grandma's machine is not as fancy as this one but I remember the...

My Young Team Members!

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My Young Team Members!

My Young Team Members! Recently we have invited some young team members into the dogstar fold! As much as I love my current experienced team members I love these young ones too. We made aprons, from Japanese vintage fabric, I have kept these fabrics for more than 10 years!!Don't they look great on it? These aprons are protecting their clothes from our cutting table. They have so much passion and energy!Some of their ideas may seem crazy but that makes dogstar exciting. I love working with them and creating something new. I think you will notice changes in our creations...

My Muses

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My Muses

My Muses How cool do they look?! Here my beautiful team members Alice and Tamara. Alice has been working with us for a quite long time... Many of you have met Alice in our stores. She is not only beautiful and elegant but also has many creative ideas and styles. Especially when it comes to colour she is amazing!  Tamara is quite new to us. Although she is already fitting into our look so well, don’t you think? This is the way they style themselves in our Karu Dress and Karu Pants! All dogstar designs are not created by only...

Things Handmade

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Things Handmade
This is a little sweet moment in the day of Paola Milani, one of my old friends and a beautiful artist based in Queensland.