Have you ever bought a pair of jeans, brought them home and did not like the fit? This is the perfect project for you. I bought a pair of jeans at the thrift store and did not like the fit, so instead of taking them back I decided to transform them into a jean skirt. An upcycling experiment. I had a jean skirt a few years ago but I probably donated it to the thrift store in a moment of Marie Kondo mania. So, I needed a jean skirt.
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Ava Gardner looking like Carmen in Seville, Spain, 1950
Have you ever had a song, or usually a song scrap, play over and over in your head all day long? You hum or sing the bit that you remember, trying to remember the rest while simultaneously wishing it would go away? The earworm – what a yucky word! – in my head the other day was the Toreador Song from the opera, Carmen, because it was the last song I heard as I was driving to my mother’s. – Maria
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