Okay lovelies, it’s time for a serious chat. Lately we have been having immense funtimes, relishing in the joys of bedazzled ladies in various pastel hues and flowery arrangements. But as you may already know, this adventure is all for a cause. I am trying to raise $25,000 for NAPCAN: preventing child abuse and neglect in Australia…and can only do so with YOUR help.
Sunday marks the beginning of National Child Protection week, so now is a good time to hit you with some facts…(please have a read!) and let you know why we need to help out
Last year over 30,000 Australian children were proven to have been abused or neglected.
Hundreds of children are killed, and tens of thousands are psychologically and/or physically damaged each year
Child abuse is known to increase the risks of:
• substance addiction
• crime
• homelessness
• poor physical health
• educational failure
• poor employability prospects
• depression and suicide
During 2008-09, there were 339,454 reports of suspected child abuse and neglect made to state and territory authorities, which is an increase of 6.9% from the 317,526 reports made in 2007-08
The total number of reports (of notifications received in 2008-09) across Australia was 54,621.
So SERIOUSLY, if you like this site and have been following the frocks please make donation…however small! If you are brutally strapped for pennies then please spread the word that this project is going on! It would be fantastic to reach a target that could really make a difference.
Thanks for your ears! They’re lovely!
xoxo
I WANT TO MAKE IT FOR…
…YOU!
Hello people!
If you’ve been following this delightful blogette, and found your pretty head thinking: “oo my, I would totally like to have an ‘i make. you wear it.’ dress of my very own!” then now is your chance! I am giving away one Saturday night dressmaking to one lucky donator (Brisbane humans only…unless you’re willing to hop on a plane for the delight).
The winner will receive the complete ‘i make. you wear it.’ treatment, which includes:
- Hair styling at acclaimed hair salon ‘Rixons’
- A Dress – tailor made for you to keep
- A Photoshoot, and copy of all photographs taken
- Mad ‘hang outs’ with myself and the ‘i make. you wear it.’ clan at ‘Clubhouse’ in The Valley.
- A complete feature of the entire process posted on the ‘i make. you wear it’ website.
So what do you have to do to win this tremendoid experience? SIMPLY DONATE!! The person who donates the most between now and Friday the 17th of September will be the winner of this epic funtime.
Please remember that all money raised on the ‘i make. you wear it.’ site goes directly to preventing child abuse and neglect in Australia…so not only do you get a chance to win an incredibly unique experience, but you also get to assist an incredibly worthy cause!
SO GET DONATING FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN!
NB: When you are donating please be sure to include your full name and email address. On September 17th the donations made by each individual will be tallied. if you’ve donated more than once, your donations will be added together to work out the total amount that you have donated.
If you have any questions/queries/koala bears that you’d like to ask me then email me directly at rachel@imakeyouwearit.com
Please donate generously, and I hope to be making a frock for a delightful new face very soon!
xoxox
Hello lovers,
Here is dress 4, for your viewing pleasure…
xoxo
I made this last night at the Chermside BORDERS late night shop! I made it out of ‘little golden books’ and a bunch of other funky biz. Much fun.
night lovelies.
p.s. the word skim that appears on the collar means nothing – purely coincidental. was not meant to be a subliminal message to all milk drinkers to partake in a less ‘full cream’ option…merely an ‘oopsidental’ placement of words…not that i think there is anything wrong with skim. but yeah.
xo
This is Katie Wighton, and she is D-lightful. A singer song-writer and general tremendous lady, I’m pretty keen to make this human a frock – and holy jeese…i totally get to! Woot le Woot!
So fun, see more photos on the facebook page if you are ridiculously interested. More chat potatoes later…for now, a lamb roast. xox
On Friday night, I had the pleasure of making a frock in BORDERS Brisbane City to collect some donations and generally get my promotion stylingz on.
Making this dress on a mannequin (to avoid the gracious stares of the more ‘eccentric’ Friday night shoppers) I constructed it out of a selection of fabrics and flowers made from the pages of the wondrous ‘Rush’ magazine.
Such immense fun, i shall be doing a similar montage this Thursday night at BORDERS Chermside at 6.30pm…totes be there.
xoxo
Photos by Andrea Jankovic
This is Ashleigh Dwyer. She makes me want to rhyme my words and high five people. I met this girl a couple of years ago and ever since words like ‘lover’, ‘delightful’, ‘pleasing’ and ‘fun’ have pervaded my vocabulary to the point where it started to get uncomfortable – last year I called my grandma “lover”…she’s a short ethnic woman with the beginnings of a moustache.
Ashleigh is an incredibly talented actress, and one of the most stylish humans I’ve ever had the pleasure of shrieking “I LOVE WHAT YOU ARE WEARING!!!” at. Sadly, she is moving to Melbourne soon, but whilst we still have her I have seized the opportunity and this saturday night will be making her a frock.
So yeah, pretty enthused…so you should be too. Tune in Saturday to keep tabs on the process – i have a feeling it will be visually more appealing than the election….call it a hunch…
xoxox
