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My Life Through Four Sewing Machines

The Clothes I have Made, Treasured and Given Away

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Anne Aubin
Aug 19, 2025
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Tote Bag Jacket - made from tote bags gathered at the Romantic Novelists gathering

I’ve recently been overcome by an urge to purge – possessions, that is. It started when builders finally left my house after seven months – the more I threw out, the less I had to clean. I needed to make space for guests to join a house swap agency. Re-writing my will made…

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I’m a 67 year old happily-retired Devon dweller. Just finished my first novel, The Silver Vixens’ Society about the power of feisty post-menopausal women to get things done. Am working on a local guidebook for retirees and a tarot book.
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