I have washed the painted dress

Most of the paint was fixed enough to stay, but it is easy missing a part with the iron when you have a whole hem of a full circle skirt that needs to be fixed with heat. So I have some pieces to paint again. Other than that washing it in machine on the gentle cycle and 40 degrees C worked fine.

What I talked about in Coventry

My trip to England was not only beer, rock'n'roll, dolls, fabric shopping and lovely friends; it also had a higher purpose, since I was presenting at at conference called "The geography of luxury: east, west and global directions" held at the University of Warwick in Coventry. My paper was on Swedish sumptuary law and can be read here.