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	<title>The rantings of a MAD HATTER wannabe...</title>
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	<description>...blog about millinery and other things I love</description>
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		<title>Setting the crown depth on the sewing machine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m making a summer straw hat for my dear friend Eulalia, I&#8217;m sure she will use it often (we have no lack of sunny days here in Barcelona).
I am using a brim block that does not have a hole in the middle and because of that I&#8217;ve had to first block the crown, and then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pictures of the Paris Vintage shop opening cocktail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a wonderful event, here are some pictures for you to enjoy (click on the image to see more):

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		<link>http://kuki.deprada.net/?p=697</link>
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		<title>PARIS VINTAGE Barcelona</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You are invited, next Thursday June 17th 2010, to come to the cocktail that will take place at the shop PARIS VINTAGE in Barcelona to inaugurate their new venue. There you will be able to see and purchase wonderful vintage haute-couture garments. For this day only you will also be able to view and purchase [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kuki.deprada.net/?p=687</link>
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		<title>Dad, I miss you terribly&#8230; Papá, te echamos de menos una enormidad&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These beautiful pictures were taken 1 month and 11 days before my dad died of cancer, today it&#8217;s 19 years since he died.
Don&#8217;t we just look wonderful in our hats?
Dad we miss you terribly&#8230;
Our thoughts are also with Ewald Kooiman, who would have celebrated his birthday two days from today, but who is no longer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kuki.deprada.net/?p=679</link>
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		<title>The birth of a gentleman&#8217;s hat</title>
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I had a bunch of handsome gentlemen in need of a spring hat for the last Passejada amb barret, and decided to start from scratch and design and sew a stylish hat for them.
Do you remember that a while ago I sculpted a hat with plasticine and extracted a flat pattern from it? If you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kuki.deprada.net/?p=650</link>
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		<title>Teaching how to make a sinamay fascinator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was approached recently by Castelltort to give a few classes on how to make a fascinator. Castelltort is a  Spanish wholesaler that has just recently started carrying material to make fascinators (sinamay bases, sinamay by the meter, some feathers, veil and horsehair). The classes are aimed at customers (owners of shops) who want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sant Jordi &#8211; a Rose and a Book (well two actually)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sant Jordi is the patron saint of Catalonia, the region where we live.  On the 23rd of april there is a tradition for the man to buy a rose for the woman and for the woman to buy a book for the man, that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s also know as Book day or Rose day.
Today, Barcelona [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kuki.deprada.net/?p=636</link>
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		<title>Trying on hats, that&#8217;s a party!</title>
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Last Sunday, April 11 2010, we celebrated the VI Passejada amb barret (Hat stroll) in Barcelona, and that was an excuse for a couple of friends to stop by, try on some hats and decide which one they wanted to wear for the event (about which I will blog shortly).
Above you can see the lovely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kuki.deprada.net/?p=630</link>
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		<title>Traveling in style with my Samsonite Streamlite hatbox travel case and Loewe umbrella</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Truth be told, the only traveling I&#8217;ve done with this wonderful vintage Samsonite Streamlite hatbox is the trip a couple of years ago from Cologne (Germany, where I bought it at an antique fair for a hefty 50 euros) to Barcelona where I live. But it&#8217;s such a beauty that I could not resist buying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kuki.deprada.net/?p=619</link>
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		<title>Emilia and Philip with their new hats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My most grateful customers, here you can see Emilia and Philip wearing their new hats:

And here is the cloche of Emilia while on the block. It&#8217;s a 5 piece puzzle block, and all went dandy, including unblocking (a miracle how when you pull out the middle piece the whole thing collapses and you can take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kuki.deprada.net/?p=613</link>
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