Hat Elastic for Preventing my Shoes from Sliding OFF

 Just a simple piece of hat elastic helped me keeping my shoes from sliding off my heel!

Sure this hat elastic you can find in different colors too!

Round 1.5 mm Hat Elastic for Fascinators & Millinery - 1m ←click link

Barbed Elastic Cord Measuring 10 1/2 ←click link

But I was glad for finding my 'old' Hat Elastic from The Netherlands...

Without measuring, I cut off two pieces and did tie a knot on both ends.

This Hat Elastic is strong enough for holding that nasty sliding heel band in its place!

Wore this with my long Escada silk satin roses dress and it works well with long jeans.

Haha, my biker-feet with the imprints by the sun from where my Ecco sandals fit... 😉

And... my ugly toe is not yet 'normal'. You can read about how that came to be here: NO WAY!!! ←click link

Shoes are also Escada and they come with a matching small, and a larger tote, as well as with a belt. 

I'd rather have some hat elastic 'visible' then tripping or having difficulty walking...

Do you have any shoes that don't stay put?

Often they look better than they wear!

Wearing my small tote with my shoes and Escada silk satin rose dress + stole. 

Majorica pearl necklace and bracelet with Christian Dior pearl earrings in a matching size; found at Singapore airport...

Related link:

{Back Home from a Wedding in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France} | wearing the silk evening dress with roses at a wedding in France

Karangbakal, Indonesia Exemplary Compost Ricks

Just by using simple machinery and some hand work, already on June 14, 1994 at the Karangbakal location, high on the Dieng Plateau in Indonesia.

Just want to show you:

Short video showing the storage of the Sugar Cane Bagasse; Pre-Wet and then the perfect ricking.
One really has to comb the world for finding such perfect compost ricks!
Related links:Dieng Plateau Indonesia - Where We Worked | previous post by meOversight of Dieng Plateau area in Indonesia with mushroom growing sheds and doing training | post by meDieng Plateau area spent mushroom compost being carried up to terraces | post by me

Come Visit us in Indonesia and meet my skilled Couture Seamstress Ms. Yati

In June of  1994, when we were over a 3-week period back in Indonesia, for consulting at the mushroom farm, we arrived from Jakarta in Yogyakarta and then some two hours driving up into the mountains.

At the Guest Bungalow in Kalianget we stayed and were enjoying a leisurely Sunday.

Before dark, we did go to nearby Wonosobo for bringing my sueded silk from Hong Kong to Ms Yati.She was an excellent couture seamstress from Jakarta and she also knew English.Due to her aging Mother having dementia, she'd come to rural Central Java as a caregiver...So that's what we did, dropping off the material, sewing pattern and explaining to her how and such.That gave her the time for finishing my dress, before we would depart back to the USA.

That's the dress!

Wearing it on a Sunday to Mass and then changing, before heading to the airport for our flight to Amsterdam, The Netherlands, visiting my Parents and Family.

Pieter on the wood trail in our garden in his Burberry summer suit.

Always hard for leaving a perfectly blooming summer garden behind.

Here, Pieter is indulging in the perfume from the Ginger lilies...

Ms. Yati did an excellent job on this sueded silk dress with silk lining from Britex Fabrics in San Francisco, with zipper and silk thread from Britex Notions.

Pieter happy for soon being able to visit with his two brothers and family...

We always looked forward to those trips to The Netherlands; did that 66 times!

Loved the fabric when I touched it in Hong Kong, and loved my choice of dress!

Related link:

HONG KONG 1st International Conference on Mushroom Biology and Mushroom Products | when I purchased the silk fabric

{Raw Silk Purchased in Hong Kong for Sewing THIS} | previous post by me about my sewing creation

{Silk Velvet Dress from Hong Kong Trip Fabric} | previous post by me with other creation by Ms. Yati