Hair | Outfits | Stuff I made

GNO duds

By on June 15, 2010

This outfit was for a girl’s night out in a casual Italian eatery.  I tend to overdress, but I rarely get to dress up fun anymore.  I’m fine with the looks of “Why is she wearing THAT here??”.  It’s the only time I get to have a little self expression with fun dressing.  There is […]

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Outfits

Skinny jeans

By on June 11, 2010

I finally took the plunge and bought a pair of skinny jeans.  Luckily I think I possess a body that lends itself well to skinny jeans.  I have skinny legs and no butt, so I don’t look too out of proportion in them.  They will also look awesome with my edgier shoes now and boots […]

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Musings

Can we talk fashion for a sec?

By on June 10, 2010

Hey girls.  Girls of the 80’s to be specific.  Are we still “girls”??  Well, whatever.  Have you noticed all the 80’s crap…errr “fashion” that is coming out again.  Are you not APPALLED?  Wasn’t once enough for that decade??  Let’s see if we can tick off the horrendousness, shall we: Gold lamé stirrup pants Parachute/Harem Pants […]

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Kids | Life musings | Sewing

The end of Kindergarten

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Hard to believe, but the first year of school is done today, which seems pretty late.  It is due to all those random days off they take during the year.  I KNOW we didn’t have all those days off and we were usually out a few days after Memorial Day. Kailan has really seemed to enjoy […]

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Creativity | Frustrations | Sewing

New cushions due to [child error]

By on June 8, 2010

[child error] is the excuse of so many mishaps in the house, isn’t it? In our three season porch we have a “wicker” couch and chair set that we bought at The Home Depot.  It is wicker looking (i.e. a woven plastic of some sort) and the cushions were a nice plain utilitarian beige.  Unfortunately, when […]

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Creativity | Sewing

Schizophrenic birthday dress

By on May 11, 2010

One day Anya came with me to the fabric store, whereupon she demanded wanted another dress be made for her highness.  Being the complicet and compliant mommy that loves to make pretty dresses, I agreed.  She picked out pink tulle, and I asked her if perhaps she would like another color.  There were blues and […]

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Creativity | Sewing

A bit too much fluff

By on April 27, 2010

Generally, I’m not afraid of fluffy, ruffley concoctions.  Generally, I am making them for Anya, though.  I attempted to make myself a ruffley skirt, and it ended up being a bit too much.  I started out with a rough idea of what I wanted to make, and had the fabrics all laid out.  I wasn’t […]

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Creativity | Sewing

I warned you I was making more

By on April 20, 2010

Talk about instant gratification!  These shirts are so easy to make and only take an hour and one yard of fabric.  I’ve been scouring my fabric to find knits to use for them.  One thing I have found out with making and wearing this shirt is… Knits with lycra = good Knits without lycra = bad […]

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Creativity | Sewing

More twirly goodness

By on April 13, 2010

It’s official…Kailan is going to be nekked this summer.  I just can’t stop making cute twirly skirts!  At least I have plenty of pants that I can cut off and sew into shorts for him.  He’s blown the knees out of several.  NOW I understand why people say boys are hard on their clothes.  I guess […]

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Creativity | Sewing

The self-skirted leggings and some Spring-ish tops

By on April 11, 2010

An early crafty post this week… Oh, how I love to find things that camouflauge imperfections.  Like my non-existent and slowly falling arse.  I saw this idea, on etsy I believe, of adding a long fold-over piece to a pair of yoga type leggings.  Wow, great idea Whomever-you-were!  That is perfect since I really would […]

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