Outfits

Beautiful spring days deserve some color

By on March 19, 2010

It still wasn’t really warm enough to bust out the tight-less legs, but it was warm enough to bring out the lighter fabrics. Shirt: Express Skirt: CAbi Boots: Naturalizer Scarf: bought at Von Maur

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Musings

My stylish adventures

By on March 18, 2010

Oh how I love clothes!  I grew up getting hand me downs from my sister and cousins, so new clothes were few and far between.  When I turned around 12, my grandmother taught me to sew which allowed new clothes to enter my closet at a greater pace.  I devoured all the sewing and fashion […]

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Creativity | Sewing | Sewing for the girl

Cute yet functional

By on March 15, 2010

Those little rompers I have been seeing around finally got to me.  Not the adult version…oh no.  That’s just a bit wrong and far too 1980’s for moi.  I’m talking about those little rompers that just scream CUTE! LITTLE! GIRL! I saw a nice plain one in a magazine and decided to do one for […]

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Creativity | Sewing

Adding to my wardrobe

By on March 9, 2010

Another week of skirts! I like this style of skirt since it flatters my ruler type of body.  The skirts that I make in this style have stretchy material and elastic waists.  Pretty comfy.  This works well with a top that isn’t overly defining of the waist.    This skirt I made in December.  I haven’t […]

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Creativity | Sewing

A little originality

By on March 1, 2010

As you know, I like to design my little princess’ dresses.  I usually look around to get inspiration and then go to town by drafting a pattern that will hopefully fit. Lately, I have had a really hard time finding anything inspirational.  I used to look on Ebay for the boutique sellers, because they seemed […]

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Creativity | home decorating | Sewing

Compromise

By on February 23, 2010

Marriage is all about compromise. When we were looking at furnishing our basement, Brian really wanted a poker table. That meant no other furniture down there since we just didn’t have the room.   Me notsolikey.  Brian found our nice counterheight bench table on clearance. That looked like a good multi-purpose table and fit enough people, […]

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Creativity | Sewing

Trying-to-be-creative sewing

By on February 16, 2010

As you know…I tend to shy away from patterns.  However, you generally need the basic shape to sew things, so I do have patterns.  I take the patterns and modify them for what I want to sew.  These are few experiments that I tried.  This post is brought to you by the color black.  It’s […]

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Creativity | home decorating | Sewing

Anya’s bubblegum pink explosion room

By on February 9, 2010

As you know, we did a lot of painting in the last 6 months.  To that end, I bought the paint chip sampler from Sherwin Williams to make it easier to pick colors at home.  I pulled all of the pink ones and Anya chose hot pink to be the color of her room.  Ummm…no.  That […]

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Creativity | Sewing

Christmas craftiness

By on December 15, 2009

On several blogs I have seen the crayons remolded in a muffin or cookie tin.  I though this would be a great little Christmas gift for some of the little ones in our lives.  Not a big gift, but something fun when we get together at parties and such during the holidays. I put Kailan […]

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Creativity | Sewing

Happy pictures…finally!

By on December 7, 2009

Well, I finished up my scarf this past week  and it is a bit short…so, it goes to the girl.  She was happy to have her scarf and I got a happy modeling shot of her with her new hat and scarf.  Yay!  She’s smiling and not being temperamental!  Yes, the picture is not phenomenal, […]

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