Creative catharsis

I've had some issues to work out lately, and I made some great progress on that front this weekend. I reconstructed a skirt, two dresses, and a giant cardigan and it feels SO GOOD to be creating!

For me there really is little that can compare to the feeling of going through my day wearing a product of my self-expression and creativity.

I'll try to get some pictures up this week.

Leoplaid

The first time I saw this combo (on Sea of Shoes whose picture appears first below) I thought it was genius, and now that it's popping up all over the place I'm not sure whether that makes me a slave to fashion or a trend forecaster.

Queue: Kate Spade necklace

I saw a picture of this in this month's Elle (the one with Victoria Beckham on the cover looking plastic as all get out).

Luckily the nice folks at Kate Spade provided a very clear picture on their website for me to copy be inspired by!

Fall '09 = 1990's

My babydoll obsession of 3 years ago has developed into a full fledged grunge-a-thon for fall.

These are on their way to me. Mark Jacobs plaid wool pants!

Almost a tutorial...three piece dress

The idea for this dress came to me while I was riding the bus to work. All three pieces were in my donate pile for various reasons.



I cut the top off the blue dress:


I cut the bottom off of the white top:


and I cut two rectangles out of the green rose print top:


Then I serged the green pieces into a tube:


did some draping and pinning on Millie:


and finally serged everything together:


This dress has everything I loved about the original pieces and nothing I didn't.

24-hour Super Wal Mart

I'm travelling on business and there is a Super WalMart directly across from my hotel room window. I thought this would result in wacky WalMart parking lot hijinks observations.

Instead:

I did buy some sick iron on studs....I just wish I had 1 hour to go to shopping so I could do some hotel room crafting!

I got the sickest layering piece ever...from the Girls department. Yes, I bought clothing from WalMart, and yes, my girls are Girls size.

Speaking of WalMart, have you seen this? I found more evidence there.

The obligatory Twitter post

I don't usually do this, but are you following/reading Karl Lagerfeld on Twitter?

It's not a bad idea.