Thanks so much for all the birthday wishes, you guys are the best! I knew that I wasn’t going to be up for anything terribly exciting on a Tuesday night after class so I decided it’d be fun to do what we do every Tuesday night, which is to nerd…
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J’y vais par avion
dress: self-made // top: Ross // tights: Hue // boots: Clarks // earrings: thrifted I think I’ve figured out what’s so fun about replicating designs. When you’re designing something original, you can do whatever you want with whatever you have. You get to make all of the choices. When it’s…
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When to break up with a project?
Sometimes I’ll be working on a project and I just won’t be feeling it. A number of things can be going on. Sometimes the pattern pieces just aren’t fitting together right and the whole thing looks silly and unsalvageable. Other times I look at it and wonder if I’ll ever…
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On perfect fabrics falling out of the sky (not literally)
Sometimes I’ll have a project in mind and will search high and low and not be able to find the right fabric for it. When I was making my Betty Draper dress for the Mad Men party I went to, I literally spent hours perusing eBay and fabric.com and went…
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Winter-ifying
dress: Dear Creatures // top: Ross // tights: Modcloth // boots: Boutique 9 // scarf: thrifted You know that feeling when you’re craving a season that still at least five months away and clothing more suited to that season starts jumping out at you from your closet and you briefly consider…