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Hello, hello. I am going back to my normal blogging of accessories. You know how I love them and I also love Jak&Jil's blog and as I was cruising along looking for cool things I saw this picture:

Here's the link to the pic with comments

I don't know about you but I love rings and these have a very medieval feel to them. I love how she matched her nails to the rings. I don't know who the designer is or whose hand this is but it speaks to me. I think of knights in shining in armor and all the different kinds of armor in the different kinds of metal. They are kind of gothic but they have a romantic feel to them. How do you think they would look in another color?  Maybe like an old copper, like the Statue of Liberty, I love that color and I think the rings in that color would be rad. What do you think? Like 'em, Love 'em or Hate 'em? Would you change the color if you could? Happy Wednesday. 

Painter's Block

Hello long time no blog. I just got done with my collection for the Fashion 130 class and man was that class a lot of work. In the end it was very rewarding and I loved my mini collection and everyone else's, we worked hard. The class was only six weeks so I think you do need to do some prep work before the class even starts. I only did one pattern for this outfit ahead of time.

It was a rough pattern and I still had a lot of fitting to do on the blouse pattern once the class started but the outfit came out great. 

This dress that you are about to see is in it's third reincarnation. Originally I was going to do separates, but I wanted to save myself some time so I thought aha a dress should do the trick. I loved how this dress turned out, tell me what you think...

My final outfit is by far my favorite because it has my colors, the ones I love to wear and accessorize with. The pattern for both the shorts and blouse were time consuming but the final product looks great. 

Here is the front:

But my favorite part of the outfit is the back:

I think I am going to make that this top for me, I just have to fit the pattern. The only thing I am disappointed about is that I was not able make any accessories, I started a clutch on the final day of class but I was just a little burnt out to finish it, so accessories coming soon. I just want to thank Natalia at West Coast Runways for being my model and you should check out her post here, where she has pictures of almost everyone else's collections from our class. Let me know what you think and until next time, happy shopping!

Handbags.

Hello blog and blog readers. How is your Saturday going? So I am actually quite surprised that I have never blogged about these bags before but I love them. The bags I am talking about are Kim White Handbags. Here is a picture:

I actually have this  fabric in this style bag:

As her website says, "[She] specializes in handbags made from vintage automotive fabric". I love her bags so much. the shapes are fun and the bags are quirky and make an outfit more fun. What do you think? Love 'em, hate 'em, or just okay? Let me know and have a great weekend.

Kid Robot

Hello Readers.
How is everyone? I hope your week has been well... I am planning on going to a estate sale in a little while but earlier this week I was doing some internet shopping and I went over to the kid robot site. I saw this cute hot dog pouch. They call them yummypockets pouch and I guess if you love hot dogs you would be pretty hungry.

It actually look really realistic, so would you want an un-messy hotdog floating around in your purse or would you just bypass this accessory? Is it a hit or miss?

Let me know. Have a great weekend.

My Dress Design for Shabby Apple Dresses.

We were assigned a project in one of my fashion design classes that correlated to an actual contest happening at Shabby Apple Dresses. I had  a lot of fun with this project and all the things it entailed. 

My Mood Board

 

 I was inspired by The Notebook and all of the great dresses that Rachel McAdams wore. The 1940s and all of the different styles that are still cute and tasteful are what I think of when I think Shabby Apple.

My Textiles

The colors are ones I saw that were forecasted for Spring 2011. I chose two knits, the blue-berry is an interlock and cloudy is a single jersey knit  that I thought would work well on the bodice parts of my dresses. For the wovens  I chose two prints, logan berry and butter, which are 100% cotton. Then I chose one solid, raspberry,  that  I thought would go well with the other prints.

My Line Sheet

My Illustration

I hope you enjoy my designs and let me know what you think.

FYF

Hello. I know I am a bit late blogging about the FYF Festival at the cornfield at the beginning of September, but I did attend with some of my bffs and I had a wonderful time listening to Dead Man's Bones and Cold Cave for the very first time. You would recognize Cold Cave from the Verizon commercial. Okay, so I should be blogging about accessories and that is just what I am about to do. I saw some very interesting things there and my favorite of the whole night was this dinosaur bag.

Photo Credit: Me

It is like the street version of the bag I blogged about here, from Giles Deacon. I actually love both versions of dinosaur bags...let me know what you. Do you like one better than the other or are dinosaurs just not for you? Have a great weekend!

Proenza Schouler Spring 2010 in action

Once again I was on Jak&Jil this morning andI found this really rad picture of these two women in an animal printed top and her friend has a jacket on and as someone pointed out it is actually Proenza Schouler from Spring 2010.

I really like the top and the jacket, it is totally my style and more then likely you would probably be able to find this in my closet. What about you? Is this your style? Yay or Nay? Let me know...Have a great weekend