Everything I’ve bought during Black Friday Sales
everything I’ve bought during Black Friday Sales THE GREATThe Ballet Dress // 20% off with CODE: SHOP20 CLÉ DE PEAU BEAUTÉConcealer broad Spectrum SPF 25 also on sale HERE! JENNIFER BEHRTara Hoops // 20% off with CODE SHOP20 ELEMISPro-Collagen Cleansing Balm SENREVEAlunna Bag BROOKLINENDown alternative Comforter BOLL & BRANCHFlannel Herringbone Sheet set // CODE: MARY25 […]
Read Moreif you ask me turn up the bass
So I skated at the reopened Roxy again last night (how I love it when the bass feels just short of therapeutic sports massage) and wore my camouflage circle skirt (I was in a couple airports, too, yesterday, making the camo skirt doubly necessary). and then I was thinking, well, if ONE camo skirt is […]
Read MoreAhoy, there!
There’s just something about the sailor collar that calls to me. I have gotten probably a dozen sailor-collar patterns, everything from full-skirted stuff like this to drop-waist 1960s scooter dresses to barely-justifiable 1980s padded-shoulder tops. I’ve gotten sweaters with sailor collars, t-shirts with sailor collars, and in college, actual Navy surplus middy blouses in both […]
Read MoreAnother office gown
Here’s one more Take Me Seriously dress, this time around from Woodland Farms Antiques (this dress, I requirement barely add, has never seen a farm, much less a woodland one, however I digress). This gown has an completely different narrative: this is the gown that the assistant wears. Wait. This is the gown that the […]
Read MoreBlue Hawaii
Lisa has been sending me such excellent links to other people’s ebay auctions that I believed I’d inspect out hers. holy Moly. I desire I might pull off this type of dress! (I always look as if I’d snuck into somebody else’s wardrobe in the dead of night. I may still try once again …) […]
Read MoreYouth (and this pattern) is wasted on the young
I really love the waist treatment on this pattern (from Tina at What-I-Found vintage Patterns) but it is a size 11. That’s right, e-lev-en. Bust 31 1/2, which I might be able to fit into right away AFTER I track down Ray Palmer and his shrinking lens. Possibly. I might also have to track down […]
Read MoreToys! fantastic toys!
On Anna’s recommendation, I purchased a copy of The stitching device Attachment Handbook, which turns out to have been the book I’ve been searching for all my stitching life. Did your stitching device include a box of tiny, weirdly-shaped feet? then you requirement this book. There are remove directions for guides, hemmers, rufflers, binding as […]
Read MoreDrabble #7
lots of dresses don’t remember being made, but I do. I don’t know if it’s because it took her so long, or if it was because she was thinking so hard about me, but I remember everything. I remember the first shock of the scissors and the needle melding the thread into me and the […]
Read MoreMutton, Lamb, etc.
Here’s the (slightly) age-inappropriate dress I wore last week Friday for my 40th birthday: It’s vogue 8728 again, obvs. I have one more cut out (bright green, alphabet print!) and am planning at least one more, in a black laser-cut geometric eyelet. I also have three other pieces of dotted swiss (one blue floral […]
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