Fashion

How To Make Your Own Bjork Swan Dress: Tutorial

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1: Bjork Swan Dress – Materials , 2: Bjork Swan Dress – Making The Back, [...]

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The Infinity Dress and Beyond

Complex Geometries’ Split Square dress features a slight cowl that can be worn as a sleeve or neckline and a polished silk chiffon lining that can be worn on the outside

Today’s Globe and Mail featured [...]

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Mad About Aprons

Are aprons back? Check out my take in last Saturday’s Ottawa Citizen (and other Canadian city newspapers).

I have a full-length Milk (does a body good) apron picked up at a garage sale [...]

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Tom Binns Get Real DIY Laminated Necklace Tutorial

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Is this the new recession chic? This Tom Binns necklace, on the Colette website (via FashionMagazine and Pipeline and Continue reading Tom Binns Get Real DIY Laminated Necklace Tutorial

Trendspotting and Tutorials: Tie-Dye Duds

Tomorrow I’ll be helping out with a tie-dye session at the CIC (Catholic Immigration Centre) here in Ottawa. We’ll be making tie-dye team shirts for their Community Soccer Cup tournament. I haven’t tie-dyed in a while, so I’m really looking forward to it! It’ll be another great technique to [...]

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Designer DIY Series from the Guardian

I think it’s pretty cool that the Guardian, one of the UK’s national newspapers, has a whole section devoted to craft.

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Unzipped this Season

I’m totally enamoured of how zippers were used in the following garments! I love how these designs take something so utilitarian as a a zipper and then transform it into something different. It makes we want to raid my zipper stash and craft something up.

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Vintage + Thrift Finds – Week of February 21st, 2009

So this is my first vintage + thrifty finds post and I’m excited to bring you the finds for this week. As many of you know, I have a *huge* love of finding quirky, unique, vintage items at thrift stores, rummage sales, garage sales, and lots of other secret [...]

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And the colour of the year is…

For 2009, Pantone has selected 14-0848 Mimosa, “a warm, engaging yellow, as the color of the year for 2009. In a time of economic uncertainty and political change, optimism is paramount and no other color expresses hope and reassurance more than yellow.”

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