crafty times

Yesterday, I met J. Marie and Jasmine at the Fix to grab a coffee, then we went to Michael's to get some crafty supplies to make some crazy head pieces for their photo shoot that I will be styling on Sunday. We ended up taking over the living room at the Darling Mansion with tulle, ribbon, glue, glitter, bows, birds...There will be a video of the experience soon.

Here are some of the fruits of my labor. This one started as a head band from H&M that I bought years ago for a Halloween costume. I added more tulle, tons of feathers, and the vintage brooch.

This one started as a plastic Goody Headband! I think it is la pièce de résistance...

I am seriously considering opening an Etsy store, filled with my various crafty things (cake toppers, headbands, decorations...) Considering I have no income, it would be nice to get 40 dollars here and there.

stud-a-licious

I was thinking about studding up my Target stripper shoes, to make them look a little less like Shoes From Target, when I saw Rumi's post about her Converse. I was so excited to find my black on black Converse hi-tops in Paris for the same price as I would have paid in the States (Converse usually cost 80 Euros or so...) that I snatched them up. Once I had them, I found they were super hard to wear with pants - especially since black skinny jeans are my daily staple - that they made my legs and feet look like they were painted with black canvas. NOT cute. With tights, or leggings and dresses, they looked great. Anyway, I saw Rumi's Converse and thought that doing mine would be a good test run for my studding skills; canvas is much easy to work with than leather (or pleather).

The sneaks turned out great, though I totally ruined my right thumb nail in the process, it is still sore 2 days later.

Then, last night, I started my heels. I was channeling something Gucci-esque, or as Gucci as Target can get...

I can't decide if I should keep going or not. And please ignore the strange angle of the photos, I do not, in fact, have kankles.

x-mas gifts, part 1

Sorry for the gap in posts. I was totally overwhelmed by the holiday season and was trapped inside for about a week due to 2 feet of snow. So there was not a lot going on worth writing about, other than the 500 movies I watched on instant Netflix.

This was definitely one of those Christmases where I knew going into it that it wasn't going to be outrageously fabulous, like they were when I was growing up. But I did get almost everything I asked for, which meant that I knew about all my presents. No big surprises this years.





The one gift I was not expecting was this scarf my mother knit for me.

Not only is is leopard print. It is knit on the bias. Pretty fab.