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I've become a little frustrated with myself since I had another blog before this one and though I wanted to separate my interests into two separate entities- My interests and their interaction with my everyday life blur into each other... just as I like them to anyway.... And I barely have time to update one blog these days let alone two! So I just put a blurb on art-candy about my wedding planning and that's about all I have time for these days. Not going to repost it all here, you can just check it out there.
My summer dress is still in pieces. It's 11:00 already. I worked until 7pm today, made the 1.5 hour commute back to Toronto and then went to the gym.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Monday, May 12, 2008
Wedding Shoes - my version of glass slippers
The gorgeous black shoes I splurged on from Marciano to wear on my wedding day that I picked up this past weekend:
My dress is an off-white but nearly all my accessories will be black. I can't believe these will sit in the box for over a year!!!!!
My dress is an off-white but nearly all my accessories will be black. I can't believe these will sit in the box for over a year!!!!!
Saturday, May 3, 2008
The Real Reason I've Been too Busy to Blog Recently...
For the past couple months I've been planning my fiancee Stephen's b-day. I decided that I would make him a gift this year, a (short sleeve) shirt, a tie and a vest and ultimately decided to throw him a surprise party as well. 
It's a little tricky inviting someone else's friends to a party... We went to Alice Fazooli's and the food/atmosphere was great. I scoped out a few places downtown in advance and Alice Fazooli's was the sexiest casual spot that I found. I reserved the 'interactive table' for eight in the lounge. There was a live DJ and I liked her music picks so much that I got her info with the wedding in mind.
Steve goes to rockclimbing 3 times a week and so for every 3 hour snippet he was out, 3 times a week, I was at home, sewing, sewing like crazy! I estimated that the shirt took about 28 hours and the tie 3.5. The tie I actually made in an evening sewing class at The Workroom. I've never made a shirt or tie before... I tried to make something not too out there that he would like, keep it masculine, but of course be funky and somewhat reverberate a sense of myself as it's a gift from me... I was inspired by a New York taxi graphic kind of idea, or a racecar, just something graphic, a mix of solids and one print. Recently I've been noticing a lot of check used in Dickies apparel... He seems to like it and was impressed at me making him a gift... I'm confident to say he had a great night out and appreciated his gift and the time I put into it. It was nice to bring out all his friends for him... He hasn't had a party since I've known him and says he rarely tells anyone it's his b-day. After the party he told me it's the first b-day party he's had since he was 12, so that made it easy for the surprise factor. I told him a bunch of my work friends were going out for dinner and that's how I got him to come along.
I will take a picture of him when he wears the shirt. I just did not have time to make the vest, I've got all the fabric though, I found some warm brown wool for the front of the vest and a forest green silk for the back and the lining. What is nice about the vest, if that it will give him two pieces, and if the check/yellow is too much, he could always tone it down by having the check peek out from under the vest, or use any of the three pieces in combination with articles he already has...
I wore the skirt that I made in my class at The Workroom with my newly acquired Ruby Woo lipstick to match the bright red shirt I had on. I got a bit ahead of myself when I hemmed my skirt and ended up doing a quick zigzag stich to hem it, but I plan to go back and get the edge done on a surger and finish it with an invisible hem. The zigzag wouldn't even be that bad but my sewing machine seems to skip stiches, pretty frustrating as it was just taken in to be repaired not that long ago... I did try changing the needle and tried a couple different fabrics... Just don't know. I still have a summer dress to finish up as well... and an entire hamper full of fabric I picked up at the last fabric swap at The Workroom...
Heading to The Clothing Show tomorrow with Liz, my brother's girlfriend. I won a couple free tickets from Bianca at A Wee Bit Skint. On her blog she asks which two cartoon characters Marc Jacob's recently tattooed onto his arm...
Spongebob and the Red M&M!
By guessing right I scored myself 2 free tickets!
It's a little tricky inviting someone else's friends to a party... We went to Alice Fazooli's and the food/atmosphere was great. I scoped out a few places downtown in advance and Alice Fazooli's was the sexiest casual spot that I found. I reserved the 'interactive table' for eight in the lounge. There was a live DJ and I liked her music picks so much that I got her info with the wedding in mind.Steve goes to rockclimbing 3 times a week and so for every 3 hour snippet he was out, 3 times a week, I was at home, sewing, sewing like crazy! I estimated that the shirt took about 28 hours and the tie 3.5. The tie I actually made in an evening sewing class at The Workroom. I've never made a shirt or tie before... I tried to make something not too out there that he would like, keep it masculine, but of course be funky and somewhat reverberate a sense of myself as it's a gift from me... I was inspired by a New York taxi graphic kind of idea, or a racecar, just something graphic, a mix of solids and one print. Recently I've been noticing a lot of check used in Dickies apparel... He seems to like it and was impressed at me making him a gift... I'm confident to say he had a great night out and appreciated his gift and the time I put into it. It was nice to bring out all his friends for him... He hasn't had a party since I've known him and says he rarely tells anyone it's his b-day. After the party he told me it's the first b-day party he's had since he was 12, so that made it easy for the surprise factor. I told him a bunch of my work friends were going out for dinner and that's how I got him to come along.
I will take a picture of him when he wears the shirt. I just did not have time to make the vest, I've got all the fabric though, I found some warm brown wool for the front of the vest and a forest green silk for the back and the lining. What is nice about the vest, if that it will give him two pieces, and if the check/yellow is too much, he could always tone it down by having the check peek out from under the vest, or use any of the three pieces in combination with articles he already has...
I wore the skirt that I made in my class at The Workroom with my newly acquired Ruby Woo lipstick to match the bright red shirt I had on. I got a bit ahead of myself when I hemmed my skirt and ended up doing a quick zigzag stich to hem it, but I plan to go back and get the edge done on a surger and finish it with an invisible hem. The zigzag wouldn't even be that bad but my sewing machine seems to skip stiches, pretty frustrating as it was just taken in to be repaired not that long ago... I did try changing the needle and tried a couple different fabrics... Just don't know. I still have a summer dress to finish up as well... and an entire hamper full of fabric I picked up at the last fabric swap at The Workroom...
Heading to The Clothing Show tomorrow with Liz, my brother's girlfriend. I won a couple free tickets from Bianca at A Wee Bit Skint. On her blog she asks which two cartoon characters Marc Jacob's recently tattooed onto his arm...
Spongebob and the Red M&M!By guessing right I scored myself 2 free tickets!
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