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Furniture Refresh: Reupholstering Andover by Davis Allen for Stendig Dining Chair
About 15 ish years ago I was browsing through the Out of the Closet in West Hollywood as a broke college student. Thrifting for a cause and because I needed clothes and if I was lucky something new to me for my apartment. I came across this gem of a chair for $15. I loved…
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Reflections on 2023
When I think of how 2023 started and how it ended the word that comes to me louder than all others is “relieved”. This year found me in flux in so many different ways and, despite how the changes first appeared, all ended up being for the absolute very best. This was the year that…
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Stitching The Stash: Dark Hawaiian Floral Print
Part of my Stitching the Stash Fabric Stash Challenge: Round I, this dress was made using Vogue V9311 and a beautiful Hawaiian print rayon challis from Hawaii Fabric Mart.
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Stitching The Stash: Red Ankara Print
Part of my Stitching the Stash Fabric Stash Challenge: Round I , these are the garments I made from the beautiful red, black, and white geopmetric Ankara wax print fabric I picked up from Zesty Couture about a year ago. A skirt adapted from McCalls M8051, View B and a self drafted top.
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Little Notes: Permission to Fail
This post is more for me than it is for anyone else, but I know I’m not the only one who could use the reminder that, if not life or death, failure is fine and progress is rarely linear. Sometimes, often times, I have to remind myself that not everything I do needs to be…
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Sketchbook: Color Practice
My sketchbooks are devoid of color usually because I run out of steam or I don’t want to “ruin” a sketch I like, but I found in this practice I was really enjoying the process. It didn’t have to be perfect and I was looking forward to making mistakes. Or in the words of the…
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I Wanted Black Walls and Now I Have Them
Using a starch medium, fabric is adhered to the walls and can be removed by saturating the fabric with water and peeling the fabric off. The fabric can then be laundered and reused. Typically, people use this technique to take advantage of the wide variety of prints available in fabrics, its relatively low cost as…
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The Hypocrisy of Man
When I think that humanity can create healing medicines, antibiotics, and vaccines; create music and art; study the stars and explore the depths of the oceans; but also drop bombs on hospitals, rape and pillage land in the name of technology and progress, and divide people along arbitrary lines like skin color or religion I…
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My Favorite Fashion Illustration Techniques Resources
Finding a solid resource for learning fashion illustration techniques specifically has been my quest for the Holy Grail since I was in middle school. There are thousands of books on drawing techniques and on working in specific mediums like watercolor, acrylic, oil pastels, etc. but I have yet to find a single resource that stands…