mad love.

love.
love.
love.
love.
love.

fave cover ever.  EVER!

here's all the way cool shots from the inside of the mag...

wow.

my top treasuries

i'm mildly interested in obsessed with Etsy Treasuries.

here are a few of my current faves:
*click the titles to see the collections*

MAD MEN - JOAN HOLLOWAY
uh.....fave show.   fave character. the end.
this collection IS joan.
my favorite item is this:

SILVER SCREEN GODDESSES
this collection literally made me GASP.
beautiful
i like this best:

STARTS WITH A DRESS

holy moly, what a brilliant idea for a treasury.
OUTFITS!
here's my fave dress of the bunch.
the outfit is killer.

PURPLE AUTUMN
all these purples in one place.
overwhelming.
well, ok, exaggerating.
it's really gorg.

sold.

my friend came over for dinner tonight (baja fish tacos, if you must know)

she picked out a *great* bag to take home and it got me thinking about special items that i loved and sold anyway.


here are some of my FAVORITE items that i will never be able to make again due to discontinued fabric, rarity of item, or just lack of motivation to make it again:

((press play first.))




BIRDIE TOTE:  2009-2009

i KNOW the birdie tote went to a good home.
i wish i had piles and piles of that lining.

CRANBERRY COWL  2008-2009:

i bought this one of a kind yarn from Evermore Studios from illinois.  i miss that yarn.  i wish i had kept this cowl as my own.

BLACK CAT TOTE: 2008-2009

i personally know 3 of you who got this bag.  the fabric is not only the cutest ever, but it's discontinued!  i'm hoarding scraps for....yeah, i dunno.

FOO FIGHTERS T-SHIRT BAG: 2001-2008

this is the saddest loss yet. 

a bag from a precious concert tee. 

one of the best non-pearl jam concerts i've attended. (and one of my favorite tees)

i just really have no idea what i was thinking.

last i heard, this bag was somewhere in southern california...

THE ALEXA GREY WRAP SHAWL:  2008-2009

this beauty needs no explanation.

beautiful.

goes unsaid. 

one of my biggest regrets in selling.

BRIGHT BLANKIE:  2009-2010

i just don't think i have the energy to make one of these again.

but it's a beauty.

what regrets are still to come???  :)

ready.....set.....fall!

starting way back in april, i start to looking forward to fall.
by august, i'd gladly give my second born cat for a crisp evening.

i'm making this blanket:

with thoughts of covering up here:

while drinking this:

here are some things i'm craving right about now:

any minute now.....

my memories of movies and fashion

since learning to sew, i've been trying to pinpoint what inspires me.
color: yes.
anthropologie: yes.

i keep coming back to movies.

there are movie costumes that have stayed with me since i was a very little girl.
notice that most of these center around the year 1954.
???


WHITE CHRISTMAS:
i wait every year to sing with bing crosby:  "SNOOWWWW". 
but my favorite part of the movie is rosemary clooney's laser cut black velvet decolletage.

GONE WITH THE WIND:
another annual feature in my house growing up. 
the ruffles, the ribbons laced through her sleeves at the barbecue, the green green green. 

and of course, we can't discuss gone with the wind fashion without talking about this one:

"i just saw it in the window and.....had to have it."

SOME LIKE IT HOT:

it's common knowledge that some like it hot is my all-time favorite movie. 

i always assumed they must have sewn marilyn into her costumes. 

maybe they did. 

so body hugging and faux 20s.

VERTIGO:

one of my fave hitchcock flicks. 

oh that coat, that coat, that coat. 

so iconic, i immediately thought of it when i watched a more recent movie. 

DIAL M FOR MURDER:

i have a vivid memory of the first time i was allowed to pick out a movie from the library. 

dial m for murder is what i chose:

grace kelly is forefront in my memories of fashion. 

now that i'm older, i realize the red is more symbolic of the "deeds" of this character. 

i love the shape of the bodice and the sleeves.

REAR WINDOW:

grace again.  this blouse is fantastic. 

it's so fantastic, in fact, that i spend the majority of this scene trying to figure out how it's designed.

this dress from the same movie.

while lisa teases jeffrey, she tells him it cost her $1800. 

uh.  yes.

beautiful. 

ALL ABOUT EVE:

bette davis.

brooch.

off the shoulder.

I LOVE LUCY:

i love lucy is as much a staple in my life as my own family.

the thing i love about i love lucy is that she sometimes repeated her outfits.

like any housewife would.

this outfit popped up a lot and it always stayed with me.

keep in mind, lucy just got home from lunch at the brown derby where she was NOT wearing this.

so it must be some sort of house-coat.  beautiful.

mad men loot

so.....mad men is really good this season.  lots of changes.  LOVE IT!

i want all of this stuff.

more specifically:

i know joanie is on there twice, but i love joanie......

i can't decide what to get.

MAD MEN!