Thursday, October 3, 2013

Pinteresting: With some Costumes

I listed nearly all my old Halloween costumes on ebay last week, so I've taken to Pinterest to find inspiration for this year.  I'll hopefully have some money to spend on a new costume, or, better yet, come up with a crafty idea to make my own.  I used an LBD and about $5 in supplies to make my costume last year.  I was a black widow spider.  It was a piece of felt from the fabric store ($0.35), a hair comb ($3 for 8), a package of spider webbing ($1.97), and some black tulle ($1).  I think it was my best cosume so far and it cost me almost nothing--perfect because I was going to drop a few grand on a vacation a month later.  Anyway...on to the costumes.

Love the honey badger
 
Wonder if I could find this in football version?



 
 
You may be looking at my Halloween costume right here.  I could totally pull this off.
 
This pin has 29 DIY costumes for adults.  This one is my favorite!
 
My mom is a huge fan of Halloween.  She dresses up every day in October.  I think that's too much like work, but she enjoys it.  What are you wearing for Halloween? Let me know in the comments!

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Giveaway!!

Isn't that everyone's favorite word?  I wrote a guest blog post for YarnExploder featuring my uberfancy Entangled Stitches gloves.  I look like a hot mess in those photos!  Terrible!  It was hot and I was a mess. 

 
 
You can read my post over on her blog.  I was feeling really generous when I was writing the post and I decided to give away a digital copy of the pattern, a skein of yarn with which to make awesome gloves of your very own, and (I'm not done!) a sweet project bag to keep it all in.

The bag will hold at least 200g of yarn and has a divided interior pocket.  These are the types of bags I prefer to keep stuff in, so that's what I made for the weiner.  :)  I keep scissors, sometimes a starbucks giftcard (gotta keep my spending in check), candies, and a pencil in one of the pockets and my Altoids tin of goodness in the other.
The outer fabric is a Michael Miller garden gingham something or other and the lining fabric is a coordinating blue with dots that remind me of snowflakes.  That's not actually what they are, just what my imagination came up with.  I gotta be honest, I kinda hated that fabric when I first got it.  (Hey, it was part of a package deal and I really wanted the other fabrics.  I was taking one for the team.)  But now that I see it put together with that lining fabric, I want lots of things in ditzy garden gagnam style stripe.  Just sayin'  I guess the flowers grew on me.  Haha!  I'm so punny.  I crack myself up.  =D
The winner also gets this skein of Knitpicks Stroll Tonal in Pearlescent.  (Flake of cardboard in the center of the skein not included.)

Go forth and enter to win my stuff over on the Yarn 'sploder blog.  I'm not really sure when the entry for the giveaway closes.  I'll have to edit that in later since she didn't add that to the post.

Fashion Plate: Rock and Bowl Dress

Make This Look: Rock and Bowl Dress

This week's Fashion Plate is the Rock and Bowl dress from Modcloth. Simplicity 2444 is such a great base pattern. You can give it a poofy skirt like this one or slim that skirt down using a different skirt pattern in the Project Runway collection. You really have endless variations of styling and creating with this pattern. Just change one thing about the bodice and switch up the fabric and you can have a holiday dress or an everyday work dress or any shade in between. The fabric for this look is Asbury Bowling Pins in Lime. There are several other colors if the lime happens to sell out (only 17 yards left). I find that ModCloth uses a lot of lapped zippers in the dresses. I think that's pretty cool! I have a love/hate relationship with lapped zippers right now. I need more practice.