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cute printed things

  • A shift dress I made yesterday. This comes with a long story but I had to include this here because of them cute hippos.
  • This is an Ikea fabric and I’ve used some of it for THIS SKIRT.

  • While trying to figure out how to sew the collar for the hippo dress above, I took out this pillow case dress I made more than a year ago. Then I fell in love with the prints all over again.
  • If you assume that I haven’t worn this dress in a very long time, your assumption is correct.
And because you assumed right, I give you a sneak peek of my next tutorial:

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- Mr. Mustache Man was inspired by THESE.

- Art prints of cute animals looking cute while reading. Seriously, animals reading = ADORABLE.

-  FREE FONTS! (Well, some are sorta free). They’re beautiful.

- Four words to live by.

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lovely paper things

  • A new notebook (stolen from the boyfriend, really) because sometimes, ticking off items from your To Do list is the only thing that can bring back balance to the world.

  • When you have cats, you can’t own pretty things. I realized this the very moment our eldest cat, Snow, climbed a book shelf and subsequently broke this telephone booth teapot. Now all I have left of the lovely item is this photograph.
  • Interestingly, though, my cats have broken only two of my teapots, this red one included.

  • This is the art/inspiration wall of my craft room. I have been wanting to post a photo of this part of my studio for a very long time but sadly, my space does not photograph well. Do you know that I had to edit this picture using two programs to achieve the right color of my walls? TWO! Ridiculous.
  • So anyways, silly drama aside, that semi-circle red thing tacked to the board has something to do with my next tutorial.

This:

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doily it up?

I have always been attracted to things that are delicate and feminine but minimalist. A plain chiffon skirt paired with a plain top. Stationery with graphite style monogram and delicate flourishes. A slim hairpin holding up a loosely tied chignon.

It’s not surprising then that I hoard tiny paper doilies. And that I melt at the sight of paper doilies paired with jute twine and/or brown paper/box.

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Lovely.

Inspired by the looks above, I decided to use paper doilies for my handmade-shop-related adventures. Here are my attempts:

I feel that these are still lacking something, though. Who would have thought that achieving that perfect fusion of understated and ladylike is hard?

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