Meringue Skirt

The Meringue Skirt is the first official sewing project in The Colette Sewing Handbook, and it was a lot of fun to make.  With simple instructions, and easy to follow diagrams, this pattern went together in a matter of hours. The first thing I did, when working on this project was make myself up a…

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Simple Gathered Skirt

I recently saw a super cute skirt tutorial on Pinterest for Simple Simon & Co.’s Vintagely Modern Skirt.  I fell in love with it pretty much immediately. The one problem?  The tutorial is really for a little kid’s skirt. Well, I tried it anyway.  And I’m happy to report that it looks great even with…

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Fashion Friday – The Teacher

As I mentioned in last week’s post, I think you should always dress well.  And since I’ve been back to teaching classes at the University for a couple weeks now, I’m wearing a lot more suits than I did during the summer.  That’s alright though, I love a good suit – and it’s even beginning…

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Fashion Friday – Retro Blues

This week’s outfit is a half-sleeve mock-turtleneck sweater in teal and grey snakeskin print with a pleated full skirt, charcoal tights and blue/grey shoes.  The shoes I wore this week, are the same pair I wore in week 4. I picked the tights up at Target, but you can buy basic colored tights at just…

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Fashion Friday – Blue (Suede) Shoes

Today’s fashion is the same black skirt from Maurices, that I wore in last week’s Fashion Friday,  along with a pair of turquoise blue heels and lace trimmed top by Studio Y, also from Maurices. Buy Sildenafil Buy Trazodone Buy Zithromax Buy Zocor

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Craft Month 2011 – Day 9 – Simple Elastic Waist Skirt

Today’s craft project is a my first sewing project for national craft month. I don’t normally do sewing projects, because I always seem to have issues with my sewing machine. It’s usually the tension, but this was such a cool project, that I had to try it. This skirt was actually really simple. I took…

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