Photo Aug 01, 11 00 22 AM

First Things First

“First things first” are the first words to my first go-to karaoke song.  I’ll come back to that later.  But first things first, I finally, on the very tail end of summer, pulled together a dress from my palm frond fabric.  FINALLY! As I’ve mentioned before, palm frond has been seemingly everywhere for the past 12-18 months, hitting peak cultural penetration… Read more →

Shifty ?

So, this post was going to focus on the gorgeous summertime palm frond fabric that I wanted to use for this dress — a simple shift dress from a PDF pattern I found online.  I was going to do a quick practice run shift dress out of the black fabric left over from the Trap Crop and then make the fabulous, tropical… Read more →

Photo Jul 25, 1 42 28 PM

The “Trap Crop”

Crop tops: all the rage.  (Not groundbreaking, obv.)  But the weird thing is, I’m actually into it.  Not in the Urban-Outfitters-thinks-its-1994-all-over-again kind of way.  But crop tops turn out to be the perfect companion to high-waisted bottoms when its too hot (or you’re too lazy) to have a bunch of unnecessary extra fabric to have to tuck in.  Love high waisted bottoms + hate tucking in = crop… Read more →