Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
FREE Sewing Patterns!!
Here's an awesome site, with some great sewing patterns, copyright free and mostly free for download...
Burda Style
My favorite pattern (though I'm not talented enough to sew it) is THIS coat:
I REALLY want to do some sewing today, but... alas, the house is too messy. And I need to work on some more sketches for the childrens' book.
Burda Style
My favorite pattern (though I'm not talented enough to sew it) is THIS coat:
I REALLY want to do some sewing today, but... alas, the house is too messy. And I need to work on some more sketches for the childrens' book.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Relief Society Birthday Party
WARNING: This is a very long, and very possibly annoying post, so... there ya go. I really don't care.
So, on Tuesday, I was asked to help the committee with this year's Relief Society Birthday Party. The theme was "The Good Old Days", and we spent the better part of two months collecting old vintage clothes, pictures and memorabilia from the ladies in our ward. From there, we decided on doing a fashion show with a few songs and fun things/jokes added in. My incredible sister from another life wrote the script for the show (using bare bones from one somebody else started) and we had the most AMAZING time... I WISH my mom would've been able to go!! I even had two of her dresses on display (she handmade both of them!) The ladies didn't have much in the way of vintage stuff, so I used quite a bit of my own, but it was so fun!! We even had dinner, and our handsome, suited-up husbands served it to us!! How CUTE is that??
So, HERE comes the big description of the show, with pictures, (but the pictures DON'T do it justice!)
My friend was hosting, and with each decade, she had a different hat to wear! It was great!
We started it out with two young girls doing the Charleston (I had SO much fun doing their 20's makeup!) followed by a model in a 20's outfit, a talented lady sang "Second-Hand Rose" from Funny Girl, and then came the 30's models, followed by "America the Beautiful".
The 40's girl came out dressed in fur and satin, joined by (of course!) Rosie the Riveter. Then I was asked to fill in (in a trio) for someone who dropped out doing the "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy". We even had cute little Army hats to wear!
Then we had four of the women get up and hoola hoop to Annette Funacello's song "Pineapple Princess" (my friend came up with all these darling things!!) and it was freaking HILARIOUS, because they couldn't get them to stay up!!
We next had the 50's (one of the girls wore this AMAZINGLY stunning ballerina-ish wedding dress with a red bolero, red lipstick, white gloves, and a red velvet and polka-dot netted hat, and she looked just like Barbie!! I got to wear my cat eye glasses, a poodle skirt, tennis shoes (couldn't find saddle) and a letterman jacket. A girl came out and did the jitterbug with her husband, SO fun!
Somewhere in there we had a recreation of the Mickey Mouse Club.
Next came the 60's, big flower polyester dresses and go-go boots... Rowr!
After that, well, we had... ELVIS!! One of the husbands came out and sang two songs, and he was GOOD!!! Of course, he HAD to have a silk scarf wiped across his forehead and thrown at his wife!
For the 70's, we had a disco dance-off, with some awesome bellbottoms and disco dresses being modeled.
The 80's was pretty RAD, with some MEAN side-ponytails and of COURSE, a lip-synched "Video Killed the Radio Star" complete with 80's plastic guitars and drums... and SHADES.
My Doc Martens came out of the closet for the 90's grunge look, and my friend lent me the most GORGEOUS black beaded sheath to sing the theme from Titanic.
It was SO much fun.... so if ANY of you are interested in doing this for your own ward, I have access to the script and all the silly, fun stuff with it!
So, on Tuesday, I was asked to help the committee with this year's Relief Society Birthday Party. The theme was "The Good Old Days", and we spent the better part of two months collecting old vintage clothes, pictures and memorabilia from the ladies in our ward. From there, we decided on doing a fashion show with a few songs and fun things/jokes added in. My incredible sister from another life wrote the script for the show (using bare bones from one somebody else started) and we had the most AMAZING time... I WISH my mom would've been able to go!! I even had two of her dresses on display (she handmade both of them!) The ladies didn't have much in the way of vintage stuff, so I used quite a bit of my own, but it was so fun!! We even had dinner, and our handsome, suited-up husbands served it to us!! How CUTE is that??
So, HERE comes the big description of the show, with pictures, (but the pictures DON'T do it justice!)
My friend was hosting, and with each decade, she had a different hat to wear! It was great!
We started it out with two young girls doing the Charleston (I had SO much fun doing their 20's makeup!) followed by a model in a 20's outfit, a talented lady sang "Second-Hand Rose" from Funny Girl, and then came the 30's models, followed by "America the Beautiful".
The 40's girl came out dressed in fur and satin, joined by (of course!) Rosie the Riveter. Then I was asked to fill in (in a trio) for someone who dropped out doing the "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy". We even had cute little Army hats to wear!
Then we had four of the women get up and hoola hoop to Annette Funacello's song "Pineapple Princess" (my friend came up with all these darling things!!) and it was freaking HILARIOUS, because they couldn't get them to stay up!!
We next had the 50's (one of the girls wore this AMAZINGLY stunning ballerina-ish wedding dress with a red bolero, red lipstick, white gloves, and a red velvet and polka-dot netted hat, and she looked just like Barbie!! I got to wear my cat eye glasses, a poodle skirt, tennis shoes (couldn't find saddle) and a letterman jacket. A girl came out and did the jitterbug with her husband, SO fun!
Somewhere in there we had a recreation of the Mickey Mouse Club.
Next came the 60's, big flower polyester dresses and go-go boots... Rowr!
After that, well, we had... ELVIS!! One of the husbands came out and sang two songs, and he was GOOD!!! Of course, he HAD to have a silk scarf wiped across his forehead and thrown at his wife!
For the 70's, we had a disco dance-off, with some awesome bellbottoms and disco dresses being modeled.
The 80's was pretty RAD, with some MEAN side-ponytails and of COURSE, a lip-synched "Video Killed the Radio Star" complete with 80's plastic guitars and drums... and SHADES.
My Doc Martens came out of the closet for the 90's grunge look, and my friend lent me the most GORGEOUS black beaded sheath to sing the theme from Titanic.
It was SO much fun.... so if ANY of you are interested in doing this for your own ward, I have access to the script and all the silly, fun stuff with it!
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Bird Dress
Um... this dress makes me cry. I wonder if I could ever make anything as beautiful??
It's got stuffed applique birds on it!! And it's so 60's paris... love it. And of course it's on Etsy, and super-expensive, and NOT in my size. aaaa.....
It's got stuffed applique birds on it!! And it's so 60's paris... love it. And of course it's on Etsy, and super-expensive, and NOT in my size. aaaa.....
Sunday, March 1, 2009
The photoshoot...
Almost everything about this photoshoot DIDN'T work out --- location, timing, roses not staying where we needed them to be, (uninvited jealous fiances) etc. except for how lovely Extrema was. She always is!! I look so VERY strange....
Here are the ones so far that he showed us, and ... I don't think the makeup was very flattering on me (MY fault, of course), but I definitely don't look very good. Not that it matters, because this photoshoot was for her, anyway. But I want to see the best ones he did.... he hasn't shown us yet.
Anyways.... Here are the ones he posted so far:
Anyways, I hope we do a reshoot... because there was a LOT of potential.
Here are the ones so far that he showed us, and ... I don't think the makeup was very flattering on me (MY fault, of course), but I definitely don't look very good. Not that it matters, because this photoshoot was for her, anyway. But I want to see the best ones he did.... he hasn't shown us yet.
Anyways.... Here are the ones he posted so far:
Anyways, I hope we do a reshoot... because there was a LOT of potential.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Bergdorf Goodman....
So,... I'm really loving window displays, specifically the Bergdorf Goodman ones.... simply awe-inspiring. They make my heart giddily clap within my chest at the mere accomplishment of something so grand...
As a Man Thinketh
I ADORE this book, and think about it often. My hubby printed out the chapter called "Effect of Thought on Health and the Body", and I like to carry it around sometimes.
You can get it as a free e-book HERE.
So, here's that chapter, because I'm going to try and be better (I've been BAAAD lately) to my body:
EFFECT OF THOUGHT ON HEALTH AND THE BODY
The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed. At the biding of unlawful thoughts the body sinks rapidly into disease and decay; at the command of glad and beautiful thoughts it becomes clothed with youthfulness and beauty.
Disease and health, like circumstances, are rooted in thought. Sickly thoughts will express themselves through a sickly body. Thoughts of fear have been known to kill a man as speedily as a bullet, and they are continually killing thousands of people just as surely though less rapidly. The people who live in fear of disease are the people who get it. Anxiety quickly demoralizes the whole body, and lays it open to the entrance of disease; while impure thoughts, even if not physically indulged, will soon shatter the nervous system.
Strong, pure, and happy thoughts build up the body in vigor and grace. The body is a delicate and plastic instrument, which responds readily to the thoughts by which it is impressed, and habits of thought will produce their own effects, good or bad, upon it.
Men will continue to have impure and poisoned blood, so long as they propagate unclean thoughts. Out of a clean heart comes a clean life and a clean body. Out of a defiled mind proceeds a defiled life and a corrupt body. Thought is the fount of action, life, and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.
Change of diet will not help a man who will not change his thoughts. When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food.
Clean thoughts make clean habits. The so-called saint who does not wash his body is not a saint. He who has strengthened and purified his thoughts does not eed to consider the malevolent microbe.
If you would perfect your body, guard your mind. If you would renew your body, beautify your mind. Thoughts of malice, envy, disappointment, despondency, rob the body of its health and grace. A sour face does not come by chance; it is made by sour thoughts. Wrinkles that mar are drawn by folly, passion, pride.
I know a woman of ninety-six who has the bright, innocent face of a girl. I know a man well under middle age whose face is drawn into inharmonious contours. The one is the result of a sweet and sunny disposition; the other is the outcome of passion and discontent.
As you cannot have a sweet and wholesome abode unless you admit the air and sunshine freely into your rooms, so a strong body and a bright, happy, or serene countenance can only result from the free admittance into the mind of thoughts of joy and goodwill and serenity.
On the faces of the aged there are wrinkles made by sympathy, others by strong and pure thought, and others are carved by passion: who cannot distinguish them? With those who have lived righteously, age is calm, peaceful, and softly mellowed, like the setting sun. I have recently seen a philosopher on his death-bed. He was not old except in years. He died as sweetly and peacefully as he had lived.
There is no physician like cheerful thought for dissipating the ills of the body; there is no comforter to compare with goodwill for dispersing the shadows of grief and sorrow. To live continually in thoughts of ill will, cynicism, suspicion, and envy, is to be confined in a self-made prison-hole. But to think well of all, to be cheerful with all, to patiently learn to find the good in all--such unselfish thoughts are the very portals of heaven; and to dwell day by day in thoughts of peace toward every creature will bring abounding peace to their possessor.
I LOVE this. And I am not very good at it, ... which is why I put it on here. :)
You can get it as a free e-book HERE.
So, here's that chapter, because I'm going to try and be better (I've been BAAAD lately) to my body:
EFFECT OF THOUGHT ON HEALTH AND THE BODY
The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed. At the biding of unlawful thoughts the body sinks rapidly into disease and decay; at the command of glad and beautiful thoughts it becomes clothed with youthfulness and beauty.
Disease and health, like circumstances, are rooted in thought. Sickly thoughts will express themselves through a sickly body. Thoughts of fear have been known to kill a man as speedily as a bullet, and they are continually killing thousands of people just as surely though less rapidly. The people who live in fear of disease are the people who get it. Anxiety quickly demoralizes the whole body, and lays it open to the entrance of disease; while impure thoughts, even if not physically indulged, will soon shatter the nervous system.
Strong, pure, and happy thoughts build up the body in vigor and grace. The body is a delicate and plastic instrument, which responds readily to the thoughts by which it is impressed, and habits of thought will produce their own effects, good or bad, upon it.
Men will continue to have impure and poisoned blood, so long as they propagate unclean thoughts. Out of a clean heart comes a clean life and a clean body. Out of a defiled mind proceeds a defiled life and a corrupt body. Thought is the fount of action, life, and manifestation; make the fountain pure, and all will be pure.
Change of diet will not help a man who will not change his thoughts. When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food.
Clean thoughts make clean habits. The so-called saint who does not wash his body is not a saint. He who has strengthened and purified his thoughts does not eed to consider the malevolent microbe.
If you would perfect your body, guard your mind. If you would renew your body, beautify your mind. Thoughts of malice, envy, disappointment, despondency, rob the body of its health and grace. A sour face does not come by chance; it is made by sour thoughts. Wrinkles that mar are drawn by folly, passion, pride.
I know a woman of ninety-six who has the bright, innocent face of a girl. I know a man well under middle age whose face is drawn into inharmonious contours. The one is the result of a sweet and sunny disposition; the other is the outcome of passion and discontent.
As you cannot have a sweet and wholesome abode unless you admit the air and sunshine freely into your rooms, so a strong body and a bright, happy, or serene countenance can only result from the free admittance into the mind of thoughts of joy and goodwill and serenity.
On the faces of the aged there are wrinkles made by sympathy, others by strong and pure thought, and others are carved by passion: who cannot distinguish them? With those who have lived righteously, age is calm, peaceful, and softly mellowed, like the setting sun. I have recently seen a philosopher on his death-bed. He was not old except in years. He died as sweetly and peacefully as he had lived.
There is no physician like cheerful thought for dissipating the ills of the body; there is no comforter to compare with goodwill for dispersing the shadows of grief and sorrow. To live continually in thoughts of ill will, cynicism, suspicion, and envy, is to be confined in a self-made prison-hole. But to think well of all, to be cheerful with all, to patiently learn to find the good in all--such unselfish thoughts are the very portals of heaven; and to dwell day by day in thoughts of peace toward every creature will bring abounding peace to their possessor.
I LOVE this. And I am not very good at it, ... which is why I put it on here. :)
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