Category Archives: Fashon

about the start of Me-Made-May, the month long commitment to wear self stitched garments throughout the month of May. As I wrote on Facebook, I am not participating in it because if I did, I would be wearing either ball gowns or lingerie for thirty days. One commenter said, “we see nothing wrong with this….”  Continue Reading »

One of Philadelphia’s characteristics that I first fell in love with when I moved here were its murals and graffitis. On the sides of buildings, and many buildings might I add (almost every couple of blocks), are paintings that cover concrete from ground to second, third, fourth, fifth, or ten floor. In many colors too!  Continue Reading »

When life gets frustrating, like when you sew a wrong side to a right side or when you interface the wrong pattern piece (okay, there might be other worse that are non sewing related), I recite tried-and-true affirmations. Some may be cheesy and some may be deep but all of them are kept in my  Continue Reading »

I love my job. As part of a story for work (I am a blogger for this company), I had a mock appointment with a personal shopper at Anthropologie (Anthropologie is part of the Urban Outfitters brand). As a seamstress, I value the handmade and I try to stay away from gluttony, at least when  Continue Reading »