Seasons greetings everyone!
I hope that everyone has had a wonderfulHoliday and looking forward to the New Year! Now that all the crazyness of shopping and wrapping presents is over, in 6 days it is going to be a whole new year, and I have decided what my New Year Resolution will be. This year I plan on making more things instead of buying (unless it is materials). I plan on saving more money, not only for myself but to help others as well. I will learn something new, be it to do with sewing, learning a new language or maybe something about history that I didn’t know before.
Aside from that, I would like to share with everyone a few things that I have made over the past year. It is not as much as I would have liked, but by doing this I hope that I can use this to help myself in my goal to make even more beautiful things in 2012 (it is going to be the last year on earth supposedly).
In most of these pictures you will notice the same fabric has been used. It was a few years ago I saw this Music note fabric. I kept waiting and waiting until I had money to buy it. Well the day that I did, there was only 1 yard left and was told that they were not making anymore of it, so I bought all that I could, as well as buy some fabric I found online (of course I ended up paying too much for it). It sat in my drawer for a while until I figured out what I wanted to do with it. Then I met the designer for BruteForceStudios.com. His name is Thomas Willeford. I modeled for him a few times and he made me my own corset with the music note fabric that I had bought. After that I made a skirt with the remaining piece and then a hat.
After that I made a few more hats (there are about 4 of them on my Etsy account right now). Discovered that I still had some Music note fabric, and a friend of mine made a large donation to my lack of fabric, and so I made another skirt and a cravat to go with it. It’s a shame that I don’t really have anymore left, I would love to make some more pieces. For now I plan on making more items with the fabric that I have.
For theHoliday I found this adorable fabric that I knew I wanted to make for Christmas. Red with white poke-a-dots and Christmas themed cupcakes. I was worried that I didn’t have enough fabric for it to be long enough, so I made a white hem with some red stitching. As it turns out I wouldn’t have needed it, but I think the little white ruffle really pulled it together. It was my first time doing an elastic waist (normally I use zippers), and I made it a tiny bit loose. I wanted to have something for my hair that matched my skirt so I made this really cute hairclip. After my pieces were made I realized that I made a Sweet Lolita outfit (at least it looks Sweet to me). I normally would never wear Sweet (nothing against it, I just normally don’t wear it). When my family came over I was expecting all sorts of questions like “What are you wearing?” but I was surprised when everyone kept saying how cute I looked and then were shocked when I said I made what I was wearing. It was a great feeling, my one aunt ended up inspecting my skirt and told me I did very well on it and should sell online. I don’t think I will be selling clothing anytime soon, because even though I can, I don’t know if I could keep up with the orders, but it is a thought for the future.
I hope that everyone has had a wonderful
Aside from that, I would like to share with everyone a few things that I have made over the past year. It is not as much as I would have liked, but by doing this I hope that I can use this to help myself in my goal to make even more beautiful things in 2012 (it is going to be the last year on earth supposedly).
In most of these pictures you will notice the same fabric has been used. It was a few years ago I saw this Music note fabric. I kept waiting and waiting until I had money to buy it. Well the day that I did, there was only 1 yard left and was told that they were not making anymore of it, so I bought all that I could, as well as buy some fabric I found online (of course I ended up paying too much for it). It sat in my drawer for a while until I figured out what I wanted to do with it. Then I met the designer for BruteForceStudios.com. His name is Thomas Willeford. I modeled for him a few times and he made me my own corset with the music note fabric that I had bought. After that I made a skirt with the remaining piece and then a hat.
After that I made a few more hats (there are about 4 of them on my Etsy account right now). Discovered that I still had some Music note fabric, and a friend of mine made a large donation to my lack of fabric, and so I made another skirt and a cravat to go with it. It’s a shame that I don’t really have anymore left, I would love to make some more pieces. For now I plan on making more items with the fabric that I have.
For the
So that is all that I have made so far that really screams Lolita. As I said before, I want to make more things for 2012. Keep an eye out on my Etsy, I just might post up a skirt or two.
Speaking of Lolita clothing for sale, a friend of mine has posted some of her clothes on the egl livejournal. Take a look at it, there is a beautiful AATP (Alice and The Pirates) dress that I want but sadly I need to save money for my trip toWales
PS. Still getting used to posting pictures.
Speaking of Lolita clothing for sale, a friend of mine has posted some of her clothes on the egl livejournal. Take a look at it, there is a beautiful AATP (Alice and The Pirates) dress that I want but sadly I need to save money for my trip to
PS. Still getting used to posting pictures.
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