Mar 25, 2011 | Life
Actually, they’re already underway at the Portland Expo Center: demonstrations on how to green up your lifestyle, organic and fair-trade foods and cooking info, documentary film screenings, beauty demonstrations, activities for the kiddies, and an eco-friendly fashion show each night. I’m heading to that tonight and I’m super-excited to see Lizzie Parker, Saffrona, Pacadudz, and Rock On Jewelry Design – which I’ll be posting photos of later!
The event continues all weekend – with a fashion show each night – so if you’re in the area, stop on by and say hello! (Attending is free, though you have to pay for parking.)
For more info and to create your own must-see agenda, check out the
See you there!
xoxox
Carly
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Mar 25, 2011 | DIY
Yesterday I coveted it, so today I’m going to show you how to make it. It’s DIY in 5 – minutes, that is. The easiest, quickest ways to take a piece from blah to fab and update it to current trends.
Also called the pussy-bow blouse on the other side of the pond, a chiffon bow at the collar of any blouse elevates it from everyday into elegant. But when you’re shopping on a budget (read: buying cheap), often the blouses that are affordable tend to lack such special details. I thrifted this lovely wide-collar chiffon blouse, but felt it needed an extra something to give it more style.
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Mar 23, 2011 | Fashion
Czech crystal stud earrings: Icing by Claire’s
Sterling 3-star necklace: unknown [from Japan]
Bird-Printed Dress: Miss Selfridge (from last year)
Star-printed tank: unknown [from Japan]
Rings: blue beaded – handmade by me; silver w/ rhinestones – Payless; gold band w/ rhinestone – Icing by Claire’s
Ruched clutch purse: Rampage (a recent Hautelook purchase)
Dark-rinse jeggings: Forever 21
Blue trouser socks: Target
Black Qupid perforated wedge booties: UrbanOg (same version no longer available though:-(
I’m having MAJOR computer problems.
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Mar 23, 2011 | Life
I spotted two pairs of socks I sent in this photo: the hot-pink stripe and the light pink socks!
As you all probably know, besides donating money for tsunami relief efforts in Japan, I also sent 38 pairs of socks for men, women, and children, along with some handwritten letters and toiletry items, to a newly-formed organization that aims to distribute these items to the displaced victims housed in temporary shelters in the northern parts of Japan.
This morning, Socks for Japan shared their first experience making a delivery to a couple shelters located in Ibaraki, who had cited an urgent need for socks and specially requested them. The group also shared the photos they took of the destroyed towns and homes, damaged personal items, and the isolated survivors in the various shelters they visited.
From their account of the day:
Three ladies sat together on a blanket after receiving their socks, all three engrossed in reading the letters. They looked so happy and kept turning to each other to share what their letters said. They noticed us noticing them, and the eldest among them held her letter up and told us, “This is wonderful.”
Hand-writing 14 copies of this long letter took an awful long time…
But for the look on this woman’s face I would write 10,000 more.
It’s so amazing to be involved with a charity that actually does what it sets out to do, wholly and caringly – and provides an actual account of their work so there can be no misunderstandings about it. Perhaps I shall never learn the names of these people…but I am so glad to have brightened their day in even the smallest way.
The write-up is incredibly moving, and hopefully puts to rest any criticisms that socks are neither needed nor wanted.
Thank you to Socks for Japan, who have allowed me to help in such a tiny way!
xoxox
Carly
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Mar 23, 2011 | Fashion
Are you kidding me???!
The Sam Edelman Lorissa pump, exclusively for Solestruck, available here.
First person to DIY this gets crowned spike DIY Queen for the millenium.
What do we think? Coveting badly? Or soooooo over the spike trend it’s not even funny?
xoxox
Carly
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