DIY: Wired Scarf Rabbit Ears Headband from a Handkerchief

Aug 3, 2010 | DIY

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Louis Vuitton runway photos by Roberto Tecchio and Gianni Pucci, Style.com
rabbit img petwebsite.com
Holly Madison photo source

That title was a mouthful!:-)

Rabbit-ears have infiltrated the fashion fray since Marc Jacobs threw them down the Louis Vuitton runway for Autumn/Winter 2009-2010.  Though the black lace version has been donned and DIY’ed in numerous reincarnations since then, the scarf headband (with a little wire inside to hold its shape) is the grown-up version of this enduring trend.  Take a favorite cotton handkerchief and make your own in a few simple steps right at home, and hop on outta there in style.
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Has the Spike Trend Gone Too Far?

Aug 3, 2010 | Fashion

These unfathomable sunglasses make me begin to think so.


The spike-holes are hand-drilled!  And these sunglasses can become a headband!!  And for a mere $220 U.S. Dollars, they can be yours!

Um…thoughts?

I have a DIY post coming up…just a little too knackered right now to get it done.  Sleep wins out and it will be posting tomorrow!
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Carly

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The Strangest Comment Ever

Aug 2, 2010 | Fashion

I love comments on my posts!  (I mean, who doesn’t love feedback?!)  The positive comments that say “thanks for your hard work” or “I really like this” always put me in such a good mood throughout the day.  They give me the fuel to sit down the next day for hours on end crafting another post.  Comments and feedback (even if some of it is constructive criticism) really help me target my blog to the needs of the people who are reading it, so I’m not just throwing useless words out there into the ether.

And as all of you fellow Bloggers know, sometimes you just get weird comments.  Spam comments usually represent a fraction of them – and the spammers, when certain methods don’t work, often employ new tactics to get their comments permanently on your blog.

But this is a new one.  It had my ROFL for awhile. (click to read)

It seems the Russian mafia has an inordinate amount of time on their hands.:-)
xoxo
Carly

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What Happened to Threadbanger Pt. 2: Formspring.me Question

Aug 2, 2010 | From You

from formspring.me:
so what happened to meg, corrine and rob. they got fired? you never told us what happened. the new threadbanger is boring.
Sorry – I thought I answered that here: https://chiccreativelife.com/2010/07/do-you-have-any-idea-why-corinne-rob.html

Rob left to work on his own stuff awhile ago. I don’t know the specifics of Meg’s and Corinne’s interactions with the higher-ups at Next New Networks; all I know is that Lee and I got emails saying they would no longer be working for Threadbanger and neither of us needed to blog anymore for the TB blog since we wouldn’t be getting paid for it. That was it; no clarification, no response to my repeated emails and offers to continue to the blog regardless of pay. (Which I never received for all the blog posts I had done up until then anyway.)

Thus I cannot confirm or deny any rumors or conjecture as to what happened to them or why they left – you’d have to ask them directly about that.

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Carly

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The Origins of the Sideways Cross Ring: Formspring.me Question

Aug 1, 2010 | Fashion, From You

wxtratv.warnerbrofrom formspring.me:

Who came up with the sideways cross ring first? you or madonna/material girl

(does the ring above look familiar?  Forever 21, anyone?)
Hmm. The photo above of Madonna is the first time I’ve seen it, to be honest.  (And it looks awfully familiar to me – I instantly thought it was the Forever 21 ring that they had used to style to shoot.)

I highly doubt the inventor was anybody recent. The sideways cross has a rich symbolic history that dates back to the Bible if not earlier; one of the first re-usages of it was in 1821 when it was adopted on the Norwegian flag; and later, in 1883, when The Emblem of the Order was created utilizing a Maltese cross on its side. (source: Wikipedia.org)

By now, there are pretty much no new ideas in fashion; everything is just recycled, reappropriated, updated, and reused. Neither myself, nor Madonna, nor Forever 21 invented the sideways cross ring – my guess is that it probably was seen in the 20th Century sometime in the 60’s or 70’s (maybe in a Black Sabbath poster LOL), and Forever 21 was one of the more recent recylers of this idea.

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Carly

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