30 Days of Outfits: Day 1

Hand-shredded T-shirt: Urban Revisions Etsy store.  Angels Secret Embrace Push-Up bra: Victoria’s Secret.  Roxy Gray Jeans: Thrifted.  Fleece Cuffs: DIY. Heeled Combat Boots: Forever 21.

Day 1 in my personal 30 Days of Outfits Challenge!  So psyched!  (Though I may lose momentum later…I hope this “getting dressed nicely for today” thing will not end up becoming a chore.;-p
So Day 1 was technically yesterday: November 1.
And this is what I wore.

I’m in love with everything in Urban Revisions’ Etsy shop, and have had the designer on my radar for awhile.  If there’s one DIY technique I suck at, it’s shredding cotton!  My DIY shredded t-shirts are just NOT lovely.  I can’t seem to truly get the hang of it and am not able to create shreds where the vertical threads are still intact.  Well, I can, but it takes me 12+ hours for even a small amount of shredding.  Which is obviously not the way to go about it.

So anyway, I’ve been spying on Urban Revisions for awhile, hoping some pieces would go on sale.  And then I spotted with lovely hand-dyed peachy pink piece – and knew I had to have it!

Though technically it’s a sleeveless piece, the shredding has widened the collar and so now it sits on my upper arms.  It’s so sexy and edgy – normally I don’t walk around with my bra showing, but this just begs for it!  (My bra is the lovely Victoria Secret Angels Secret Embrace Bra in black.  I love that it has these subtle scalloped edges – so feminine and pretty!)  The top is super-long so it can be worn as a dress, beach cover-up, etc.  I chose to tuck it in just to change the shape around.  I’m so in love with peachy pink right now!

The gray cuffs you see above I made from the sleeves that I cut off the shirt when I made my Embellished V-Neck Sweater (tutorial here).  Last winter my mother-in-law gave me a pair of knit cuffs that were apparently all the rage in Japan – you can wear them peeking out from your coat, on top of a sweater, or over your shoes to add texture, color, and warmth.  Mine were black and I wore them practically every day until they pilled apart.  (I get exceptionally cold wrists and ankles during the winter.) 

I loved them, so I made another pair out of this beautiful gray fleece, which just consisted of folding the sleeve pieces under and sewing some elastic hidden in the fold. 

Then they stay secure on my wrists or ankles.  I put these on with my coat – they’re nice and warm, and act as my final bit of outerwear before going outside into the chilly Oregon weather.  Though as anklets I guess they might look better with skinny jeans, LOL!

Gold Eiffel Tower necklace, Oxidized Hematite Crystal 2-Finger ring, Wrapped Feather Ring: Forever21. Rock Candy Rose Quartz Ring: my own design, available here.  Gold Hinged Bracelets: bought in Japan.  Gold Watch: Vintage.

This outfit called for mostly gold jewelry, I felt.  My Forever 21 Eiffel Tower Necklace is my own little homage to my trip to France.;-)

Day 1…Done!

xoxox
Carly

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Announcing: The 30 Days of Outfits Challenge

Yes, this is my closet.  I store vests and cardis over dresses and blouses, and necklaces over that.  Basically 3 things to a hanger.  It’s scary.

Like many people, I have a whole lotta clothing in my closet I rarely wear.  Day after day (since my routine is pretty much the same), I usually default to tried-and-true clothing combinations and outfits.  As a result, when I look into my closet I see so many pieces I haven’t worn for awhile.  One month stretches into two, then more…and I realize I haven’t worn stuff for 6 months to a year or more, simply because I’ve gotten into a fashion rut.

Well, you know what I need to break me out of it??  A CHALLENGE!

For 30 days for the month of November, I’m challenging myself to wear a completely-different, heretofore forgotten outfit each day, never wearing the same thing twice.  (How will this help? you may ask.  Well, it will remind me how much I love certain pieces that I’ve forgotten about.  And stimulate my creativity.  And help me clean out and purge that ol’ closet of mine.  And help me be a better style blogger, since I post outfits only once in a blue moon.)

From now until November 30, I’ll be challenging myself to put together a unique outfit each day – and wear it all darn day, even if I’m just sitting on the living room couch, blogging and watching Law & Order: SVU reruns.  And each of my outfits will contain something I’ve made or DIY’ed!  This is a perfect chance for me to share with all of you some tutorials and ideas I haven’t gotten around to yet.

So, would anybody like to attempt the challenge with me? Do it until the end of November, wait until December, only do a week, whatever!   Let me know in the comments and I’ll link to your blog!  It’s just a bit of fun and some motivation to truly express your style.:-)

xoxox
Carly

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DIY Scarf Bag

I noticed on Outsapop this short n sweet little video on how to create a bag from any scarf.

But the art of using a scarf as a bag is not a new one…in fact, the furoshiki (basically a large scarf) has been used since the early 1600’s in Japan as a carryall/gift wrap/bag/multifunctional accessory.  From the Ministry of the Government of Japan, here is Minister Koike’s illustrated guide to using a furoshiki (with the recommendation that the Japanese people should start using them more, as they are eco-friendly, re-usable, and reduce plastic bag waste).  Here are14 different ways to tie it:

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What do you think?  Do you have any beautiful scarves that might be repurposed into a casual bag or wrap?

xoxox
Carly

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Really, Really, REALLY Last-Minute DIY Halloween Costume Ideas

Still stuck for something to wear – TOMORROW NIGHT??!  (*gulp*)  Here are a couple ideas that you could make from items that are perhaps already in your closet…or that are available at many stores for cheap:

From What I Wore, Jessica put together a list of her costume ideas from years past:

From Quickandsimple.com, here are some DIY Kid’s Costumes…that could be easily adapted to an Adult version:

On Instructables.com there’s a million iterations of Lady Gaga costumes (including many fabulous by user Carleyy – maybe it’s just the name that’s making me partial??;-))

Red Lace Costume by user scoochmaroo

And my own 2cents:

DIY Style Blogger

Go as your favorite Style Blogger!  So many people have such signature looks.  A couple photos to get you inspired:

Though you’ll have to wait until Halloween to see what I ended up as;-)

Happy Halloween!
xoxox
Carly

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Formspring.me Question and Answer Marathon Part 1

I know it’s been a couple days since my last post – which is highly unusual for me – basically I’ve been out for the count, what with jetlag and this evil head cold ganging up on me.

But I’m back! (pretty much.)  I’ve been a bad, bad blogger for the last couple months and haven’t been able to answer my Formspring.me questions as regularly as I would have liked recently.  So I thought, why not do one long post with all the answers in them, sort of like a Final Jeopardy format?  Ready….and….GO!

HOW DO I MAKE…?

Hi I loooove the double fringed necklace but where can I find a double chain necklace like the one you used? Do you have any already made for purchase?

Hi there!  I actually made the chain necklace, just with two pieces of chain, some jumprings, and a clasp.  You can very easily make your own – but if you want me to make one for you, let me know at admin at carlyjcais dot com!

Carly- I’m am loving all the fur accents for fall, especially the beautiful faux fur neck scarves that are everywhere. Think you could come up with a diy? I would love to but my sewing machine is broken and there’s no cash for a new one. Thanks in adv

See here for my fabric scarf DIY and …love, Maegan has a faux fur neckwarmer DIY that might be right up your alley!  However, both require sewing (though Maegan’s uses hand-sewing).  You could also just glue a piece of faux fur together after folding it over on itself – fabric glue should do the trick.:-)

Hi carly, I love your blog. And i have a dying question. I can’t find this anywhere on the net so i’m gonna ask you. Is it possible to make a high waist shorts into a mid-waist shorts? Like can you sew/do anything around the crotch area? 😀 Thank you! 🙂

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No, I’m sorry – not by altering the crotch area.  I assume you mean by sewing the legs together higher so that the crotch area is correspondingly higher?  Pants/shorts are not cut with enough fabric to extend the crotch upwards – you’ll find you can’t just tack them together at a point higher up and closer to the waistband.  The only thing you could possibly do is remove the waistband from your high-waist shorts and re-attach it lower – though you will have to adjust the fly zipper and your pockets may get covered up by doing this.  Good luck!

RANDOM

Have you heard of the controversy behind the MAC Rodarte Collection? If so, what do you think about it? 

Yes – but as someone who is quite an outsider to the controversy, I’m not sure there’s anything I can add that’s of worth.  From what I gather the sisters Mulleavy were struck by the visual beauty of the city of Juarez and from an outsider’s point of view decided (rather naively) to create a makeup collection inspired by that.  They either failed to research or simply ignore the border town’s history of rape, murder, and serial killings, and general violence towards women.  MAC eventually backpedaled,  apologized, and made a $100,000 donation to a charity that works to better the lives of the women in Juarez, and announced they would donate all proceeds of the collection to the charity as well. My thought is simply inadequate research and general naivete definitely allowed this collection to happen in the first place.

I loved seeing all of your pics of your trip to Japan. What are some different things for sale or customs or ways of life that are different than the US?

My haul from the 100-yen shop last year: 1.) 3 dual-direction zippers; 2.) Paint for ceramics; 3.)Super-long-handled sporks and heart-shaped mini foil cups; 4.) Pack of 3 Jewel-print plastic file sleeves; 5.)Eyelash extensions; 6.)2 double-layered snap-lid boxes and a heart-shaped mirror; 7.) Clear fake nails with rhinestone and glitter art; 8.)Mini-notebook and regular notebook; 9.)Highlighters that draw over an already-highlighted area; 10.) Cute little rhinestone rings on a necklace; 11.)Mini sauce squeezy bottles; 12.) White opaque gluesticks; 13.) Puffy black 3D heart stick-ons, rhinestone variety pack, and 3 packs of mini fake food for all my decorating
needs;  14.) 3 erasers: curry-scented, yakisoba [Japanese chow mein]-scented, and beer-scented.

Gee – don’t get me started!  Different things for sale: lots more “cute” things, with a lot of attention given to detail and appealing packaging, delicious sweets and snacks, tons of nail goods, keychains, stuffed animals, “character goods,” a huge range of beauty products (many designed to give Japanese girls a more “Western” or “foreign” look), bento boxes and goods, tons of intricate crafting supplies…I could go on and on.  If you’re interested in more shopping stuff, check out the Tokyo Shopping and Tokyo Style links in my left sidebar.  Different customs….everything!  Well, I exaggerate.  Japanese people in general are very respectful towards elderly people, very observing of manners, and try to maintain the harmony of the group and smooth social relations, so many customs derive from that.

Name one Amazing thing about you that most people “don’t” know! 

I was in Utada Hikaru’s music video “First Love,” (1998) in the background.  You have to pause it to see me, but I’m there. 

(Ignore the obnoxious gamer promo at the beginning…)  So that’s the video  – if you spot me, I’m the girl with the longish red hair, parted in center, wearing grey skater jeans [that I actually sold about 6 months ago on Ebay, LOL!] with a reflective stripe down each leg and a silver velvet wrap top, dancing in the crowd.

(I’m at the beginning, in the far right of the frame when Utada is sitting and singing – you can see a dark shadow with a white stripe down the legs…and again at the chorus where she sings “Anata dake no basho…” I’m right behind her – and again, to the far right of the frame at about 2:46 just before she sings “I thought I had a place in your heart too” – it’s super-quick!)  Like a “Where’s Waldo?” except this is “Where’s Carly?” ;-P

Really!

Hope that answers many of your burning questions!
xoxox
Carly

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DIY in 5: Fabric Leopard Scarf

 Fold a piece of fabric over and stitch around the edges to make a long rectangular scarf.

Earlier this month I posted some ideas how to style it, today I’m going to DIY 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.

Animal-prints are still BIG for Fall… and if you’re not ready to go full-on animal, you can try just adding a pop of print to your outfit.  I’ve chosen to craft a scarf – made out of fabric in just the print I chose – in order to dabble in this trend.

How To Make a Quick Folded Fabric Scarf

You Need:

24″ (2/3 of a yard) of 60″ wide printed fabric  //  sewing machine  //  needle matching fabric type  //  thread matching fabric  //  fabric scissors  //  measuring tape

How To DIY:

1. Cut the fabric in half lengthwise so you have TWO pieces that are 12″ wide by 60″ long.

2. Sew the short ends of the two long pieces together. Cut the short ends of the fabric piece so the whole length of the piece is either 72″ or 80″, depending on how long you want your finished scarf.

3. Fold the scarf in half along the super-long end, right sides together.

4. Sew all around the edges, leaving the last 2″ or so unsewn.

5. Turn the fabric right-side out.

6. Sew along the edge to stitch the gap closed.
7. (optional) Iron the scarf flat to set the seams.

And voila!  A new, on-trend scarf in just the print you wanted!  (And yes, this really does take only a few minutes [though it may be closer to 10-15]…and it’s very, very easy!)

You don’t have to do leopard, of course – though I’ve made a version with leopard-printed velour and one with striped jersey.

(Sometimes I even wear them together when I’m feeling frisky!;-)

Make sure the fabric you choose is “puffy” or has some tactile sense to it; otherwise, it will stretch flat like a long, skinny scarf (which is also a great possibility!)  You can try making your scarf wider thank mine by cutting your fabric at 18″ wide (thus, folded over, it will be 9″ wide).  You can even try with faux fur (though cut your fur from the back using a craft knife and NOT a pair of scissors!)  Some fabulous options for your fabric:


Hope you have fun making your own easy printed scarf!

xo
Carly

 

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Photos from My Trip to France: France Photo Diary 2

Thanks to everyone for being so patient with me and my lack of posts recently!  We got back from France late Friday, but I’ve been super jetlagged…waking up at 3:30 AM every morning and unable to go back to sleep afterwards, and super, super-sick with a head cold and hacking cough that hasn’t been getting any better.  Plus a mountain of laundry, no food in the pantry, a pile of mail to go through…you all know how it is when you go out of town!  So finally I’ve gotten around to editing all the photos I took…and here is a brief selection of them.

First off, the architecture in Paris was beautiful, and wherever we turned, even down the smallest street or cul-de-sac, hid the most breathtaking buildings, statues, and structures.  I must have taken about 200 photos of buildings alone.

Plus, there was an art gallery on every corner.  I’ve never been in a place where people respected and appreciated art so much!

 Lil Tot at the Musee d’Orsay, viewing the scale model of Paris below the floor.

Me attempting in my pathetic French to buy lunch for everyone at a local market.  We certainly did not buy a lot – but the total came to 74 Euros – $103!!

Secondly, the food was delicious – especially anything wrapped in pastry, desserts, french fries (or should I say frites?), and the macarons.  I had never had a macaron before!  Now I know what everyone’s raving about.

Thai lime-flavored.

We spent the first 3 nights in Paris, then the next 2 in the Burgundy region, then the last 2 nights in Paris again.  We stayed in 4 hotels over 7 days!  That was a few too many for my liking, though we did get to see quite a few different areas because of it.

 We visited Euro Disney.  I cannot really recommend it – Tokyo Disneyland is much, much better!  (I’ve never been to the Disneys in the US, so that’s my only basis for comparison.:-/)

Entering the Trianon Gardens.

In the center of Marie Antonette’s Hamlet.

A building in the Hamlet, peppered with pigeons.
The Seine river.

One of the few stores I really wanted to go to – Kiliwatch, a huge vintage store.  The prices were highly disappointing and the front half of the store was filled with furs and leathers and animal bits, which I found disturbing due to the sheer amount of it, regardless of it all being secondhand.  Perhaps I’m a little more militant than I thought when it comes to animal byproduct in fashion items??

 Another disappointment: the largest flea market in the world [apparently], the Marches Aux Puces de Saint-Ouen.  Surprisingly tiny (were we in the right place? we wondered a few times), and populated with vaguely menacing, catcalling men shouting “Rolex!  Rolex!” and selling Gucci knockoff purses and polyester clothing for 5 Euro apiece.  Like the streets of New York with all the sidewalk sellers hawking their illegally-obtained goods in one place.  Okay, I don’t know if any of it actually was illegally obtained, but it didn’t feel exactly…kosher, and the goods didn’t look particularly high-quality either.



Where we stayed
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(and the caveat to the below is that my in-laws footed the bill for these hotels, as well as choosing them)

 A very unusual hotel situated in Paris’ left bank, with each guest room in its cylindrical tower filled to bursting with gilt ornaments, chintz lamps, lithographs, figurines, and embroidered wallpaper.  It felt very old and very crowded, and if Liberace were still alive, I’m sure he’d love to stay there.  (The bedframe in my in-laws room was constructed entirely of mirrors!)

The lobby of L’Hotel.  Gawd, why is Blogger so #$@%%@’in slow???!

The center of the hallway is open and you can see all the way up to the top.

 The room where we stayed.  The decorated wallpaper/3D painting of the peacocks was unbelievable.

The breakfast buffet consisted of fresh juices, fresh figs, passionfruit, pineapple, and other fruits, salted and smoked hams, and a variety of croissants.  The butter was sliced like a Ruffle potato chip.;-)

An 800-year-old (really!) chateau, with an old, falling-down tower they called “The Dungeon,” surrounded by a moat with fish in it, and on a beautiful 100 acre-spanse of land in the middle of a forest.

The moat.

“The Dungeon.”

A shot from inside.

The people at the hotel raised their own vegetables, and kept a menagerie of ducks, geese, quail, chickens, turkeys, and white peacocks wandering about the yard.

Plus they had a dog (not sure what kind of dog it was, but it was curly-haired and about the size of a standard poodle), who had been trained to find truffles on the property – and so all the meals in the dining room were filled with black truffles that the dog would snuffle out even when not specifically directed to do so.

Risotto with shaved black truffles found by the Truffle Dog.

Each place-setting at dinner had a pewter-cast knife-rest in the shape of what looked like some starving animal.  Apparently each one cost more than $120 in the hotel gift shop!  Lil Tot lined them all up with his birthday present, a replica Nissan GTR.

And then the animals all had to go through a tunnel in order to ride in the car.

Dessert was more of the delicious Thai lime macarons, hazelnut cream puffs, and strawberry wafers.

And of course the cheese-basket!

Breakfast.

An old suit of armor on display.

The Chateau was so beautiful, the air was so clean, the setting s
o charming and the food so good…I would recommend this place highest out of every place we stayed – and it’s probably the best place I have stayed ever!

Just a building en route.
Then we went to Vezelay for a day since my father-in-law wanted to visit the Basilica of St. Mary Magdalene, which is rumored to be Mary Magdalene’s tomb, as featured in The DaVinci Code.


We stayed at the Hotel de la Cote in Vezelay (I think it was in Vezelay) for one night.  (Sorry there’s no accents on my vowels for the place-names…I’m not sure what the shortcut keys are for them.)

 The cobblestone streets of Vezelay.

 Then we returned to Paris.

 Proof: I really was there!

It was bitterly cold and rainy for a lot of our trip.

 In front of – yes – Chanel headquarters.

The infamous staircase on which Coco Chanel herself used to sit and watch her models present the Collections.

The Ritz Paris

 We definitely felt out of place here.  Though the hotel staff was accommodating, we felt very underdressed, and attracted a lot of attention with a young child in tow.  Everything was so ornate and elaborate, the lobby reeked of a Lush store (I’m not sure what fragrance it was but it was wafting throughout in copious amounts), and we slept under a chandelier at night.  It was quite convenient to lots of shopping…none of which we could afford.😛

They called this the “Hall of Temptation:” a hall lined with displays stuffed with product from Cartier, Miki House, Dior, Chanel…  The name had me ROFL’ing because there was not the slightest bit of temptation felt on my part!;-)

 A courtyard at the Ritz.

The room in which we stayed.

 Macarons and delicious, soft caramels awaited us upon check-in.

They also provided a cake for Lil Tot’s birthday.  Happy 5th, Lil Tot!

I have come to the conclusion that French people are obsessed with concealing their doors…as all the closet/bathroom/mini-bar doors in the rooms at every hotel we stayed at were wallpapered over and virtually indistinguishable from the surrounding walls…no obvious doorknobs (or doorknobs made to look like wall decorations that were randomly pasted on the walls thr
oughout the room, even on things that didn’t open), no hinges, no doorframes, doors concealed by velveteen screens that hinged outwards to reveal halls and more rooms…it was all very James Bond-ish.

 I’m going to sound very ethnocentric for a moment and write that I had issues with the toilet paper – which, in many toilets throughout Burgundy and Paris – were tiny folded tissue-like sheets out of a dispenser.  The toilet paper – even at the Ritz! – was uncommonly rough, too.

 Plus about 99% of the toilets had the flush button on the wall.  Is this something common in Europe?

The shower doors folded into the tub area when you wanted to take a shower!
Pushing a stroller through the streets of Paris is like competing in a cross-country roller derby without any rollerskates. Frightening at crosswalks (since the traffic waits for no one) and murder on your back with all the cobblestones and tiny, jaggedy sidewalks.
Many signs in Paris change every few moments.  Watch the sign in front of the Louis Vuitton store – now you see it…

Now you don’t!
 The window at Valentino.

 We were all taken with how cars were towed – their back wheels hefted onto trolleys and then they were swung sideways out of their parallel parking spots!

We went to a restaurant – Flotille – it was the only restaurant where the staff was actually nice to us during our entire visit to France – and I ordered the marrow bone.  I wasn’t really sure what I was expecting, but this is what came!  (sorry, vegetarians – don’t look)  A huge thigh-bone with gray sea-salt-sprinkled marrow, which one had to scoop out and spread on toasted bread.  I felt guilty for liking it so much!

I sprained my right foot while we were at Disneyland, so my in-laws visited the Louvre while I was resting it back at the hotel.

I think though, we would have enjoyed our trip more if we were smokers, drinkers, did not have a young child with us, were more acquainted with the layout of the city, the mannerisms and attitudes, and the language.  As it was we had a lot of difficulties and unfortunately a number of negative experiences in regards to those areas.  Plus the exchange rate was abysmal – everything was about twice as expensive as in the U.S. – so we were unable to do any shopping and just buying meals was so significant there was nothing left over to really splurge.  (My mother-in-law treated me to a couple Petit Bateau t-shirts which I had been wanting for awhile, though!:-)  At least we missed the riots – but did have to wait in long, long lines for gasoline – and had more than one station tell us they were all out of gas and we had to go somewhere else!

 Just before we left I bought some macarons at Pierre Herme.  The top one is passionfruit mango, the one on the bottom left is dulce de leche, and the one on the right is rose.

I’m very glad to have had the wonderful opportunity to go and experience France, though a week was certainly not enough to see everything we wanted to!  Au Revoir,

xoxox
Carly

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LAST Day to Enter the Rowenta Pro Master Iron Giveaway!

So I’ve decided to extend the Rowenta Iron Giveaway until TONIGHT (Saturday, Oct. 23 at 11:59 PM PST) since I’ve been completely without Internet access the last couple days and been unable to thoroughly promote this great giveaway.  So if you haven’t entered yet, get those entries in while you still can!  There’s a $125 Rowenta Pro Master Iron at stake, so

There’s only been 25 entries so far, so if you’d like a brand-new, professional-quality iron just in time for the holiday crafting rush (which I just know if going to blindside me this year…)…enter now!

xoxox
Carly

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Awards, Features, and Updates!

Thanks to Rachel of One Pretty Thing, who featured a whole bunch of my latest tutorials and projects.  Plus check them out for tons of Halloween costume ideas, Fall crafts, and awesome tutorials this month!


Aww…thank you!  From Freaky Keen – I LOVE this blog – she does a ton of cool shirt makeovers and it’s so inspirational.  Definitely check it out!


Featured on Vivat Veritas!  I absolutely love her blog – she’s soooo talented, and she sells a line of dresses and accessories on Etsy that are beautiful AND affordable! Check out her shop – it’s amazing! (I’m not responsible for any drool that falls into your keyboard…;-)


I was invited by the crafty and talented Kathryn at KMom14 to play the “Love” Game.  Thanks for the invite!

The rules are:
*Name the person who invited you

Done.

*List 1O things you LOVE

1. Chocolate.  In all its forms.
2. My dearest Lil Tot, who means the world to me.  Sweet Packet!
3. The rain.
4. 4 seasons. [I don’t mean the hotel, though it isn’t half bad;-)]
5. Making stuff.
6. Cats.
7. Octopuses.  Adorable!
8. Law & Order: SVU.  Riveting.
9. Spending time with fun, creative, social people.
10. Movie theater popcorn with extra butter.  Yum yum yum yumyum.

*Invite 1O other people to play

I actually don’t want to limit this to just 10 people – so if you’re a reader of my blog, I’m opening it up to YOU!  Let us all know a little more about you by listing 10 things you LOVE on your blog – and tagging more people to do the same.  Spread it a little, spread it a lot – but the LOVE can only multiply.:-)


Featured on Bel Esprit, who made my sexy bustier dress in a lovely pinstripe fabric.  So chic!  (She also made an earlier version in a floral fabric.  Check it out here!)


Featured on ArtPassion’s Facebook page! (I use their pewter fox charms to make my faux fur foxtails that I sell in my Etsy shop.)


I’ve gotten really behind in keeping track of these…if you’ve featured me and I’ve neglected to post it, LMK!

Thanks for all the mentions and awards…you guys are the best!

xoxox
Carly

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