Posts Tagged ‘inspiration’

california dreaming: coping methods for winter weather

Thursday, February 24th, 2011

As much as I love living in Seattle, our winters tend to be gloomy, soggy, and drag on for-ev-er.   Today?  It hailed AND snowed. My preferred remedy during the slow season is to escape to a sunny locale. Unfortunately, this year I’ve got so many bags in the works, I can’t pry myself away from my sewing machine anytime soon.

So, I thought I’d share two favorite new methods to cope:

  1. Rock this NPR playlist “ Beyond California Dreaming”
  2. Design a virtual sunny-weather outfit on Polyvore, using their huge library of all sorts of fashionable awesomeness.
  3. However, if you’re one of the lucky bastards people to be in southern California right now – go check out Mixture in North Little Italy in San Diego.  You’ll be immediately smitten by open loft-like space, adorned with modern furniture and accessories.. .and some great handbags.

p.s. What are your winter-weather coping methods? Please share them in the comments section below. (And if you’ve created some outfits with a Crystalyn Kae bag on Polyvore, please post a link!)

the endless possibilities of New York City

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

I have a longstanding love affair with New York City. My first visit was during college as a fashion study tour, and even though I have returned several times since then, I am always amazed by the new things I discover.   Our most recent trip to New York was to celebrate a cousin‘s wedding – where we managed to explore, celebrate, eat amazing food and visit a few of ‘my’ stores too!  New York is inspiration overload:  architecture, exuberant fashion and the magical feeling that anything is possible.  Alas, four days wasn’t nearly enough time to get my fix, but I managed to capture a few personal favorite elements to savor for a while.

1. cousins_centralpark, 2. flower vendor, 3. night view from Matt & Nicole’s rooftop, 4. Birthday Beer at Brass Monkey, 5. taxi queue, 6. Grand Central Station , 7. Central Park lamp and blossoms, 8. it’s like finding an old friend., 9. Susan’s tree tote, 10. Tony & Tina’s Wedding Cake, 11.Brooklyn Bridge, 12. cutest ‘graffiti’ ever, 13. dancing girl’s shoes

a pinch of irish green

Monday, March 15th, 2010

On the eve of the eve: this photo collage is an ode to St. Patrick’s day. . . and because my mother told me to!

Spring Color Week: Purple

Friday, March 12th, 2010

This week, I have been participating in Poppytalk‘s ‘Spring Color Week’ where you blog photos of inspiring spring images by color theme each day.  Monday was pink, Tuesday was green, wednesday was yellow, and today is my personal favorite – purple.

1. purple doors and a hoop, 2. purple house, 3. Purple Troubadour Tote, 4. purple flower pins in progress, 5. violets, 6. Tulip Festival, 7. crab-o-rama, 8. Untitled, 9. Untitled, 10. Untitled, 11. Rosemary & Lush Lavender Lullaby trio, 12. Untitled, 13. purple crocus

You can make your own photo collage using this gadget.  Color week’s last day is tomorrow – robin’s egg blue.  Come join the fun!

a little sneak preview

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Just  a teaser photo of some new thread colors that I’m using to sew my new Spring bags coming soon!  Any guesses??  What would YOU like to see me create?

I’d love to hear. Please post your comments in my blog below or send me an email.

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