Vanity :)

I have always wanted a big vanity to be able to sit and relax and get ready. Which is kinda ironic coming from me since Im always rushing out the door half ready and late. But I was determined to make my dream vanity that would match my room perfectly!

My mom and I were riding together  home from work and we saw this random sale of old furniture at a resale shop on the side of the road.  This is where the summer adventure began :)

Before all lonely in my garage 

I looked on Pinterest for days and finally found an idea that I thought would look perfect! And after many trials and errors (and a lot of mode podge and paint) it was perfect!

The stool I got on craiglist for $15 and it ended up being the perfect height! It was meant to be :)

Paper layers take one... fail

Dad did a great job painting my desk :)

Before: it truly needed some help!

Finished with the new fabric choice and top coats of
Polyurethane 

Ready to be loaded in the car for the 20 hr road trip!

Finally up and working in the new room!!

Who needs to study anyway?!

I get bored easily with my room. I definitely think I'm going to be one of those wives who makes their husband trip over furniture constantly because nothing will ever belong in the same place. The constant change is fun to me though, but maybe thats why I have such a love for chaos.

Not too long ago I was completely bored and unsatisfied with how my bed looked. It needed a little bit of sprucing up! So I made pillows that were super easy to make and took me no time at all!  (Plus I already had the flowers made from half-done projects gone by...)

Take a look :) Pretty happy with how my rainy day pillows turned out!

Come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away

I really have come to love decorating my room with frames and flowers, anything to help add color to my pink room. These past year I used a robins egg blue and an almost pepto bismal pink for my main colors in my room.  I had these simple wooden picture frames from ikea that I wanted to spice up a little bit.

I bought crackle paint and these little fake birds and eggs nests for decorations. Mostly because the birds were the perfect shade of pink.

Here is how they were hung on the wall after I was finished

"She's got electric boots... a mohair suittttt"

During the spring semester, a photographer named Colton Canava took amazing photos of the garments our department had made. He took some really great shots of my friend Allison in my Mohair Coat :) Aren't these fabulous?!

"Photo by Colton Canava"
My personal favorite :)

"Photo by Colton Canava"

"Photo by Colton Canava"

"Photo by Colton Canava"

"Photo by Colton Canava"

"Photo by Colton Canava"

"Photo by Colton Canava"

"Photo by Colton Canava"

"Photo by Colton Canava"

"Photo by Colton Canava"

Tis the Season

First ones to be completed!

For Christmas this year we went to visit both sides of my family in Virginia and in West Virginia. We spent majority of our time in West Virginia though with my dad's side of the family.

Normally we all buy each other gifts which easily turned into my aunts all buying me gift cards which I loved, but it almost felt like we were just swapping money. So instead this year my aunt came up with the idea of making each other gifts. Now for the people in my family who aren't as creative as my mom and I or my cousin, this was a hard task. Most people just gave me books or candles that they had in their house. One of my cousins did knit me a cute little hat and made bowls of cookies out of old records. I still want to try and make one sometime.

My mom's idea of making jewelry for everyone came from these beads we bought years ago. When I was in high school my mom made my necklace for my Junior year Prom. It was really pretty with lots of pink and crystal beads. She spent a lot of time on it and really sparked an interest in both of us. So that year we bought so many beads and had so many small projects to start that none of them happened.

So 4 years later I finally used all the beads! We might have bought a few more in the process... or a lot more... But I really enjoyed making them all. Im extremely tempted to take all these pictures I have and remake all the earrings I made for them. My cousins send me pictures all the time of them wearing their earrings so I guess they were well received!

 

These were never made but I love them

The completed earrings in their boxes about to be wrapped!

Mohair * my new favorite fiber

Sometimes it seems, finding fabric that matches is the hardest step of making a garment. I found a sweet couple in Texas who had lots of mohair and they had this beautiful green fabric. It took forever to find someone that sold just mohair, a higher percentage than 50%, and I will be forever thankful that we found them. Im pretty sure my mom made a thousand phone calls for me while I was in class so that we could get it as quickly as possible.

The collar took the longest and hopefully if i get it shipped in time I will have a belt made by the time we send it to Dallas.

 These two pictures are from the Fall Couture Line for Christian Dior in 2010. I'm obsessed with every gown and Coat in this line. The idea for my coat came from the neckline of the purple coat and the shaping of the yellow coat.

 

 Its also wonderful that I have great friends who skip class to drive to Dallas on a Monday and pick out my lining for me when I can't go. This is one of the pictures Kaylyn sent me while in Dallas, making sure it looked okay as I check my phone as secretly as I can in class.

 Matching the yarn took me many trips to the stores to find. After multiple muslins and practice runs of the collar, it was a miracle the shape was finally perfect!

 My new serger!!! My room is basically taken over by this project but am so glad I finally have a serger. And its easy to use and serges beautifully!

 Playing around with pins and yarn to see what kind of look we wanted

The collar shape was finally perfected!!!

 I wore this collar around the house for a while, its so warm and fuzzy! My roommates kept wearing it around my room while they would take study breaks in my whirlwind of a room.

 The sleeves and side seams are not sewn but it is starting to look like a coat!!

 just have to hem the sleeves and add the snaps!! The light at the end of the tunnel!

The final garment before pressing! My roommate put it on for me so that I could finally see it on someone! She might kill me if she sees this! :)