Le Magazine de Mode Enfantine

I'll never be as cool as they are.
(found here).

My Weekend in Pictures

THE BIG LIST OF THINGS TO DO

Inspired by The Workroom, a craft-by-the-hour space I visited while in Toronto this summer, I have decided to make a master list of crafting and sewing projects I'd like to tackle over the next year. While DT is away at graduate school in NYC, I'm going to take my own advice and keep myself busy. Here we go:

• recover the blue and white Ikea chair.
• enter something in the Pennsylvania Farm Show
• make my own grocery bags (I hate going to Weis' with Giant bags).
• make a duvet cover for my green duvet.
• make a quilt for Jackie Dalley.
• copy my favorite J.Crew tote bag.
• make winter wool skirts from leftover thesis fabric.
• make a quilt from the fabric I bought at The Workroom.
• finish DT's penrose tile quilt.
  
• recover my purple desk chair.
  
• paint my bedroom.
• make a padded headboard for my bed.
• learn Shashiko embroidery.
• plan a project for the peacock fabric Alexis brought me from Senegal.

So Lovely

On a good day I can command this kind of casual elegance.

(From one of my favorite blogs, The Sartorialist.)

Bedroom Makeover

My bedroom doesn't feel very cozy. It's a small room (really only big enough for the bed) at the back of my second floor apartment. I like the room because the windows open to the little creek that runs behind my house. In the summertime it was so nice to fall asleep to the sound of the running water. Now that it's colder and I don't want the windows open, I am looking for a way to make the room cozier for the winter. I can change the wall color and the curtains very easily so that's where I'm focusing my search. I've spent the last hour looking at all my favorite design sites to fine color palates that would suit me. I only found the two images above (minus the leaf mural in the second picture).

My bedding is varied--a purple quilt from target, a yellow and white quilt I made two years ago, a lime green duvet from Urban Outfitters--so I'm not sure what to do about the miss-matchy look on my bed. I need all of the blankets for warmth so maybe I'll make a new mustardy-rust colored duvet cover to hide the rainbow underneath. The plaid-shirt pillows should be easy. Perhaps I'll stop by the thrift store tomorrow.

(P.S. I found the images at kelly+olive.)

What Not To Wear

I wanted to do a post about transitioning into my autumn wardrobe (last weekend I put away the short-sleeves and pulled out the sweaters). I did some looking around at my favorite place to shop (but rarely do): anthropologie. I shopped their site and several others and was so dissapointed; everything I saw was UGLY. There were too many ruffles and hideous lace inserts. For example, please see the horrible sweater above. Unless you want to look like you've lost 400 pounds and your skin is dripping off of you, please, don't buy this one! Even the twiggiest twig of a girl would look fat.

I've got a couple of bolts of good, fine English wool in my closet left over from my thesis. It looks like my autumn wardrobe is going to be homemade pencil skirts.