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Blue
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
The Holiday Classic
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Blue
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
A Great Holiday Idea
These scarves doubled as favors for the ladies to take home!
Lay the scarves out and then I placed the candles on and in between them, careful to be sure I didn’t light fire to any of the scarves lol!
And tah dahhh! A beautiful holiday setting ;)
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Blue
Featured Blogger
MEET BLOGGER KALKATROONA
(and learn how to make this stylish top)
About me
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Introduction | welcome to kalkatroona. here, oona, a curvy specimen of the clan balloona, sews, drinks, plays, curses, creates, and generally has an excellent time. |
| Interests | sewing, working on my vintage sewing machines, singer featherweight 221, singer slant-o-matic 403A, painting, decorating, and generally creating. |
| Favorite Movies | the fisher king, jacob's ladder, bladerunner, moulin rouge, wedding crashers, the women. |
| Favorite Music | amos lee, radiohead, ray lamontagne, john legend, stevie wonder, prince (before he went crazy), peter gabriel, bjork, india aire, phoebe snow, the doobie brothers, dave matthews, steely dan, brad mehldau, the bad plus, the beastie boys, led zeppelin |
| Favorite Books | evidence of things unseen, a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, the death of vishnu, the three musketeers, the gunslinger series |
take your scarf and fold it in half lengthwise, finding the mid point. slice it right down the middle, finish your new raw edges, and sew it together again about 2/3 of the way up. this is now your center back seam. i sewed it up to where the black border hits. YOU ARE NOW DONE SEWING.
see those flaps hanging down in the second picture? they basically become your back facing! flip that jammy to your backside, center seam at center back, the open part of the seam facing up. grasp the upper ends of your scarf....
and pull them towards center front. wrap the ends around the back of your neck and tie-- i like to use a pretty pin from my vintage collection instead of a knot, but either way works.
then grab the scarf at waist, or just below bust, or wherever floats your boat, cinch it together, and stitch through all layers a couple times. if you make it loose enough, you can untie the neck and easily slip this over your head, as the back sits low.
(yeah, i know i said you're done sewing. i lied a little bit. you can use another pretty pin here and make me an honest woman. a button loop closure would also be grand. doesn't help the lying, but earns you extra fanciness points.)
the amount of back displayed depends on how high (or low) you sew up the center back seam.
i kind of feel like that chick on project runway that's been sewing for four months and always floats around in gauzy me made things. it's a great easy cover up for the summer, non? you can go from picnic at the beach to lobster dinner by the water!
Source: (oonaballoona)
xoxo
Blue
Friday, November 16, 2012
Decorating with Scarves
A great thanksgiving table idea... use an old scarf to spice up your display.
We have a variety of great scarves that can make any table warm and fuzzy just like they do for you.
Stay tuned for more decorating with scarves tips!!
xoxo
Blue
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Not So Basic Flats
DIY Anthropologie Scarf Flats
Life lesson: whenever you get to make a craft for work, it's a good day. When you are me and you make any excuse to break out the superglue, thread, needle, and grommet puncher-- it's like thegreatest day ever. I saw these flats on Anthropologie's site about a month ago and since I work for a scarves store, I knew I had to make some sort of DIY project out of the idea. ;)
The inspiration:
Anthropologie, I love you. I mean I really, really love you. But there's no way I am paying $148 for a pair of flats. (Oh, they're on sale for $78 now?) Still, *splutter, cough, choke* no.
Step 1: For these shoes, you need a pair of flats. My glitter flats are from Payless and I highly, highly recommend them. I think I might go back and get a scarf-less pair for backup. Hehe. (You never know when life is going to call for a good pair of glitter flats!) Whip out some thread, a needle, scissors, and a scarf of course. I used a vintage scarf that my mom had used in a previous DIY project. I just thought it was too pretty to be stuck lying around.
Step 2: Next you need to cut up your scarf into four strips. You need to cut the strips wide enough so that you can fold them in half, stitch them up, and then flip them inside out. (In the end you will have a little scarf tube to sew to your flats.)
Step 3: Now you need to sew the little strips into tubes. I stitched the tubes by hand, (because I crafted at work) but I recommend stitching the tubes up with a machine.
Step 4: After you’ve stitched the little scarf tubes, you just start stitching the fabric to your flats. This is where a thimble comes in handy because as I am typing this, my fingers are in a little bit more pain than usual because I stabbed myself with the needle a few times. Don’t be stupid like me. Use a thimble.
Step 5: After you have both of the sides of your bow stitched to your shoe, all you have to do is tie it up. If your scarf tube is too long, just cut it to size and stitch the edges under so they do not fray.
And voila! After I got home, I fixed the bows up a little bit and stitched them down so that they do not flop around. :)
(source: http://www.starsforstreetlights.com)
xoxo
Blue
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Store of the Month: La Mia
Announcing Blue Pacific's 1st Store Of The Month...
"La Mia Boutique is the "elegant child" of business partners, Eva Ptaschinski and Mary Pautsch in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. Our boutique opened on August 20, 2012 and features upscale designer clothing and accessories for women of all ages, tastes and styles. Some of the lines we carry are Petit Pous, Analili, Julia Jordan, Suzi Chin, Ravel, Sterling, Rockwell Tharp footwear and handbags, Wiki-Woolz, Shupaca, Vizcaino, Tempo Paris, Tru-Luxe, Almerianne and more! We also added Tribal, Whish, BaaBaaZuzu, Elly Preston, Yochi of New York and several other lines. Blue Pacific is one of our favorites and is featured on our lovely circular scarf rack that is a highlight of the boutique!!! We also have Blue Pacific displayed on antique coat racks and as anchoring pieces on our hat displays........ we love the beauty of the colorful scarves throughout the boutique!!!! Blue Pacific adds a special ambiance and compliments all of the high quality merchandise at La Mia Boutique!!!" - Mary Pautsch
Visit La Mia today!!!
103 East Maple Ave
Beaver Dam, WI
(The Fabulous Paris Scarf, a lovely blend of 70 cashmere and 30 silk.)
(Cotton Stripe Scarf and the Solid Crinkle)
Friend them today La Mia Facebook Link
xoxo
Blue
Monday, November 12, 2012
Featured Blogger: Susanna Lau
Excess Trimmed
>> Two things lie in excess in my house. Bags and bags of brussel sprouts and boxes and boxes of silk scarves. Nigel Slater has given me one idea to solve the problem of the sprouts overload. A silk scarf bomb has suddenly exploded upon me when my friend Eliza of Style Salvage went poking around the house and found random scarves stuffed into the nooks and crannies of shelves. My designated scarf box from Muji can no longer shelter anymore silk fancies.
A trip to the books department in the Japan Centre to look for hair inspiration in hideously expensive beauty magazines (my hair may be turning up a different colour next year...) resulted in a copy of the latest So-Encoming home with me. I can't afford it all the time but once in a while, a singular copy normally yields a lot of inspiration for future blog posts. In this issue, the designer Michiko Nakayama of the label Muveil gave up two DIY ideas, one of which is a simple scarf tunic that I knocked up in less than half an hour whilst watching Saturday Kitchen this morning. I wish I could expand a little bit more on Muveil. I spotted the label at a United Arrows store in Tokyo where they had a trunk show of their S/S 12 skirt. Ignore the cloyingly cutesy French gibberish on the website as there are some cute pieces which is part-vintage inspired, part upcycling and very 'Lady Lady' in the best of ways. There was a particularly fetching embroidered lobster and starfish skirt that I desperately wanted only to find out they were only taking pre-orders for S/S 12 pieces at the time. I might revisit Muveil and that bit of lobster loveliness (it hits the upcoming Schiaparelli exhibition and S/S 12's underwater theme all in one, no?) later when I go back to Tokyo in May.
For now though, two scarves - one Benah scarf which came as a Christmas gift and an old David David scarf from last year's gift - came together fairly easily. I'm not entirely sure I followed the instructions exactly seeing as I don't read Japanese but as per when I communicate with Japanese people in real life, hand gestures, diagrams and drawings go a long long way...
(Worn with David David jumper and Irregular Choice x Cobrasnake wedges - the shoes are not a weird pledge of allegiance to the USA by the way...)
About the Blogger
Susanna Lau, also known as Susie Bubble, is a writer and editor living and working in London. Lau started her blog 'Style Bubble' in March 2006. It consists of her widely read thoughts, personal experiences and observations on fashion with a focus on spotlighting young and unknown talent. Lau was editor of Dazed Digital, the website of Dazed & Confused magazine, from 2008-2010. Lau now works full-time on her blog and other freelance projects, including writing for Elle, The Daily Rubbish and Dazed Digital.
Friday, November 9, 2012
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