VIDEO | DIY Backseem Tights

music: The chemical brothers - Where do I begin

What you´ll need:
a pair of nude sheer tights (or whichever color you like)
a pair of black opaque tights
a fabric marker or permanent marker

Laying them down or stretching them out won't work.
To be able to draw on your pantyhose the easiest thing is to do it while wearing them! Wear a pair of opaque black tights underneath so that you won't be sketching on your legs. I used a fabric marker that I found at a toystore for a few Euros but a regular permanent marker works just as good.

Other drawings
Possibilities with this DIY are endless, with it you can draw anything on your pantyhopse. I still get questions about a post I did one and a half year ago about a pair of nude tights on which I had not only drawn a backseem but also a front seem and some knee pieces. Finally, the tutorial is here!

SHOES | Acne Pixel Boots Welcome Home!

bar stool IKEA, boots ss11 ACNE

Found one pair left at the Acne sale, just in my size and color!
Welcome home darlings!

OUTFITS | Tuxedo Cape

tuxedo cape: the scarletroom, shorts: american apparel, flatforms: Nelly



It looks like you´ve just thrown a jacket over your shoulders, but this is a tuxedo cape from The Scarletroom. (An amazingly styled online boutique) The lovely ladies in charge sent me a few items of without any pressure to blog about them. The garment I´ve been wearing the most is this tuxedo cape, perfect for colder summer days.

Live your Dreams…

  This week I am taking a little time to stop and smell the flowers. I am reflecting on everything that I saw last week and everything that I learnt.

There was one young women and her family that really stands out in my mind-… her name is JILLIAN VANCE.

I am a true believer that you can make your dreams come true and I have always told my children that they can do anything that they want to in life, with a little work. Well, Jillian is doing just that. She loves to scrapbook and she decided to create her own line of stamps. How cool is that! You can find her work at The Princess & The Paper.

here are some of her stamps sets.

GUESS WHAT IS COMING?!?!?!

 

 

Crop registration and class registration goes on sale August 2. I am so excited because I will be teaching  at both the Calgary and the Edmonton event! To register go on over to the Canadian Scrapbooker website. I can't wait to see you there!

Keep on Scrappin'

~Susie

BROWNEs STREET

VIDEO | Phillip Lim: Menswear fw 11

The men are walking towards something, it seems that perhaps they are going to meet eachother and so suggests the anticipation building music. After they walk through a concrete landscape of perfect lines, shadows geometrical shapes their paths finally cross accompanied by a delicate piano tone. That was it. An unexpected anti-climax-climax that delivers me goosebumps every time I watch this.

This being said, I must now share the vulgar materialistic feelings that this video also evoked; I need that mono grey ensemble + shoes and bags.
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Phillip Lim: Weavers
The Designer Shares A New Menswear Film

A portrait of the urban man on the move, today's film Weavers, was conceived by the designer as a follow-up to his fall 3.1 Phillip Lim menswear show. “It’s just three strangers going about their day,” he says. “They cross paths, and feel a kindred spirit because of the way they dress.” The short was shot in Palm Springs by San Francisco-based photographer and filmmaker Andrew Paynter, and its title is a nod both to the artisanal tapestry and rug-making techniques Lim drew upon for his collection, as well as the elusive nature of the models pictured threading in and out of shadows. “We’re always trying to get a mental picture of the man we’re designing for,” he says. “But he’s a little bit of a mystery; we only get glances. This film is our attempt to capture that experience of seeing someone in snatches.” We asked New York-based Lim to demystify his urban summer essentials.
Video and words from NOWNESS.com

One Crazy, Fun Week in Chicago!

 

I had the wonderful opportunity to go to

Chicago last week for the CHA Summer Show. It was a very fun and HOT week!!! There was so many things to look at,  awesome people to meet and sightseeing too! 

 

 Katharina Doyle & myself waiting for the subway!

 

 

Here is me with the wonderful girls from Creating Keepsakes.

  I had a chance to play with some fun products and drool over some new products coming out!

           

                                                                                                                     Towbow Class

I saw some wonderful creations! I so want to have an upside~down tree like the one that DCWV had except I can only imagine what my cats would do to it!

Me and the talented Nikki SivilsCrafty Margot Potter and I.

Some more fun Pictures at CHA

                   

                

             

My Designer Table was fun to put up and gave me a chance to talk to a lot of neat people!         

         

I had a lot of fun, but it was a lot of work and I really was glad to get back home to fresh Alberta air and cool mountain streams! I made some fantastic new friends and learnt some new crafty ideas! That is what I love to do……Live to Create!

Keep on Creating!

~Susan

DIY | Replacing A Button

My beloved silk vintage shirt lost it's top button. I replaced it with a tiny sliding lock.
I sewed the lock in place with rayon thread, regular cotton thread could fray and break by the sharpness of the metal. Then I squeezed the part where the lock should slide into(see detail picture) so that it becomes more rigid and harder to close. This way when the lock is closed it will stay in place and not open by itself.