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weekend love: roller derby & first estate sale

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

This weekend was jam packed.
emphasis on the Jam…

(Sorry for the bad pun, I had to!)

Saturday night my roller derby league had our first match. I just recently passed my skills test to be able to scrimmage so I wasn’t rostered to skate–instead I had a blast watching the ladies duke it out against a league from Connecticut! I’ve never ever had so much fun at a sports game before…we lost by just 2 points and I was on the edge of my seat the whole second half. Truly such an exciting and amazing time.

Random shot of the action!

Pictures not by me–I was too busy rushing around, serving beer, selling raffle tickets, and jumping up and down cheering. Also I should have taken a photo of my outfit…I finally had an excuse to wear my ripped up fishnet tights & a leopard print skirt I made awhile ago :]

I read Kaylah’s post Estate Sales 101 & it totally reminded me of how i’ve been meaning to go to one. Thanks to Estatesales.net I found a bunch in my area that were going on throughout the weekend. We picked one in particular because some of the sample photos showed old pinup photos and vintage ads. I was so stoked to check them out..but by the time we got there they were nowhere to be found. Boo! I did get some neat knickknacks though.

Mason jar, record for dad, polaroid film, and an Andy Warhol art book.

It was a really unique experience. We had to wait on long line to get inside the house (they let a couple people in to browse at a time so it’s not too crowded) and the house was huge. I didn’t think about how the whole experience would make me feel..sad for the family’s loss and it was so interesting finding out about the person who lived in the house. Turns out he was an optometrist and even part of the house was converted into an eye exam office. There were lots of old cameras and video camera stuff, too. At one point I felt guilty being disappointed about the old pin ups being gone…imagine what the family must be going through and how emotional it must be selling the entire contents of a house! Totally different from the usual thrifting adventure. All in all, definitely looking forward to checking out more estate sales in the near future.

Tags:adventures, roller derby, thrifting, weekend
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thrifty fashionista

Monday, June 13th, 2011

Woah, I went to the cutest thrift store in New Haven, CT. I’ve passed by it a buncha times before finally going inside. When I went to pay for the small things I picked out, one of the sweet ladies who worked there grabbed a bandana and a stick, and they wrap your purchases into a sachel!

How awesome is that?! Carrying it through town and later onto the train made me feel like I was running away from home. The place is called “Fashionista” & i’ll definitely be going back anytime i’m in the area.

This was inside said sachel:

♥ vintage clothing pattern: i’ve been working on collecting a bunch for a DIY project, plus i’m totally going to make that peter pan collar dress
♥ handmade heart pin
♥ birdie pin
♥ little pink elephant–for my zen garden!

Also, I’ve gotten a bunch of rad clothes thrifting from various places lately. I wanted to share my favorites:

♥ Cardigan (from the Free bin!) from Fashionista Thrift
♥ green bolero/sweater, Free People brand!
♥ red polka dot dress…love.
♥ blue & black striped sweater dress
♥ Teal leopard print sweater, which i’m going to reconstruct
♥ ruffle & lace dress

+Thank you all for the lovely comments on my site redesign!

Tags:fashion, thrifting, weekend
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Gettin’ inspired, Thrifting

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

While doing some design work today, I took a break and headed out to the library to get some books to look through for inspiration.

I got two graphic design books, one gorgeous photography book..plus a book about thrifting.
Coincidently, I went thrifting after that. If you don’t know me very well, let me just tell you that it’s one of my favorite things to do. I adore looking through various old things…things you wouldn’t normally find…and the thrill of not knowing what exactly you might find. I get super inspired looking at so many unique things…I rush on my way home because I feel a burst of creativity.

I had good luck with finding awesome art this week..huzzah! I was instantly attracted to that framed “Resistance” art and I had to have it. There’s a name of an organization in Vermont on the bottom of the artwork..i’m going to look it up later today. Another thing I love about thrifting is not knowing/finding out where something came from. I’m really curious. That’s a leopard print sweater that’s brand new. I’m going to wear it to work tomorrow.

Tags:art, design, inspiration, thrifting
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overdue post. self-stitched september & business casual & what i’ve been making

Thursday, October 14th, 2010

This is wayyy overdue.

So, I participated in Self-Stitched September after reading about it in a DIY blog. Even though most of the things I wear on a daily basis are handmade by myself or someone else or second hand..i thought it would be fun to do & see how much i actually do wear handmade things. Also, I wanted to give myself a huge push to make more clothes for myself.

In September I also started a new job. I realized that I didn’t have a lot of business casual/dressy/work clothes AT ALL. Also at this time I was low on funds so instead of buying myself a whole new wardrobe I refashioned old clothes I already had, sewed some things from scratch, dug into my piles of old clothes I plan on selling/donating, and bought clothes from thrift stores.

I didn’t make as many clothes as i wanted to (due to said new job) but here’s what i did make:

pink shrug with hoodstooth trim