The Handmade Marketplace

So I bought this book yesterday and I am really excited to go through it. I will be posting from time to time about my process. I am applying it not only to my crafts but my photography and my vintage clothing. I recently started an Etsy but thats it, I havn't done barely any promoting simply because I am not sure how to. We also have the Shreveport Makers Fair which is being put on by TACA. So I bought this book to aid me in selling my products.

The first chapter had a set of questions and i wrote them out and answered them. I know this may be boring and cheesy but I wanted to share.

1.Why do you want to start selling crafts?
I love to create. I want to be able to support myself financially doing what I love.

2.What are my monetary goals?
To be able to creatively support myself

3.What does my idea of success look like?
Doing what I know God wants me to do and glorifying Him while doing it.

4. Do I have enough free time to devote to selling my work?
I feel like I don't but i know I can make time for it.

5.Do I have enough tools to begin selling what i make?
I feel like I do

6.What are your biggest fears?
Getting in over my head and failing

7.Do you have a support system?
YES! My mom and dad, The Wild hearts ( my best friends), and Nathan ( my amazing boyfriend)!

So thats it for now, but I will be back to post more about this book and how it is helping me!

My Etsy Shop

My New Etsy Shop

So i started a dress......

This was the dress I wanted to recreate, just a simple design. but fit perfect!!!!



So I took it apart.



This was my fabric I decided to use, it was on sale at an antique shop this summer in Richmond, so I picked it up. It has holes and dis coloration on it so I thought it would be perfect for practice.



Traced it out.



Laid it out.



Then cut it out.

Stay tuned for the finnished product.

Mad Men: The Fashion File

So if you know me, you know that I am absolutely obsessed with Mad Men. The main reason I am so obsessed is because I drool over each and every dress, suit, skirt, blouse, high heal, tie, everything!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The stylist for Mad Men is a genius. These outfits are not just thrown together, they are all delicately and carefully planned out for each characters scene and mood!



Well this genius stylist/Designer put out a book!

I am on Chapter 2, I can't put it down.

The first chapter talks about being confident in your own body shape, skin color, hair and eye color, all of that silly stuff us girls obsess over.

She also gave example from through out time the women who pronounced their features and were the it girls of their times!
I thought it was cool, to look these girls up and research teir style and to see how daring and sexy they were for their day! they are all beautiful!!!!!!!

This is Clara bow!






Louise Brooks







Jean Harlow- the Blonde Bombshell






Rita Hayworth- Glamorous






Elizabeth Taylor





Brigitte Bardot

Project Restyle

I don't think its any secret that my favorite blog on the internet is A Beautiful Mess, the blog of Elsie Flannigan. She was my inspiration to start my blog and I'm sure she is inspiration to most crafty hipster girlies out there! She is amazing! Passionate and determined! Anyways she is doing a project this year with her friend Rachel and I am doing it too!

All the pretty colors!

My boyfriend got me these really cool transparent colored things to go over my flash and lenses on my camera. They are really cool and yes essentially I could do all of these neat effects in good ole photoshop but this is way more fun!

After- tables and chairs

This is a pic of the chairs after they are all done. We ended up using a bouncing ball to replace the decorative balls at the top. When we were drilling the wooden balls they kept splitting.

We also added rubber bottoms to all of the legs so that they wouldn't scratch the floor. The table bottom is the same baby blue as the chairs. I will try to get a pic of them all together, before I give it to the family our youth group is sponsoring for christmas.

I am so excited about this project , it was so much fun. I used a staple gun for the first time!!!!!!!

Thanks to the Rad Life boys for the use of tools and skill.