Fairlen 208 Utility belt

You know how most women’s clothing doesn’t have pockets?  Well, that drives me crazy cuz I don’t like carrying around a purse.  It always falls off my shoulder and then I put it down and forget it.  Its bad.  I’ve lost my wallet so many times….  So I make skirts out of jeans and my husband’s old pants, and thats cool, but it gets old, and what if I want to wear a pretty skirt that doesn’t have pockets?  So I looked on Etsy to see what they had for “pocket belt”.  Lo! There were many beautiful pocket belts!  The nice ones run about $75. I wanted to make sure I liked this idea before investing a pile of money into it so I made one for myself out of leather scraps and belts from the thrift shop.  Let me know what you think!

I made sure that the big pocket was big enough for my phone and my passport.  The other pocket holds my wallet quite nicely.

 

Fairlen 207 Halloween Costume 2013

Sorry this is so late.  For Halloween last year my husband and I went to an awesome party as Milo and Kida (at his request).  I put together both costumes.

The boots are because its Halloween in NH.

 

Fairlen 206 Fabric Business Cards

Wow, its been a while.  So I was told to make a blog post about the fabric business cards that I printed up to pass out at a theater job fair as I look for work as a costume designer.  I used mostly scraps of dyed silk from my silk painting class I took 10 years ago, and I printed my info and QR code directly onto the fabric using Gail’s method from My Repurposed Life which I found on Karen’s blog The Graphics Fairy.

 

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Knick wants to me to dress up as Kida for Halloween.  So I was watching Atlantis and spotted this young man.

he is one of the warriors that you only get to see for one second.

Also, last night during my boring bar I did a little fashion designing.  I want to make a black velvet shrug with a high collar.  And I saw this woman wearing this extra long button down shirt and it was super cute!

 

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Cor, wearing Lissa’s white dress and a fur coat he acquired for some rocks.  You like that cat hair to Cor’s right at about shin height?

 

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not bad for having not picked up a pencil in months.  I need to draw more.

 

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The Shield and Friends!  A product of our trip to Bozeman MT to visit Tim and Jane.  It was so nice to have time to draw!

 

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I also painted the bottom of my feet on Wednesday night.  This is how it looks after you wash the henna off.

 

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today was stupid hot so I decided to do some henna to cool down a bit.

I did my right foot first and the henna kinda … oozed? bled?  anyway, I’m very pleased with the way my left foot came out.

It was still too hot and I wanted more practice, so I tried doing a celtic knot tree of life (below).  what a joke!  I don’t think I’d be able to do that with henna.  I’d need a stencil or something.  So back to henna designs, and a fish! (above)  I did these on my thighs cuz it was the easiest surface to draw on and knick said he didn’t want any henna. I really really really want to do some henna on my hands, but its not allowed at work. I’d probably get fired.  Not that I would mind being fired, but its the best paying job I’ve ever had and I really shouldn’t go around burning bridges just cuz some people suck.

 

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