Cooler than You: Stupid Things I Say and Do

So I'm like a whole freaking week late on posting the final Me Made May roundup.  Well . . . I was in Kentucky on work, and I won't apologize for having a beer after work and usually being too tired to stay up past 10:30.  Yes, lame.  Yes, true.  Yes, there were an hour of student and work emails too . . . nearly every night. But, for your viewing pleasure: Wednesday, a day of browns. An Amy Butler Barcelona, my new boat shows, a now toooo large cardi, and my insomnia bag (AKA Multi Tasker Tote from Anna Maria Horner). Of course,  I was still in NYC here . . . It was chilly, hence the cardi.  Guess where the cardi is now? In the growing Goodwill bin. Thursday . . . the day to finish packing what wasn't done the day before, remember the tablet and Advil (the sunscreen for kids who go to summer camp for nerds), and try to sleep. {There's no photo as my phone shit the bed a day or so later, and . . . this one isn't on my Google+ backup (meanin...

So I'm a few days late with Me Made May . . . May has FIVE weeks . . . ugh.   To make it up, here's a pic of the cupcake pin cushion I drafted a few years back (it fits inside a bobbin carousal, by the way) and the mini tomato I did up today . . . scraps of course.  Today's has steel wool to keep the pins happy.  Cuteness makes everyone smile.   Without further ado: Saturday: Well . . . you saw part of it here , but there was more. There's an odd looking photo of me--not at the market, but odd in everything else--wearing a Colette Ginger, version three on the bias in Amy Butler Lark.  A thrifted Seattle Blues jacket, a Stella and Dot scarf, and a crappy shirt that I sent to the Goodwill bin.  Birks too boot.  Oh, my grey and purple Cosmo is a staple of Farmer's Market shopping as it holds an unbelievable amount of goods, books, and everything else. That jacket . . . when I was small and still in Seattle all the kids had that b...

Last year on May 18th I wore this: Yes, I made it.  Yes, I loved it.  Yes, I lost my mind with all that hand beading.  There's a bit more on it here . Well, for our anniversary I figured it was only fitting to make a dress . . . ya know, since it is Me Made May and I did  make my own wedding gown.  So, without further ado, I took to making Vogue V8727.  Version B, to be precise.  The fabric was 15.99 a yard, making this dress pretty pricey.  I went into JoAnn's to get thread and elastic, and lost my mind enough to buy this stuff.  Well,  it is a nice dress, with a sweet fit now that I altered it.   I got Mr. Fairytale to take a picture from the stoop, and I promptly posted it.  I'm on the fence a bit with the dress. . . why, so many asked from otherwise rave reviews.  Well, I think it is that I'm not used to wearing such a full skirt and that I am a little over the dress.  I made a test bodice, ...

So . . . I don't know, maybe two months ago, I bought The Staple Dress pattern from April Rhodes.  Then I bought two voile prints (both Anna Maria Horner), and laid them out on my kitchen table and cut.  You can almost hear the hallelujah chorus of how much I enjoyed this one, and no I cut this one BEFORE I bought those shears that are better than butter .  It was quick, easy, pure instant gratification, and with the way the dress falls and is cut larger to smaller Nessa still fits in it.  Even better now, as I filled it before.  Yes, yes I did.  Everybody should have a dress, or two, in the wardrobe that can just be thrown on, paired with a belt (or not), and sported on the go.  One of those simple pleasures of life that make you go, "Ahhh, ain't life sweet today?" when you have a stack of shit falling on you and no end is in sight. I think the hardest part of this dress is having the patience to tape together the printed pattern (thoug...