Visual Obsessions

Knocked it out of the ballpark! Considering my love of hardware, I'm swooning over how she used hardware when designing and making a leather travel bag and remained so true to her style. Ch...

http://visualobsessions.blogspot.com/2010/10/omg-luxirare-has-done-it-again.html

EDITED: Ain't happenin'. These shoes really are sold out. What I loved about them was the mix of leather and the canvas touches, plus the look of leather wrapping around the sole. Even similar KO...

http://visualobsessions.blogspot.com/2010/08/woo-hoo-hoo-shoe-hoo-hoo.html

Many of us in the online sewing community are well aware of A Dress A Day blog. But have you heard of the NEW Dress A Day blog? I heard of it through an email my sister sent. Must say, very i...

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It's been an extraordinarily busy summer. But during snippets of downtime, I surf the NYTimes app on my iPhone and read the free articles. I enjoyed these stories: A Return to Basics, One Stitch...

http://visualobsessions.blogspot.com/2010/08/sewing-in-news.html

UPDATE: J.Jill sells this belt in gray and black for $34 now. I've considered getting a very simple double belt like this Eileen Fisher belt at Garnet Hill for quite awhile: It's also on...

http://visualobsessions.blogspot.com/2010/07/obsessed-with-double-belts.html

Maybe you want to make a statement by carrying a non-animal skin bag. Maybe you don't have the money for the real H. (Uh, maybe? More like, likely.) But still want a classic style like the Birki...

http://visualobsessions.blogspot.com/2010/07/make-birkin-or-kelly-style-bag.html

Who would have thought shirtdresses are interesting enough for a gallery of photos. Maybe they're not. But good ones have a lot of detail to be examined if you want to recreate them, like good tr...

http://visualobsessions.blogspot.com/2010/07/gallery-of-shirtdresses.html

... of insomnia. As I did back on June 3rd.   So I received the cutwork fabric. It's not white as I expected, and I think white is really important. Because it's actually natural color a...

http://visualobsessions.blogspot.com/2010/06/maybe-dont-shop-under-influence.html

I saw these shoes, somewhere during blog surfing. I love these canvas wedge platform shoes . The shop's description tells you to "think LL Bean," but I'm not a fan of LL Bean. So I wish to "thin...

http://visualobsessions.blogspot.com/2010/06/k-k-k-kick-it-up-4-notch.html

All hourglasses are not the same? All hourglasses are not the same, apparently. And this explains a lot. For one thing, it explains why despite recommendations that I, as the owner of an hourgl...

http://visualobsessions.blogspot.com/2010/06/r-u-x-hourglass-or-8-hourglass.html

Burberry Prorsum twists ... this would really add interest to a basic black jersey dress, skirt, top or cardigan, wouldn't it? I love to wear black but hesitate to sew it lately because it s...

http://visualobsessions.blogspot.com/2010/06/twist-and-shout.html

Anthropologie has a shirtdress category showing nine shirtdresses -- check out the details for sewing inspiration!

http://visualobsessions.blogspot.com/2010/06/shirtdress-inspiration-at-anthropologie.html

I love-love-love print yoga tops like these at Athleta . But do I have $49 to $64 to spare for a tank top? Nope. However, I do have yummy cream knit from Vogue Fabrics. It's bamboo, it's inc...

http://visualobsessions.blogspot.com/2010/06/knocking-off-those-cool-indian-prints.html

My credit card may very well be shut down for suspected fraud, as tonight's journeys have taken me to Germany, Australia and the UK. A last hurrah before there's no more fabric shopping for me f...

http://visualobsessions.blogspot.com/2010/06/shopping-world-in-one-insomnia-fueled.html

Another passion of mine is scrapbooking. I like vintage (rusty and slightly decrepit even better), I like metals, darker colors, travel and navigation themes, bits n' scraps of old prose in many ...

http://visualobsessions.blogspot.com/2010/05/stamping-scrapping-rock-star-discovers.html

Check out this skirt on Outsapop. It's the bottom of a trench coat ! Great idea if you find a vintage trench where the top isn't fit or flattering, but the bottom works. Or couldn't you use one ...

http://visualobsessions.blogspot.com/2010/05/super-fast-skirt-idea.html

It's a staycation day today and I caught this story on CNN's home page about blogging the end of a life , about Eva Markvoort. Seeing this changed my day. Maybe the rest of this year. Maybe my fu...

http://visualobsessions.blogspot.com/2010/04/she-was-rare-and-she-is-gone-and-how.html

Yes. STUNNING. Can buttonholes be stunning? If you had asked me that question yesterday, I would have looked at you strangely. The "get a life" look. Today, I have seen stunning buttonholes....

http://visualobsessions.blogspot.com/2010/04/stunning-buttonholes.html

I've never been very afraid of snakes. When we were little kids, the boys in my neighborhood played with bugs and snakes. This was in the days before cable TV and video games. When we actually ...

http://visualobsessions.blogspot.com/2010/04/snaking-its-way-into-my-life.html

-- Alphonse de Lamartine, French poet and politician who visited Istanbul during his travels to the Orient Oh I so agree. Spring/summer project: Image from Newsweek.com Budget Travel

http://visualobsessions.blogspot.com/2010/04/if-one-had-but-single-glance-to-give.html

Yeah, another color personality quiz . Verrrrrrrry interesting results, considering that my distaste for the print in the last post  is somewhat due to the yellow color. And while flipping thro...

http://visualobsessions.blogspot.com/2010/04/whats-your-color.html

I have curtailed pattern acquisitions except for new releases that are truly different than patterns I already have. This pattern passes the test and will be acquired -- the Vogue 1177 Anna Sui ...

http://visualobsessions.blogspot.com/2010/04/stylin-anna-sui-vogue-1177-pattern.html

The first public sighting of sandals on my feet this year occurred last Thursday when it was over 70 in Chicago. Had to do a quick rub-down of the heels with a pumice stone and rapid fresh coa...

http://visualobsessions.blogspot.com/2010/04/stylin-series-summer-sandal-season.html

Do you adore the clean beige look of vintage and pro dress forms, possibly covet a Wolf, but not the price? Me too. So instead of this: Image from Threads I got this: Far cry, h...

http://visualobsessions.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-to-make-new-dress-form-look-vintage.html

EDITED TO ADD: All the below sounds like superficial materialism. What I want to buy. What I want to wear. Not really. It's actually a metaphor for the fact that rather than go through life in a...

http://visualobsessions.blogspot.com/2010/03/talbots-or-steampunk.html