Wearing Handmade Wednesday: Rad Rocket!

Hey there everyone! Finally, Wearing Handmade Wednesday is back! Not with the best of photos, this one was taken with my Xoom and not my camera, cause my remote is broken and I need to buy a new one, I just can't remember what website I bought this one! So for now... self pics will be taken not-as-well-as-I-wished.

Wearing my Rad Rocket Yoda slouch top!

I've known Jen from Rad Rocket for quite a while, I think since my eBay years, and that's a good 5 years I think. Her brand has changed names a pair of times, and she has expanded from just clothes to also some really cute resin jewellry too. I had been meaning to get something from her shop for a while, but when I saw this super geeky, super cute & super cozy & comfy Yoda slouch top, I knew it had to be mine! It arrived while I was in India, but as soon as I arrived I tried it on and it's just perfect for cold weather! Very warm, made of SW fleece that doesn't itch, and with a slouch cut that is very comfy!

Do take a lot at her Etsy shop for more cute & geeky clothes and adorable resin pendants & jewellry!

Wearing Handmade Wednesday: Resa Smith!

Getting back into the blogging groove, and showing off more of my handmade goodies, cause not blogging doesn't mean that I haven't been buying or wearing handmade, quite the contrary, since for almost everything, handmade is my first choice!


For my first Wearing Handmade Wednesday after my hiatus, I wanna show off one of my two Resa Smith dresses.

Showing off my improving chopstick skills and my Resa Smith dress

Group shot at Bardays' Inn in Goa

I'm more of a jeans and a t-shirt kinda girl, but some dresses are just too gorgeous (and comfy) to just pass up, and that's what happens with Resa Smith's maxi dresses! I fell in love with this dress as soon as I saw it in her Etsy shop! All the dresses are very much unique, going from limited edition dresses to one of a kind. And they are just fantastic pieces, with a wonderful attention to detail, till the very last stitch! Both her Etsy shop and her website shop are closed for now, but will reopen at the beginning of June, with new maxi and mini dresses, and I just can't wait to see them!

Wearing Handmade Wednesday: Meow Kiki!!

Cloudy Wednesday over here, and even if that shouldn't be at all related, it caused today's Wearing Handmade Wednesday to be slightly delayed!

Wearing my Meow Kiki baseball top at Lodhi Gardens

I've already talked in one of my first blog entries about Heather and her amazing Meow Kiki brand and the huge amount of her clothes I own, so it was only fair I did a Wearing Handmade Wednesday featuring her! Not only she has all sorts of clothes for all occasions but also has some start of the art fashion pieces!

All in all, wonderful shop that all of you need to check!

Wearing Handmade Wednesday: Poppy's Wicked Garden!!

Hello everyone!


Getting ready for a big celebration to say goodbye to 2010? Going to any New Year Eve parties? I won't be worrying about what to wear or where to go, since I work night shift at the hospital, so I know exactly where to be and what to wear! I'm just hoping we'll have a not-too-busy-shift, and we'll manage to have the 12 grapes at midnight!


But let's not forget today is Wednesday, and so we have our Wearing Handmade Wednesday feature here too!

Getting cozy with my Poppy's Wicked Garden Howl

Jennifer or Poppy as she's also known, is the amazing lady behind Poppy's Wicked Garden brand of clothing, and her many shops and ventures. She can whip you up a lovely girl's dress as well as reconstruct a guy's tee into a fantastic geeky & girlie top! You can find her original & alternative clothing on Etsy and Artfire, and she also has an Etsy shop for all the geeky awesome reconstructions she makes!


I will be doing a proper feature on her in the future, cause I have so many of her pieces! But for now, go check out her shop for unique pieces to complete your handmade wardrobe!

Wearing Handmade Wednesday: Stellar Cheri Clothing And Accessories!!!

Hello everyone!


It's Wednesday again, and though it means I missed Monday Munchies this week (we were away for the weekend), it also means it's time again for a Wearing Handmade Wednesday entry again!

My amazing StellarCheri messenger bag!

StellarCheri Clothing And Accessories is run by the awesomely talented Cheri, and have been previously blogged here, but since then I've got myself quite a few new pieces, and I just wanted to show off my messenger bag, that went with me to Darjeeling and through all the trotting around here and there has stand the test wonderfully! And you wouldn't believe all that it can hold inside! If you want one, she still has a blue & black one available in her shop too!


Oh, and for the record, I'm also wearing my Julian Bean hat, my MTCoffinz scarf and my AngryGirl Gear Rime of the Ancient Mariner hoodie! ;)

Wearing Handmade Wednesday: Lady Moon Designs!!

Hello everyone! *waves* You can consider this the equivalent of a recorded message, cause right now, I'm either killing time at Heathrow's airport, or flying towards Delhi & the bf!


But, I thought that wasn't a reason to abandon the blog, and thanks to Blogger scheduled posts, I'm bringing you yet another edition of Wearing Handmade Wednesday!

Lady Moon Designs Dark Love Shrug

Lady Moon Designs is the perfect shop for you to visit if you want tops, skirts, jackets, corsets with an alternative sense of fashion and a healthy dose of goth! Anna, the very talented designer, seamstress and one-woman-factory behind it, lives in Tasmania (how cool is that?). Her pieces are gorgeous, with the coolest fabrics and great quality! I own many pieces, including some sexy underbust corsets! Now, I have my eye in a Ring Master jacket with that amazing purple skull damask fabric... And, if you need more reasons to visit her shop, she offers Free Worldwide Shipping!

Wearing Handmade Wednesday: Bunny Massacre Designs!

Hi there again everyone!


Wednesday is rolling in again, bringing us another edition of Wearing Handmade Wednesday!

My Bunny Massacre Scarlet letter, A for Atheist, custom dress

This week I'm gonna introduce you to a very talented lady from the UK, called Celeste, and her amazing brand of clothing called Bunny Massacre Designs! I found her on eBay, when handmade pieces were big there, and then she moved onto Etsy. I've got quite a few of her great designs, fantastically constructed and finished, and I even got this wonderful custom dress made from a t-shirt from the "Out Campaign" for atheists. A gorgeous dress that I can wear out proudly!


Right now, Celeste is having a huge sale on selected items on her shop, so pop by and check it out! I'm sure you'll find something you will love!

Wearing Handmade Wednesday: Smarmyclothes!!

Wednesday has arrived, once again, and with it, so has Wearing Handmade Wednesday!


This week I'm featuring another of my all time favourite sellers, the amazingly talented Lex of Smarmyclothes.

My Smarmyclothes' Sneaky Mr Bat top!

I own many Smarments (Smarmyclothes pieces) and many of them are custom pieces. Whatever she does, she always makes outstanding pieces! Not only she has an Etsy shop, she also has her own website and also manages WhatTheCraft.com, a website dedicated to crafters, with tutorials & all sort of resources and now, even awesome giveaways!

Wearing Handmade Wednesday: AngryGirl Gear!!!

Wearing Handmade Wednesday is here again!


This time, I'm not the one wearing the piece, but my friend Alberto!

Al wearing my AngryGirl Gear panda hoodie, almost bursting out of it!

My amazing Panda AngryGirlGear hoodie is one of my many AngryGirlGear pieces, I own many corsets, and recons, and I have to tell you, if you get one piece, you're hooked for good! All the pieces are so perfectly made, with such a degree of perfection, that you'd wonder if they're made by a woman and her sewing machine, or a sewing cyborg!


Do you want to win an AngryGirlGear piece of wearable art? Now you can! Cindy has a contest going on at her website to win a free piece, your choice, from her shop! Enter here: http://www.angrygirlgear.com/contest.html Super Easy!


Once you've entered, name me as your referral, so I can get a chance to win store credit for more AngryGirlGear awesomeness!

StellarCheri!!

Friday is here again, and this time, funnily enough, it does mean the weekend for me too!


This weekend I'm gonna run away to the cottage, where I expect I'll be taking loads of pics and playing with Miss Cinnamon, but I'm leaving all you ladies with a blog entry to ready and a gorgeous bag to ogle at!


I met the talented Cheri of StellarCheri through my favourite forum for crafters and handmade lovers, Attack of the Craft! She's been making clothes and accessories for years, and I've been wanting to get one of her pieces for a while, but when I saw her Green Spiderwebs purse... I knew it had to be mine!




Not only is super stylish (or so all my co-workers thought last Friday when they saw it) and very Halloween-y but also is green! I have a serious lack of green accessories in my wardrobe, so a green purse was a must! And no, you're not allowed to ask how many bags and purses I already own... trust me, it's better this way!




The green fabric is an absolutely gorgeous shade, but a lil difficult for my camera to depict true to colour, so after quite some tweaking, the photos do show two shades of green *sigh*. The spiderwebs mesh is overlayed the green fabric, but somehow Cheri managed to do in such a way that it seems just one fabric!




It's not a big purse, it's the perfect size for shoulder purse to go out, with a magnetic snap closing, and zippered pocket, ideal for the keys and phone. Not bulky but quite roomy, cause I took it to work on Friday and I went out for dinner and movie with my bff, and I packed: wallet, phone, sunglasses case, cards pouch, work's ID, car keys with home keys, and the keys for work and my Tokyotombola apple cover!






If you've fallen in love with this gorgeous purse, there's still one available in her shop, in Royal Blue (hurry before I decide I need that one, since Royal Blue is my fave colour!) or you can always ask Cheri to make you a custom one! She made a purple one for Deb of OnCupcakeMoon that was to die for!

Wearing Handmade Wednesday: Label of Hope!

Aaaaand it's Wednesday again! Wearing Handmade Wednesday here!

G & me at Deeksha's baby shower, wearing my kimono style Label of Hope top!

This week I'm sharing one of my long time loves in the handmade world, Miss Hope, the gorgeous and talented lady behind Label of Hope!


I discovered Hope's work on eBay and soon started to bid and win some of her pieces, and when she did the the shift to Etsy, I couldn't be happier! I have SO many of her amazing designs, and I've also got myself made some custom ones too! You really need to check her Etsy shop, and if you wanna see her portfolio, check her website! You're sure to fall in love with something!

Wearing Handmade Wednesday: Vivifromage!

Welcome to my new weekly feature: Wearing Handmade Wednesday!


I got the idea of doing this feature from Barley & Birch's "Wear It! Wednesday". They are an organic clothing company, and every Wednesday they feature a photo of one of their customers. So I thought, why not do something similar?


Since I am the customer, I plan on showing photos of either myself or one of my friends & family sporting handmade goods and a tiny feature on the seller!


I'm gonna start with the very talented and my neighbour in the EU, Virginie, the talented lady behind Vivifromage, handmade with French flair clothing!

Vivifromage camo top, photo taken in the gorgeous Neemrana resort in Rajasthan!

She makes all sort of clothing from scratch, and also reconstructs any and all t-shirts into more flattering for a woman to wear, clothes! I own a ton of her clothes: dresses, tops, skirts and even a coat! If you wanna check her clothes out you can go to her website, her Etsy shop and her Dawanda shop!

Isla New York Designs!

Monday OFF!!


It's been such a loooong week this past one... Since I started working on Tuesday, I've barely been doing anything other than work and sleep, since things at work have been pretty crazy!


But I'm now getting ready to finish my packing and get ready to fly next Thursday to the US, again! So, between the crazy work times and the packing I've been completely lacking on inspiration. That has pushed the Sunday Shots into a combined entry for both past week and this current week, that will hopefully be posted this Sunday!


So, after feeling terribly guilty about how often my fellow blogger Brooke at Brooke Van Gory updates her blog and after reading about Amber from RockerByeBaby setting up herself to update more regularly her own blog, so I decided that I should tackle at least a pair of blog entries!


I'm gonna start the week with my entry about Isla New York Clothing line and her amazing designer and creator, Regina!


For a change, I didn't find her shop, but it was my boyfriend who linked me to her Maria top, and told me that I needed to get it, not only cause we have the same name, but also cause he was sure it'll look great on me (are you thinking I'm such a lucky one cause I have a bf that looks around Etsy and finds clothing for me to buy? I sure am, and you don't know half of it!) ;)


I added the Maria top to my favourites on Etsy, and found that were other lovely tops in her shop, so not only I got myself the lovely Maria top in yellow (even if I've never been a yellow fan) but I also bought an Oly top in coral for my sis-in-law's b-day!




Regina kept me up to date via twitter and Etsy convo on the progress on both orders, and made sure that I would be getting the top in time for my sis-in-law's b-day! Communication is huge on her list, as is making sure every and each one of her creations is made with love and attention to detail.


My sis-in-law loved her Oly top, and has been wearing it a lot all the summer, too bad I have no pics to show you, but I do have some shots of my trip to Wisconsin this summer wearing my Maria top, that both Divya and Deeksha (Gaurav's sisters) loved to bits! (There might be a Isla New York top on their future, hmmm).


We went on a trip to Madison and spent most of the afternoon by the lake, and it was absolutely gorgeous and it was a great time to take some pics and show off my lovely new summer top!

Lisa Samartino Atelier

Hey there!

This blog entry has been a looong time in the making! I got both the lovely tea jackets you see pictured here last year!

And in case you're wondering, it was totally coincidental that both me and Rhea decided to wear our jackets that day!



Yeah, I know, that's quite a long shot, but I haven't really got pics with both the items till very recently, and the photographer in me refuses to use other people's pictures!


I've had Lisa Samartino Atelier in my favorites for a long time, since before the name change, when it was Robin's Egg Pink, and I had been in love with her tea jackets for both little girls and women since I first stumbled upon her shop!


I got myself a really nice spring jacket in the middle of winter, so that's one of the reasons why I didn't have pics to show it off: not the best weather for it! And after getting it, I knew I needed to get one for Rhea, Gaurav's elder niece. She's 4, gorgeous and has a knack for fashion and knowing what's the appropiate outfit for every occasion!




The jackets are made of fun designers fabric, unlined, so they are perfect for warm spring days, cooler summer days, and those still warm days of early autumn. I wish I could have got one for lil Anya too, but she has stopped offering them in girl's sizes, though she had the pattern for sale for those crafty ladies out there.


The best thing of these jackets is that you can wear them to add a nice & fancy touch to just jeans and a tank, and to add a touch of colour & fun to a more serious black and formal outfit.




She will start offering the ladies sizes this month in her Etsy shop, with new fun fabrics and in small, medium and large sizes. You can even send her a convo via Etsy with "fall" in the subject line and she will let you know when they're available and even will get you a discount code for being an early bird!


I can't wait to see what new fabrics she's gonna have, and I'll probably will be getting myself another jacket, as well as have them in mind for presents for both my sis-in-law and Gaurav's sisters!


Stay tuned for more blog entries this week!

SmarmyClothes!

After going back to work, and actually having a good shift for once, I decided to spend some time re-checking the pics I have to use for my blog entries, and decided to get onto writing another blog entry while watching some Bones repeats.

I met Lex from SmarmyClothes through DIYScene, as I've met so many amazing others before. Lex not only is a very talented seamstress and designer, and aside from managing her own website and her Etsy shop, she also manages Whatthecraft.com, an amazing website full of all sorts of information, like tutorials and all sorts of helpful resources for crafters! She also organizes contests for crafters with amazing prices! (I am honoured to be part of the jury for those!).

My first purchase from Lex was a pair of Smarmickers, one with owls and one with skulls & crossbones, that I still haven't been brave enough to model, but after those I've been in love with many of her amazing clothing pieces, either reconstructed from shirts or made from scratch, and finally caved in and decided to jump at the chance and bought a short sleeved and a long sleeved tops. Both flawlessly constructed and sewed, both cute and with an edge, and both have become part of my absolute favourite pieces of clothing! I've very happily added Lex to the list of amazing DIY-ers I'll always go back to buying from!

Here you can see my Sneaky Mr Bat top (the bf says it's the right top to wear to see Batman) and my Bleeding Heart Disease top, that Miss Lex knew I'd love, being a nurse as I am (and she is).

I've also been thinking for a while to comission her for an Iron Maiden dress, since she accepts all sort of custom orders for reconstructing tees into tops, dresses or skirts, I just need to find the right Maiden shirt!

Photographs courtesy of Gaurav S.