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{A Homemade Halloween: Clue (Workplace Edition)}

October 15, 2019 by kelerr

NOTE: This is a repost from 2015, so keep that in mind while you are reading as I didn’t make any changes to the original content and may make reference to various things that are out of date. I am continuing my series of reposting various old handmade Halloween costumes until this year’s Halloween costume makes it’s debut. It’s that time of year again, and planning has been underway since August. This year’s costume plan had some small twists and […]

Categories: Costumes, Creating, Homemade Halloween, Me Made

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{Latest Make: The Sew Over It Lizzie Skirt}

October 11, 2019 by kelerr

As I mentioned last week, I haven’t been doing a ton of personal sewing lately. However, I was recently able to finish my first Sew Over It Lizzie Skirt and its love at first wear! I have no idea why I don’t make more skirts! This was so easy, especially since I didn’t even need to hem it. I found the fabric on sale at Joann Fabrics over the summer and knew right away what it wanted to do with […]

Categories: Creating, Fashion, Me Made, Sewing

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{A Homemade Halloween: Villain and Damsel}

October 8, 2019 by kelerr

NOTE: This is a repost from 2013, so keep that in mind while you are reading as I didn’t make any changes to the original content and may make reference to various things that are out of date. I am continuing my series of reposting various old handmade Halloween costumes until this year’s Halloween costume makes it’s debut. This SHOULD have been the third year in a row that my friend Steve and I created one of our now infamous […]

Categories: Costumes, Creating, Homemade Halloween, Me Made

{My Makes for September}

October 4, 2019 by kelerr

I cannot believe I am about to say this but… I have NO makes for September. Seriously. Not one… except for a fail. I finished up a Sew Over It Florence Dress, and I just don’t like it. It’s not a total fail by any means. There were no construction issues and it seems to fit fine, but there’s something about it that just doesn’t suit me. I think it’s the waistband it just a tad too high and I […]

Categories: Costumes, Creating, Sewing

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{What I Read: September 2019}

October 1, 2019 by kelerr

I knew going into September that it wasn’t going to be a big reading month. There’s so much going on in my life at the moment that I was honestly surprised that I managed to eke out two books in the end! First up was The Paris Seamstress, by Natasha Lester. I bought this book back in mid-summer and somehow managed to leave it in the trunk of my car for about five weeks before actually reading it. I initially […]

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{A Homemade Halloween: Pirate Snow Globes}

September 27, 2019 by kelerr

Note/Disclaimer: This is another repost of an old Halloween costume. This was originally posted in 2013, a year after I was supposed to actually use this costume, but because of Hurricane Sandy, work was cancelled on Halloween and this costume never saw the light of day. However, the post was written as though it did. It’s that time of year again, and I’m starting to put together my Homemade Halloween post. This year, the costume needed to be bigger […]

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{A Homemade Halloween: Barbie and Ken}

September 24, 2019 by kelerr

NOTE: This is a repost from 2011. Partially because my busy schedule doesn’t allow for as much sewing time as I want and it was rough to come up with something to post for today, and partially because we’re about five weeks from my next Homemade Halloween post (costume top secret until then!). This is one of my proudest accomplishments. So I thought it would be fun to revisit the Halloween posts that probably got buried in the archives! Every […]

Categories: Costumes, Creating, Homemade Halloween, Me Made

{Out and About: Downton Abbey, The Movie}

September 20, 2019 by kelerr

This is going to be a short and sweet post today, mainly because I neglected to schedule a post for today earlier in the week and scrambled to write this at midnight last night! (And then at 12:17 I accidentally reloaded it and lost half my work!) So here’s what I was able to accomplish: A few months ago, the trailer for the new Downton Abbey movie was released, and it’s glorious. Now, if you’re not a fan of Downton […]

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{Out and About: Friends Pop-Up Museum}

September 17, 2019 by kelerr

“I’ll be there for you…” For me, the show Friends defined my adolescence and young adulthood. It premiered when I was in 8th grade, continued through high school and college and ended at the end of my first year of teaching. It saw me through the ages of 13-24 and probably shaped a lot of what I thought my twenties and early thirties should look like (spoiler alert: they looked nothing like the show!). When I saw that there was […]

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