How To: Create Your own Embroidered iPhone Case

Learn how to create your own embroidered iPhone case, on the Free People blog.

Book Review: The Little Guide to Vintage Shopping by Melody Fortier

The Little Guide to Vintage Shopping is a great resource for those wanting to know more about vintage fashion in general, and for those interested in shopping for designer vintage clothing, shoes, and accessories. It also includes expert advice, and shopping links for you to explore online.

What I love most about this book is how it shows you how you can reinvent old, worn out, or what you might think is unstylish designs, into something brand new and unexpected. For example, you can turn a long skirt into a dress or a knee length skirt into a cute top to wear with denim jeans.

Have you ever wondered how old that dress is? Now you can figure it out easier with tips on how to identify and date your new buy.

There's also an interesting short history of styles of different eras, featured in chapter 3. This is perfect for that school project or essay you are working on.

When you are buying, especially online, you need to know some important abbreviations, featured in this book, on page 13!

Did you find that perfect hat at the thrift store only to discover that it terribly needs some tender loving care?This book has some great tips on that specific subject, starting on page 154.

Get more information and purchase your copy from Quirk Books.

Knitted Neck Warmers, a.k.a. Snoods

Burberry Prorsum Milan Autumn/Winter 2009 collection

- that neck piece is actually fur, not knitting.

This is a very easy look to duplicate at a more inexpensive cost.

Check out a new trend featured on Elle UK. These are easy to make as well, with a circular knitting needle and your favorite chunky yarn.

Missoni Fall 2009 RTW

Read an article about snoods, here, by Emma Sells, Junior Shopping Editor.

Fashioning Technology by Syuzi Pakhchyan

Fashioning Technology is a big, beautiful book, covering three main topics: wearables, objects for the home, and interactive toys. The perfect sized color photos offer help and insight. It is for beginners to the more experienced in electronics. The most interesting aspect of these projects is the fact that they change and respond to their environment. This would be a great gift for a guy that is into crafting, and is also perfect for father/daughter do it yourself projects.

Main Chapter Summary:

Materials, Electronics, and Tools - A perfect list with extremely helpful, full color images, to make sure you buy the right things.

Technical Primers - Detailed tutorials on working with tools you may not have used in the past.

Wearables - Projects you can wear for fun and functional fashion statements.

Home Accents - Projects for the home to give your life more pizazz.

Interactive Toys - Projects to create toys that are more an ordinary.

Templates that are used in conjunction with the projects can be found here:

http://fashioningtechnology.com/templates.htm

Fashioning Technology is available in bookstores or online at http://oreilly.com/store

Embroidery Weekend

Simple, yet pretty embroidered curtians. Put your heart into this project and it can not go wrong.
Silence & Noise Embroidered Feather Dress - Sometimes the smallest details make the most impact.

Thermal Boxer Tank - Unique top that draws attention to your back, which is awesome.

Super adorable, teeny tiny, embroidered details on these sexy thong panties.

Anthropologie's "Guillemot Dress" reminds me of the twenties era.