the royal wedding challenge part 1: the REVEAL

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lori wows in ...

arturo rios + coralie beatrix

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jenn t. struts her stuff in ...

hats by cressida + pavlinadadakova

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 trois pommes vertes delights in... 

timeless vixen vintage +  glitzglitter

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metalicious WOWS in ... 

 

camerondesign  + vrreis

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good heavens ... you beauties look gorgeous!

what fun our royal wedding challenge {part one} has been!

i asked you to join me at THE royal wedding wearing something fabulously handmade or vintage,  and i love the gorgeous looks you nicies came up with! 

wouldn't you agree?!

thanks again so much to everyone who played.
sorry i couldn't include everyone this time around. but you all look STUNNING!

so cue the royal parade, we'll dance the night away after the fabulous wedding festivities with dignitaries from around the globe...

and have a glamorous, megawatt-smile day, nicies, whether your strutting your stuff on the royal red carpet or dancing in your kitchen.

tune in tomorrow for the 

*royal wedding challenge: part 2 - 

dress the BRIDE!* 

and check out other fun party outfit challenges here like:

your red carpet stylist looks

your oscar looks revealed: part 1
part 2

or your lovely springtime teaparty looks.

last summer's beach party looks

your winter gala looks

and remember your gorgeous film festival looks, too!

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denny delights in...

liliswan  +  makemeadress

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deanna charms in ...

riverofromansk + clutch

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jenna wows in ...

 

stephanie hatch + annapopovich

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terri delights in...  

 hollystalder + bluehourdesigns

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betsy + bess looks adorable in... 

 tessa kim +  andiemcguire

 

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the bargain babe is effervescent in... 

treasures570 + the vintage studio

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 addie charms in ...

Mikiye +   p1xie

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 itchin' stitchin looks divine in ...

 

tonight in paris +  tovasvintage

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:: inspired reading :: the imaginary garden with guest blogger deanna

watching the clouds go by print: jennifer lommers

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i've asked a dear friend, deanna, to be my first-ever guest blogger! she's always inspiring me with her wisdom + wit, kindness + generosity, supermommying + love of handmade. she's a delight & i know you'll love her too. in her series: inspired reading, deanna shares & discusses a fabulous book,  as well as a beautiful indie-find garnered by her reading of it. yay to  great books & great friends!

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During a recent camping trip, my little reader and I decided to investigate the woods near our campsite. As we were stuffing our pockets full of red leaves and collecting handfuls of acorns, I realized that summer was ending. Fall is a beautiful season, my favorite in fact, but as September departs, I'm already mourning the end of those lazy summer days in the park, me and my little reader laying on a blanket under the trees, perfect blue sky above the canopy, all the neighborhood gardens in bloom, gladiolus and hollyhocks, towering sunflowers peeking over fences. I will miss it all.

Then this morning, I pulled from the shelf a new favorite book: The Imaginary Garden, written by Andrew Larsen and illustrated by Irene Luxbacher. This charming children's story centers on the tender relationship between Theodora and her grandfather, Poppa. Poppa and Theo love gardening together, but when Poppa moves to an apartment, his new balcony proves too windy to accommodate a real garden. Theo is heartbroken by the thought of going without flowers, but she and Poppa soon discover the perfect solution when Poppa props a large canvas against the balcony wall. Donning gardening hats, Poppa and Theo take up their paintbrushes and set to work creating a beautiful imaginary garden.

Today I asked my little reader if she'd like to make an imaginary garden of our own. It would be as simple, I told her, as going to the art supply store and buying the biggest canvas that I could carry. We'll get out our paint bottles and brushes, put on old t-shirts, and lay the canvas on the lawn. Together we'll paint petals and stems, grass and leaves, dirt and sky, and more than enough sunshine to see us through the colder months ahead.

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about the blog author: Deanna does most of her reading in Guelph, Ontario, where she's a stay-at-home Mom to a spunky 5-year-old daughter. Besides reading, she spends her time writing, baking, and hanging out at the park.

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wonderful! thanks so much dear deanna!
little rikrak + i love this book, too! and we loved how it inspired handmaking with kids, too!

so how about you?

have you read the imaginary garden?

what did it inspire in you?

read a book that's inspired YOU lately? 

please tell us! we'd love to hear!

have a create-your-own-fun kinda day, nicies!

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your 2010 festival looks revealed!

 knit frekkles charms in ...

 emilyryan + BagatellesAndCo

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ulixis lights up the red carpet in ...

JulyS + vadjutka

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travelinmama sparkles in ...

 simplicityisbliss + travelinmama

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vadjutka delights in ...

idea2lifestyle + staroftheeast

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Anne-Marie looks sweet in .. 

Thrush + giant dwarf

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good heavens ... you beauties look gorgeous!
so move over hollywood starlets!
zillion-dollar designer outfits have nothing on our amazing handmaking community!

i asked you to join me on the RED CARPET at the Toronto International Film Festival  (shield your pretty eyes from the blinding paparazzi flash bulbs, cuties!) .. so now you can join me in oohing and aahing at today's handmade & vintage TIFF looks!

thanks again so much to everyone who played.
sorry i couldn't include everyone this time around. but you all look STUNNING!
so yay to handmade + vintage!
& how lucky your celebrity dates are escorting you!
see you at the *afterparties*, cutiepies.

and have a glamorous, megawatt-smile day, nicies, whether your strutting your stuff on the red carpet or dancing in your kitchen.
see you tomorrow,  superstars!

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deanna { the inspired reader! } delights in ...

Lirola + VerseauVintage

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rags by sock monkey rocks the red carpet in ...

 louiseblack + limegreenmodern

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 ira grant looks gorgeous in ...

MQuin +  Jealousydesign

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Jacaranda Designs sparkles i ... 

 magnolijaDRESS + Jacaranda Designs

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UNA looks stunning in ... 

JRoseAtelier + UNAshop

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:: inspired reading :: Nikolski with guest blogger deanna

indie finds inspired by the book Nikolski

:: top :: geekel + gbrosseau  + holli 

:: middle :: maverick photo +  donnageissler + sushipot

:: bottom :: jenwildcat + blurrylens

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i've asked a dear friend, deanna, to be my first-ever guest blogger! she's always inspiring me with her wisdom + wit, kindness + generosity, supermommying + love of handmade. she's a delight & i know you'll love her too. in her series: inspired reading, deanna shares & discusses a fabulous book,  as well as some beautiful indie-finds garnered by her reading of it. yay to  great books & great friends!

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Have you ever felt that life was getting a little too ordinary, predictable, or just plain dull? 

I started the summer off in a bit of a rut. The sun was shining but laundry and dirty dishes seemed to pile up as fast as they could be done. One day, while chatting about books, a friend mentioned Nicolas Dickner's debut novel Nikolski, which had somehow eluded my notice in spite of its numerous literary awards. Fortunately I took up this recommendation the next day.

Nikolski tells the story of three young Montrealers. There is Joyce, a fishmonger with pirate ancestors who also freelances as a dumpster diver. Noah is an archeology student who spent his childhood as a nomad, traveling across Western Canada with his mother in a 1966 Bonneville station wagon named Grampa. And there is also an unnamed used bookseller with an heirloom compass that points towards Nikolski, Alaska.

The novel is imaginative, beautifully written, and terribly funny. More than once I was reminded of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez. As with Márquez, the ordinary laws of physics and probability don't always apply in Dickner's fictional world. Magic is commonplace. Coincidence reigns. Noah awakes one morning to find the ghost of his great-great-grandfather sitting at the kitchen table. One night Joyce discovers the perfectly mummified body of an office worker in a downtown dumpster. The booksellers' flooded basement transforms into an icy sea complete with shells, urchins, and a Leviathan.

Nikolski is one of those novels you don't want to end. Even now, weeks after I turned the last page, I still find myself thinking about its characters and their stories. After finishing the book, life seemed a little more mysterious and amazing. In short, it was the perfect cure for my summer rut, and left me feeling as if one morning I too might find a distant ancestor sitting at my kitchen table.

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about the author: Deanna does most of her reading in Guelph, Ontario, where she's a stay-at-home Mom to a spunky 5-year-old daughter. Besides reading, she spends her time writing, baking, and hanging out at the park.

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wonderful! thanks so much dear deanna!

so how about you?

have you read nikolski? 

what did it inspire in you?

read a book that's inspired YOU lately? 

please tell us! we'd love to hear!

have a magical weekend, nicies!

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challenge REVEAL: your handmade oscar looks {part 2 of 2}

what they're wearing!
21. our beautiful friend deanna wears: lovejune + SamiLouBoutique
22. jessica wears: prizysebastian + RikiCraft
23. kate dotson wears: ouma + DavieandChiyo
24. one crafty fox wears: kalioseano + Jealousy Design
25. SimplyInvitingCards wears: OblivionClothing + DreamCatcher Studios

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good heavens ... you beauties look gorgeous!
so move over hollywood starlets!
zillion-dollar designer outfits have nothing on our amazing handmaking community!

after a splendid entrance by the lovelies in part one of our walk down the Oscars red carpet yesterday, (shield your pretty eyes from the blinding paparazzi flash bulbs, cuties!) .. i know you'll join me in oohing and aahing at today's handmade Academy Awards looks!

thanks again so much to everyone who played.
sorry i couldn't include everyone this time around. but you all look STUNNING!

so yay to handmade + vintage!
& how lucky your celebrity dates are escorting you!
see you at the *afterparties*, cutiepies.

and have a glamorous, megawatt-smile weekend,
whether your strutting your stuff on the red carpet or dancing in your kitchen.
see you monday, superstars!

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what they're wearing!
26. marie's corner wears: MagnolijaDRESS + marie's corner
27. high on craft wears: verytreschic + nansglam
28. vadjutka wears: larimeloom + kirevi8
29. Lucinda's Nice Things wears: JosianePerron + Lucinda's Nice Things
30. pulp + paisley wears: Vintage Frocks of Fancy + madebysam
31. plushroom soup wears: Carolinasoma + whichgoose

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