Feminism / Sexism Why Guys Really Hate Being Called ‘Creepy’ At the heart of the "anti-creep shaming campaign" is a concerted effort to discourage women from relying on their instincts to protect themselves from harm. Laying aside its likely etymology, calling a dude an "asshole" is a way of labeling him a jerk. Plenty of people can be jerks without being predatory. On the other hand, calling a dude "creepy" [...]
Design The World’s Ugliest Websites – Delicious.com Kern Type, the kerning game Seriously nerdy and seriously awesome. David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ Recreated As Children’s Book [Read + Listen] – ComicsAlliance
Because of you like the outcome once, why not make it again! This is quite literally the exact same dress that I made in June, except in the Mitsi Fuchsia Liberty tana lawn. The intensity of the colour on this fabric really does not come across on screen because when it came in the mail in July I was rather taken aback. Of note (for me): I lowered the waistline [...]
Sewing / Crafting Feather’s Flights {a creative, sewing blog}: Harry Potter Quiet Book no big dill: It’s Okay to be Biased… (Skirt) Nazis, needlework and my dad | The Guardian "Around decorative swastikas and a banal inscription saying he completed his work in December 1941, the British officer stitched a border of irregular dots and dashes. Over the next four years his work was displayed at the four camps in [...]
I collect a lot of pictures of inspiration dresses from around the interwebz, in part to get ideas for things I could make and in part because I like to be aghast at how much one must pay for a dress and subsequent shipping and duty fees only to have it be constructed with questionable craftsmanship. If I am going to endure questionable craftsmanship, it will be my own! And [...]
Soccer Wayne Rooney’s Bicycle Kick Against City: Beautiful Animation By the same artist who did the Gareth Bale animation a few months ago. Has André Villas-Boas Been Sacked Yet? We'll see how long this lasts. Sewing THE WEEKENDER « Weekend designer I need a good weekend excursion bag and this may fit the bill. I usually need photos with my instructions, though… A Fashionable Stitch: Sewing School I lurk occasionally [...]
How to make fabric hair curlers | wonderwoman creations I've been struggling to grow out my hair for the last ten months or so, which is a challenge when you're starting from a pixie cut length. But finding fun DIY crafty things like this helps my resist the urge to chop it all off in frustration because I loved to curl my hair as a kid and I'm kind of [...]
I’m not much of a shopper but one of the things I definitely wanted to do while in London was go to the bricks-and-mortar Liberty of London shop to buy some fabric yardage because it’s prohibitively expensive to buy it in Canada or to have it shipped to Canada from London. Let’s not have any illusions: even buying the fabric directly from the store is expensive as it’s £20/m, which [...]
Made some new couch cushions! I’ve been in this apartment for three years now and felt like I needed a bit of a change in the living room, the smallest of which would be the cushions that the new couch slipcover demanded. They’re simple envelope style covers and I used some Echino fabric that I ordered probably two years ago and never used for anything. (The green/white covers are from [...]
Sewing / Fashion Miss Argentina Costume – Sewing Projects | BurdaStyle.com Those who commit suicide are destined to come back as civil servants! Farmer’s Market Shirt « Experiments and Accidents I'm linking to this because I used the exact same fabric in my "You'll Never Walk Alone" dress and this is the first time I've ever spotted fabric I've used in someone eles's sewing project. I don't know why it's [...]