Fashion

Something pretty: Heels that glow

March 25, 2010, by happykatie in Fashion

  Alison Lewis (the creative fashion geek brain behind I Heart Switch blog) has a ridiculously great tutorial on how to create Rodarte style glowing heels. I consider this to be the adult / sexy version of those little kid sneakers that light up every time they take a step.  The ones that I have [...]

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Something pretty: Dressed in green

February 28, 2010, by happykatie in Fashion, Shopping

With St. Pat's Day coming up this month, green has been on the brain.  Actually, green is always on the brain – I love the color.  Poison green, emerald green, muted nature-y green – such a wide palette range that I love to see people in.  It's so alive and vibrant. Fancy peacock fascinator from [...]

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Cupcake Monday: handmade girlie cupcake costume

October 12, 2009, by happykatie in cupcakes, Fashion

   The Food network has this great cupcake costume 'recipe' with spray painted foam hair curlers as sprinkles and batting-stuffed fleece for puffy icings.  Cheap, easy and uber-cute.   I've seen some sweet cupcake tights and leggings, so I could see just putting a jean skirt under it and adding a whole new cupcake-inspired touch [...]

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Cupcake Monday: (wearable) Halloween Hostess Cupcakes

October 5, 2009, by happykatie in cupcakes, Fashion

  With Halloween quickly approaching, it's fun to see what some creative gals (okay and probably guys somewhere out there) have come up with for Halloween cupcake excitement.  This month, our October Cupcake Mondays will be dedicated to the Halloween cupcake – spooky, fun and wearable. This snappy little Hostess Cupcake dress number will set [...]

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Cupcake Monday: Sweet enough to… wear

August 10, 2009, by happykatie in cupcakes, Fashion

While you've got to worry about some cupcakes sticking to your hips, this sweet little tunic is designed to do just that.  It's from a SUPER shopping site called ModCloth, highly recommended. I posted this little gem on my happykatie Tumblr blog – where I dump the extra-frivolous little Internet ditties that cross my path.  [...]

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Life drawing for fashionistas

May 15, 2009, by happykatie in Crafty / DIY, Design, Fashion, Video

Ever get that fashion design bug or incredibly strong desire to draw random outfits on random people?  Check out this great Threadbanger how-to fashion sketching video from their recent visit to the Simplicity design headquarters.  Awesome.

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Nothing like a Japanese Greaser

February 6, 2009, by happykatie in Fashion, Totally random, Video

Peter Bjorn and John "Nothing To Worry About" Thanks to deneyterrio for the link, always had a fascination for the Yoyogi Park greasers (check out this great rockabilly Flickr set here for more great stuff).  I really need to go to Japan.

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Houston art scene showing the love at Dr. Sketchy!

March 18, 2008, by happykatie in Art, Events, Fashion, Personal

Houston is a really great city.  We’ve got amazing food, fun random things to do, fantastic career opportunities and passionate, amazing people (*ahem*: Mo-Mo-Monica, Tasty Tiff and DJ Jaymac).  But sometimes there just feels like there’s something missing and that’s where Houston Dr. Sketchy comes in.  A divine combo of life drawing class, performance art, [...]

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Sartorially speaking…

November 19, 2007, by happykatie in Fashion

Does anyone else have an unhealthy obsession with The Sartorialist blog?  It’s the handiwork of prêt-à-porter devotee Scott Schumann, formerly of Berdorf Goodman, Valentinos and a host of other amazing names in the fashion world.  Today he spends much of his time wrangling his daughter, writing his regular GQ page and traveling the world documenting [...]

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