She Never Buys a Dress, It's Always a Frock

I think this should be the Sugardale theme song:



Oh that Johnny Mercer.

Cruella and Viola

Well, I've got a Flickr account where I've put a few photos up. Such as this:

I've already reached my limit, so I've got to upgrade to the pro account, but I haven't the money at the moment as I just had an eye exam, bought new lenses for my frames, and splurged on a pair of prescription sunglasses, which totaled about $700. Yikes! Half of it is going on my credit card which I hate to do; I've got a goal to pay that thing off and have been pretty good about using it only in emergencies, you know like when your boyfriend needs a root canal. . .

Anyway, new glasses are necessary because it was getting a little difficult to read street signs, especially at night. The sunglasses (which I haven't received in the mail yet) may not be necessary, but hey, I've got some money from custom dresses coming my way in a little while, so I don't feel too bad about it.

I purchased the frames for my sunglasses online at Fabulous Fanny's, the same place I got my cateyes. These are the sunglasses frames I have chosen. I would lurve to have some cateye (the Cruella frames) sunglasses in white, but since they don't come in white, hopefully the Viola frames will look good on me. And hopefully, they'll come tomorrow.

Smells Like a Hole bunch of Garbage

I am sure all you bloggers and blog readers out there are aware that the 90's are now in. And quite frankly I am a little disappointed, but not the least bit surprised.

I do have a theory as to why:

I think that all of the junior high and high schoolers got wind that the 80's were in amongst the hipsters. Having found this out by means of facebook, twitter, and super-fast thumb text messaging, they all went out to the thrift stores and loaded up everything 80's they could find, leaving all of the 90's bull crap behind. So when the hipsters went back to the thrift stores last week looking for more 80's junk to sell on Ebay, and finding nothing, they instead picked up an ugly, black, orange, and pink floral dress, a dingy vest, a pair of black tights, and some boots. Mind you, not cowboy (too 80's), but rather something more along the lines of ropers (which growing up in a small Kansas town, I saw way too much of). Then, they slammed it all together, downloaded some Fiona Apple, Hole, and Garbage, and mourned (once again) Kurt Cobain's tragic death.

What are your theories? Do you all hate the nineties as much as I do? Or am I the only one that will still be wearing my petticoat, and patent leather pumps?

Freddy is tired of spam.

Due to the amount of spam I receive (about 1 spam comment a day) I will now be moderating comments. Don't you just hate those jerks that ruin it for the rest of us? Pff.


This photo is part of the new series of photos we are taking of all my clothes. More to come. . . I am not promising any dates this time, though, because these photos just keep getting pushed back as there are some other deadlines I have to hit right now.

A Playful Little Peek

I couldn't wait to show you at least a little bit of the playsuit I just finished. It is so cute!


Getting sunny blue skies, my time, and my boyfriend's time to all line up has proven a bit difficult. More photos to come.

Etsy Update

Some people rented the Glashaus for an art show/party on Saturday. We didn't stay long because drunkenness ensued and not a lot of people were coming upstairs to see our studio space anyway. But this is the best photo I got of the yellow dress I just finished. (The batteries in the camera died after about 10 photos.)


This dress will be for sale in my Sugardale Shop hopefully by the end of this week. I just have a little playsuit to make, and a crap load of new, cooler photos to take before my grand reopening.

Arrivals

This cotton fabric

was on my doorstep when I arrived home today. I really like it, and there is also green and blue which I must have missed when I finalized my order from fabric.com. (There are a few other color combinations as well, but it was the simple pink and red that got me.)

Unfortunately, and as usual, this will not see my sewing machine for a little while because I have quite a few other projects to work on, and this has to wait it's turn.

I have finally started making some dresses to wear to the coffee shop that I work at, I am currently working on 2 commissions involving a wool skirt suit and a simple smock for some clients, and I've got some serious reupholstering to do.

My boyfriend and I have been looking for a sofa, particularly mid-century, for a couple of weeks on Craigslist with 400 bucks as the maximum amount we were willing to spend. We found a couple that were in the $200 range, but would definitely need some reupholstering. They weren't exactly what we wanted so we waited. And good thing too because Mikey went to a thrift store the other day and found this beaut:

Since it was missing a cushion and was disgusting and dirty, Mikey purchased it for $10. We are going to replace the back cushion(s) with one long one anyway, probably with only a single row of buttons instead of two, the 8" legs will be replaced with 6 inchers, and we are not sure about the fabric yet. But we are thinking blue and getting inspiration from these mid century wonderfuls:

Man, if we had $3,800 we would buy it now, because that is probably the coolest sofa I have ever seen.

The use of three different fabrics is pretty cool.

And this sad little chair that I have had for a couple of years needs a little boost.

And were are going to give it just that with black and white 1" houndstooth and red piping.

On top of all that, I am going to reopen my etsy shop in June with two new designs involving this yellow fabric and this red and white fabric.


Oh and Freddy already approves of the sofa (Sorry, I will never tire of pictures of my dog. Especially when he is laying there all cute.)


I will post progress pictures and maybe a few helpful tips on how to reupholster furniture when I get moving on this stuff. Stay tuned.