Okay so I feel like by now you all know how I feel about detectives (as in totally obessed!) and since I've already dress up as two of my favorites : Nancy Drew in "Ladies in Lavender" and Phryne Fisher in " Miss Fisher's Murder" this week I decided to take a side step from detective and dress as everyone's favorite Investigative Reporter Lois Lane! Okay so I didn't start out aiming for Lois Lane it just sort of happened organically (same as "Ladies in Lavender "did), It all

This just in! Guess who was seen Sunday afternoon in Orange Circle sharing milkshakes and getting cozy on a park bench? That's right folks Dr. Strange, according to our sources The Good Doctor accompanied by a lady friend spent Father's Day hand in hand. Unlike some of his cohorts (ahem Iron Man and Thor) little of the famed Super's "personal" life has been unveiled. In fact very little of this mystic is known, other than that he is a doctor. That's right Sailor Moon our feel

I am super excited to share this weeks garment with you for a couple reasons. The big one is because I not only drew inspiration from my father (Much like in Mama Mia, and Mama Mia 2) but also from my Grandfather and Sister. So this one is going to be very family oriented and I hope you like it as well. Let's start at the beginning. So I've been doing this Challenge for awhile now and am about halfway through my box. Assuming no one else sends me anymore fabric I think we'll

I know ya'll have seen this picture, and I know that because I used in on my other "Mama Mia!" post. And you might be asking, "Why Rachel would you use this picture, and title as second time?" To which I would respond. Uh, because the little blue dress you see to the far left, is this weeks dress! I know in the first post of this title I said, 'I wish I had a copy of this pattern' to which I will declare once again I wish I had a copy of this pattern, and will go a step furth

So in my "Flower Wower" post I talk about Unique Vintage and how they recreated some of Barbie's Iconic looks and then I proceeded to do the same thing. Well lets talk about someone else inspired by Barbie, Mochino. I first watched this runway show when I was in college and prepping for my own runway show. As an avid Barbie fan I was OBSESSED with this collection (and still am) if only I could afford these pieces! Talk about my dream closet. Well anyways last year my cousin w

Okay so I don't know if you guys have heard about UniqueVintage or not? It's a clothing brand I recently found out about online only shop (kinda like mine) who make vintage style clothes (also like me) they recently came out with an Iconic Barbie line, where they made life size dresses of some of Barbie's most famous outfits. I'm not going to say that I wanted to copy them, because I don't I very much love what I'm doing the way that I'm doing it. But when I came across this

Okay, so how did I do guys? This week I was channeling my second favorite Lady Detective (Nancy Drew is #1 in my book) I've never read any of her books but I love the Netflix series! I wouldn't say she was the inspiration because I wasn't watching the show at the time I made the dress. But she was the inspiration for hair and makeup both of which I'm super happy with the turn out. So no there's no murder in this one, I just wanted to look like a wealthy lady who does detectiv

Mother's Day is around the corner and to celebrate I wanted to make something inspired by my mother. The picture above is a pattern that my mother had, one of my very first sewing projects we did together was make view 1, it wasn't my size so we graded it up (that was before I knew how to grade) and I still have the dress to this day. Not sure I can squeeze into it though lol. This weeks fabric was a two-way stretch Velour. Missing its fiber content but safe to say its a Poly

Oh man, if you read my last post you know that my vacation was more of a workcation, as I traveled 800 miles back to my hometown for my bestie's wedding! I had the most wonderful time, and got to celebrate my best friend's big day, I also had the honor of making her dress, which was worth the time crunch. This week I thought we'd talk about the 2nd fashion show I ever participated in, this was before I went to school, before I'd had any formal training, and before I made my o