Gifts: Floral Silk Scarf and Block M Genuine Leather Purses
Marusya

One of my favorite scarves is acrylic. How­ev­er if I wear it for too long, it makes me sweat and agi­tates my skin. So when I was out shop­ping for gifts (in par­tic­u­lar scarfs), I searched for ones made of nat­ur­al fab­rics, but they were dif­fi­cult to find. It’s a shame because there were some scarfs with beau­ti­ful design! So instead, I bought some silk and made the scarfs myself! I...

Silk Skirt Designed by Jo No Fui for Burda & Silk Top
bridal separates, Dress, Dresses, Marusya, New York City, Rehearsal Dress, Silk
Jo No Fui Alessia Giacobino Silk Skirt Blouse BurdaStyle Marusya

  I want­ed to make some­thing spe­cial to wear to my friend’s rehearsal dinner. Instead of trav­el­ing else­where for fine fabric(s) and spend­ing mon­ey, I tried to find a fab­ric to use from my fab­ric stash.  After search­ing for some­thing sim­ple and clas­sic, I found some beige silks I bought from Mood Fab­rics in NYC last year. I orig­i­nal­ly intend­ed to use the beige silk for a gown. But after using...

Beauty Begins When You Embrace Your Flaws ‑Chanel
Marusya

Since I can remem­ber, I’ve always had freck­les. Grow­ing up, adults always com­ment­ed on how “cute” my freck­les were. And because of those com­ments (and prob­a­bly the fact that my mom did­n’t have lots of facial freck­les), I’ve had a love/hate rela­tion­ship with my freckles. My mom swore that my freck­les would fade as I grew old­er, but they nev­er did. And since high school, I’ve worn foun­da­tion to cov­er my freck­les...

Manly Guys: Redefining Masculinity with the Animal Print Fleece Slippers
Marusya

I’m always up for hav­ing a sewing bud­dy! This time, I teamed up with my mom. A cou­ple weeks back while run­ning errands with my mom, I asked her to swing by the fab­ric store for some mate­ri­als. But lit­tle did I know that she would be shop­ping for fab­ric too! She planned to sew fun socks for my broth­er and his room­mates. Not only was this fab­ric she bought fleece, but it...

Genuine Leather Beagle Keychain ~Marusya
Marusya

Time is of the essence. Large projects abound! _____________________ In the mean­time, I will post this (almost thrown away) gen­uine leather bea­gle key­chain project! Last month as I surfed the web, I came across a cute leather dog key­chain on ama­zon. This key­chain on ama­zon did­n’t look com­pli­cat­ed, so I fig­ured I’d give it a try! But instead of cre­at­ing a key­chain using one sol­id leather piece, I decid­ed it’d...