Una vez más me he liado la manta a la cabeza y he participado en otro
intercambio .Esta vez se trataba de hacer un bolso organizado por
Lenna en su blog. Fue precisamente con ella con quien hice los adornos de San Valentín que enseñé hace unos días.
En cuanto vi la convocatoria me lancé a ello, primero escogiendo los tejidos y luego haciendo el diseño que más me llenara.
No lo puedo remediar, me salió de mi estilo como muchas dirían. El caso es que cuando lo terminé ayer mismo, pensé que era de los más bonitos que había hecho. Me ha costado desprenderme de él .
Las telas son especiales, de fantasía , como sedas, , gasas con nacar ( no lentejuelas )......era imposible no hacer un
bolso elegante con estas preciosidades.
Esta es la parte de atrás . Tuve que colocarle un fondo porque transparentaba esta especie de tul de fantasía .
La tela verde con adorno fue bastante difícil de coser a máquina, creí que la aguja se partiría ,pero encontré una forma de coserla . Aún así se soltaron algunas bolitas que
luego reutilicé para adornar el tocado de la dama . La rodeé la imagen con una puntilla de guipur .
En la parte superior recogí la abertura con dos cintas que anudé con un lazo.
Para adornar coloqué unos
abalorios en cristal en blanco que me trajo mi hermano de Bruselas . Ya os he comentado otras veces que los vendían al peso.
El interior está forrado con una tela que tenía hacía tiempo, de la tienda de retales de la ciudad. Nunca se sabe cuándo algo puede ser útil.
Y aquí voy directa a meterlo en su sobre para que vaya de camino hasta América. Good Bye my sweet bag !
Estas fotos serán mi recuerdo.
J. Crew has done it again. This time in Rome. Do you think the catalog team suggests beautiful cities in which to shoot so they can get a nice vacation out of the deal? If I worked there, I would! As usual, the clothes are just as beautiful as the city. Makes me wish that stupid groundhog hadn't seen his shadow this morning so we'd have an early spring!
Vera Wang staged her first runway show for her less expensive Lavender Label collection at the chic new hotspot Bobo, remember the one with the chic black chairs, and I must say, it was the perfect backdrop to the vintage inspired looking pieces.
New York is a buzz right now in preparation for Fashion Week which begins tomorrow so what better way to start things off than by letting you know about a new book that peaks into the homes of some of the most talented fashion designers. Dressing the Home: The Private Spaces of Top Fashion Designers by Marie Bariller and photographs by Guillaume de Laubier has already been out in France but will be available here in either March or June depending on which online book retailer you check, and is perfect for fashion lovers and design enthusiasts alike. 
Habitually Chic apologizes for the lack of posts recently but she has a cold. She will resume her normal posting schedule when she is no longer an "incubus of viral plague". Good news is that she's one stomach flu away from her goal weight! Just kidding! 
I was going to call this post, Chic Country Kitchen but then I remembered that the husband and wife owner's Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch don't care for the connotation that the phrase "country kitchen" infers, especially since theirs is in a loft in downtown New York. Regardless of what they call it, it's one of my favorite kitchen designs. The forced cherry blossoms add to the beautiful ambiance and have me drooling as well. I also thought that Decorno might need a little inspiration after her "home of never ending projects" post today. You can read the entire article about this chic kitchen here.
1) The island: The marble top comes from a lithographer’s studio in Indiana and had to be craned in through the window. Standefer found the tree stump in a forest, and uses it as a cheese platter or fruit stand.
My post about Lyell got me thinking about other designers that I love and my new obsession with Carmen Ho shoes. According to her website, Carmen Ho was born in Hawaii, raised in Hong Kong and educated at MIT where she earned a degree in business and architecture. It was a love of structure that finally led her to designing shoes. 
"Her design philosophy is to celebrate thoughtful details, discreet sophistication, and comfortable fit. She combines her multi-cultural background with traditional Italian shoe-making techniques to create shoes that are laboriously and lovingly made." And I agree. Her shoes are interesting and unique, as well as comfortable. The company also incorporates "social consciousness" into it's business practices which is an added bonus. You can check them out in New York at Bergdorf Goodman and other stockists online. Your feet will thank you for it!
