Wednesday, March 27, 2013

DIY: The Crown Princess of Potpourri

Flower headdresses are everywhere, and as spring approaches I predict we’ll see more and more of them. Luckily, they’re spectacularly easy to make.

What you’ll need:

  • about a dozen cloth roses—buy them or, if you’re feeling ambitious, craft them
  • a plain, plastic headband
  • scissors
  • a glue gun

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Ta-da! You’re ready for the debutante ball.

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Sunday, March 17, 2013

{Vintage} Fashion: Who’s Your Mommy?

I get some of my style sense and most of my wacky theatrics from my mom Carolyn. She’s an incredible writer, a junior Italian chef, a budding painter, and the ultimate “mom’s mom,” showering me and all my friends with love, advice, and more pasta than we could eat in a week!

She’s also found me a sampling of her signature looks from decades past . If anyone’s wondering where I get that big hair…

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The obligatory embarrassing prom shot with my future godfather Joe. That fabulous beehive puts us in the early 1960s.

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Lake Tahoe, California circa 1975

She’s also a talented seamstress and imaginative costume maker. When I was a kid, we had an unbelievable collection of dress-up clothes, and I’m lending friends capes, kimonos, and corsets to this day.

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My Fair Lady, 1980

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Aye, mamacita!

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The bar wench, 1981

She was a costume designer, props mistress, and all-around “stage mom” during all of my high school (and a few of my college) productions. She’s now sewing for Stockton Civic Theater in her spare time, and hopes to someday step up to the stage.

Mama Carolina, you’ll always be a star.

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1988 Amabile Family Reunion. I think I’m a bun in the oven!