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Currently In My Inspiration Folder

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Here are some images that I’ve been inspired by…

1. Love these leather shorts with paper bag waist. I’m into mixing different textures in one outfit. These shorts can be easily DIYed by using the BurdaStyle Jane shorts pattern. Image via Natalie Off Duty.

2. All white in the Summer! Image via The Sartorialist.

3.  A ruffle around pocket opening makes simple shorts so darling! Image via ThreadSense.

4. Lemon color + Tulip skirt dress. Image via Karla’s Closet.

5. Adorable nude + black dress! I love everything about this dress, from the color combination to the flutter skirt! Apparently, her sister made this dress for her graduation or some such event. Amazing! Images via s-h-l-e-f-f.

6. A surprise in back! Her bright red top reminds me of a tulip 🙂 Image via Natalie Off Duty.

7. Combination of black and navy is so refreshing. I don’t see these two color combined in one dress very often. Image via Fashion Toast.

Orient Watch Giveaway! – CLOSED

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Hello everyone!

Recently my father came home from an overseas business trip and oddly enough came home bearing gifts.  I was really surprised because he doesn’t usually buy gives for anybody but this time he had some something for everyone.  For me he put enough thought in to pick out a nice little wallet and for my husband he got a self setting solar flared watch.  Andy doesn’t go out of his way to dress up or wear jewelry (although he use to wear all GOLD jewelries in high school! Thank God that phase has passed) but he does like watches and even more than that he likes gadgets so this watch with its cool little features was right up his alley.

Serendipitously, the folks from Orient Watch contacted me about a giveaway his interest perked up.  He looked at their site and was really into their mechanical watches for men.

I am also thinking about picking up a watch but that with the baby I don’t know, how long will the watch last before Kiko throws up on it?  But, that is neither here nor there.  What is cool is that the Orient Watch folks are offering a giveaway for a free ladies watch worth over $100.  So, ladies if you are interented in a free watch you have 3 to choose from:

To enter, just leave a comment below in which one you like and I will have a random drawing in 2 weeks (will be closed on 7/26).  Also Orient Watch is offering my readers a 40% discount till  August 10th with a code “VivatVeritas40“.  I wish I could enter but I can’t 🙁
The giveaway is open to U.S. resident only!

Tutorial: Heart Cut Out Dress

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As I promised, here is the tutorial on how to add a heart shaped cut out to the back of your dress! It’s pretty simple, and once you get the hang of it, you can make the cut out in any shape of your choice! Round, square, star shaped, whatever…variation possibilities  are limitless 🙂 I’m not terribly good at explaining things, so I hope this tutorial makes sense! If anything is unclear, please feel free to leave a comment, and I’ll try to answer your questions.

1. First, pick out your pattern. Recommended patterns are something that’s fitted to the bodice, and has a separate panel for skirt part. For this tutorial, I used the Heidi pattern from BurdaStyle. I recommend Heidi or Danielle (although you might need to modify the pattern a bit to fit to your bodice) from BurdaStyle. If you have a basic bodice pattern that’s fitted to your size, you can use that as well.

2. Cut 4 pieces of back bodice pattern (not center folded). For Heidi pattern, you are supposed to insert a side zipper on the left side, so the back bodice pattern says “cut 2, center folded”. In that case, add 1/2″ seam allowance to center back. You will need this seam allowance when turning the pieces inside out and connecting them together later on.

3. Prepare a heart shaped pattern. I typed “heart shape” in Google image, and printed out the type of heart shape I wanted. You can make the heart bigger or smaller, depending on your preference!

4. Fold the heart shape in half, and place the heart 1/2″ from the center back line. I like to have the heart cut out about 2-3 inches from the back neckline, but not too low, so you can wear a regular bra and not show the bra line.

5. Cut out the half heart from your back bodice pieces. Do the same for all 4 pieces.

6. With the right sides facing, sew the neckline, arm hole and half heart shape as the picture above shows. For the places that’s circled in the above picture, leave 1/2″. You will need this space to connect two back bodice pieces later.


7. Clip the seam allowances for curves.

8. Turn the pieces inside out and iron.

9. Now we connect the heart pieces together. With right sides of the outer pieces facing, pin the right sides of the seam allowances you left in step 6. Top picture shows the seam allowances above the heart and the bottom picture shows the seam allowances bottom of the heart shape.

10. Sew the outer back pieces together as you pinned in step 9. You are only sewing the outer side of the fabrics together, leaving the seam allowances of inner or lining fabrics open.

11. Iron, openning the seam allowances of the outer back bodice pieces you just sewed. Then you iron the seam allowances of the lining back bodice pieces so that the lining covers the seam allowances of the outer back bodice pieces.

12. You can either hand stitch the center seam in the back bodice pieces, or sew it with sewing machine. As you can see, I used my sewing machine to finish the seam.

You are done! Enjoy adding different shaped cut outs to your back:)