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I worked on these heart cut out dresses last week and they are all up on my etsy shop, plus one new romper! As you might know, I love interesting back details and cut outs. I enjoyed adding a little heart in the back of these dresses, and will be posting a tutorial on how to modify a pattern to add a heart cut out next week!

Top left: Puppy Print Heart Cut Out Dress, Top right: Navy and Gingham Check Heart Cut Out Dress,
Bottom left: Lavender Sakura Print Heart Cut Out Dress, Bottom right: Navy and Stripes Heart Cut Out Dress

My favorite is the puppy print dress…I found this fabric a while ago, and snatched it up without clear usage in mind. It sat in my fabric stash for a couple of months. I wasn’t sure if it would be too quicky or weird to wear dogs all over your body. but…last week I finally decided to give it a go, and I really like the result. I think the navy color as a background helps to tone down the cutesy puppy print.

Also I put the rest of my Secret Garden collection on sale. Check them out here!

Photo credit:
Photographer: Jon Packard Photography
Models: Rachael Packard and Hannah Smith
Hair and Makeup: Mayuko Nakamura
Clothes: Vivat Veritas

The new lookbook “After the Carnival” is up on my website under “Collections”! I’m so excited about this new lookbook. After going from dreamy (Secret Garden) to edgy and dark (Flicker), it is a nice change to have a lookbook that features crisp, clear images with fun bright colors.

As I mentioned before, we initially planned on shooting outside but because of the rain, we had to improvise and do a studio shoot. This was my first studio shooting experience, and it was so much fun! You can tell that we were having fun! The smiles were genuine.  Who wouldn’t have fun with balloons, bubbles and popcorn…:)

All the dresses and the romper are on sale at my shop. Take a look at the new section, After the Carnival🙂 For other sizes that are not listed, contact me about your desired size and I’d be more than happy to custom make an item for you.

Also, the 20% off coupon code applies to the new dresses and romper! The code is valid until July 4th, Monday at 5pm Japan time. Enjoy!

Top: Nautical sweet heart cut out dress
Bottom: Nautical red and stripes dress

Some people find Japanese Summer weather hard to bear with, since it’s humid and muggy. When I feel the humidity in the air and I can no longer put my hair down, it for some reason gets my mind thinking “Nautical.”  Around this time of year I start wanting to make items with ships and sea animals and what not.  Why is that?  Last year, I made several “sailor”  themed items (seen here, here, here, here and many more if you look at my etsy sold items from last Summer:p ). I really like working around a certain theme, and I decided to do the same this year. This is a part of my Scrap Heap project. I did not buy new fabrics to make the two dresses above. I really need to work on my current fabric stash or else I won’t have any room for new supplies!

I took out the gray and white pin stripes fabric, and made these sun dresses. I love adding piping in contrasting color, I think it instantly adds edge to a simple garment:)

1.Navy and white striped Tokyo tote ($49), 2.  Gold plated nautical anchor pendant charms($1.80), 3. Twisted Bracelet ($16), 4 & 5. Nautical bandeau from Amourouse

Above are my current etsy favorites…

I live pretty close to beaches, and going to the beach often and surfing are in my to-do list for the Summer. What’s in your to-do list for the Summer?