My Fall Mood Board

I have been visiting Mood Fabrics' site pretty much every day, checking out their most recent arrivals and most definitely their Fall and Winter fabrics (I've been toying with the idea of making a coat). On my last trip to peruse (might have been today), I started a "Mood" board, so that I could keep track of all the fabrics that I have been crushing on. Mood boards are great, FYI, for keeping track of anything you want to lump together to inspire you to something different.

Mood has recently added the "profile" option to their site and I think it's a great way to bring people to the site and also parlay from the Mood Sewing Network... in any event, if you are a fabric shopper, this might be worth looking into. So here we are at press time, and I have a lot of different fabrics that are inspiring me for the upcoming Fall months. Some are prints, while others are simply rich colors. Any way you slice it, I am taking this mood board and I am running with it.

Pictured Top Left: ASOS Print Jacket with Pockets, TopShop Basic Ribbed Vest, Bright Flouro Shirt, TopShop Modern Tailoring Red/Blue Jacket, MOTO Indigo Denim Pencil Skirt, BB Dakota Benns Jacket in Syrah Red, XOXO Bonsai Boot, Crown Vintage Scout Pump,  LIPS in Trigger, ,SpaRitual Wilde in Running with Wolves and Burst,, L.A.M.B. Jocelyn Pump,  

Do you ever keep a Mood Board for inspiration?

*You can check out my Mood Fabrics Mood Board for all the fabrics highlighted here.

The Haircut, Before and After

You remember how early in the Summer, I asked my readers to help me choose a new haircut? (If not, check out the post here) Well, I did actually get the haircut and have been rocking it for nearly a month now but I never officially shared it with you all. If you follow me on Facebook or Instagram, I am sure you have already caught a whiff of it but I wanted to show you the before and after so we can all be like, yeah, Amanda is a woman of her word.

Labor Day Weekend, a Wedding, the Cape and Love

Labor day weekend we say goodbye to Summer but this past weekend, the man and I headed down to the cape to say hello to celebrating love and marriage! Our good friends, Noah and Elise, had a vow renewal at the Red Jacket Resort in South Yarmouth. Last Winter, they eloped ever so romantically, had a beautiful baby daughter and decided that this Summer they would invite everyone to celebrate the marriage in style. The man and I were both in the wedding party so we were on the go but we made it special by having a little quality time with each other exploring and also having a fabulous time with our friends together. It was a fantastic way to send the Summer out in style!

Mayur by SNS Jewelry Studio necklace (#SNSSTUNNERS) popped with my Joe Fresh Smocked Blouse and Giant Vintage Sunnies

Next Up: Tailoring

You know when you watch episodes of Project Runway and Nina Garcia comments on what excellent tailoring skills that a specific contestant possesses because they nailed a stellar blazer? Well, that's going to be this time next week. My Fall class this semester is Tailoring... and I have heard that we will create a blazer, in and out. I will be 100% perfectly honest with you that I am severely scared. I have quickly realized that I am more a "draper" if you will. I like to play around with fabric on the form and move and shake and all that jazz. I think this is one reason why I disliked pattern drafting. While I learned a lot, I felt like it was too rigid for my creative juices. In any event, this Fall should prove to be interesting and I will surely keep you all updated on my progress or my whining, either or. I think that I will end up with a somewhat wearable blazer or a somewhat frustrating complex in regard to my abilities. Let's see how the cookie crumbles.

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Sometimes You Have to Live... and the Blog Suffers for it.

So you may or may not have noticed, based on how often you visit ol' Prim and Propah, that my blog posts have been sparse for the past couple weeks. It's not that I don't want to blog... gosh, I feel guilty if I even stop to think about it... it's just that I have been really busy doing things that don't involve blogging, or not directly anyhow. I've been busy living. I could give you excuses or catch you up on everything I could/should/would/have been doing, but I almost don't need to document every little thing I do via a blog post. You can see some of my super fun wine/beer/sangria tasting Instagram pics from this past weekend or you can take a peek at my Twitter feed to see what all the flutter was about last night, while I was having drinks and a ball with the Boston Bloggers peeps. Oh and guess what? My handbag class finished this week with a bang! or rather with pocket tutorials, but hey, that is exciting to me! I have some really cool blog post ideas percolating in this head and lots of  DIYs I need to work on/document, so be on the lookout for some cool things coming... but until then, let's just do some cool things with our free time, because life is for the living!