This month I decided to start a new project that could blend my love for design, Disney and amazing prints. On a daily basis a pair of colorful Mickey ears will be posted on my new Instagram account: @365MickeyEars.
I will be making 365 Mickey ears -one per day of the year- with different motifs, colors, themes and other inspirations. I will try to capture most important holidays worldwide and portray a wide diversity of color combinations, patterns, shapes and styles.
Follow me on Instagram ( @joycasasc& @365MickeyEars for those who don't follow me yet) with the hashtag #365MickeyEars to see the complete collection.
Another pattern that I'm very fond of is plaid; perhaps because it's created upon the intersection of stripes or lines (yay!), or maybe because it reminds me of the famous Scottish kilts' fabrics (actually called tartan). I like most color combinations on this type of fabric, and I own a considerable amount of plaid clothing pieces in different colors.
Scarves, dresses, shoes, shirts and skirts have been my outfit choices for these fabrics, which I have in a set of different colors: red, dark blue, dark green, yellow, pink, and orange. In the pictures I am wearing a black and orange plaid pleated skirt, which I made using only a meter of Abercrombie cotton. This was the first pleated skirt that I ever made.
If you've already mastered how to make a gathered skirt, making a pleated skirt is just going to take one different step. Instead of gathering the border of the skirt in order to sew it to the waistband, you have to calculate how many pleats you want or how wide you want them to be. Based on that, divide the length of the complete skirt rectangle into the number of pleats wanted. That will give you an average number of the width for each pleat. (Take into consideration that one pleat has three layers, since it is made in a zig-zag overlay. The width must be for the complete pleat. Ex: 9cm: 3cm - 3cm - 3cm). All that's left to do is create the pleats, adjust them, and sew them onto the waistband.
The color mix of this skirt might look a bit Halloween-ish, which it's perfect because I adore Halloween and its color combos. Speaking about Halloween... October is so close by! That means costume-planning time is right around the corner, and I will definitely be making a post about it.
As I said on my first outfit post, stripes are a recurring theme in my clothes. I simply cannot get enough of them.
In this case I'm wearing a scarlet red and green striped dress. When I made this dress I had already been sewing for a few months, so the project felt easier to complete. My aunt gave me the fabric, which she had bought many years ago to make a beach outfit for herself. I think the fabric gives a sensation of gypsy inspiration, due to its bright color mix and pattern choice.
I paired it with green heels with small bows (by Zabumba) and a rectangle-shaped stone necklace. The halter straps were made exactly to fit the width of the green stripes, and the complete ensemble was carefully matched to remain symmetrical. Here are some quick snaps back from when I sewed the dress.
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As a Disney lover, I am a faithful reader of their weekly newsletters. Within a couple of them, I have recently spotted a relatively new set of short videos called "As told by Disney Emoji"... and they're truly a must-see for any Disney fans.
It's no secret that Disney animated movies (naming classics like Pocahontas, The Little Mermaid, Snow White, and so many others) are memorable, loveable and fantastic masterpieces, but these synthesized emoji stories are really capturing the attention of millions of YouTube viewers that slowly grow in number and hunger for more Disney emoji stories.
The video series focuses in reimagining scenes, characters, props and any other important elements from several Walt Disney Pictures movies following the style of smartphone chats, and showcasing them as a short film. The clever use of emoji-looking characters and icons, which also interact with some of the smartphone's apps and functionalities (ex: contacts and maps), are the perfect combination to develop a trendy short version of the Disney classics.
You can find the "As told by Emoji" playlist within Disney's YouTube channel, currently including 10 emoji animations about the following movies: Aladdin, Frozen, Frozen Fever, Tangled, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Zootopia, Finding Nemo, Finding Dory, Cinderella, and their latest addition, Beauty and the Beast.
The first installment was launched on February 2015, with more of them making their way until now. The Lion King and Winnie the Pooh are the next ones in line to be launched by Disney Interactive Studios, who produces these incredible videos.
If you love this series as much as I do, you can jump right into the emoji fun by downloading the Disney Emoji Blitz! game from either app store, or from their webpage.
