I love living in Raleigh, and believe it is important to support local buisness and local products. Great Outdoor Provision Company is our local outdoor retailer, and they have just received a shipment of new GOPC logo T-shirts. These aren’t just any T-shirts though… they were grown and manufactured right here in our own state [...]

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Here is a beautiful new fabric collection from Lizzy House called Red Letter Day. I’ve been on a sewing kick lately, and think that one of these prints would be perfect for the Smocked Sundress pattern from Heather Ross‘ book Weekend Sewing! A little over a week ago, Heather was on the Martha Stewart Show [...]

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It used to be that architects were also obligated to design chairs. Now that trend has shifted to shoes, at least for Zaha Hadid. Her recent endeavor is a footwear line for Lacoste.
The design and texture is based on series of overlaid and repeated patterns to give the shoe a dynamic fluid feel. A winding [...]

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