Men's shirt converted into women's blouse

I have this old silk men's shirt. So, I decide to play around with it. I cut off the sleeves and altered the side seam smaller. To add more feminine side, I put on bright color jewelry and cut out jeans to match the blouse. Now, all the masculine side of men's shirt is all gone :)

Men's shirt: J Crew; Bag: Burberry; Jewelry: Nancy Warren accessories; Shoes: Steve Madden.

Black&White mood

I make this stripped black and white blazer cos I can wear them casually and more formal too. I just mix and match the blazer with long tank top / white cotton sleeveless blouse and short / pants / legging as you can see in the pictures. Well, I hope it become useful to some of you.

Blazer: Nancy Warren ( my own collection); legging & short: Giordano ; Pants: G2000, Bag: Steve Madden , Shoes: Sportsgirl, Australia ; Necklace & bracelet: Nancy Warren.

Lien's birthday @Bakerz In +her article.

I have this group of mommies. We are like sisters already. We are sisters in Christ I would say. We know each other inside out, discuss things and even pray for each other in order to support each other. What we have as relationship is beautiful. Since it's Carrollien's birthday, she wants to give testimony, I'm sure it'll become blessing to some people who reads it.
I also upload our favourite menus at Bakerzin. Everytime we have gathering, most of the time we go there since we don't meet up too often due to our busy schedules.

It's pesto sauce pasta with veal. Yummy! It's not as heavy as the one with the cream sauce.

It's flaky pizza. Very different than any other pizza cos the crust is like puff pastry.

This pasta with the sausages is spicy. It's Shierly's favourite (the one with glasses) It's soooo good.

Carrollien's note:

On the subject of Mother-in-Law

Mother-in-Law has been a constant grievances among married adults for as old as human civilization. Both men and women seldom can avoid this matter of what they pleasantly called now as Monster-in-Law.
I would like to share you one truth that God has told me, and this truth has truly set me free. Let me take you through these steps,and hopefully I may bring you to a closer understanding of my meaning.
First, our own mothers are not perfect mothers. Therefore,God gave us "another" mother through our spouse. Our spouse's mother is INDEED NOT our own mother. They are there with all their "difference" to complement the picture of a mother figure in our life. We are conditioned to be the "better" child.
Secondly,why is it important for us to get this complete picture of motherhood in our life? It is because God love our children and our future children. Provided that you as a mother have accepted this truth about motherhood, your children shall be brought up with a better version of motherhood than what you alone without learning from your mother in law may become. In short, you will be operating on motherhood 3.0 instead of type 2.0.
Thirdly,this truth work likewise for the mother who begot a daughter in law or a son in law. I hope we all can say it out loud that we have not been the perfect mother for our children. This particular person that comes through the marriage of our children as their spouse is placed in our life to help us to upgrade ourselves to motherhood 4.0. God is polishing us to be the mother he meant us to be.
There maybe a million ways suggested on how to mend the broken relationship between in-laws, but this is the thing that God has given to me today. God is really always working for the goodness for the people who love Him. Let us stop looking at the oddities and the quirkiness of our in-laws.
I encourage you to try to see your relationship with your in-laws through this new paradigm. I pray that this simple thing shall set you free too.

Love
Carrollien Widiawati

Embroidery Cotton Top

Today is Sunday, when I dress up to go to church. My favourite day where I can have my day off and worship the Lord. Taking a rest from all the hectic schedules and pressure from the works. This is when I can have my total joy to celebrate God's goodness and mercy poured out in my life. He's been generous to me with His favour. What I do is very hard in the way I have to make my customers satisfied every time I design and finish the dress. I have to pay attention to every tiny winy detail in every dresses since I do lots of couture dresses ( you can see them if you add my facebook : nancywarrennw@yahoo.com ) There are lots of handworks, embroideries, handmade flowers etc. So, I really need God's favour to give me more wisdom to handle all those things. Also, someone like me has to adjust with different customers with different characters. I can only pray everyday to Jesus, so I can give my love and good services to all my customers. Pray,pray,pray.

This blouse is scalloped embroideried at the edge of every layers that lay on the shoulder and upper chest area.

At the moment this bag is my favourite cos it has top handle and wide shoulder strap in the same time, it's very handy to me. About the booties, with this not so high heel, I can wear them all day even during my weekdays. Campers shoes are mostly comfortable.

Blouse: Nancy Warren (my own collestion), Jeans: Gap, Belt: Dolce Donna (Takashimaya,Singapore), Bag: Prada, Shoes: Campers.

Traditional Fabric-Batik

This traditional Batik is actually a scarf. Usually Batik comes in brownish/ natural colours. But I love this particular one because it's black and white which looks more modern to me. I can wear it in different ways as you can see them below. So I put 2 straight holes (using buttonholes stitch) like I mark on the scarf pictures lined on the floor. You'll see I put it on in many ways. You can use this ideas to any scarf/ fabric too. I hope it's useful for you.

In above picture, I just simply put it on as scarf with clogs so it looks very more modern and doesn't look like traditonal at all.

In this picture, I slip my arms into the holes so it's like a long loose blazer.

I can also tie in the middle part on my tummy area and it looks more feminine plus more mature.

Personally,I like this one more than the other looks because of the slimmer look with the belt.

This time, I pull all the fabric to my shoulder over the belted tank top. Just for another idea.

The first two looks I wear clogs to have more casual looks, but the ones I wear my Dior stiletto to look more formal.

Blouse/scarf: traditional Batik. Tank top:Zara. Jeans:Zara. Belt: Raoul. Clutch:Banana Republic. Clogs: Sportsgirl Australia. Stiletto: Christian Dior.

Tuxedo Dress

Two wedding parties in two days in a row. Since I have so many dresses due this week, my stitchers finished my dresses just before the wedding started. Gosh....
I purposely made them separately the top and the skirt,so I can manage two different stitchers to do them since I don't have plenty of time. It's been crazy working as fast as we can to hand in so many dresses all at once.
This time I feel like wearing something covers almost all parts of my body. Cos usually I wear things open on the top like bustiers,one shoulder,low neck or halter neck. It's my first time I myself wear a stocking tight fitting tulle covers my upper body. It's a bit difficult to put on,since my husband is the one who buttoned all the way down from the back neck to the waist. Thank him, he never complains helping me up to dress up :) For the skirt, I chose black full circular chiffon skirt. Black & white is my favourite combination. Just to add more color I add Banana Republic clutch,presents from my beloved friends.

The wedding was beautiful. Even the food is better than most other weddings. I wish I brought my camera to take picture the decoration. The mother of the bride is one of my favourite customer. She's a very nice lady with golden heart. She's the type of person who's serving God with her love,time, and wealth. She trains lots of women in MotherWise classes even to the small villages and sponsors thousands of books and facilities for the trainers too. Amazing! Even all my staffs respect her so much,because she's very humble and nice to them too. I think when we show respect and always be nice to the others, people will treat us also the same thing. Remember! What we sow is what we reap. I wish I can upload her picture with my design here. But I already ask her to email me her picture when it's finished from the photographer.
Well, I'm happy for this event also because she told me lots of people gave compliments for her dress I design. It's my personal satisfaction. Happy,happy,happy!

Love
Nancy

Ivory Midi

Wow,when I write this,I just realize this is my first time writing for a blog. I hope everyone likes the way I write things. I wear this outfit to my customer's wedding whose I designed dresses for the whole family. I designed this blouse by myself, and matched it with my old Vivienne Westwood skirt. Luckily, I have this latest pair of mine,Sam Edelman.
I feel comfortable wearing this heel even they're very high. They're just the right angles so my foot don't tilt that much. I've been searching for a pair of sling back high heel that doesn't torture me. Also,they makes my legs longer,cos the midi skirt already cut my legs. YYippy!
xoxo