Minxy Vintage by Kelly Doust

by Nicole on October 27, 2011

Do you browse through vintage clothes at flea markets and wish you had the knack to breathe new life into the dated smocks, flares and kaftans? Kelly Doust’s Minxy Vintage is the book that will help you transform those items and, in fact, anything that has been sitting in the back of the wardrobe, waiting for a reinvention.

In Minxy Vintage, Kelly combines her love for fashion with creativity and her enthusiasm for craft, and transforms stained, musty, dated clothes into modern and unique pieces. Feel inspired with over 50 projects ranging from customised frocks, wedding dresses, trenchcoats, cardigans and accessories.

This is not just a book about loving vintage fashion – it’s about seeing the possibilities for reinventing all old clothes, and how to look fabulous doing so, no matter what your age, location or budget.

(fishpond.com)

About Kelly Doust as taken from her blog:  http://www.thecraftyminx.com.au

Author of crafty titles The Crafty Minx, The Crafty Kid and Minxy Vintage, as well as the memoir A Life in Frocks, Kelly Doust has been scouring flea markets and charity stores for vintage fashion, fabric and homewares from her early teens, and making and reinventing things in her own trial-and-error way since she was a girl.

Kelly appears as a regular craft expert on television shows such as Sunrise, The Morning Show and Mornings with Kerri-Anne. With a career spanning book publishing, public relations and freelance writing in Sydney, Hong Kong and London, Kelly has written for Vogue, Australian Women’s Weekly and Sunday Life, and is currently working on her fifth book.

I would take the opportunity to scour your local bookstore and grab a copy of Kelly’s book.  If you love, love all things vintage, love going into your local Alladin’s cave of opshops then this is for you! Who cares what other people think or what other people are wearing?  Create your own unique vintage style and wear it with pride!

Enjoy!

 

 

 

PS  Would love to hear about your own creations.  And… I love, love Kelly Doust she is such an inspiration I am going to pluck up the courage and ask her for an interview…fingers crossed x

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Definitions-Terminology-Glossery of Terms – Call it What You Like!

by Nicole on October 26, 2011

 

As most of you are probably new to this blogging game I thought it would be the go to get all the jargon and stuff out of the way with regards to online marketing and starting your blog to get your gorgeous designs online.  This is going to be a bit boring and a bit bland but.. well…let’s just get it over and done with shall we?…..

WordPress:  A popular content management system that is available as a hosted service (wordpress.com) and self-hosted platform

SEO:   Search Engine Optimisation.  The process of optimising everything that influences how a web page will rank in the search engines.

Link:  A “link” is any text or image that you click on to go to another page.  Text links are usually in a different colour and underlines.

Anchor Text:  The actual text you click on is called and “anchor text.”

Keyword:  A “keyword” is the word that a person types into a search engine to search for that specific word.  Multiple words can be typed in a search engine which is referred to a “phrase.”

HTML:  Hyper Text Markup Language.  This does sound daunting and I am not going to go there, all I know is that it controls what is dispayed on a web page and how the page looks.

URL:  Universal Resource Locator.  It’s the thing that starts with http:// and identifies a specific web page.

Blog:  A website that publishes posts.  A blog “post” is an individual article, published at a sepcific time.  The posts are displayed in chronologically descending order.

Blogroll:  A list of links to external sites on a blog.  They are usually displayed on every page of the blog.

Affiliate:  A person who helps to promote another person’s products.

Affiliate Link:  When you sign up to promote another peron’s products you recieve a code which is specificaly linked to you.

Email Marketing:  The promotion of products or services via email.

E-zine:  An electronic magazine, whether delivered via a Web site or an email newsletter.

Autoresponder:  A program that sends an automatic form response to incoming emails.

Opt-in email:  Email that is explicitly requested by the recipient.

Facebook:  A social networking site located at facebook.com.

Guest Blogging:  Writing a blog post to be published on another blog as a temporary featured author.

Vlog:  A blog that publishes video content.

Web Hosting:  The business of providing the storage, connectivity, and services necessary to serve files for a website.

 

These are just some of the many terms that I have come across and I am sure there are heaps and heaps more!  Have you got any more suggestions?  Please feel free to add them below in the comment sections.

 

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Heartsy Me – Get Your Handmade Products Online Now!

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3 Easy & Simple Ways to Promote Your Blog on Facebook

October 18, 2011

  Why only 3 ways to promote your blog on facebook?  Remember…keep it simple, keep it sweet?  I like to keep things simple and sweet hence the three ways to promote your blog on facebook.  There are heaps of ways to promote your blog on facebook, but I am going to stick to just three.  [...]

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Olive & Joy Online Shopping

October 16, 2011

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Everything Patchwork by Corinne Crasberc

October 14, 2011

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Give Credit Where Credit Is Due….Please!

October 12, 2011

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Green by Brendan Moar

October 7, 2011

  (photos and text taken from http://www.fishpond.com.au) OMG if I had a spare $50,000 I would definatly bring the big gun like Brenda Moar to do over my garden.  I love, love this man he is so innovative.  You must also catch his Dry Spell Gardening program on Foxtel, love, love it!!! Green presents a [...]

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Email Signature Tips and Hints

October 5, 2011

  There are so many ways you can format your email signature that it can be a bit daunting at times.  Never fear…   as with a lot of things you can adhere to strict guidelines or you can take your own path. In this short and sweet article I am not going to beat you [...]

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