RIP, adorn!

i found out yesterday that the DIY style magazine, adorn, published by soho publishing, is no more...
so sad.
no one from the magazine told me anything (not that they had to, of course).
i found out the magazine folded by visiting the adorn website yesterday. as you can see, it's virtually non-existent. my curiousity was peaked, and via a little googling, i found a thread that mentioned the magazine's demise in the adorn magazine flickr community. i then emailed some contacts to find out more info...
and suffice it to say, the bad news was indeed confirmed.

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thus, the remix_redux articles i wrote for the mag featuring select photographs from wardrobe_remix are no more.

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thanks again to all the wardrobe_remix(ers) who were featured in the articles i wrote. i could not have done these articles without you, of course!
and a BIG HUGE thanks to adorn for giving me the opportunity to write for them. it was great experience for me, and a heap of fun.

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also: my sincere apologies to those wardrobe_remix(ers) who were slated to be in the remix_redux article in the (now) non-published spring 2008 issue. had i known anything, i would have passed on the news to you sooner.

4.14.2008

big and pregnant. fun!
doing the best i can...the whole pregnancy style thing has been more of a challenge than i had hoped (mostly because my chest is now even more monstrous than it was before this journey started...it eliminates so much that i used to wear that might still fit if they hadn't grown so much).
24 weeks.
-orange wool cowl: hand knit by me -empire waist denim dress: handmade by me. finished yesterday. from a 1964 vintage pattern, using the backside/wrongside of the denim rather than the alleged "correct side". -maternity jeans: thrifted and skinnified by me -brown vintage boots: thrifted -acid wash denim belt: thrifted, pilfered from a pair of overalls that don't fit anymore at the moment because i'm w/child -wooden hoop earrings: thrifted -orange bracelet watch: nixon -blue glass ring: MOMA website -dopey look and flat hair: totally mine.

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-someone who's doing a better job of looking fabulous during pregnancy than me? the stunningly beautiful midoritsuru (who posts regularly to wardrobe_remix). she puts me to shame, pregnant or no. i bow down to her stunning regal-ness, now and forever.
-and another gorgeous woman in waiting: rosiepop, who i mentioned here recently. i can only dream of looking as gorgeous and fashionable as she does at the end of her pregnancy.

mafuyu: (inspiring loops)

i am in deep, deep love with these wearable knitted bits and bobs by japanese knitwear artist/designer mafuyu:

(photo credit: mafuyu)

(bonus factoid: mafuyu is also one of the artists behind the knitted homes (officially entitled 'my town in my home') that made the rounds on the internets some time ago.)