couturesmith
Blog URL http://www.couturesmith.com
Located London, Ontario Canada
Tags sewing, fashion, design, art, farm, family, couture, ontario, london
As a sewer/designer, farmer, writer and mother of five daughters, Couturesmith is the creative outlet for Connie's designs and her wedding gown creations. She also blogs about farm and family life in SW Ontario
Latest Blog Posts
- Flower girl power! Review of Simplicity 4647 on Nov 14, 2009 in Wedding sewing children wedding flower girl dress Simplicity 4647
Micaela – the most recent bride – and I are in love with black and white dresses for little girls. At least we are ever since spotting the most adorable ones in Ottawa on the Glebe. I don’t know who talked the other into a black...
- Power outage! on Nov 5, 2009 in Farming
As I was escorting some animals to their maternity ward at about 5pm last night our hydro went out, plummeting myself and said pregnant sows into total – I mean absolute- darkness. Not one to panic in those kinds of situations (and yes, dar...
- Edible Bean Harvest 101 on Nov 4, 2009 in Farming edible beans
Farming has been getting a bit quite a bit a whole heck of a lot of bad press lately. H1N1 - I REFUSE to call it by its original name!- has given pork producers a even bigger hit in the pocketbook simply by it’s association in name with th...
- Call me Mellow Yellow – Vogue 1102 on Nov 3, 2009 in Kate family sewing wedding 1102 Vogue
This pattern was actually purchased for Miss Lauren, but I thought it would make a great “I have a wedding to go to and I don’t want to look 3 months pregnant even though I am dress” for Katelyn. It took a bit of tweaking, as you...
- Call me mellow yellow – Vogue 1102 on Nov 3, 2009 in Kate family sewing wedding 1102 Vogue
This pattern was actually purchased for Miss Lauren, but I thought it would make a great “I have a wedding to go to and I don’t want to look 3 months pregnant even though I am dress” for Katelyn. It took a bit of tweaking, as you...
- Let’s just ease back into this – okay? on Nov 2, 2009 in Kate family
I am finally gathering photo’s from Micaela and Kent’s wedding. I believe reviews are owed on- Mic’s dress My dress Katelyn’s dress the Flowergirls dress and some reception shots are definitely necessary! For today, I just w...
- Litterless Lunches on Sep 15, 2009 in design sewing business
A random conversation – if commenting back and forth on Facebook can be considered a conversation!- started me thinking today. The discussion thread whatever was concerning school lunches, and the not so new trend towards litterless lu...
