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{Links} 2015.07.17

My Handsome Bailey

Gaaaah, I'm so glad this week is over! It started with a meeting with a client that absolutely did not go well and I've been busting my arse trying to finish a lot of work in a short time frame. I really only have myself to blame, so lesson learned. Hopefully this time next week this particular project will be over and I can move on from it. Instead of beating myself up over this project, whenever I start to sense that I'm getting frustrated and overwhelmed I focus on how I will feel once it is over. I will feel so relieved. and happy. as if a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. That feeling is driving me to finish this project and it's keeping me surprisingly sane and in good spirits.

So let's move on to what I've discovered the past two weeks. Hope you enjoy some of these links.
  1. Did you catch Norma's tip for working with lingerie elastic? Steam It! This was the first time I've read about this and now I can't wait to try it on my next lingerie project. Thanks, Norma! {Orange Lingerie}
  2. Sometimes I'll think about what type of job or industry I'd like to get into if I were to quite my job. I would love to do something fashion/sewing/fabric related. So I was curious to read about this startup (Maker's Row) that offers an online database of 6,000 American manufacturers for a small monthly fee. And since I've been on a recent lingerie kick, as I'm sure many in the sewing community are, I did a quick search for "lace" and it turned up over 1800 results.....Dare I get into the stretch lace fabric biz?? probably not. But, this sample search showed a sample factory profile, which I initially thought was a made up profile, but I googled it anyway because it looked really cool and I was pleasantly surprised to find that The Pattern Makers is a real business! That's a great business name! How many tangents can I go off on??? {Maker's Row via CNN Money}
  3. I didn't find out about Macaroni and Cheese Day (July 14th!) until the day after. Regardless, this "original" mac and cheese dish needs to happen in my house this weekend, albeit with far less superior pasta. Actually I think recently had this dish at Bucato here in LA and it was fucking amazing. The restaurant makes their own pasta, which really sealed the dish. You think "pasta" is so simple and easy to make, but then you have REAL pasta at a nice Italian restaurant and you realize the shit you've been making at home is essentially crap. {Caio e Pepe via Business Insider}
  4. My husband saw me watering my succulents one day and he asked how often I needed to water them. "I don't know", I shrugged.....I usually just throw some water at them if I have any left in my watering can after taking care of my veggies. Then the other day I was looking through Instagram and saw people use the term "propogating" in reference to succulents, which was completely foreign to me. I then fell down the succulents rabbit hole and eventually added 'Needle + Leaves' to my feedly blog roll. I learned more about taking care of and growing succulents and propogating in one evening than I had learned my entire life. I now need more succulents in my life. {Needles + Leaves // Blog and Instagram}
Hope you have a good weekend! I have a friend in town so we're heading out to an early bird dinner on Sunday evening to beat the crowds at this shabu-shabu place. It better be good!

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