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The Swapaholics are bringing back Worcester’s largest Clothing Swap!

If you thought swapping was fun, imagine swapping and shopping for antiques, art, designer clothing, and vintage items all in the same neighborhood. And, to meet the demands of our swappers we are now adding a section for Baby, Kids’ & Maternity Clothes!

Canal District Clothing Swap & Shop
Saturday, May 19th
11:00am – 2:00pm
138 Green Street aka Crompton Place
$5 with clothes to swap, $10 empty handed (cash only)

DROP OFF
11am to 12:30pm
* Bring a 5-10 items of clothing, accessories or shoes you’re ready
to part with, making sure they’re in excellent condition (think quality not quantity).

Canal District Self Guided Map Tour
11am to 1pm
*We’ll provide you with a map of all the boutiques & restaurants in the Canal District who are offering special deals for swappers.
(Alexis Grace and Blackstone Vignette is offering 10% to all our swappers!)

SWAP!!
1pm SHARP
* Be on time, the good stuff goes FAST!!!
* If you didn’t bring a bag of clothes but want to participate in the swap, you can buy a reusable bag from us and fill it up for $10

Everything left over at the end of the swap (2pm) goes to benefit Goodwill of Massachusetts in Worcester.

RSVP

I used the Nicole brand Chalk Pastels from ACMoore Crafts Store: 36 colors for $5

Let dry, then set color with a curling iron and it washes out the next day!

P.S. Tickets are already half sold out for our April Clothing Swap event, so hurry on over!

Last night, while I was trying to get my digital life organized, I realized there was a progression to my outfit photos. I was surprised at how far I’ve come with outfit photos on this blog. It feels really good that this site has been such a huge influence on growing and developing my creative side.

The growing process:
2005 -2006 I only took photos indoors, most with my head cropped out.
2007 I started to take the photos in better light, mostly outdoors in my backyard.
2008-2009 I started to seek out pretty locations purposely to take a nice photo.
2010 I started to lean more towards editorial photos, where the landscape and photographer is just as important as the outfit.

Here are some of my favorites of this learning progress, from a trip Vermont in 2009.

Spring Shopping Fling
with Haberdash Vintage and ReStore

Join us for the spring opening of Haberdash Vintage, with a gift card scavenger hunt with ReStore, Food Trucks, Kona Ice Truck and Face Painting for the little ones, all to benefit Habitat for Humanity.

May 5th (Rain Date May 12th)

10am-5pm
11 Distributor Rd
Worcester MA

About ReStore:
ReStore is a retail outlet that sells quality, gently-used and surplus construction, home improvement materials, and home furnishings for a fraction of regular retail prices. Proceeds from these sales support Habitat’s home build projects!

About Haberdash Vintage:
Haberdash is America’s first mobile vintage shop. Selling handmade and vintage items on the go from a 1950′s classic caravan.

About Kona Ice:
Kona Ice of Worcester, Is a mobile delight that serves up delicious tropical shaved ice throughout Worcester and surrounding communities.

Goulds Hot Dog Truck:
A food truck serving delicious gourmet hot dogs in the Worcester area.

RSVP on Facebook and please share with your Worcester friends!

Last week I repined this Easter Egg DIY to our Pinterest board, thinking that would be cute if I had temporary tattoo paper laying around. Then this morning while unpacking our swap supplies from Texas I found a stack of our Swap is the new Shop tattoos and decided to give it a try. This might have been the easiest DIY ever since I had the tattoos on hand. But, these would be really cute if you made made them in photoshop for Easter with your guest names on them.

Purchase your temporary tattoo paper and design your images or type out the names you want to print in a Microsoft Word document, resizing each to fit on an egg. Print the images on tattoo paper, cut them out, and apply to hard boiled eggs with a wet cloth.

Without fail, every time spring rolls around all I want to do is prance around in flowered dresses with flowers in my hair. So that’s exactly what I do! I made a little flowered headband DIY so you can too! Not into crafts? Thats ok! These headbands will be available in The Haberdash this spring! DIY instructions below the photos!

Materials: Bushels of silk flowers from Michael’s, aluminum floral wire (green or brown), scissors, floral tape, wire cutters and a free 25 min.

Pick your colored wire, mesure and cut and bend in to a circle that fits your head. Use wire to connect ends and cover the wire with floral tape.

Cut the flowers off the stems.

Use the floral tape to attach the flowers randomly along the wire. Need more help, hit me up!

Recent inspiration:

Wearing: Marc Jacobs Bag, Gap Jeans, TJMaxx Top, LC Blazer, Vinage/friendship bracelets, MIA Shoes.

Photos: Adam Towner