dressed2love

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Happy Birthday Dressed2love!

March 31 marks my 1 year of blogging! Seriously...from here on out I will consider March 31st my 2nd birthday. It was the day my blog, my leggings, and my dreams of becoming a designer started to become reality. For all of you who just started following check back at some of my very first and favorite blog posts!

In the past year I have been called a super hero, stopped in the street on a daily basis, spent my whole day picking out fabric and my whole night sewing it, have been called the legging girl instead of my name in several convos, sewed my finger (thank god only once), and even been laughed at by NYC tourists...Silly tourists--these leggings are for fashionistas only!!

I had quite the journey. I even ended up taking on another blog (http://www.missgustto.blogspot.com/). Balancing 2 blogs, a full-time job, and sewing leggings, AND a social life is not an easy thing...Thank you starbucks, Thank you all of my followers...and Thank you family...you have been here with me through the good times and the hard times...It sure has been one heck of a year! I can only imagine what's more to come... :)

Tomorrow I might have to stop by Magnolias Bakery on my way home and get a cupcake to celebrate:)

Much love while being dressed2love,
Devyn

Monday, March 28, 2011

Oh the crazy adventures.

I had quite the fun week...which is why I haven't had much time to update my blog. I was running around NYC.

This week some friends of Pamela's were in town shooting two music videos for two winners from the Italian version of "American Idol". I had a lot of fun tagging around on set of both music videos. It was a new and cool industry that I have never got to see! I must say...I really have a more deeper appreciation now for video production. One can get quite the workout running around trying to not get in the frame. They worked all day from 9am to 2am!! Next time you sit at your 9-5 job...think about if you had to stay until 2am!! I really can't complain because I did more sitting around than anything...but hey! sitting around all that time can be pretty tiring too :) I met some really awesome and talented people from both NYC and Italy that I hope to stay in touch with!! Just watching the singer Emma and everyone else around her...working hard...to make her dreams and their own come true...made me wanna try that much harder to accomplish mine.

Oh the things I randomly get involved in...I even got a few small parts in the video...one part I about froze to death standing on an above ground train station...but it was still kinda fun...and I can't wait to see the video :)

filiming in the east village

what a nice day!

filming by the park

The weekend was sooo much fun...then came Monday...and someone made the comment to me that I should re-evaluate my lifestyle...HA. Is that some kind of joke? Maybe some people need to practice what they preach.

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Bangles and Chains

I found my leggings on yet another blog! Cool!! They are really starting to pop up on blogs I have never even heard of! Glad that people are finally starting to react to them in the blogging world :) I even got a cool new nickname "The Legging Lover" :) That I totally am!! Check out the full article here:

http://banglesandchains.blogspot.com/2011/03/legging-lover-devyn-shaughnessy.html

Thanks everyone once again for your love and support! I wouldn't be able to do it without you :)

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Meant to be.

I found this really awesome jacket at a vintage store and couldn't go home without it. The second I put it on and felt it's amazingness and saw how well it fit I was convinced. All day people were passing me on the streets telling me they liked the jacket... It was after I got home and was wearing the jacket that I realized there was some kinda paper in the pocket. I pulled it out and it was a recipt and a tag. The tag was the original price tag from Saks 5th Avenue with a price of $850 dollars! Wow crazy expensive...Then the other I saw was a recipt from a second hand shop in St. Paul where the person who owned it before me actually purchased it. Crazy...the jacket traveled all the way from New York to Minnesota back to New York to be reunited with me :) What are the chances! I guess it was meant to be...

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Raise your Glass :)

So another pair of leggings are about to be shipped off tomorrow morning to my 4th official customer :) This time they aren't going too far...they are actually not even leaving the city..Kinda scary...another person in this city running around wearing my crazy leggings..I wonder if I will ever run into them on accident. I will most def be able to spot the American Flag a mile away.

But anywho...I feel soo lucky to be having such support and positive feedback and also a few sales of my leggings! Really my dream is starting to come true!! Every pair of leggings I have made with love...So I hope you can all enjoy them as much as I do :)

Monday, March 14, 2011

Secrets, Secrets, are no fun!

I know secrets are no fun...but some are just better kept!

Here is some inside behind the "sewing" scenes of my leggings! I wish I could say I have a huge design studio in "Soho" with a beautiful view of the city and an expresso maker. Really I have a studio...with about 4 feet of space to make patterns...and I use my little tiny kitchen table (which by the way is really a patio table) for sewing. It is located in Soho and I do have a pretty decent coffee maker... Not much space to work with...but it doesn't matter...all that matters is the final product :)
My latest creation for a friend of mine...St. Patty's day glitter leggings. :)