so inspired by this look today! our office coordinator took an old oversized button-down shirt and turned it into a skirt! she just buttoned it up halfway from the bottom, stepped into it and tied the sleeves around her waist – add a cropped tee and boots and you’ve got 90s grunge perfection. just another (…) Read more »
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Wednes-DIY: Instagram Photo Wall
Jul 13, 2011Today’s DIY project was inspired by this post on apartment therapy. Free People has an instagram account and I love so many of the photos that our home office girls post there – it’s like our little visual diary. I LOVE the idea of printing out our photo memories and making them into wall art! (…) Read more »
friday hair tip!
Jun 24, 2011this adorable fabric headband caught my eye yesterday…and our buyer who is wearing it had a great idea! you can make these with old free people bags :) i know i, for one, have about ten of them lying around so i decided to try it out! (…) Read more »
DIY Dog Leash
May 11, 2011In response to popular demand, I messed around with some scrap fabric this weekend, and came up with this extremely easy to make dog leash! Cut scrap fabric into about 2.5 inch-wide strips. They should be at least a foot long. Taking three strands, make a knot about 2 inches from the end. Make another (…) Read more »
hair inspiration
Apr 26, 2011one of our designers had the coolest hair style yesterday- she braided ribbons into her hair! she said it’s actually really easy- knot the ribbon into your hair at the start of the braid, making sure the ribbon is longer than your hair. (…) Read more »
fan stories: on the fresh coast
Jan 10, 2011today i want to share a couple more fan stories that have been sent in! the first comes from amy, who sent in some photos from her blog on the fresh coast, which is titled after living along the great lakes her whole life and weekending near the wisconson glacial lakes, a common activity among (…) Read more »
diy inspiration!
Dec 29, 2010this awesome photo was sent in by our reader jenna, who wrote: “so i’m on winter break…and have a ton of free time. i bought a cheap ukelele and am currently teaching myself how to play via youtube. anyway, i was still bored, so i decided to decorate my uke using acrylic paint… i think (…) Read more »
facebook fans get in the holiday spirit
Nov 29, 2010such a sweet little sketch. one of our fans tried the hand-drawn frames! it looks so much better than mine! and a mini tree inspired by our store displays! so rad. (…) Read more »
more DIY inspiration
Sep 29, 2010kaitlin, a sales associate at our roosevelt field mall store in NY, uses old free people catalogs to make these awesome notebooks and frames! i keep all of my old fp catalogs and use them in collages, but i might have to try this instead… i love her collages! thanks so much for sharing kaitlin (…) Read more »
among the wildflowers
Sep 22, 2010one more really cool fact about the wedding i posted about yesterday? the invitations contained wildflower seeds! the paper can be planted, leaving guests with a patch of wildflowers to serve as a beautiful reminder of the occasion. such an amazing idea. check out the website where they ordered the invites here. (…) Read more »
tie dye is my bag
Aug 11, 2010how cool are these tie dye bags? we are using these as packaging for the vintage loves collection and i think they are so beautiful - plus they were made with love by some of our fp girls right here at the home office. the ingredients: dye in shades of fuchsia, orange, yellow, purple, turquoise (…) Read more »
quilted inspiration
Jul 07, 2010our current creative theme “quilted memories” has had me thinking about my quilt that i started making last year. i’m ashamed to admit it has been sitting in a box full of fabric for months now waiting for me to return to it, but during sunny spring and summer months i find it hard to (…) Read more »
