The WORD ... 

Chippy Love


Cara Houpt Cara Victoria Chaya Houpt, or better known just simply as Cara or Chaya by friends and family, works as an Intuitive Healer and Reiki practitioner as well as an artist, and a fashion designer of Conscious clothing, that is made with love and blessed with Reiki for your Highest Good. She is highly active within her community, and is constantly working on building stronger roots in the Greater Toronto. Cara was born into a Yoga and Meditation household, consciousness and nutrition, and is by no means short of awareness when it comes to Global concerns, and is always doing her part to bring healing and unity through her work as Unconditional Love, and her Intuitive healing practice(s).

Distillery Art Market and other news

August 17, 2011
I hadn't heard back from the Distillery about my application for their Art Market for weeks, so I had this sinking feeling that maybe I just wasn't going to be accepted to partake in their weekend craft market. Then, two days ago as I was on my way downtown to the Passion For Fashion lecture class, the phone rang just as I was leaving the house, and running around to get myself organized, so it went straight to voice mail. Turns out, that was a lady from Artscape calling me about my application and that I had been accepted to their market, and they were wondering if I was still interested/available for this coming weekend. Talk about broken telephone, and cut lines. This was only after...three weeks of not hearing anything back from them? 
Anyhow, I was glad to hear it, so I called the lady back the next day (yesterday), and told her that I was definitely still interested in coming down for the three days (fri, sat, sun), yada yada..
The only frustrating part, is that I will be doing this alone for three days :\ and here I was hoping that I could some how just sneak in this lady friend (we won't put names just cause :) ) so that she could make a little money too and keep each other company (and well, have a fun day together). Unfortunately, she has to email in some pictures to them, and I don't know how long they will take to give her an answer on whether or not they will accept her product too (who knows, maybe they'll take another week to sort that out too :P yeesh I hope not.) 
So fingers crosses for this weekend, I will be downtown toronto at The Distillery District, some of Toronto's swankiest market spots and places to hit up the fancy restaurants. 

Other than that, I have a few thoughts on the P.F.F classes:
a) I found them to be a bit repetitious of information that I already knew from my own experiences
b) They seemed to be a bit too serious and not very reassuring to the young crown they were preaching to
I understand where the speaker is coming from, and what kind of picture he is trying to draw for those newbies, but at the same time it felt discouraging on some of the things that were talked about.
Anyway, I'll get into further details over that another time.. just wanted to update on what's happening this weekend :)

 

Renew

August 4, 2011
Recently, I decided that it was time to get a little more help (yes, I finally let go of my stubborn ego, and said yes to help).
Appropriately, the organization that I am looking to attend a workshop through, is funded and organized by YES and TFI (Youth Employment Services, and Toronto Fashion Incubator). 
Today was the meet and great, or introduction to one of the head co-ordinators of the program, Gale McCinnes, and we all met the rest of the girls that were going to be going through the wor...

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New summer style !

June 29, 2011


Well, so far I have only one new summer style for you all to check out. It's made to fit snug over any dress or halter top you maybe don't want to show off as much cleavage.
All of my summer dresses are low cut, and I felt like a bit of a magnet for unwanted attention and I never had the right kind of little capelet or crop top to wear over top -- hence the new style :)
I hope that I can pull off a few more styles for you to check out. 
Let's hope that whatever I have at the moment will allow fo...

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"by the seat of our pants"

June 22, 2011
Well, lately I've been trying to come up with some new summer styles, and I realized that I am super low on materials (once again.. it is inevitable that I will at one point be low on materials, no matter what :P)
So, I am desperately trying to figure out what I can take apart to make into something new and pretty for summer, even though I have no time left to sell for the summer months! oh well. 
Keep in mind, I had to put CC on hold for a few months, back in the early spring; now I'm playing ...
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Now Selling On Etsy!

June 20, 2011
Hey there folks! 
Creatively Cara is now selling through Etsy.com, a wonderful online market for artisans, designers, photographers and all types of craftsmen from all over the globe! 
To see more hot ticket items, check it out here: www.etsy.com/people/creativelycara 
 Happy Browsing!
 

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