ReFashionista
Creating now.
Creating Now.
Hello fellow travelers. I’ve returned! 🙂
I’ve been revamping a few things around the old blog, and I hope you dig the changes I’ve made.
You’ll notice I’ve changed my tagline from, Change the way you think about fashion. to Creating now.
So what’s that about, eh?
When I first started this blog years ago, it was an outlet for my creativity which was pretty much relegated to refashioning $1 thrift store finds. But that was more than half a decade ago. Since then, I’ve grown and evolved as a person and a creative. Lots of things excite and inspire me nowadays.
I don’t want to just do refashions anymore, and I don’t want to be just a fashion blogger. To be frank, I’m completely amazed that so many of you have read my little blog when there are so many fashion bloggers who are younger, hipper and infinitely more Instagram-pretty than me (not being insecure, just being realistic here). 🙂
ReFashionista is evolving. From now on, I’m going to be blogging about thrifting, home decor, food, art, general life stuff and yes…refashioning. I don’t know whether or not any of you will want to tune in to the awkward adventures of this SIOD (single income, one dog) 30-something, but I hope your will. 🙂
Perhaps 2017 will be the year I find true love, reach new levels of success in my marketing career and help encourage others to live a life more creative.
Or maybe I’ll just drink a lot of wine. We’ll see.
And now…a refashion.
I began with this comfy/cozy/dated blue dress.
It’s not bad. I promise it isn’t. It’s roomy, but it in a good way, and incredibly soft.
There were exactly three things I didn’t like about this dress. The first was the awkward mid-calf length.
The second and third were these guys.
I could have just cut off the bottom in a straight line and hemmed it, but I was feeling a little feisty. I folded the dress in half and chalked out my new hem.
Here’s a closer look:
I snipped along the chalk line, with the dress still folded in half…
Then treated the edges with fray-check, just to be on the safe side.
The end result was a funkily-hemmed dress that paired well with a few of my favorite pieces.
I’ve decided that my old Dr. Martens are my favorite boots this winter.
I’ve been happily contemplating ideas for future blog posts, and I’m feeling incredibly energized from my hiatus.
I can’t wait to see what the next few months will have in store. 🙂
Cheers!
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I love your blog and am really looking forward to the posts about decor and thrifting! My favorite things. Keep up the good work.
I’m THRILLED that you’re back! And, I will definitely continue to follow your adventures. I think creativity comes in all forms, so I’m excited to see what you’ll create this year! You have such a fun writing style, along with your cool ideas and photos – it makes your blog pure joy.
So happy you are back and feeling refreshed…great start for the new year. I enjoy every single thing you post so looking forward to expanded topics. Keep on taking care of yourself in the new year.
Way to go girl! I love your creativity in ANY area you choose to share with everyone!
I’m excited to follow along with the new changes!
I’m happily anticipating the additions to your blog. You’re a great writer and very relatable, so anything you chatter about will be of interest to me, SITC (single income two cats). I taught myself to sew as a teenager and am an avid thrifter, so I we may have been separated at birth. Keep living the dream!
Monica of CT
I enjoy your blog and look forward to your new revamped one!! Hope that 2017 is your year to blossom and grow!!
So glad you are back! Greatly missed your posts. Congrats on your revamp and new direction. I’ve been doing the same. I’ve been trying to find my “why?” I do what I do. Luckily, I found it this past weekend. Keep up the great posts!
I enjoy your blog whatever you choose to share. I especially enjoy the refashions but will look forward to whatever moves your spirit! Thanks!
Awesomeness!!! I’m excited for you! Happy New Year Jillian!!! I love reading your creative fun projects!!!
Love the dress! And so many things to be thrifted and refashioned! I’ve actually done some furniture so I’m wondering if you will venture into that. Looking forward to your new adventures!
Totally love this refashion, I love the color and the hem line the best.
I think the boots are a hoot.
Love the Feather card so pretty.
Blessings
Catherine
Can’t wait! You’re the best!
Enjoy your blog here in U.K.
I could read your detailed narrative on paint drying and still be entertained. I will definitely stick around!
I agree with this 100%!
Ditto!
P.S. The more Douglas, the better!
I totally understand. I’ve made some similar changes because I don’t like being in a box. I have a dress similar to that one, minus the shoulder pads. I might do something like that, but I have to take in the sides too if I don’t want to look like a house (I’m a bit larger, and shorter :D)
Welcome back! You were missed! Can’t wait to see all the fun stuff you come up with. You are blogging now about everything I love, not just sewing, so that’s even better. Happy New Year!
Hey, once you buy a home, it owns you. Less time for the projects you could do
when you were a renter. I am glad you are back and am looking forward to whatever you post! Thanks!
I’ve been enjoying your blog for several years, and if you branch out to other areas that’s fine with me. I’ll probably keep on reading your blog because I like you, but I never would have met you except for the blog.
So glad you’re back!! I just found out about the refashioning world and you’re by far my favorite to read. I love that you incorporate your personal (fun) life into your blogs. Look forward to more!!
You’ve been missed. Welcome back!
This SITC (single-income, two-cat) 50-something admires your thrifty fashion sense. You’ve encouraged me to see some things in a different light. Thanks!
Glad you are back. I enjoy your insight on both refashion and repurposing.
On this dress I would love to see it taken in just a little through your waist area to enhance your petite figure. Seems there is a little extra fabric there. Otherwise I love it.
Keep on sharing your insight! Thank you
I think it is amazing that you have reinvented yourself in a way. I, too, am an eclectic and appreciate many, many things. I look forward to your new blog from and its creative inspired posts.
Happy New Year to you! I enjoy your sense of humor when you present your ideas. It is very refreshing to feel your enthusiasm.Congrats on your new adventures.
I am glad you are back and I know I will continue following you in your journey.
Glad you have re-charged and look forward to all the new ideas!
Love the hem on this one!
Welcome back! As much as I love your fashion ideas – I am sure I will love your other creative ideas as well. Looking forward to reading about your ideas.
Really looking forward to more Jillian in 2017. Even though I don’t see much, your refashions help me look at other things differently. Upcycling is a great way to find new purpose, and I really look forward to getting more inspiration via your blog.
Your new focus sounds great to me. Keep it going. Whatever you have to write about and photo will be okay with me. Give Douglas a hug for me. Barb
Yay! So glad to see you back! I love your sense of creativity and fashion. Can’t wait to see what you have in store for us!
Yay! Happy to know and see that you are back and looking forward to seeing more of your creative journey.
I’ve always felt that we either evolve creatively or stop creating all together. I’ve always felt that once a creative bug strikes, no matter what sort, it can evolve into becoming a creator. I think that the sewing and re-fashioning is how you started and now you are evolving.
It sound like lots of fun, lots of learning and lots of new things on the horizon and that’s how it should be. Wishing you a very Happy 2017, love your zig zag dress! x
Still the cutest and still the most inspiring of all.
We all deserve to evolve! I am looking forward to your changes in 2017!
Welcome back! Glad you decided to keep blogging, you’re great at it! And we don’t come here for the pretty, we come here for the cool and neat and inspiring, so keep it up! 🙂
We like you because you keep it real!
Glad you are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So happy to see you back blogging. Not a thing wrong with being happy single with a dog! Pure unconditional love!
Welcome back! I love to see what you are up to.
I’m so happy that you are doing what you love. I have been reading your blog for a while now, I don’t know how long. I stopped reading some other fashion blogs for the very reason you were questioning–that they are impossibly pretty, impossibly shaped, impossibly perfect. It was depressing. That type of look is totally unattainable for me, in virtually every way. And you are just as pretty as they are, but you are realistic. You don’t hide behind three pounds of makeup. You don’t practice model-worthy poses on perfectly empty streets or gardens or beaches or whatever. You’re just *you*, a person, like me. Also a person. Just regular. Can I put on a dress like the one you made today? I can. Will I look just like you? No, but your blog doesn’t make me feel like I have to. Not only that, but it also doesn’t make me feel like I have to spend hundreds of dollars a month on new clothes, either, when I’m a stay at home mom who drops off kids at school and waits to pick them back up in carpool. I don’t need $400 pants to do that and couldn’t afford them even if I wanted to. But I don’t want to look like a fuddy-duddy, either. Thank you for hanging in there with your blog and making it something you can enjoy, too. I hope that my comments will come across as the compliments they are intended to be. You are an inspiring person and I wish you all the best with your newly revamped blog and creativity. Thanks for inspiring me and many others.
I’ll keep reading! I don’t actually know you but i feel like I do 😉 The internet is odd that way.
OOO- I’m looking forward to more of your ideas! & you can never have enough cute dog…
Also, Nanabobana said it better than I did 🙂
Looking forward to exciting new things!
Hi Jillian happy new year! Missed you – glad you’re back. I love your ideas about adding thrifting, lifestyle and other DIY ideas to the refashions. Though really love your refashions! I also am a SIOD person but much older. LOL I have a doxie also a male black and tan piebald named Bailey. Doxies are the best! Cheers!
I am so glad you are back. A few things:
I read your blog because I love your voice.
I don’t always love each refashion but I always LOVE what you have to say about it. I am really looking forward to reading about your new line of creativity. I am expecting it to be just as good as everything that has come before it.
Love your blog and adore you. I have two grown daughters of my own and I think you are the cutest little thing. But more importantly, you inspire me to do something different, not follow the crowd. Oh, and I love your weenie dog…we have one in our family too (among a bunch of other dogs)!
Super Super Cute! (YOU and the dress!) I can’t wait to see what you have in store for us in 2017. Girl, just do what you do! It’s all good!!!
Woo Hoo, you’re back! The new blog sounds great and incorporates all of my favourite things here in grey, rainy old England! I still love your re-fashions though, so please keep them coming as well as all the other stuff…….can’t wait 🙂
Oh Jillian ! I am thrilled that you have gone with the flow of evolution in your life. It happens to all of us to some degree, some more than others. This is going to be great—a little bit of everything and trite as it is, variety is the spice of life.
I love this dress and the length (at least at the points) is so much more complementary to a modern woman.
You have a lot going for you, don’t ever think otherwise. You are adorable cute (no one will disagree), have a figure to envy, zillions of friends, a nice home, good job, and the very handsome and attentive Douglas. Seriously, can you ask for much more ?
I will always welcome as many blog entries as you send out to us.
Great to see you again! I’m looking forward to seeing all your plans as they unfold.
2017…I’ll be right here with ‘cha. Creativity is unlimited…no borders or walls. I love what you do and it inspires me! Oh! And Douglas is sooo handsome 🙂
Glad to see you are evolving. Love what you have done and looking forward to the new. You always make me smile.
I’m in – sounds great!
What a wonderful start for the new year! Looking forward to seeing your new creations and inspiring ideas.
I love the way the hem on this refashion is fluttery. It looks great! And as for your blog’s new direction: GO FOR IT! Creativity can be anywhere in your life, and things go better when it’s everywhere if possible!
I love this dress and the hem is great got to fine me a dress .Thank you for the ideal. Love love it
Be all you can be girl! I will come along for the ride! I love the simple changes you made to that dress! It looks fantastic & on trend!
Welcome back! Looking forward to seeing what you and Douglas have in store for us, and what the next year has in store for you! <3
I love your blog – and the fact that you are so honest, natural and “normal”. Thanks for all the hints and tips and look forward to more ideas to copy! Best wishes and good luck to you and Douglas.
I think change is part of living. Bravo that you are continuing to be creative and sharing it with us.
So glad you’re back! Evolving is a good thing! I’m looking forward to all the new creative content you (and Douglas maybe?) will be blogging about.
I love your blog and so glad to see you back!
Great job on the dress. I look forward to seeing what you do with the thrift finds.
Im happy to see you posting again. was just looking for you recently! keep posting!
Yay, so glad you’re back. I have missed your blog. I love the refashion. It’s gorgeous!
Welcome back and enjoy this new inspiring year 🙂
Also glad to see you back. Looking forward to seeing your ideas!
newer than most of the followers and I am also glad you are back! may the new year bring you all that is good~here’s to new things! and i am digging the hem on the dress- well done you!
Jackie “)
Glad you’re back! Blog whatever, I’m in!
Great refashion as always. Can’t wait to see all you new ideas both for home and clothing. Sometimes change is scary but I think this change is going to be wonderful
You have been missed! I just KNEW there had to be so much more in that creative soul of yours. Glad you’re going to be sharing it!
Welcome back. Love the new look. I am looking forward to all the new things you will be sharing.
I’ve missed your blog and glad you’re back! You are definitely a creative inspiration to me and I look forward to following your ideas and adventures in 2017!
Good to see you back. Looking forward to new year and new you!
Jillian is back! We have missed you! Go girl!
Yay! Your’re back! I’ve missed your posts a lot. Of course I’ll be here to read your new revamp adventures. Count me in as a SINP (Single Income No Pets)
Great little dress !
Good for you! I look forward to what’s to come!
Very cute!!
I’ve been following your blog for 3 (4?) years now maybe, even though I don’t sew at all, because I love how you see the beauty in ordinary (or even scary!) things and use your creativity to release that beauty. So I am very excited to see you branch out into more areas that might actually inspire me more than the sewing side does (although you shouldn’t stop refashioning either!).
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