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Day 318: To Dye For Dress

Day 319: Rose Garden Dress
Day 317: Gotta Have Friends Dress

Hooray for having a washing machine that once again gets hot water!  🙂 I knew I’d want to dye something right away!  I chose this little dress for today.

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Bleh!

This dress suffers from the same condition of many other little dresses that find their way to thrift store clearance bins.  It’s faded and stained.

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Stains! 🙁

Oh…and the red parts have bled into the white parts.  :/

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See?

Now…this dress in unsellable is its current condition, all it needs is a little dye job to get it looking nice & new!  🙂

I reached for a box of dye.

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Hello, old friend! 🙂

Some of you guys might think my color choice is a bit odd.  I went with dark brown because Brown + Red = Maroon, which is one of my favorite colors!  🙂  I also really wanted to make this dress a bit more muted.

I mixed up my dye…

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Not the classiest vessel, I know!

…and added it to my washing machine!

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Sudsy!

I left my dress in the dye bath for about 40 minutes, then gave it a rinse & dry!

Now that dress is looking new and fabu!  🙂

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Nicely done! 🙂
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Cheers to being able to dye again! 🙂

I spent my evening just hanging out watching Woody Allen movies with the very sweet Pongo.  🙂

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Isn’t he handsome? 🙂
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Yay for dye!

Cheers!  🙂

Day 319: Rose Garden Dress
Day 317: Gotta Have Friends Dress