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Day 326: Grecian Bubble Dress

Day 327: Main Street Dress
Day 325: How to Refashion a Skirt into a Handbag

I love the dark green hue and subtle print of today’s dress…

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This is what I look like at 5am with no makeup and bedhead. Now ya know.

…and that’s it!  I didn’t like weird cross-over top of the dress at all.  It felt really stifling!

I got to snipping!

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Snip!

I carefully snipped the top part away from the bottom part, right along the serged edge, so it wouldn’t fray.

For some dresses, this would be a totally no-sew refash, but I had to stitch down a couple of things before I moved forward.

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Sewing off those pockets!
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Stitching down that zipper!

Next, I pulled it under my arms with the bottom hem as the top, and the smaller waist as the bottom and pinned it once…

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Riiiiiight there!

Then I began folding it back and forth in front of me, making pleats, like so:

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Fold…and fold…and fold…and fold!

Then, I pinned that from the inside.

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Riiiight here!

Alllllmost done!  I pinned one of my favorite brooches to the center of the pleated section (both to accessorize and to secure this dress even further) and that was that!  🙂

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Another one of my grandmother’s awesome brooches!

I wore my funky bubble hem dress to work and for an after-work happy hour showing of an terrific installation by local artist, Eileen Blyth!

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Loving that funky bubble hem!

And here’s a few pics of the installation!

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At the Adluh building!
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This is made from salvaged metal found in the Vista.
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I really wanted to take little orange dude home with me! 🙂

And here’s the artist!

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Either Eileen is tall, or I’m short. 🙂

Cheers!

Day 327: Main Street Dress
Day 325: How to Refashion a Skirt into a Handbag