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Super Comfy Crumple Tie Dye Cropped Sweater
Hello again, friends! How are you all holding up? Personally, I’m already starting feel pretty cooped up, but am pushing through it with a combination of gardening, refashioning, and reading a few books I’d been meaning to get around to.
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SPRING!!!!!!!!
Huzzah! It’s SPRING! Now ends the winter of my discontent! This winter ended on a lousy note, so I’m happy to say goodbye to the blah, and hello to lots of good & positive things that have come into the works since then. 🙂 Let’s start with a new refashion for the new season, shall we? I started with this $1 bit of thrift store fashion: It also had a lining! I like sea foam green.…
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The Blind Pepper
Hooray for warmth! South Carolina is finally hitting those magical temperatures that make you understand what Tennessee Williams meant by The Long, Hot Summer. I love it. I love not having to wear layers. I love how the heat makes everyone just a little crazy. I love going barefoot and feeling like I could drink the air because it’s so humid. And I love fun summer frocks! I’ve had this dress in my refashion stash for a long time, and…
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Forever 31: A Funky Dyed Dress Refashion
When I found this dress by Forever 21 at one of my fave thrift shops, I was reminded that I’m an entire decade older than their target demographic. Yikes. Other than being shoddily constructed by an evil fast fashion giant (end of rant), this dress had a couple of other issues as well. It was about a size too big for me, it was really faded (hard to see in the pic), and it had a damaged zipper. I decided…
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Violet Femme Dress
Hello there! Sorry for being so long absent. I’ve been extremely busy coughing up my weight in phlegm for the past month. :/ I don’t know or understand the cause of my grody lung gunk funk. But now, it appears that I might actually be getting better! Huzzah! 😀 Of course, the best thing about feeling better and no longer being stuck in bed is getting back to refashioning! 🙂 While digging through my big bin o’ refashionables, I stumbled…
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Back to the Orchard Dress
After living in the south for a while, you get used to quirky season changes. Of course, it’s fall, but with temps in the mid to upper 80’s on random days, you’d never know it. Enter this extremely summer-y dress: So what can I do? I want something autumn-y for a day spent at an apple orchard and wineries in NC. I made a dye bath in my washing machine with a bunch o’ this: …and just a little of…
