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. I also really liked that nice waist detail and wanted to bring it out a bit. But first, I needed to get rid of those sleeves for a nice, super-warm…
When I Dip You Dip We Dip (Dye)!
This is a sad time of year for me, friends. Fall is coming. My days of frolicking blissfully in strapless dresses and sandals are coming to a close. Layers. :/ Coats. :/ Scarves. :/ Being cold all the time. :/ Blerg. :/ Today’s dress was just a little too big and a little too summery for the changing season. The taking-in part wasn’t a big deal. I also raised the hem just bit. Well…that’s not very exciting, now is it? OH…BUT WAIT! THERE’S MORE! I grabbed a bit of dye… Then, I filled one side of the sink with…
Thoroughly Modern Jilly
When I scored this Malibu Barbie-ish dress for $1, I knew I couldn’t leave it as-is. Perhaps this would work as a swimsuit coverup or some such thing, but as many of you know…I hate pink. Bleh! You can probably guess what happened next! When my dress was dyed and dried, I used a clothespin to keep the top layers out of the way while I snipped the lower ones into strips. This took a while… As I snipped each strip, I tugged on them to make the fabric curl like you see above. When I was done, I ended up…
The Dress that Almost Wasn’t
Hey Everybody! I know, I’ve been absent for about a week now, but you know I’ll always come back to you, right? I was just feeling like I hadn’t been spending enough time with my friends, so I took a little break to relax. Everybody needs a breather every now and again, right? What follows is probably THE MOST frustrating refashion I’ve ever done, and a testament to my lunkwilled stubbornness. It all began with this nautical number right here: Had I found this a few weeks ago, it would have probably ended up being my dress for the Yacht Rock soiree I attended a while back. Sadly,…
Lemon Sherbet Dress
Is this supposed to be a nightgown? While I certainly do look quite angelic in this human doily, I can’t get over the ruffles or the whiteness of it. I hate wearing white. I’m far too clumsy for it, and I feel like it makes me look even paler than I already am! You can probably guess what I did next! Here’s what my dress looked like as it soaked up a bit of dye in its bath: Once my dress way dyed and dried, I chopped off that bottom ruffle. Then, I lopped off some of the bottom hem, starting at…
