110 Days to Go: $1 Remake

Today’s dress was pretty much in stellar condish.  It fit well, was made of a thick brocade material, had awesome pockets in the center…three key ingredients for awesomeness!

Day 110 - Before

I wanted to give it a little more character and a little extra punch before I was going to wear it, so I turned to a brand new friend…

Screen Printer Time!

Hello Yudu screen printer!!  This was the final piece that I crafted with Sonya Nimri during our crafternoon – she is a screen printing guru, has all the supplies, and was ready to give me a lesson.

Time to give this dress some Flavor Flav!!

We began with a screen that came from Sonya’s collection.  Flowers, flowers, and more flowers!

Floral Screen!

I was sorting through all the fun paints and came down to three potential winners.  Yellow, fuchsia, and turquoise!  I was playing around with which one I liked best…

Hmm, what color to choose?!

…and ended up choosing the fuchsia!!  We lined the dress up underneath the screen where we wanted the flowers to be, squirted about two lines of paint on top of the design…

Pink Wins!!

…used a squeegee type tool to force the paint through the screen a few times…

Rollin over screen!

…and ended up with an amazing painted stencil!

One flower down!

We continued this process a few times…

Repeat the process!

…until we got just the right amount of flowers onto the dress.

Dry time!

We let the piece dry overnight and ended up with an awesomely, reinvented garment!  This piece was found at the bottom of a pile for a dollar too, which always makes me smile!!

I had a bridal shower to attend and thought this would be just the right dress to match the gorgeous, summery-colored invites!

Pretty Invites!

PS, The above invite is just the sample from the website.  I obviously didn’t attend a shower in NY on Sept. 15, 2012…unless there’s some Back to the Future business going on that I’m not privy to yet.  Doc?

I think I did a lovely little matching job…

Day 110 - After

The day was all about RN, who happens to be one of the coolest people around, and was a lovely, backyard, brunchy, affair. I saw a place card with “Marissa” on it and thought there was just a typo in my name.  Nope, there was actually a “Marissa” who was sat right next to me.  I know what you’re all thinking…we totally got sat at the cool name table!!

Marissa & Marisa

We enjoyed savory goodness (eggs and some sort of ridiculous cheesy-potato melange) before we got to the gift opening with the B2B.

Me & TT bookending the Bride to Be

Oh and there was definitely no lack of the sweet treats either.  Hello cupcakes!!!

Tower O'cupcakes!

I took my randomly chosen cupcake that in no way was handpicked to match my dress and devoured it, fondant bow first.

Matching Cupcake!

It was a wonderful afternoon to be part of a group of new friends and already established friends sharing love and excitement for a special gal in all of our lives.

Ready for a kickline!!

I’m newly, yet highly addicted to screen printing too now!  I cannot wait to get my hands on my own machine to try out more colors, different fabrics, and other garments.  This is just the beginning friends

More weekend fun coming tomorrow…