Linda’s NDAD Creations

Mar 2, 2013 | 13 Comments

Today’s pieces come in from my new friend Linda in San Francisco.  See, Linda came to my book signing at RGB Shop + Gallery in December with a few pieces she wanted some advice on.  Well, she took that advice and made some fab new pieces.  Here’s her story…

I have been following your blog for over a year now. I especially love the fantastic redos the NDAD family has created!  My daughter, Joelle, and I were fortunate to have met you at the RGB Shop in San Francisco in early December.  You encouraged me to do my own pieces and here’s what I came up with.  I love treasure hunting at the thrift stores and found these two maxi skirts.  One had beautiful colors with a chevron design and the other was a classic gray tweed.

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Linda – Befores

My intention was to make pillows out of them, but…

Will Linda still make pillows out of these guys??

 I tried them on at home and they fit (well, one did) and the best part was that they were both lined,  about $3…

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Hello, lining!

…and made of good quality fabric!  I thought to myself, so why not wear them!  I decided to shorten both as per your suggestion – I used another skirt as a guide and was able to stretch out the waistband on the smaller one to make it fit.

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Skirt trim time! (with some kitty photo-bombing!)

Voila! 

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Linda – Afters

I am also sending you two pictures from the SF event. I really love the restyle of the Mandarin collared dress that lovely lady did…

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Lovely lady (aka Julia)!!

I give credit to Joelle for taking these photos.  Thank you so very much for your wonderfully inspiring blog!  And it was so nice to have met you! 

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Me & Linda in action!

Lots of Love, Linda  P.S. I plan to make boot stands with the excess material from the skirts.

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Signing Linda’s book!

Thank you SO much for sharing Linda.  The length changes everything and you styled both skirts SO well!!  I love that you’re still going to work with the excess material left over.  Boot stands are going to be a perfect way to repurpose!

Sidenote, that lovely dress that Linda pointed out crafted by Julia will be featured tomorrow with more photos from the SF signing!

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  • Jean

    Love it! And with the leftover fabric, I’ll bet you could still make a pillow or two. :)

  • Shrav

    What are boot stands?Linda’s remakes were great.

    • newdressaday

      They’re basically inserts you but in your boots to help them stand straight up instead of flopping over. Helps maintain them from getting creases and whatnot. I should make some for my boots :)

      • Shrav

        Oh..I didn’t know about that..thanks for the explanation.

      • Judy B

        In the meantime . . . a quick easy ‘fix’ to maintain your boots is to stick some rolled up magazines or catalogs inside them.

  • Christie

    wow, love the new skirts and how you styled them. :O)

  • Keenzi

    Great job, so chic!

  • Jenni W

    Nice re-styling of the skirts! And I love the way you posed in front of the framed picture that matches both the outfits!

  • Jenni W

    You could make scarves with the fabric as well

  • Cathryn

    Linda, the skirts are great and your outfits (is that what they mean by “styling”?) are even better. I could wear something like that! Thanks for sharing.

  • Judy B

    I love seeing the unexpected, surprising things people do–but in this case, I’m SO glad you kept them skirts! Especially the grey one. A good quality grey skirt is such a great, classic ‘building block’ kind of item to have. You can wear it forever, in a zillion ways. (Can you tell I’m insanely envious you found one for three bucks??) What you did with it here (the pink/grey blouse and silver belt) is GORGEOUS! (The only thing I see that I like even better is the orange cat. Big fat orange cats are the very best kind–every home should have one!)

  • Allison Woods

    OMG I want the dress we are gonna see tomorrow!

  • http://www.facebook.com/quinn.do.9 Komo Qi Do

    luv!