Welcome to DAY 5 of…

Today’s piece…

The kid version…

I've had The Sound of Music Sing-A-Long at the Hollywood Bowl set in my calendar for months, and it was finding this dirndl and reminiscing of the real one that I owned as a kid that sparked the idea for "Kid Week"! This was found mid-summer and held onto until tonight. You know that I was going to get a little themey for the eve...I mean.

To make this a bit less costumey, I first got prepped to take off the sleeves of this dress.

Grabbed my seam ripper and began rippin' stitches.

I completely removed one from the dress...

...and then got the other before cutting the bottom of the skirt off! I wanted to go shorter, but I really wanted to remove these people who were edging the skirt's bottom. They didn't mesh, especially with the eve ahead, so I had to remove. Now if those people were little children who had music notes coming from their mouths or were in uniform, that would have been a completely different story!!

I trimmed then pinned.

Got out my sewing machine to re-hem and and to give the sleeves a non-raw edge.

I completed the dress, grabbed my partner in crime (my mom!!), and headed to my favorite place in Los Angeles over the summer...the Bowl!!

We got there at 6:30 to watch a costume parade of Maria's, Ray, a little drop of sun (this one won), kids with 16 and 17 on their shirts who jumped on each other's backs (16 going on 17...) and a bevy of nuns, people dressed to the lyrics of "My Favorite Things", and even some marionettes. My favorite, the frog in Maria's pocket (a little kid dressed like a frog) didn't get any love, but totally won in my book!!