It's Friday, it's the beginning of a long weekend and I'm kicking it off with a little Earth, Wind & Fire action with the gang!! I'm an air sign, so I decided to go with the elements and chose a little blue.

This fabric is a great ruched material which I loved, not to mention the sleeves, but there was this weird black lining inside of the piece which was slightly cumbersome.

That was going to get tackled, but my issue, first and foremost, was the length of the dress in general. I didn't like the bottom so I thought the best first step would be to remove it.

Grabbed my seam ripper and started to rip it apart. In no time my piece was now pieces.

Now I love wearing eyeliner. but the liner on this puppy had to go. Grabbed some scissors and started snipping away.

I trimmed around all the edges and the black material was gone!! Woo hoo!!

I wanted to keep it loose on me, but right now it was still a tad too large. I pinned the new top in the areas that I wanted to stich...

...and I got to taking it in.

After a few minutes under the needle, we tightened up perfectly.

New top for a night under the "I can count them on my two hands" LA stars!!

Let me tell you...we were dancing and slimming all night with the rest of the packed crowd as EWF opened with "Shining Star" and went down the line of other favorites. Our neighbor behind us shot this pic - what you should have seen was the Hollywood Bowl bandshell and fireworks, but all we got was this...