25 Days Til I Do!

It's Day 25!!! Today's project turned out a little differently than the rest so far which you'll soon see! 

The dress was gorgeous...

...but I couldn't quite figure out the added fabric on the right side of the dress...

It just felt so out of place and overly pouffy.

While I have plans for the rest of the dress, I'm going to tackle this extra bit of fabric today. I removed it from the dress and knew that I could make something fab!!

I added it to a dye bath and did some serious hand stitching.

Any thoughts where this is going???????

HELLO new accessory ⬇️⬇️⬇️

I folded the fabric in half and stitched the sides of it to make a cute satchel! 

And PS, check out that LACE!!!!!! How incredible is that shade??

You might see me at Trader Joe's toting this to bring home my coffee, Babybels, and chocolate covered almonds !!

For some excess fabric, I am totally digging the outcome of this one!

25 Days Til I Do!

26 Days Til I Do!

Day 26 is here and this dress is a doozie!

There's a whole lotta lace...

...and a whole lotta sleeve going on!

I mean there is really lace trim everywhere.

I don't love that the lace is ivory and the rest of the dress is white, so I'm going to do a little color change!

Yellow dye, here we come! Once the dress was finished going through the cycle, I thought keeping the cool lace sleeves short, removing the longer portion underneath, would be the best bet!

Bye sleeve, byeeeeeeeee!

So, now it was time to turn this into a super cute mini!!

Sadly I trimmed too short (😳) SO, I had to make an alternate plan. How about adding a long skirt on top to hide my mistake?

This works, right? Because look how short...

Even though this wasn't the original plan, I'm digging how it turned out!

Paired with a yellow braided, woven clutch, I think the whole outfit came together rather nicely!

I love having to think of alternate options when things like this happen! I'm so glad I kept this skirt in the collection! 😂

26 days til I do!

27 Days Til I Do!

I loved this dress when I first saw it!

There was a sheer embroidered layer on top of a short sleeved dress. 

Kind of felt like a 2-in-1 look!

The bottom had a bit of a flapper vibe, but I was all over that sheer top layer!

Into the dye bath this went!!

The bottom layer was held together with a safety pin (I only realized this after I dyed the piece) so it was an easy removal.

I decided to work with the top layer and the first thing I really noticed now that the color was poppin' was the lack of pearl buttons! Because there were SO many missing I thought about the sleeves I cut off from Day 28's dress... They had pearl buttons and they matched the size of the ones on the green piece, so it was an easy choice to do some button repurposing! I removed them from the leftover sleeves...

...and stitched them to the green piece. New buttons, FTW! 

When this was all done, I was playing around with different ways to wear it. Today I went with a little waist tying and jeans action.

This was another piece where the embroidery took to the dye SO nicely. It feels brand new!

With a vintage silver clutch and my vintage Candies, this old wedding dress-turned-blouse is ready to go!

Oh and there's the vintage Griffith Observatory in the background too...just adds to the whole look. 

I'm 100% in on the adjustments! AND the best part is, is that the top portion of the dress can be worn so many ways...I'm already thinking of alternative options!

27 days til I do!