Happy Thursday!! I hope everyone's week has been going well. I'm still in hot tea mode and have been taking Zyrtec D on the reg to assist with all my allergies, so I'm looking forward to the weekend that is just so close, you could touch it!!
To bring on the spring weekend a little early (it's daylight savings on Sunday, y'all!!) I'm giving away a favorite combo - a hand cut Primal Elements floral soap and a fab wristlet by Loop NYC covered in sequined flowers! I'd totally let that dangle from my wrist!
To enter, leave a comment below of whether you're pro or against losing an hour this weekend because of daylight savings. I love that it gets lighter earlier - just makes me get super excited for summer! A winner will randomly get chosen next Wednesday, 3/13!
...because we had the perfect thrifted sweater to use!
The floral print kind of looked similar to this speckled knit sweater (from afar) so we decided to try to make it work!!
We had some canvas ribbon that we decided to paint to make a similar color like the ribbon on the Anthro sweater!
We used Tulip's Fabric Spray Paint...
...and did some mixing and matching.
The color was a bit more orange than melon...
...but we thought it would still work out! We hung it on a line to dry...
...and then began to affix to the sweater. Because the color wasn't perfect, we opted to just weave instead of stitch down. We figured we'd have the sweater ready to shoot after we worked on it and if we weren't into it, we could start it all over again.
We weaved the sleeves...
...and weaved the back of the sweater...
...to have it turn into this!!
The essence of the Anthropologie sweater is here, however I'm totally going to go back and re-dye the ribbon a bit more pink, fold the ribbon in half to make it a little skinnier, then stitch the ribbon down. This will make it look WAY better!!
We just loved that we found such a great base piece to work off of that we just had to try this project out!!
We totally had a trial and error craft day which is awesome to really find out what works and what doesn't! Next time you see this piece, it'll look a little bit different :)
This dress was scored in Charlotte, when I was home for Christmas with my family! I loved the rhinestone brooch in the center of the dress, the material...
...and the fact that it was a J. Peterman dress!! I didn't even know J. Peterman was real!!
I thought it was fictional and solely from Seinfeld! I loved George's hat from the J. Peterman catalog...
...and I loved John O'Hurley playing J. Peterman!!
What I did not love about this dress...
Time to turn this into something fabulous!!
Turning this into fab-dom means a little bit of help from Rit Dye! I decided to go the emerald route, being it is the Pantone Color of the Year, and all!!
I took the Dark Green dye, some Morton Salt and added these to the washing machine dye bath with the dress (along with a few other pieces that needed a face lift). Post wash, my pieces were complete!!
I let the dress air dry and this is how it turned out...
Gorge color and NO MORE SPOT!!! I mean, how fantastic is that?
I paired the dress with my Goodwill'ed embroidered purse I got for $3 and had fun twirling it around my arm while the photo was being shot!
I had a gallery opening to attend and thought this dress would be perfect paired with some black tights and my black brogues!!
I also had on my four leaf clover bracelet and some other assorted silver rings to bring out the silver gems on the dress.
It's so incredible to see a little color adjustment giving a garment a complete 180!!
And I leave you with my version of the Elaine dance from Seinfeld. I tried to do her thumbs and kicks, however the thumbs didn't turn out as great as I'd like.
Instead, I'll leave you with a clip of Elaine doing Elaine!
