Dress a palooza

So theres this wedding coming up. Bridesmaid dresses are needed. Hence the beginning of dressapalooza. We walked away with a few good finds and some rather amusing finds...

cute lil number with an interesting top half

yes one is required to pose like a ballerina while wearing pastely pink

speaking of pink, did you notice the one shoulder flower action?

and then there was this dress. Perhaps this is why the sales lady asked if I was looking for a Homecoming Dress

Did you see the shoulder bow? And the flower like bottom half of the skirt?? OMG!!!

But the favorite of the evening...

picture sneakily taken in dressing room in direct violation of "no pictures policy" Hence the weird back gapping of trying to hold the unzipped dress together with one hand while taking a picture with the other all while avoiding extra perky sales lady.

this is the story of a shirt

So way back when we cut our cable I dreamt of all the projects I could do with the lack of distractions.

It turned out to be more accurately describes as "all the projects I could start"

But this lil one actually got finished and got finished on the same day it got started!

I have this shirt, its a shirt I love.

I hate the sleeves.

They are barely there and poofy

It's like they couldn't make up their minds, either be a sleeve or be gone!

So I decided to make up their minds for them...

ignore the pit stains. i get to play outside

2 hours every day. in the summer that means

i sweat. a lot. but also have a rad farmers tan

My original thought plan:

I had this old hideous shirt that had normal, ordinary white sleeves. Simply remove them from the hideous shirt and stitch them onto my fav.

Then I realized, hmmm that shirt wasn't ever white, and especially isn't white after being worn/subjected to the mess of toddlers/laundered for 2 years.

Really didn't want to have to buy new fabric. After rummaging through boyfriends closet, then my closet I found a rather fetching looking blue. Not quite matchy matchy, but imagined it would look interesting as a transition piece to my new sleeves.

drum roll....

I think I love the sleeves. We'll wait for a trip through the laundry to confirm. The blue/white/blue seams are sewn on the outside so they'll frey a bit which I'm excited about. Plus now there are you know, actual sleeves on the shirt!

oh and that basket up there on the right?

yeah thats 1 of 3 baskets

trying to contain the mess of projects in process