Hello, long-lost little blog! I found this dress made of beautiful blue-purple lace (or, blurple) for $2.50 at an antique store last fall and it has since hung in the closet waiting to see the light of day. I’m not actually sure if it qualifies as a muumuu, but it’s close, so I’m calling it that for now. I thought I should hurry up and give it some attention while lace is still ‘in’, so decided to fix it up to wear to a friend’s wedding last week.
As I briefly mentioned in a post a few months ago, I ran the Disney World Marathon this past January. And you can’t very easily run 26.2 miles at the most magical place on Earth and not dress for the occasion! I’m not a run-in-a-skirt kind of girl, and I didn’t want to wear a crown, or anything else that would become annoying to wear for FOUR HOURS. I originally thought about a Mickey costume, but I didn’t want to search for red shorts and wasn’t sure about running with the ears. As it turned out, my marathon shoes were lime green and bright blue and reminded me a little bit of the Toy Story alien (remember this guy?). Plus, I also had a pair of shorts in the same bright blue, so I decided to dress like the little guy. As I am quite the procrastinator, I started working on this costume only the weekend before the race, but everything came out just fine in the end.
I found this faux-suede-ish skirt at the Goodwill near my house a few weeks ago, not sure what I would do with it when I got it home. After I washed it, I discovered that it fit alright and debated just cutting off the extra length to make a knee-length pencil skirt and using the excess to make a bag but decided against it. I decided I would never wear it as a skirt because I really don’t actually like the fabric, and there wouldn’t be enough fabric left to make a very big bag. I thought that the ugly skirt fabric looked great with this bright floral fabric so I scrapped the pencil skirt idea and turned it into a cute tote bag instead.
Hello again, long lost blog! It’s been a crazy (almost) 2 months since I last shared a project. During that time, I’ve stayed busy… 
I found this too-big-for-me wool suit for $3 on the last day of an estate sale and decided to try making a purse out of it. It’s a two-piece suit, so I decided I would also take in the skirt to prevent waste!
I’ve been looking forward to this project for several months. I usually get pretty grumpy at football games because I can only pay attention to the game for so long before I get a little bored. Plus, the seats are pretty uncomfortable, and I get fidgety.
So I planned to find a sweatshirt at a thrift shop and use it to make a comfy, one-of-a-kind stadium seat. When I couldn’t find an appropriate sweatshirt, I settled for an Under Armour t-shirt, size large.
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I found this vintage linen skirt for either $.50 or $1.00 at a thrift shop last month. I noticed it was a good quality (though a bit old) and pretty much knew immediately what I wanted to do with it when I saw it….but didn’t know until AFTER I paid $9.00 to have dry cleaned whether or not it would fit (there was no way I was trying it on before I had it cleaned!). Turns out, it did fit! Darn good thing, after the dry cleaning bill turned out to be so high!!
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