Happy new year! We’re getting back into the swing of things this week after traveling a lot over the past two weeks to spend time with family for Christmas and New Year’s. I’m now hard at work getting the house clean and starting a major house-wide organizing and simplifying (…meaning getting rid of things we don’t need!) project that’s way overdue.
So…it appears that I’m on a sewing streak. Throughout the existence of this blog, I’ve tried to avoid posting too many projects from the same category in a row, but it appears that I failed in that attempt here. Bear with me on this one; I’ll change gears for the next post!
It’s embarrassing to admit that this shirt has already seen a full year’s (ok, one spring and almost two full summers) worth of wear. It has been fully test driven and has held up well. 
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…