I’m the kind of gal who likes wearing a new dress to an event. I’m also the kind of gal who’s low on funds. Thankfully I love the thrill of the thrift store hunt and I can sew.

Picked this beauty up sometime last year for about $1.95. I like buying dresses and shirts from the thrift store which are under $5 ( usually in the $2 range), are made of great fabric but the cut is a bit dated or what not and needs some love; I like the challenge figuring out a way to rework the piece and make it fashionable again. This means I have half a closet full of garments in need of a make over. I like to think that I’ll have the time to rework them all and put them for sale online but in reality I have made very little time for personal sewing which means that it takes needing a garment for an event, like say a wedding, to get me behind the machine.

I tried looking at my fav consignment stores to see if anything there struck my fancy but to no avail. So that meant in the days (literally the 3 nights before I had to leave) I chopped this puppy up and gave it a new life.

In all I removed the sailor collar, moved the bottom ruffle to the middle, elongated the waist by placing the collar fabric there and reshaped the neck and arm holes. It still has the quirky feel of the late 80s/early 90s but with a more flattering silhouette. And ruffles. I like ruffles *shakes bottom to move ruffles*

Very rarely do I reblog. This HAS to be shared. Thank you for clearly laying things out

fripperiesandfobs:

Once and for all…

I seldom browse era tags on tumblr because I get a very great desire to reblog every mislabeled post and scream at the OP. But that would be overly aggressive, and if I’m going to be aggressive, I’d rather be passive-aggressive. Anyway, hopefully if I tag this with every conceivable era people might see it and learn something. Cause knowledge is power! Or, being a dumbass is bad. Whichever you prefer.

1.) Medieval - social/political/cultural/economic era; can be roughly classified as ca. 500-1500

2.) Renaissance - social/political/economic/cultural era; generally between the 14th and the 16th centuries

3.) Tudor - of or relating to the reigns of Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Mary I of England, 1485-1558

4.) Elizabethan - of or relating to the reign of Elizabeth I of England, 1558-1603

5.) Jacobean - of or relating to the reign of James I/VI of England and Scotland, 1603-25

6.) Stuart - of or relating to the reigns of the Stuart monarchs in England/United Kingdom, 1603-1714

7.) Baroque - social/cultural era; ca. 1600-1700

8.) Restoration - of or relating to the restoration of the British monarchy and the reign of Charles II, 1660-85

9.) Rococo - social/cultural era; ca. 1715-60

10.) Georgian - of or relating to the reigns of George I, George II, George III, and George IV of the United Kingdom, 1760-1830

11.) Louis Seize - of or relating to the reign of Louis XVI of France, 1770-93

12.) Federal - American cultural era; ca. 1780-1830

13.) Antebellum - American political/social/economic/cultural era; 1789-1849

14.) Directoire - of or relating to the Directoire in France, 1795-99

15.) Consulate - of or relating to the Consulate in France, 1800-04

16.) Empire - of or relating to the First French Empire, 1804-15

17.) Regency - of or relating to the British Regency, 1811-20

18.) Biedermeier - Central European social/cultural era; 1815-48

19.) Romantic - cultural era; ca. 1825-40

20.) Victorian - of or relating to the reign of Victoria of the United Kingdom, 1837-1901

21.) Second Empire - of or relating to the Second French Empire, 1852-70

22.) Civil War - of or relating to the American Civil War, 1861-65

23.) Gilded Age - American political/social/economic/cultural era; ca. 1868-1900

24.) Belle Epoque - European social/cultural era; late 19th century to 1914

25.) Edwardian - of or relating to the reign of Edward VII of the United Kingdom, 1901-10, although it is usually extended to 1914

 Kapeesh?

(via hoop-skirts-and-corsets)

Goodness it has been a very long while since a proper post. Lots of things from then till now, alas not many personal artistic ones.

I am quiet proud of having a hand in last falls production of EX VOTO:  THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF FRIDA KAHLO 

The Ochre House is a wonderful indi theatre here in Dallas and then needed a bit of help with creating the backdrops for this production. The extremely talented Lucy Kirkman painted the majority of them, but I was lucky enough recreate two of them. 

The first one was The Two Fridas, the second Self Portrait 1926. I was really excited to be able to do the 1926 one since I had based one of my own paintings on it back in 2005.