Hello guys and gals, I revamped another dress. It’s a good thing I can sew!!! How bored with my clothes I would be!!! lol This is another dress I made last year or the year before(I don’t know, the time goes by so fast lol!!) that I never wore for some reason. I think it’s because it was too short and I couldn’t wear it anywhere but as a beach cover up but never used it for that either…SO I decided to change it up a bit to give it a fresh new look and I am loving it this time around and getting lots of compliments when I wear it.
Here is what it looked like before
I was really hating my short hair but looking back on it now, I guess it wasn’t too bad…but I am NOT cutting my hair again!!! lol
This is how I made it
This is a top I had
I used the top as a pattern and cut around it leaving about a half inch seam or so and I cut it out longer to make a dress. Then I sewed up the sides to fit me and I shaped the front neckline the way I wanted it and turned under the neckline, armholes and hem and top stitched everything and there you have it, a dress.
Here is what it looks like now
Now I have to tell you about my dentist episode before you see the rest of the pictures. I had a filling that fell out on a tooth next to my front teeth and so I had to get it filled so I called my dentist to find out that he was on vacation and so I called the dental office to see if there were any other doctor that could do it as my tooth was hurting. They told me that there was a doctor available and they gave me an appointment the next week. I went for my appointment and the dentist proceeded with checking out my tooth with an ex-ray and then she froze my gums and started drilling where I reacted in pain as it was not froze properly. I am there thinking that usually my dentist waits a bit before proceeding but she started right away and so I don’t think I really had the chance to freeze properly and so she stuck the needle in some more which seemed like forever and went on with her job. Now in the mean time in talking with her I found out she had just got out of school 2 months ago. That made me a bit uneasy but she didn’t do a bad job for someone new. That wasn’t the problem, the problem was that my face was sooooo frozen after that I couldn’t move from my lip to my eye and it looked like the whole side of my face dropped about an inch and I couldn’t get it up as it was frozen solid right to my eye and it felt swollen. This was done at 9:30am and at 12:00pm I was still really frozen but my stomach was grumbling and so my husband and I decided to get something to eat. Since we were in town there isn’t too many choices to eat and I thought I would get a sub. I figured it should be soft enough to chew since it was only a ham and egg sub with lettuce. So carefully I started eating my sub on the other side that wasn’t frozen. My husband and I had gotten a take-out and we parked by the sea eating our subs and talking. The next thing I know I am trying to chew through something that feels rubbery in my sub. I bite down harder to try to break it apart thinking WHAT is in my sub that is so hard?? Then I realize I have taken a bite from the frozen side of my mouth and the thought goes through my mind…I HOPE this isn’t my lip!!!!………….sure enough I look in the mirror to my horror and I’ve tried to eat through my lip!!!! YIKES!!!! Good thing I couldn’t feel it!!! lol That was the end of my meal!! I wasn’t hungry any more…ewwww!!!!! It’s a good thing I’m very sensitive to texture in my mouth or else I may have bitten it right off but I only punctured it!!! Couldn’t feel a thing!!! I wish the dentists would warn you NOT to eat until your mouth is thawed or to just sip on something instead of eating but I think I’ve learned my lesson because I think I want to keep my lips for a while more!!! lol
I wasn’t changing my plans to take pictures of my dress and so you will have to deal with my frozen, bloody,swollen,bruised fat lip lol Actually I love how the pictures turned out even if my face is a bit lop-sided, hahaha
It’s amazing how a little change can make it looks so different and cute!!! I had some lace on hand and I added them to make little cap sleeves and a flounce at the bottom, and there you have it, a new dress that’s slightly countryfied.(I think countryfied should be a word hehehe) Translators it means “from the country”
See how I conveniently keep my weird lip hidden from the camera hehehe
No smiles for you today!! lol It would be pretty scary!!
Have you ever watched the movie “The wedding singer”? My hair was blowing all over the place so I grabbed the ends of my hair to keep it from flying around and my husband said I reminded him of the psycho ex girlfriend when she comes to try to seduce Adam Sanders to get him back, lol So we decided to do that pose, hahaha. I know, we watch to many movies!!!
Have you ever tried to sit on a pile of wood……don’t try this at home!!! lol
There you have it, my new revamped dress and my tired,frozen,mangled,swollen lip. Not my best face but it’s the only one I had!!! lol
P.S. My daughter is going back home tomorrow….sad….I wish she lived closer….I wanted to make her some more clothes. I bought some nice soft green print fabric and I thought I’d make her a little jacket before she went but I’m not going to have time. I guess I could always send it to her. It will probably cost more to ship it than to make it!!
Right now I am waiting for some fabric to arrive that I ordered for a customer to make roman blinds for her bedroom. The fabric is Ivory with pretty washed out blue flowers on it.(Old fashioned) It should look good after they are made, can’t wait to make them!! I’ll post some pictures for you when they are done!!
Bye for now!! xox
P.S.S. don’t say you can’t say you don’t want to!!!
Proverbs 1
New International Version (NIV1 The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:
2 for gaining wisdom and instruction;
for understanding words of insight;
3 for receiving instruction in prudent behaviour,
doing what is right and just and fair;
4 for giving prudence to those who are simple,[a]
knowledge and discretion to the young—
5 let the wise listen and add to their learning,
and let the discerning get guidance—
6 for understanding proverbs and parables,
the sayings and riddles of the wise.[b]
7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge,
but fools[c] despise wisdom and instruction.
Which are you? Wise or a fool? ;)
