Grandma's Nighty

Hello, hello from Tennessee!

As I mentioned before, my man cake and I came down to visit his family. We arrived here Thursday night (or early Friday morning) and plan on staying for a week.

We had a lot of crazy times on the car ride, but eventually had to stop in this lovely state for a pee break.

Here's the lovely man cake checking on our luggage.

After what seemed like the longest drive in world history, we finally made it to Tennessee. I would have taken a picture of the Tennessee sign, but it was well after midnight, and I could hardly keep my eyes open. 

After unpacking, collapsing into bed, and having a relaxing time with the family, we decided we would all go out.

Sadly, I realized I had nothing to wear that would keep me cool in this crazy heat. 

But that didn't stop me. I had secretly brought a bag full of clothes that needed refashioning. And so I got to searching.

After much debating, I finally settled on this... thing.

I'm pretty sure this used to be someone's grandma's nightgown. It had old, frilly lace all over the collar and wrists of the shirt. I was swimming in it, and knew I could NOT go out into town in something like that.

As the refashion wheels in my brain started turning, my man cake's father announced that we were leaving soon. 

Gah! I hadn't even began to do anything to this terrible nighty! I had to work fast, which meant I needed a nice no sew option.

I began by taking out my trusty seam ripper, and tearing at those sleeves.

Buh bye, weird lace!

Neither of you will be missed.

I then began picking at the collar when my man cake's dad announced we were leaving in five minutes. Eek!

I took my scissors out and vigorously chopped off that collar.

It looks like a baby's bib. 

I had originally planned for this to be a dress, but with my nerves running through the roof, and the clock ticking the time away, I got a little scissor happy. Let this be a lesson to you- give yourself a good cushion of time to refashion.

Since I knew I couldn't wear it as a dress, I tossed it on over top of some capri pants, took the fabric that I had cut off from the bottom, and tied it around my waste as a make shift sash. For added measure, I threw on my favorite owl necklace. 

And tada! 

I wore my awesome new shirt to see the Guardians of the Galaxy at the Lincoln Theater.

This theater is absolutely amazing. It just recently went digital, meaning they now play the new movies. The theater only has two screens, one upstairs and one downstairs, and it is still set up in the old- timey manner. It was an amazing experience.

I had a great time, and I loved the movie! I also loved getting compliments on my new shirt.

I love this shirt so much! I'm actually happy that it didn't turn out being the dress I originally imagined. It's flowy and comfortable. Sadly, in this picture, the sash wasn't tied as tight as it should have been. I promise it just looks like I'm pregnant :P No babies for me. No thank you.

So, what do you think? Not too shabby for a 15 minute refashion, huh? Have you ever been to a theater like the Lincoln? Have you seen Guardians yet? Like always, share your thoughts in the comments below.

Pinspiration

Hello, hello! 

As I'm sure it's easy to tell, I am slightly obsessed with Pinterest. Everything you could ever think of doing is on one easy site. I love it. LOVE IT.

So while I was stalking Pinterest, I came across these adorable DIY earrings.

Those are bobby pins. I just love them so much. It's such a cute, boho type of style, but sadly, I don't have my ears pierced. 

That didn't stop me. 

First, I gathered my supplies.

Two things of paint (black and white), three plastic bowls (one for water, two for the paint), a paint brush, a chain necklace, a package of bobby pins, and a cup of coffee (The coffee is optional... for some people).

I laid down some paper, poured the paint into separate bowls, and laid out the bobby pins.

And I promptly got to painting. I started with the black paint first, and painted from the tips (or opening) of the bobby pin to about half way up, leaving the top untouched.

Hardcore painting action going on here.

Then I laid the bobby pins out on the paper to dry.

I'd like to take this opportunity to say that watching paint dry is probably the most boring thing I have done in a while.

When the pins had finally dried, I took a q tip, and rubbed off the extra paint from the inside.

Rub a dub. Then I painted the top half of the bobby pins in white. Once I finished, I laid them down to dry.

Once they dried, I did a second coat, and let them dry once again (Watching this paint dry was just as boring as the first coat). Once all that was said and done, I took the bobby pins, and snapped them onto the chain necklace.

I snapped all 14 bobby pins onto the chain, tossed it around my neck, and that was that!

I absolutely LOVE this necklace. And I have a strange obsession with the black and white color combo. Black and white, paired together, is just so timeless and classic. Plus, it matches everything. 

So what do you think? The whole process (including the paint drying) took about 25 minutes. That's not counting my multiple coffee breaks. What color combos would you try?

Funky Long Sleeve

Hello, hello! Today is a very busy, very crazy day. Although I already had a full schedule planned, I had scheduled enough time for a really awesome refash, but sadly, things don't go as planned. So instead, I'll show you a really quick, no sew refashion that I can easily squeeze into my busy schedule.

I started out with a gorgeous purple long sleeved shirt. I loved the pattern and the color, but I thought it was just a little too crazy for a shirt. So I made a big ole' snip.

Snippity snip snip.

I grabbed the part of the body where I cut, and pulled it up to my waist, leaving the original bottom hem at the bottom of my legs.

And that's it! Now I have an awesome, cool patterned skirt!

Woohoo! (I know the shirt doesn't match, but I am way too busy today to throw on an outfit. I'll make it up to ya, promise!)

I love this skirt. It hits me right where I like my skirts to end, and it hugs me pretty well, despite being chopped off from a long sleeved shirt.




What do you think I should do with the top part of the shirt I didn't use?

Forest Green? No Thanks.

Hello, hello! And welcome to the first refashion of my blog! Yay! Although technically you could argue that this isn't exactly a refashion, it's a refash to me, so deal with it. Just kidding, but I thought this was a good project to start out with since it was really easy to do.

Today I started out with these lovely *cough* wedges. At first glance, I thought they were a gorgeous shade of gray. But upon closer inspection....

Oh dear Lord, they're forest green! (Excuse the half of my laptop, and the polka dotted sheets)

Now normally I love dark green but that unique of a color can only match so many things. I decided to think of which would be easier: creating an entire new wardrobe that matched these shoes, or change the color of the shoes?

Obviously I decided to change the color.

So I started with my handy dandy, absolutely adorable, tiny bottle of bleach...

...And outside I went. I laid down an old towel, and sprayed those shoes like crazy! After an hour of soaking in the tons of bleach I sprayed on them, those ugly forest green shoes turned a gorgeous shade of off-white.

As you can see, there were a few rough spots, but no worries, I cleared those all up on the second bleach.

And now....

They're perfect!

I love these shoes now, especially since they match virtually everything I could even think about wearing. 

So what do you think of my first "refashion"? What would you have done differently? Let me know in the comments!