Today’s Find!

This is a brief summary of my day today. I started my day off by heading to Target prior to going to work. My main goal was to get shaving cream, however I decided to browse shoes on my way to the shaving cream. (What do you mean they’re not side by side or even close to each other?) They had a good deal of summery shoes on clearance and I decided to browse. Here’s what I found…

I saw these when they were in the $4/pair range and decided that I didn’t like them enough for that price, but after I left the store last week I was thinking ‘eh, $4 is pretty darn cheap for shoes and who couldn’t use more sandals?’ But I was convinced I did the right thing. I never even tried them on. Today when I saw the price though and the shoes with the shiny bottoms, I decided it was time to try them on. It was just to see after all. No harm. Well I decided I liked how the strap looked on my ankle (not typically the case) and said ‘eh, $2.24… You can’t buy used shoes at Goodwill for that price!’ Then I saw the brightly colored ones, the only ones I’d seen on the original trip. I decided I’d find something that would go with them for only $2.24! So I bought 2 pairs of shoes for less than $5! That’s thrifty shopping! I wanted to see how many price changes these things went through, here’s the results, plus how they look on a foot.

Hope you enjoyed my thrifty find!

Birthday Blouson Dress

Yesterday was my birthday and I spent the better part of the day getting ready for dinner out with my husband. Kind of silly since he sees me day in and day out for the last 10 years (almost 8 of those being married to me). But I decided on my birthday I wanted to feel pretty.

The day started off with me working on my dress, followed by a manicure with my husband and breakfast out, then we came back home so I could finish my outfit and get ready. Truth is I had a surprise for him on my birthday. I found the closest Carrabba’s to our house, one of our favorite restaurants that we found while on vacation a few years ago. It’s about an hour away in Boardman, Oh. He never even suspected! 🙂

I thought I’d share my work from yesterday even though I didn’t take pictures of the process due to having a deadline.

First the manicure. My husband picked the color but I like it. Maybe a bit darker than what I would have picked.

Next the dress, it doesn’t fit my model very well because her chest and hips are practically non-existent.

Next the toes. I have a thing for shiny (if you couldn’t tell)!

And a little jewelry to glam it up even more….

I decided I should probably have a purse of some sort to finish off the look with that dress, so I made one from a placemat, with just a snap, thread, and a sew on “gem” to cover the snap.

Last but certainly not least, the SHOES. 🙂

$10 steal from Famous Footwear! I wanted something to wear with them and am so happy I came up with something. Such a good birthday present! New outfit and I got to finally wear my new shoes.

This was one of my presents from my husband, probably by far my favorite in awhile.

I always wanted a bamboo wind-chime just because they are the only ones I like the sound of. The rest just seem to clink and tinkle, not a noise I like to hear, sounds like something breaking.

I hope you have a great day! Keep crafting!

Easter/Spring Outfit

Happy Easter everyone!

 

I decided that for Easter I wanted something feminine and flowy and well Spring-y!  We haven’t had much of a Spring considering this is what we got this past Monday! So much fun to wake up to at the end of March with Easter approaching!

Anyways, I decided to look online at some T-shirt reconstructions and found a wonderful board on Pinterest, which I of course can’t find right now and didn’t follow for some strange reason.  But I came across this and thought hmmm…if I could make it a little less form fitting and more flowy I think that would work…

Here are the results!

Mind you, my dummy is a paper mache dummy that no where near resembles my size, so the outfit looks a little frumpy on m’lady.  I got the wrap skirt pattern from Burda.  Mine took me longer than their suggested project time, mostly because I decided to make it reversible.  It is made from two different bed sheets that I bought from GoodWill.  I’ve been debating about what to do with them for awhile.  The flower patterned one just looks exceptionally vintage to me and the other side is a black striped sheet that I put at opposite angles so that it would come to points at the seams.  I cut my fabric on the bias so it would have some give, just in case the pattern wasn’t so flattering on my curves.  I also put bias tape as my ties, with a single fold in a teal color for the flower side and a dark grey single fold on the grey/black striped side.  I’ll have to take some better pictures of the skirt at a later time and update this.  Overall, I’m rather pleased with it.

Here’s a tutorial for how I made my shirt: link

What outfit would be complete without shoes???   Of course I got shoes =)

 

Best part these babies were on clearance for $10!  They’re by Hot Kiss, made of a khaki canvas material, and I just love the little flowers on the bottom.

 

Let me know what you think.