Deck the clothes!

I'M BACK! My dwindling number of readers I'm sure are thrilled. I'm a little excited about this post though. In the past year, someone let me know about New Dress a Day, which has been my new favorite blog to read. Marisa goes to thrift stores and yard sales and finds cheap and mostly ugly pieces of clothing, which she then alters and wears.

I'm a fairly decent sewer (hooray, I have a feminine quality!), and an excellent cheap spender. Unfortunately I have no time. Enter Christmas Break to my rescue! Let's back up. For some reason my mother decided to offer me a heinously colored "dress" (sack) from the 80s:

(FYI, I'm wearing pants under it...I'm not pregnant as it appears.) So this pale pink stretchy knit fabric apparently passed as socially acceptable wear back in the day. Ew. I was going to pitch it, or sleep in it, when my inner creativity starting working.
New Dress a Day made me think that perhaps I could
venture into the land of fabric dying, which I've never done. With my sister's support I headed out to Michael's, and bought some Cherry Red RIT dye.(If you try this, use stainless steel...trust me on this one.)

I did some snipping and hacking and sewing...and Voile! I created my Christmas Eve dress:

(I am, obviously, on the right.) Again not pregnant...maybe it's just the fabric. Remind me to suck in my stomach for pictures.

Tre cute, no? I had a good time, and I feel very resourceful!

Hope ya'll (who am I kidding, "all"?) had a fantastic Christmas! Here's to a happy 2011!!

PS on 1/20/11: I got a better picture of the dress: