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DIY: Anthropologie Fluted Ponte Dress

November 23, 2011~ SEWING

My Inspiration:  Fluted Ponte Dress from Anthropologie $158.

in my closet: a similar dress c/o romwe.
theirs vs. mine
what you’ll need:
a dress(buy similar here and here.)
liquid stitch
fraycheck
scissors
1 yard+ black velvet trim
black thread
sewing machine
needles for hand sewing
1. Put the trim around the waist and mark with a pin where it ends.
2. Cut off the extra trim to the desired length.
3. Fray-check the ends.
4. Put the trim through the dress, onto the waist.
(optional*)5. Using liquid stitch, glue on the trim to the waist part of the dress.

6. Sew the trim around the back until here(as pictured).
7. Add snaps in the middle and the side.  Requires hand sewing.
*the reason why I added a snap on one side and not the other side
is because since that one side is tucked in, it didn’t move 
whereas in the other side kept falling down.
NOTE: The reason why I didn’t sew the trim all the way around the waist 
is because if I had, the trim doesn’t stretch so I wouldn’t be able to 
put the dress over my head.  So the extra unsewed part of the waist acts 
kind of like a zipper where it’ll stretch wide enough to go over my head/hips.
If this dress had a zipper, you would sew the trim all the way around the waist
and stop right before the zipper area on both sides.
The after:
and the girls wanted to participate in the picture taking.
but it stopped when they wouldn’t take turns sharing who gets to stand by mommy.
Oh, the joy of motherhood of feeling so loved! 🙂
Estimated time: 30 minutes
Skill level: Beginner
Budget: Very low.  
(It cost me $1.70 just for the velvet trim.)
Yes!  I saved over $160!
P.S:  Happy Thanksgiving weekend!!! 
To celebrate Thanksgiving, I’m offering 30% off all headbands from my store!
enter code: GIVINGTHANKS at the check out.
I hope you’ll have a wonderful, relaxing, & a lazy weekend! 
(at least that’s my plan anyway. 😉
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Mindy Gledhill Winter Moon Giveaway.

November 22, 2011~ Etc.

We have a giveaway for you for a copy of Mindy Gledhill’s newest album, Winter Moon. I recently transformed her dress she wore for her music video Winter Moon. Image via mindy’s blogpost: The reinvention of a dress Image via mindy’s blogpost: What a weekend So I’m so happy to host this giveaway for Mindy […]

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snowman, snow angel, snowball fight!

November 21, 2011~ Etc.

over the weekend we woke up one morning with our girls screaming, “mommy, daddy!  there’s snow outside, come look, come look!!! can we go play in the snow?”  so we bundled them up in their purple snowsuits(which i just call purple marshmallows because i think they look like giant purple marshmallows with it on) and went […]

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indoor camping.

November 18, 2011~ Etc.

one of our favorite things to do when it’s cold outside  is to have an indoor camping. we turn on the fireplace, take out our tent and sleeping bags  and roast marshmallows by the fire. we roasted the jumbo size marshmallows which is a fun idea but it just takes too long!  we are not […]

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TAGGED: camping, family 7 Comments

glimpses of our family christmas cards.

November 17, 2011~ Etc.

we are planning on sending out christmas cards this year for the first time which is a big deal for us since we’re not the best at sending out cards.  i think we only sent out half of our thank you cards from our wedding, isn’t that terrible?  in case you came to our wedding […]

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Hello! My name is Sarah and I am so happy to have you here! Here you'll find DIY sewing, DIY home building & decor, honest and vulnerable posts of motherhood and snippets of my family. We are building our dream house and will update you regularly on our whole process from start to finish and I am also starting a mother-daughter sewing series. So I hope you stay awhile!

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