Anthropologie DIY-Bamboo Garden Dress
My inspiration this week was a dress from….you guessed it, Anthropologie. Right when I saw this dress online I thought, hmm I have a yellow dress in my closet…
This dress is about 6 yrs. old from GAP. It’s a little big now and I think I’ve worn it once in the past 4 yrs.
(do you like how my daughter made it in the picture? She’s just sitting on her litttle lawn chair, just chillin’. π
Anthro Inspired DIY-Striped Dress w/ flowers
DId you miss me last week? π This week I turned a XL tank dress into a XS flutter-cap sleeve dress, inspired by this dress from Anthropologie.
I bought this dress on clearance for &7.99 from Old Navy and I first altered it by shortening the waist area(cutting it and re-sewing the waist), took the sides in about 3 inches from both sides, and used that extra fabric to add the sleeves and the flower.
And the result…
Instead of sewing on the flowers, I made it into flower pins so that I could wear the dress and the flower pins in many different ways.
just plain
Anthropologie DIY- Lace Cardigan
Anywho, since it was an earring set, I have one more jade stone ring so if you would like to purchase it, then click here. It’s only $20. And plus, we can be BFF’s and have the same ring! π
Onto my next project:
I bought this size XXL cardigan from Old Navy. (That was the only size left) And some lace.
Then I cut up the sides and the sleeves and sewed it back on after cutting the extra fabric.
Then I sewed on the lace about 1/5″ to the hem. I thought lace in the back around the neckline would be cute so I did that but the lace kept cuffing up and folding so I just cut it off. Then I used liquid stitch(my first time using it and it’s awesome!) on the other edge part of the lace so it doesn’t air up when I move.
And my result:
Molly Hanna DIY
The second one was an inspiration from a designer Molly Hanna. I saw her designs in the J.Crew catalogue and instantly fell in love.
These two necklaces were being sold for $495 and is sold out. So I thought, hey, it doesn’t look that hard… So I wanted to just experiment with it first so I made a “trial” one using jewelry I already had at home.
And the best thing is, it didn’t cost me a penny! I just gathered all the jewelry, beads, hair clips, earrings, flower brooches I had that I don’t wear and just played around and put together what I thought matched well together. Then I just super glued it on a black felt and super glued the black ribbon. No sewing was necessary, yay!
I can’t wait to make another one but this time buying some beads and jewels and I’ll hand sew the beads on a fabric instead. And a photographer Amber Weimer took this picture of me wearing the necklace for one of her projects.
Kinda embarrassed posting this picture haha. But oh what the heck. ^ ^