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DIY: Tiffany Blue Dress.

April 17, 2012~ SEWING

When I got invited to Breakfast at Tiffany’s, my first thought was, “What am I going to wear?” I contemplated for a little bit and collaborated with one of my sponsors to have a dress shipped to me. Unfortunately, the dress came the day of the event, after the event had already ended.  Talk about perfect timing, right? 🙂 So the night before the event, I was stressing out but then remembered this really pretty aqua blue fabric I saw at JoAnn’s a week earlier.  So I went and bought the fabric, and after I put my two girls to sleep, I sewed like a mad woman.  How late did I stay up making the dress?  5 a.m.  Yep, 5 a.m people.  I wasn’t taking this whole event seriously or anything. 😉  So after 2 hours of sleep, I attended the long-awaited Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
Was it worth it?  Yes!

The picture below shows more the true color of the dress, a bright pastel aqua blue.
It was super windy when the pictures were being taken, so the skirt part of the dress didn’t look as neat as it usually is.  This is how it normally looks.
The lovely photographs taken by Jessica Peterson Photography.
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modestify a LBD.

April 2, 2012~ SEWING

 dress c/o oasap, shoes c/o sheinside.
i’m so excited to let you know that from now on, i’ll be collaborating with Jessica Peterson, an amazing photographer, and also one of my dearest friends, with my DIY projects!  she is beautiful inside and out and has a gift to recognize and capture beauty through photographs.  her photographs are classy, sophisticated, clean, beautiful, and i don’t know how else to word it, but it looks very upscale and expensive.  haha, does that make sense?  just look at these photos, they’re one of my favorites.  so no more me-taking-the-picture-through-the-mirror photos, hooray! 
i modestified the dress by adding black fabric on the bottom of the skirt.  instead of picking out the seams of the bottom of the skirt, i added the extra fabric to the bottom of the skirt and sewed it along the already-there seams of the skirt.  i didn’t sew the bottom of the added-fabric since the fabric cut nice and clean without any fraying.  
project budget: very low(mine was $1-2 per dress)
estimated time: 10 mins.
level: beginner
romwe giveaway winner announced here.

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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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