j wigs and the sag

My lovely friend Shelby got me a gorgeous sheer maxi with a built in slip while she was on vacation, it has the single most 70's print I've ever seen and it's beautiful and wonderful and how the hell did she know. It was more of a midi and awkward looking so it would clearly become a mini once I was done playing with the sheerness of it.

First I cut off the bottom half of the brown slip so that it looked like one of the half - sheer dresses you can buy at AA or Nasty Gal, but I wasn't in love because, well, the dress wasn't quite long enough. So I decided to have even more fun and cut off the front half of the sheer material. No one in my family approves of the peacock-esque feel to the dress, but I kind of dig it? I dunno, it definitely makes it more "dressy" but I'll probably end up cutting off the tail, but until then...

dress ; thrifted from some shop in idaho

shoes ; ebay, rocketdog

cross ; forever21

In addition to making great but slightly ridiculous dresses, my younger sister and I spent about an hour making hilarious but slightly offensive shirts. Tomorrow we're planning on begging our mom to let us buy them, wish us luck.



don't call me little bastard, call me snake

I hate sewing. Like, I really, really hate it. And the feeling's mutual. I can't do it, I don't want to know how to do it, I give up with sewing. Unless. Unless it's a teensy weensy little bit of cakewalk sewing that will make a huuuuuge difference in whatever piece of clothing that unfortunately finds it way to my surgery table. My stitches are uneven, messy, and completely amateurish, but I'm sticking with the somewhat true idea that you can hardly even see it.

Anything that I can do myself that doesn't require sewing is something that I will absolutely put on my mental to-do list and luckily I've had enough time on my hands lately that I've finally been able to do it. Of course these things took about ten minutes each. As far as creativity goes, most of the things I've done are a replica or based on something I've seen someone else do, so I take zero credit for any of the general ideas. The things I'm showing in this particular post are based on something Kylie did on Nice and Shiny and something that Tavi sported on The Style Rookie. So, ladida here you go.

And my most recent/favorite DIY:

l a s h e s 

Suckily enough, I didn't have fake flowers when I realized I wanted to do this so in a five second internal debate I decided to make one with real flowers from my yard because, I mean, it would totally suck, right? And I won't care when the flowers die by tomorrow morning, right? And I won't cry, right? Wrong.

Ah, well. Tomorrow I have a hard day of library-ing, mailing a shirt for this giveaway thing, and shopping for pale pink fake roses and other lovely flowers because I NEED MORE OF THESE. I think I'm actually going to enjoy the dead flower crown, though. What was also great, I put all of the extra flowers in a few empty, cylinder glasses that used to be candles. I'm ~hip~ and ~innovative~ that way. Hip in the smells-like-a-week-old-funeral kinda way. ~Hip~