Student: My dad used to cut my hair when I was little... <---( because you know when you're a Kindergartner you are not little anymore!)

Me: Really?...

Student: Yes, he used to cut it with his machine...

Student: ...but not the mowing machine.

Details:

Shirt: The Limited/ old

Skirt: Thrifted/ refashioned by me

Patterned tights: thrifted new

Belt: Gap/ thrifted

Cardigan: New York & Co.

Shoes: DSW /old

Hello everybody, I hope everyone had a blessed and restful weekend, mine was short but I did get a couple of things done. Last night I refashioned another skirt I wanted to wear today but when I tried it on none of my tops went with it so I quickly pulled out this skirt I hemmed a few days ago and my trusty vintage belt. The only thing is that I was expecting a much warmer day and it's not, it's rainy and a bit cooler than it has been in the past days. No problem, throw in my little yellow vintage trench and I'm all set for church.
Before 

Before

After

I'm wearing my refashioned dress with my thrifted 70's sandals, although I'm not a fan of the 70's I must say these sandals did steal my heart.

 Necklace made by me, letters traced and cut out by my student.
 Everything is thrifted!

Red and blue is definitely one of my favorite color combinations, blue is one color I want to wear a lot during this Spring. Let me share a story, there was a man whom I drove by every morning on my way to drop off my son to school, he always waved so once or twice I waved back, you know to be polite, well I noticed he waved every single time I drove by, so then it started bothering me that he knew my car. The time it freaked me out was when I was sitting in my car waiting for it to warm up facing my house so he could not see me, windws are tinted, but when I saw him through the side mirror he waved. It totally freaked me out that he knew where I live. I stopped waiving or looking his way and I haven't seen him that much, however once I saw that he lives a few blocks away. What do you think? I'm overreacting he's just being polite, or you can't trust people all the time?
I don't like taking pictures after work because I look tired and my clothes are wrinkled but the lighting is better.
Vintage ballerina pin from friend's granny.
 Tea pot belt from Brighton.
 I love the pretty purse my friend gave me, unfortunately the leather handle is coming apart, I hope I can find a way to fix it and still look good. Today I'm wearing my red refashioned skirt, a thrifted silk top from Banana Republic, thrifted Gap cardigan, verything is thrifted!

Hi there! I'm back, I'm on my way to my friend's house to look at her grandma's clothes, hopefully I'll find some goodies. I am finished cleaning my closet and I feel better about it, except I still need some solids in there. This is how I tailored the skirt to fit me, it reminds my of Beetle Juice's suit maybe because it's an identical pattern, good thing I always keep clean, did you ever watch the cartoon? He was always stinky.
Before
 Too big, too long, I've decided long skirts are not my thing, I don't like floor length that much.
 Shells on skirt.
After

Hello everyone, school started today and I cannot tell you how hard it was to get up and get dressed for work. I finally switched winter clothes for Spring and I was overwhelmed, I have too much! You see, I didn't start thinking about only buying the things I loved until the Fall, so I had way too many skirts and shirts that I didn't even wear last Spring. I also noticed my closet lacks those pieces that can pull everything together, I have way too many prints and nothing seems to make sense, getting dressed was not exciting this morning.

But let's go on to the good part, today my friend at work brought some things she wanted me to have, they belonged to her grandmother (she passed away) and my friends has only sons so she asked me if I would like to have some of her grandma's things. This was before Spring Break so I didn't have much time to think about it and I forgot to go to her classroom to check out what she had for me. Well today 2 other teachers joined the list to get the vintage goodies so she told me ."You must come now! I want you to pick first the things you like" Little did I know what all she had for me, there were 2 boxes of vintage scarves and jewelry, it was like getting Christmas presents, I was so excited to see all the beautiful scarves and pins.
Her graandma had such an exquisite taste but my friend says she would never wear any of it, I don't even think she knew what she was giving me except for the Gucci scarf which she did mention.
 She also gave me that beautiful hand carved musical jewelry box from the Music Box Company, it's beautiful and it plays the Dancer tune, I'm in love with it.
 And last but no least these brand new vintage nylons in their original box! They are sooo beautiful, I had not seen 1950's nylons before, well only online but never live, they are the softest little things.

 Detail shot of the skirt.

Today I want to show you the circular skirt I made. I worked on this skirt for the past three days, I used McCalls 5811 pattern, very easy to make, the only mistake I made was not buying enough fabric and that was the girl at JoAnn's fault, she gave me bad advice and then I had to go buy more fabric. The total of materials was about $35 bucks, not bad compared to Anthropologie's $128 semi-circular skirt. I used linen fabric for it and it's just perfect, I also worked a bit more on my floral skirt, I re-did the hem and added scallops and a slip detail, I can't wait to show you that one too. The only thing I haven't done is take out the Spring clothes and put away my Winter ones. =P 

Hi everyone! These days I've been sewing a lot, here is how I refashioned this dress, not that amazing but I like my skirt, I decided to make a skirt instead of a dress because:
A: Sewing dresses still intimidates me
B: I wear skirts 9 out of 10 times

Hi everybody, today I'm heading off to the dry cleaners to get my coats dry-cleaned before I put them away for the Spring/Summer. I bought this shirt yesterday (still on the budget) however it had yellowish deodorant stains, I never buy stained clothes but I decided to risk it, once I got home I put vinegar and baking soda on the stains and I let it sit for a couple of hours, then I scrubbed some of that Spray-n-wash stain remover and I put it in the washer, I was very satisfied that the stains were gone. I like the shirt because the gingham pattern is larger than what I usually see at the thrift stores, it's also a slim cut which I rarely find.
 I finally worked on this tassel necklace, I removed the old tiny gold chain and put this F21 black necklace instead, like one of the savvy readers suggested.
 These shoes are officially stuck to my feet now.

Hi ladies! I'm so excited about today's refashion! I thrifted this skirt last week because I loved the pink gingham pattern, reminded me of J.Crew's shirt (which I couldn't afford). For $1.50 it was worth the try so it came home with me. I thought of many ways to refashion this skirt and I was going to settle down for a simple hemming and then I thought "what about a scalloped hem?"

Today I will show you some of the things I thrifted this weekend and things I will be refashioning soon. First I have this circular skirt, I could make competition for Subway guy with this picture. I love the stripe pattern, all I have to do is shorten the hem and cut off excess fabric.

Ladies what a wonderful day it was at work, we went on a fieldtrip to watch a play called "If you give a mouse a cookie" it was wonderful, then we ate lunch in the classroom, did some work and had a cookie-n-milk party while we did our writing. It was a great day indeed. Last night I set my clothes I was going to wear and this morning I changed my mind and pulled out something totally different and unexpected, I love the outcome though and I'm glad I didn't get rid of this super big vintage scarf my friend gave me, I didn't know how to wear it because last time I tried belting it added to much bulk, so today I tried it tucked in under my skirt and I really like how it looks.

Who knew? Thirty minutes do make a lot of difference when it comes to lightning, I usually take outfit pictures around 6:30 a.m. but today I took one after 7:00 a.m. and the lightning was so much better. This Spring Break I'll be staying home doing some hard-core Spring cleaning, both my house and my closet need it. I'll leave the traveling and adventures for the Summer.
Outfit Details:
Shirt: Gap
Skirt: Anthropologie
Belt: thrifted
Cardigan: Gap
Necklace: vintage
Boots: vintage

Nothing beats a bad cold like a French-inspired outfit, well not really but at least I felt good in my outfit, that's the life of a teacher, after the whole class gets sick then it's the teacher's turn, one can only take in so many germs.
I'm back on my shopping budget, last month I went a bit out of control with my spending. This weekend I was reflecting on my shopping habits and it seriously dawned on me that no matter how many shoes or skirts I buy it will never be enough, things won't complete me, the only one who can satisfy my emotional needs is God. I don't want to sound too religious but it's true, most times I try to shoo my emotional needs away so I don't have to think about them and I do so by shopping. I'm not over my shopping problem but there's improvement. I'm not going to quit shopping but I want to shop for the right reasons.

Shoes: Dillard's