This is an ugly red dress. It cost me $5.99 at Value Village on Saturday afternoon. It was a maxi dress and I brought it home with the intention of cutting it off and giving it a quick hem. I quickly proceeded to ruin it by cutting it too short. Much too short, my bum was showing.
Tonight, in a dark kitchen I salvaged my 6 dollar investment by giving the dress a lovely long ruffly hem. While I would agree the dress would be nicer short with a simple hem, this is fine. I fully intend to wear the dress. I don't even think it's ugly- but my mother sure would.
Before
After
There are no before pictures. Actually, there are only a couple of pictures because they all looked really horrible and messy. There is a picture of the dress pinned on the mannequin because that is the state it was in when I decided I should undertake this project. Hopefully I can find a solution for the poor lighting at least if I end up taking a lot of pictures
My intention with this project is... to do a little better job of existing? Hence the dumb title I sure hope I can change when I think of something better. I don't do much in my day to day life outside of school and studying. My schoolwork does not involve any creativity. While I study what I study for a reason I miss arts and crafts and I have failed to adopt a hobby so far. Any free time I come by is spent poorly, my computer and internet are usually involved.
I think my soul might be dying. So, I would like to try and do something creative more often. I am leaving the specification as vague as possible. I know I usually won't have much time to plan projects or to work on them. Today I altered a dress, I haven't a clue what I will be doing tomorrow. I do want to try and post some evidence of each project for cataloging purposes.
At the moment this whole thing seems like a very good idea and I am already excited.
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