Dress: Fancy Floral Wrap Dress by Flor via Gwynnie Bee (click link to get a free month & help me earn a free garment for a month)
Sandals: Born
Bracelet: Designs from the Deep (80s vintage)
Photography: Kate & Me (iPhone)
I wore this outfit to attend a journal making workshop with Kate. I LOVED the colors of this dress! The pattern & colors reminded me of a grandma's couch from the 70s...& to me that is a *good* thing. However, the fabric was like a couch slipcover I had at my first apartment in 1989...& that is *not* a good thing. The material is cheap & weird...like a sleazy motel bedspread. If that brings back fond memories, this dress is for you...otherwise, I would pass.
The girlie & I took this class on coptic stitching & we made our very own journals by cutting apart an old book & using its cover, pretty paper, & thick thread. After we picked out our book & glued the paper we chose to our covers...we made our paper signatures...
Kate found this wonderful poem in one of our books & tore it out to give to Angie, because she's a teacher...
I liked the contrast of this thread...it was otherwise too matchy matchy for me...but I adored this paper so much I couldn't say no...
Our finished journals...that was fun! I want to do more!!
When I got home I made this beautiful salad for Super Boo & myself from our farmers' market bounty...
Shortly after I moved to Madison, I found a shop downtown that sold this fun line of jewelry called, Designs from the Deep. All of the forms are cut out of thick copper & images are decoupaged on top, encrusted with rhinestones, & drenched in resin. The hearts are not my thing, but I was enamored with the images on this bracelet & kept walking down to this shop to visit it until I finally took it home with me.
Whoa, that dress is gorgeous! I'm not usually into 70s-esque colors, but the print is just so amazing. It's too bad that such a pretty dress is made out of such crappy, uncomfortable material--I hate when that happens. *sigh*
ReplyDeleteI know, right?! Thankfully, the material was just weird feeling, but was not uncomfortable to wear. Gwynnie Bee has started several of their own house brands of clothing & this is one of them. So far they haven't exactly got it right, but they are paying attention to the feedback to make them better in the future.
DeleteThe color/pattern on you is fantastic!!! Too bad the material is so cheap.
ReplyDeleteThank you! Hopefully GB will take all the feedback into consideration in the future with their house brands.
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