What To Do On A Sunday Night

We are wild and crazy. You never know what we'll do next. How about wrapping myself in duct tape? I've been wanting a dress form for awhile now. I had seen the articles on how to make your own with duct tape but that seemed like such a hassle. I was hoping to find a vintage one in good shape at a good price but was starting to get impatient after combing Ebay for months. I had moved my cursor several times over the "add to cart" button on Joann's Fabrics website. Ultimately I just couldn't bring myself to spend the money without trying the homemade method first. After all, it's about living simply right? Plus it seemed logical that this way would be even more true to my form than even the adjustable dress forms. So Adam picked up the duct tape yesterday and last night set to covering his wife in it. I have to say he did a great job and really put his artistic and technical mind to it! We used this Etsy tutorial and WikiHow article as guidelines. I still have to stuff the dress form now and I think I might "dress" it up a bit. I'll share when I get it finished.

Shopping Week Pt. Deux

Goodness, has a week already gone by? Where was I? The rest of my shopping adventures...Last Saturday I stopped by Lost In Time Antique Mall in Winston-Salem. So far this is my favorite antique mall in the area. My finds included a wicker stand painted robin's egg blue. I used it as a display the next day at the Solstice Festival - so cute!I also couldn't resist this old Brownie scouts handbook. I never was a girl scout or anything (I don't remember having the desire to) but it's one of those things that I wish now I had done. I liked the illustrations that went along with the activities in the book.











I also found some neat vintage trim to use in projects.

I finished the day with a trip to Sew Original to finally pick out my birthday gift (thanks Mama!). I love getting new fabric but it does mean adding to my stack of projects to get done! The first one is (hopefully!) going to be the dress in the top left corner of the pattern picture. The fabrics in the second picture are going to be a couple summer tops.

Vintage Treat

For being so good at the doctor's office today, I did a quick run around Design Archives this morning as my reward. In addition to all the fabulous vintage clothes they carry, they also have a good supply of vintage patterns, notions, fabric, etc. I picked out these patterns thinking it might be fun to sew some clothes from the old patterns with new fabric. I tried to get patterns that looked relatively easy, so we'll see how it goes. I think my first step will be to carefully unfold the original patterns, make sure they're whole or at least fixable, and then I'll probably trace the original on to paper that I can work from.