Here we are at the end of the line for this year long Dress-up Project.
I went round and round with a design for December but everything I thought of, I’d have to buy material. Since I pledged not to buy new supplies this year I had to come up with something else.

I decided on PINK for my Holiday formal dress. I love this color! The fabric is so soft and shimmery too.  

One design I had considered was the classic little black dress, perfect Holiday party wear, but I didn’t have and plain black fabric. Yes I could have went the paper route and painted a little black dress but that wouldn’t have been the same!

I’d also given some thought to my imagined bridesmaid dresses for a Christmas wedding. As a young girl sitting in Church at Christmas I loved the tree in the corner and the sea of poinsettia plants around the pulpit and communion stands. I could picture the whole wedding.  Keep in mind this was the 80’s so I had wanted a black velvet long sleeve top with a  layered tartan shirt and a wide gold sash with a bow in the back. Of course both the sash and tartan would be a bit shimmery and the skirt would have had some body to it so it would have a nice bell shape.

Well…little girl dreams change as we grow up and so do the styles..thank goodness. We had a spring wedding in Vegas! Elopement is SO much easier!!

Here’s one last look at all the dresses in the wardrobe.

Go check out the rest of the December Dresses at the Alice and Camilla blog.
Special thanks to Margaret for coming up with this fun project!!

This month I decided to go a little more traditional for the Dress-up Project.

An evening gown with lace shawl.

I was totally in love with this fabric and just had to use it for something. There happened to be a nice scallop in the pattern so I used it to my advantage. I simply cut along it for an interesting hem.  I added the lace underskirt for that little extra kick.

This was a no sew dress since I put away my sewing machine and have vowed not to take it back out until I finish some other projects. Hot glue works wonders!!

Of course, then yesterday I get a call from a friend asking if I’d hem her son’s hockey jerseys. I’ll be doing those by hand today since the stitching will have to be removed in the spring before turning them back in. All I can say is EWW…nasty sweaty boys hockey jersey’s worn year after year by different kids. BLECH! But I digress…

For November Margaret asked that we also show the wardrobes we’ve completed for the dresses. I went ahead and did that a while ago but here’s a little shot of what it looks like inside today.

Take a moment and stop by the Alice and Camilla blog to see the rest of the November dresses and wardrobes.

Last month some of my visitors from the Dress-up Project thought the idea of recreating my flag twirler uniform was a good idea. Funny because it was just something I thought on a whim …not a really great plan in my head. So, I dug out the picture and gave it a whirl…or maybe that should be a twirl.

Most high school mascots are named for birds or tough, scary animals. Or maybe warriors.
Not us…
We were the Skippers. Yeah…I know…
Oh, watch out!!  Here come those big, bad  Skippers!  It was a nautical thing that was much more relevant about 50 or so years prior. Although I’m sure it was chosen as an elitist thing. Bunch of snobs….but I digress.

Anyway…we had a sailor theme for our uniforms. I did manage the sailor collar but didn’t even attempt to make a sailor hat or the white gloves.

I’m  pretty happy with the result.

What do you think compared to the real deal…?

Never mind the “woodsy-the-owl glasses”.  Good grief…keep in mind it was the 80’s after all.

Make sure to visit the Alice and Camilla blog to see the rest of the September dresses.

                                                                     Homecoming 1988

I finally got around to making this little cabinet into a wardrobe for my Dress Up Project dresses.
I may still play around with distressing the brown. It was going to be more of a dry brush look but I got little heavy handed and had to go with it.

The little dresses look so cute on the little hangers.