How sweet it is
I do believe that Adam’s 100% Natural Peanut Butter jars are among the most elegant vases a girl may receive.
This is the perfectly bright and wonderful bouquet of sunny left on the porch this morning–by the Peanut Butter Bunch.
How sweet this continues to be.
Speaking of sweet–my Aunt VicKa agreed to read a book aloud and let me record it. Seriously. It happened.
The book? I’m the Biggest Thing in the OCEAN.
And not just her voice–the whole shebang. She let me record her. I had plans to include it in today’s blog–every intention of including it in today’s blog–but for the life of me–I can NOT figure out how to download it.
Extensive, intensive tutoring needed.
I’m on it.
I can’t think of a clever segue, so we’re just leaping ahead.
Love this dress. I purchased it from shadeclothing.com. On sale, of course. (And NO–not one single solitary soul at that place knows I’m even mentioning them. I’m just letting you know where it came from.)
It’s a fabulous color–fabulous fit–fabulous fabric–and fabulous length. (I didn’t have to alter it at all. At all. That’s a happy thing.)
I wanted to pair it with gray for sure–had the cardi, the ribbon (it’s 1″ grosgrain wrapped around twice and tied in a little loose knot), and the really great bib necklace.
The red rose pillow is coming in handy for taking pics with.
As is the yellow wall.
The outfit looked great without the gray at the hem–but–I’m the sheriff of me around these here parts and decided to add it.
And it looked great.
Try and ignore the fabulous green shoes. Just go ahead and try.
I’m thinking that a pair of yellow shoes would work as well.
Hmm.
I love PoPPiNg some color into an outfit with a pair of shoes.
Or a wall.
Now let me esplain (~grin~) where this frilly fabulous extender came from.
I found two rather lovely nighties at a boutique sale several months ago. They were $11 each–bought them both. I wasn’t looking for a nightie–I wasn’t even looking for an extender–I just loved.loved.LoVeD the layers at the bottom. I wasn’t quite sure how I was going to manage the transition from nightie to extender–but–I figured that I could figure it out.
And that’s what happened.
I don’t have a pic of the gray extender project–but I have a pic of something very similar:
This became an extender for my niece. The first step was to cut from side seam to side seam directly under the armholes. Easily done.
(On a flat surface that’s NOT your leather ottoman, of course. Of course.)
I threw the little piece of fabric with the straps in the garbage–and then surged the raw edge on the piece with the froof. (I always do that, unless I don’t.)
The final step was to add a 6″ band of elastic lace–it serves as the waistband. It’s not bulky–which means it fits easily under skirts/dresses.
The lace band only occassionally matches the extender–didn’t/doesn’t/won’t matter because it will always be worn under something.
This is a close-up of why I purchased it in the first place. It’s fabulous.
Here’s a pic of my niece–Adorable Annie (that IS her given name)–in a dress with the froofy extender doing its job: extending.
Darling.
The extender AND the niece.
Nieces are nice–which is why I generally don’t misspell niece.
And I leave you with this treasure–because I giggle every. single. time.
Go ahead and just try not to dance.
2 COMMENTS
Jami
12 years agoYou are so creative and so fun in your dialogue. Fun to read! Oh my word, that video was awesome!! LOL!! Crazy old school. It was great.
Teresa Jones
12 years agoThank you! Thank you! I’m thrilled that you read the blog. And–don’t you think it would be a super fun family reunion activity to remake that video? YOU can be the lead female singer. ~grin~