I had so much fun playing with the two different chocolate chips yesterday that I just had to make another design! This one looks very much like some folk costumes I've seen in Nordic countries. They often used brightly embroidered vests over trimmed skirts and full blouses for their costumes. I really like the opportunity to work with two different colors and hope that other ideas I get will allow me the chance to do so again. *grin*
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I wasn't sure what to call this dress! It uses chocolate chips, but also white chocolate chips since my daughter makes both kinds of cookies for us. She spoils us so much! This is one of my personal favorite styles to wear. I love the vested look with a trim skirt and a blousy top. It helps to slenderize my figure, a fact that pleases me very much. My daughter, on the other hand, rarely wears vests. What do you think? Are vests a great fashion accent or do they just get in the way of the rest of your clothes?
Elise came up with this great dress idea. Once she made her dress and showed it to me, I had to see if I could do one too! This mini dress for summer is in some of my favorite colors. I love reds with oranges and yellows! This dress looks good enough to eat and would be fun to wear out on the town any summer day. Thanks, Elise, for this wonderful idea!
This dress was much harder to make than I originally thought it would be. It's surprisingly difficult to make wax drops go where you want them to go. However, patience won out and I came up with this dress. This simple summer dress looks almost marbled, which is a design detail I really enjoy. The jewel neckline and the full short skirt make this ideal for a lunch date or a garden party. Just add a fun hat and wild shoes!
Since I got to spend most of my day filling out tax forms and refilling them out when I realized I'd done them wrong, I had fun tonight by crumpling up all the rejects and making a dress from them! And I have to say that this cute little dress with off-the-shoulder straps was much more fun to create than all that legal stuff I have to send off was. I'd actually enjoy a dress made from fabric with printed matter on it -- but probably not IRS forms. They can give you nightmares!
For those who are keeping track, today was my 175th day of dresses! Woo-hoo! There are lots of ways to make a dress out of makeup. This is just one of them. I got out my bin of makeup -- doesn't every girl have a binful? -- and created this sleek cocktail dress from my eye shadows, foundations, powders, blushes, and lipsticks. It's dark with metallic touches, which works perfectly for a dress for the evening. I love the fullness in the bodice which streamlines things for those of us with much to minimize. Of course, this style also makes more for those who wish they had lots on top, so it's a universal favorite. A trim waist and flirty short skirt finish the dress for guaranteed fun tonight!
Shonnie gave me this idea a while ago, and I finally had an idea what to do with it. This one shoulder dress has a trim waist and a full skirt and is done in fun spring colors. It's still cool today, but the sun is out so I'm thinking of summer again. *grin* Thanks, Shonnie, for this great dress idea!
For Christmas my daughter got me lots of cogs to make Steampunk jewelry. I've been too busy since then to work on it, but today I got out my cogs and played with them in different arrangements to see how I would design jewelry pieces. I didn't decide anything in particular today, but I had a few ideas. Before I put them away, I just had to make a dress from all the cogs! Thanks, Nadine, for these fun Steampunk cogs!
Sorry for the delay in posting these dresses. We're getting ready to move and spent the weekend looking at houses in another town. Getting my dresses online had to take a back seat to those life issues. Today while playing the girls tore up a bunch of paper and made some dresses from the scraps. I could hardly let such innovation go without making a dress of my own. This is a cooler weather dress with long full sleeves gathered at the wrist. Somehow April has been colder than March was, so I was thinking of that while designing. I really like this style of dress and wish I had a pale pretty dress like this one to wear. Thanks, girls, for the inspiration!
Yes, we've still got Easter candy at our house! Daniel shared his jelly beans with us and told me I should make a dress from them. So I went to town on his jelly beans! Woo-hoo! I loved the drama of the green and purple together, so I made a striped skirt with belt. Then I used the lovely pink jelly beans for the bodice and sleeves. What a great outfit! I'd have to pair it with a purple jacket if I wore it, though, because April has decided to be cold after our warm and wonderful March. But it would still look lovely enough to eat! *grin* Thanks, Daniel!
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Denise FeltI took this challenge in the hopes of expanding my creativity as an artist. Already I'm seeing art in a new light -- as something to do for fun and not just practicality! Archives
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