I am Going to Dress For Change

A Project raising funds to make dresses for unprivileged girls in Africa

I stumbled across this Dress for Change project and I was instantly intrigued. What was it I thought? Well I looked into it and found out that it is a brilliant idea that a young woman named Sheyanne Root has come up with. She needed to do a High School senior project for graduation(fun) Because she likes fashion and helping others she came up with the Dress for change project.

Pick your black dress now!

Now she started a Dress For Change Blog and you can read all the details there. However I will sum it up for you. She is asking for us to first sign up with her and donate $5. The hard part is you commit to wearing the same black dress for a week (the week of April 1st-7th). Now the best part; for each woman who signs up for this challenge Sheyanne will make a dress for a little girl in Africa who is in need.

New house :)

I will be moving that week into a new home. So some how I just don't think wearing a dress all week will be appropriate in anyway. So I am going to opt for pants and a top. Then I will blog about all my adventures in my  black dress black pants and top on my blog! I hope you will all do the same to help promote this challenge Sheyanne is doing, because I believe it can help a lot of girls.




Recap, you need to donate $5 to the Dress for a Change Project, rock a black dress for the week of April 1st-7th and this awesome young woman will make a dress with your $5 and send it to a little girl in Africa who really needs it! Awesome right?

This is what my outfit will look like  plus 40 lbs

So I want you to now go to her blog, sign up for the challenge and help save little girls one dress at a time!

Day 4 No internet

Day 4

No internet

life on the divide often means no internet

I love making wings, I make them for dogs and people

Since a post is very boring with out a photo I included a picture of my Dog Sage in her Halloween Costume I made last year.  Making wings in one of my favorite things to do. If you would be interested in a fairy wing tutorial let me know and I will post one.  They take a long time to make.

Now to the point of today’s post... my internet is not working right. I guess 30 refashions in 30 days was a bit ambitious for me.  Its not that I can’t do it, even with my weird illness and my newborn, I can still do it.  It is the lack of internet connection out here on the divide.  That is what is making things hard.

I suppose I should be thankful for any internet at all, considering most cell phones don’t work at my house. I have internet most of the time, but it goes out A LOT, I am talking weekly.  Sometimes multiples days a week, sometimes even all week! Okay so maybe I don't have internet most of the time.

So I did not publish my refashion yesterday because of my internet or lack there of.  But rest assured my friends and followers, I have been re-fashioning and re-styling and re-doing things. I will publish them as internet allows.  I hope you enjoy my new creations.  

For now I will just use another picture of some wings I made to spice up the look of this post.  Let me know if any interest in a fairy wing tutorial 

One more photo of my wings because I am so proud of them.

I made these for the family of a baby who passed away

Thanks for visiting my blog today.

Why easy refashions, don't get refashioned

 Why easy refashions, don't get refashioned

This is why clothing that should be easy to upcycle never gets finished.

This is one of my piles of clothing I want to refashion.

 

I have a huge pile of clothing I want to refashion that is ever growing.  Do you? I bet you do.  I bet you didn't think I would use an actual photo!  Today as I was trying to wrap my head around why I chose to attempt 30 refashions in 30 days.  I was looking at the HUGE pile trying to figure out why the pile just grows instead of producing awesome clothing for me.

Well I know exactly why my pile only grows.  It’s because I want my refashions to be perfections(is that a word)?  And I don’t have time to produce perfection.  Looking around at other peoples amazing blogs dose not help either.  Seriously you crafters are freaking geniuses.  I am not like you all, I only pretend I can refashion.

So this is what happens, how I accumulate a pile of clothing.  A great example is the brown dress I got for $2.  It could easily be refashioned.into a skirt,  I could just chop the top off and call it a day.  But I can see so much more potential than that...And this is where the problems start.

Let’s say it is a good day for refashioning so I get out that brown dress.  Now I don’t love brown, so instead of chopping the top and having a lovely refashion. I think how much better it would look if it were black.  After all I do have black dye.

Yes! That is what I will do, I will dye my dress!  As the excitement builds, the chance of this project being completed are ever slowing.  I start to think... “if I am going to get the black dye out I might as well find that other shirt I wanted to dye. This is usually the time things start to go bad and I get overwhelmed looking through the “pile” and give up.  

 But let’s just say its not a give up day, because they have happened. 

So after hours of digging out all my projects that need to be dyed black I am excited and can totally envision how this skirt should have little pink flower added too it.  Only I am out of pink thread!

 Now before you say that I should just go get some thread, living on the Divide means a 3 hr round trip for thread.  So running to get thread is not going to happen.  So I put the brown dress back in the pile along with all the other stuff to dye black.  Making it a day that I have only thought about refashion.  When I could have just chopped the top off and had a cute brown skirt.  But since I wanted a perfect skirt with pink thread on black…. It doesn’t happen.  It ended up, a give up day.

So for my 30 refashion in 30 days challenge.  I am not going to do this to myself.  I am just going to do it.  I am just going to be happy with my 5 min chopped top skirt.  Then if I can updated it to the perfect black with pink thread skirt when I have time I will.

Ok, I showed you my pile, I dare you to show me yours!

May challenge 30 refashions for 30 days.

I challenge myself, 30  refashions in 30  days

I am challenging myself!

Why?  Here is the story that led me to this challenge, if you care.  If you just want the rules, skip to the bottom.

I am going through a uncomfortable time in my life.  I recently had a baby, my first.  I gained a lot of weight with that pregnancy.  I did not want to buy any clothes in my, after baby size.  It seamed like a waist of money, after all I had planned on being back in my size 2’s right away.  I figured breast feeding was going to help while also making my tops way too small.  So the plan was No new clothes until I could fit into my old ones.

I started feeling very sick not long after the baby was born.  I started losing a lot of hair (I thought this was normal).  Then I started feeling dizzy and sick.  I went to my Dr. thinking I was already pregnant again.  NO, not pregnant.  They told me I was fine. 

At this point I have bald spots (my Dr said that is normal after pregnancy, I don’t believe him) and I weigh more than I did at 40 weeks.  I feel very sick and I am always in pain along with all sorts of other things.  I found a Dr who gave me some blood tests; I should be getting the results soon.  I am worried about them but hope they prove something is wrong with me and that going bald after pregnancy is not normal.

Still, a problem I have is I need clothing that fits.  My maternity clothing, while it fits is out of season.  That is a big problem where I live. (It was snowing and is now in the 100’s)  No matter what this health issue is I am still sticking to the plan of no new clothes until I can fit into my old ones.

So let the refashioning begin!

Rules

My rules for my 30 refashions in 30 days challenge

1. I can refashion clothing I have
2. I can buy anything at any thrift store for refashioning  
3. I can buy new clothing if it is reduced %75 or more for refashioning
4. I challenge myself for 30 refashions for 30 days
5. I get to take of 3 days for my birthday.  
6. *added since it's my first mothers day, I can do something special that day.(not sure yet)

Do you want to join my challenge? 

Today is day 4!

So I have made it 4 days!  That is not long at all, but considering how sick I have been and the baby and all the other things... well its something.

Anyway I am so excited to post my projects up here in the next few days.  I am hoping that people can get some use out of my blog.  I don't know if anyone other than myself will benefit from my weird rambling but I hope that I can give some inspiration to a few peeps.

Any who, its so late and I am sick and have no page views yet so I don't feel dragging out this post is incredibility important.

Sicky poos

Day 3

Ok here I am on day three, sick with my whole family.  I feel spicily bad for getting little Shipoopi sick with his first cold, I guess it had to happen sometime.  He seams to be handling it much better poise and dignity than me . I am now totally high on a mix of Dayquil and and….what was I doing? 

I am posting my day three challenge post.  Exciting it is not :( however I do have a great DIY belly band / nursing top tutorial I am going to post as soon as this evil cold is gone.

So bloging is super hard!

I just started this blog yesterday, so it is something very new to me.  I challenged my self to post something every day for a month. Thinking that posting everyday for a month would make some type of profound change in my life.  I am not sure that it will make any change in my life at all, never mind a profound one!

 Never the less this is the challenge I set for my self and so here I sit on day two… already having a hard time with my post.

On the bright side, I have infact had a change in my life already.  What is that change you ask?  Well I learned something; I have learned that blogging is super hard! 

Why a blog?

So why am I starting this blog. 

I am a new Mom and as any new or experienced Mom will tell you it’s a hard exhausting 24-7 job.  So why would I, one of the laziest people in the word, want to add another project to my life?

Well I guess it all started when I realized that being a Mom was a hard exhausting 24-7 job, its life consuming.  For me it is anyway.  I almost immediately felt that my little bundle of joy sucked the life out of me.  He took the “me” away from me.  Yes I love him and he is a wonderful new light of my life.  But some how he became my whole life.

I stared to feel like I am nothing but a robot who tends to a pooping, peeing, puking and periodically screaming machine.  It made me want to scream too, only I can not scream louder than the pee pee machine.

I decided that I needed to get back to being me.  I needed to CRAFT!  So I ran out and got some new scissors and yarn.  Well guess what?  That stuff is still sitting on my kitchen table.  I guess the yarn is also waiting for me to find myself again. 

So I found I needed a push.  I went to the Dr for my check up after pushing out the little miracle.  When I told the Dr how I felt she suggested I try Zoloft.  I took her advice… in a few weeks I still felt like a machine that took care of the little pee pee man only now I had the burden of feeling sweaty all day long and not being able to pee.

So I stopped the little pills real quick and then came up with a new solution.  So here it goes, I am giving myself a push.  I am going to blog about my crafts.  So now I can’t just leave them sting on the table. I will have you to answer too.  I know that “you” are not anyone yet but I am going to pretend that you are.  So as I pretend in my head that my fans need my crafts this blog is my plan to make me whole again.