Friday, May 7, 2010

YUP!



My little sisters friend is borrowing my dress for prom but her step mom told her it has to have straps on it, so this week my sister and I thought about how we wanted to do them. We spent about 2 hours in the fabric store and didn't really like anything we came up with, until my sister said we should do something that laces up like it does in the back.

This is what we came up with....



...and this is what it looks like when I just put the straps under it to see the whole picture....



See those little white eyelets we used to make the holes, I told both my sister and my mom that you can buy just white one but they both told me no you can't. So what do we do?! We buy 100 metal ones and white spray paint to make them. When we get back to the house I lay a plastic bag on the cement so I don't ruin it when I spray them, one by one my sister and I set them up so I could spray the top. Well as you might have guessed right when I went to spray them the wind picked up and blew them on their sides!!!!! Again we put them all up right and try again, well this time when I spray them they alllllllllll go flying everywhere! Later when I was telling my mom the story see asked why I didn't just stick them to a piece of tap that way they will stay up, my sister and I shared a look of what was basically DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Geez we are so bright! Well after that all happened I was sick and tired of them and I didn't want to spray anymore, so I went to the craft store and low and behold guess what they had!!! White eyelets! Go figure, so yes I did tell them that I was right! All in all we had fun making them till late into the night, I like how they turned out! Oh and I went to a dinner tonight and guess what I did?! While holding the lid to the chili for someone I managed to get it all over my new white shirt! I had it for less then 10 hours and managed to get it dirty! I got asked if I needed a bib.

2 comments:

  1. U are so talented when it comes to sewing and that dress is wonderful & so pretty.
    But why did I hold my breath the minute you said your name & spray paint at the same time?
    First, I'm so proud u put plastic down b4 u started on your adventure. And I thought for sure, once u started spraying & the little poor & little eyelets started blowing away, I could so picture u chasing them all over the yard with a spray can. :)

    And chili on ur brand new shirt.....Soooo you!

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  2. Oops....should read....

    once u started spraying the little poor eyelets & they started blowing away, .....

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