Vintage Comic Book Shoes

My new comic books shoes that I made! Featuring DC and Marvel Superheroes and Villains! 

Some of these comics are from the 1970s. I love them! I'm willing to take orders also. 

Prom Dress Inspiration

May 19th 2012- I had the best time at high school prom. What do girls look forward to the most for prom? THE DRESS! My mind was buzzing with all the dress ideas. One night, my family was watching Dancing With the Stars when I saw the dress I wanted to make. This season, Maria Menounos and Derek danced a foxtrot during Motown week. Maria wore a sparkly, sequin, long, flowy dress with white gloves. As she was spinning around, (watch the dance here) I fell in love! I jumped online and found a pattern on Etsy. It's Butterick 3768: strapless, long, corset back. PERFECT! I wore a light blue shirt underneath with my vintage elbow length gloves and a curly updo. In the end, I got exactly want I pictured along with SO many wonderful complements! I do LOVE this dress.

My inspiration!

Corset back 

This was AFTER prom when I wore it the next day to church.

Waiting for my date.....

His tux. Flowers. My gloves.

Easter Dress

Happy Easter! I LOVE this dress. It's a 1950s Butterick 5605 pattern with a full skirt, kimono sleeve, with a tied bow in the back. It's so cute and comfortable. For anyone making this dress, WATCH OUT FOR THE KIMONO GUSSET SLEEVES! It was difficult. I really had a lot of help from my grandma and an awesome tutorial that goes step by step. The dress is beautiful and I wore my crocheted gloves. I will post pictures of me wearing it soon. I'm also making a petticoat to wear under it. 

Now what to sew?

Vintage Disney Princess Dress

Inspiration

Vintage drawing of Disney Princess Belle from Beauty and the Beast

My Belle Dress

Lots of altering when into this. My grandma really helped me work out the kinks. The drawing was just a drawing... there was no actual pattern. I had this dress pattern from Burda Style and then did a ruffle with lining fabric and a ruffle of pretty tulle. My love for Disney and vintage style collided to make this:

VintageThrift

Christmas is nearing so in order to have a local Christmas, I've been looking for gifts at the thrift store. I got some awesome velvet bow ties for my brothers. My grandma recently surprised me with these awesome gloves

The hand detail is amazing!

I love the scalloped edges.

These are white elbow length gloves I thrifted for $3.

All around good thrift. Oh, and I finished my Christmas dress! Pictures soon! Merry Christmas!

Grandma's Antiques

From Buttons to jewelry, to memories, grandma shares it all!

Cute engraved locket my grandmother got from her father

Beatles photo album necklace. I found this in her jewelry box and thought it was SO cute! She said she wore it everyday in junior high and showed everybody! It has pictures on both sides of the fold out. There are group pictures and an individual picture of all the Beatles.

My grandmother's Holly Hobby watch. It's so cute. I've researched them and can only find one other on ebay like it.

Grandma's fancy buttons

COMING SOON: vintage buttons, old Greist sewing machine attachments, and some gloves I thrifted