Vintage Wedding Refashioned Frock GIVEAWAY!!!! CLOSED.

Yes, its another refashioned frock! I had intended to post a new child-sized giveaway but the weather since Tuesday has been really awful. Like late March awful. Rain, 50s and neverending clouds. Today, it finally got warm. So I broke out my sewing machine and made a plan.

I found this frock at the thrift store. It caught my attention with its pintucks and blue embroidery.

It was of course, waaayyy too large for me. See before pic at bottom (this was after I took in the sides). I love finding these too-large gems. It's so simple to take-in a large dress, especially a sleeveless one.

This dress was originally sleeveless. But the delicate white fabric, pintucks and embroidered flowers reminded me of an antique wedding dress. So I bought some very light cheesecloth fabric and made elbow length sleeves. To add to the charm of the dress I added light blue buttons down the arms.

I raised the skirt by about six inches then sewed a light blue sash to cinch the waist. The size of this dress depends on how tight you decide to tie the sash. So I would say it would fit anywhere from a size 2-8.

If the winner of this giveaway also leaves a comment I will include the flower hair garland. I enjoy visiting blogs like {Frolic} which feature plenty of vintage wedding finery. Sometimes I think that if I were getting married now I would want to have a vintage wedding. They're just so quaint!


I want to thank all of you who participated in the short survey. I learned some very interesting things and was reassured about some others.

To my surprise the majority of you said that you wanted more tutorials! I would love to do these too! I will start putting on my thinking cap for some new ideas. It's these random thoughts that get me through the boring parts of my day. Sitting in traffic, waiting in line, lying awake at night.

I was also happy to discover that the majority of my readers use the highest resolution on their screens and have widescreen monitors as these are the best settings for viewing Grosgrain.

I also learned that many times my text overlaps a photo. I knew that this was a problem. It's mostly due to the fact that Internet Explorer formats my screen just a tad differently than Firefox. Sometimes it can't be helped because I don't have enough blank space between photos. If anyone out there knows how to remedy this between browsers I'd be all ears!


We found this little church very close to my mother's house. I'm sure there are a million quaint white washed chapels in our area, especially Lancaster, but for the life of me I could only think of this one.

I could see inside though the windows and wanted to go in and take some good pew pics but unfortunately the door was locked, not surprising.


I pointed out to Brian that Catholic churches are often open to the public. Maybe I'm wrong but it seemed that way to me.

Despite being so entrenched in the backroads the street that ran in front of the church was very busy and WHAT A SPECTACLE we must have been because every single driver that went by craned their necks and opened their mouths to see our show.

I guess I can't blame them. I did look rather dressy but after the 40th or so rubbernecker you could begin to understand my irritation.

How did all of you spend your Memorial Day? As I mentioned earlier, the past few days have been totally wretched. BUT, Memorial Day was just perfection! We all went up to Knobels Grove and spent the day riding rides, eating food and walking.



I rode a spinny sort of ride with Lily when we first arrived and was sick for the next few hours. We started the ride smiling and laughing and as time progressed my smile faded eventually turning into a grimace.

I also had a strange craving for tomato juice. I think its because I've been spoiling myself with tomatoes grown on the vine and found myself miles away with not a tomato seed in sight.
Speaking of tomatoes I'm off to eat one.

Okay, I'm back.

I'm also watching 'The Office'. It's the scene where Dwight starts a fire in the office to teach everyone a lesson about fire safety. When Angela throws her cat into the ceiling....HILARIOUS!

Anyway, I know I promised a fabulous guest giveaway this week. I was hoping to post it yesterday but it has been delayed and I will probably post it first thing on Monday. So please, stop by to be amazed! No lie:)

I'm off to watch more Office.....

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