Happy Tuesday! Apologies for the lack of a Monday post...I was out until the sun came up, literally, celebrating the Tony Awards with nominated friends. I'll have a fun rundown post on that soon but in a nutshell, I became bffs with ScarJo waiting on line for the bathroom and had a moment with Alan Cumming discussing fashion. It was kind of the best night ever. The piece for today is a total winner - my amazingly crafty pal KC gave me a bag of goodies to work on and I couldn't wait to get started on this! These colors are my jam.

Hello bright, paisley, fabulousness!

Only issue is that I really can't get away with wearing this anywhere. The print is supes busy and the length is just too long.

Also, there are tons of these guys under the arms...

I mean tons...

First thing I did was stitch up all my arms! For the most part, all of the holes fell right on the seams making them quite easy to fix. I just reinforced all the stitching in these areas to prevent more hole-age (yep, that's my totally fake word that I'm using that suits this issue perfectly) from occurring.

Next I got to cutting!

In my head I wanted to make a summery dress for my NY trip to wear with some wedges. This was screaming vacation, so I thought a tunic-dress would be perfecto! I trimmed off a third of the dress and then prepped a new hem to be sewed.

I also wanted to open up the neck a bit so I made some snips along the neckline, pinned them under and sewed them in place to create a bit of a scoop shape.

I sewed all my edges, arms, hems, and seams in place and packed my new dress in my suitcase for the Big Apple. Unfortch, there was one major issue. RAIN!! I couldn't get away with a cute sundress in the city while it was raining cats and dogs, so I improvised. New-dress-turned-new-top!!

I belted it and did a little waist zhuzhing to make a billowy top that worked like a charm with my dark skinny jeans. I love the rain but was a bit disappointed that I couldn't rock my new piece exactly how I wanted.

However, this just means that I can wear it again when I get back to LA where rain won't be an issue at all...unless I choose to go to Raging Waters. (Water slides, anyone??) My travel umbrella came in handy as I forged through the city streets in my flip flops. Yep, I didn't bring any closed toed shoes with me. Genius, right?