Weekend Teaser!

Hi friends!! I've been traveling this week so I'm a bit behind on posting, but I wanted to give you a teaser on what to look forward to over the next few days. This mustard yellow dress is a total delight. The skirt is thick and quilty, the color is perfect for this time of year, but it needs a bit of help.

Hey collar, haaaaaaaaaay!! Plus lime green to boot!! Can't wait to show you the after look of this guy.

Love this light blue muumuu. The neck ties make for a perfect hair accent!

I feel like Cinderella with our matching blue hair sashes :)

Three fun outfits with three even more fun after looks to come... Would any of these make it into your Goodwill basket??

DIY Gumball Costume

Halloween is over, but here's a rundown of what I actually wore on the big night! Can't wait to hear what you dressed up like this year! I worked with RIT Dye on this year's costume, so I started with a white cotton dress as the base and then played around with dye to really give off a gumball machine feel!

Start a dye bath for your garment next. I used a washing machine, but a stove top works as well. Fill your machine with hot water (run it on a whites wash) or boil the water on your stove top. Add your chosen dye (I went with Cherry Red) to your dye bath...

...wet your garment completely in water, and then add your piece to the bath.

After the wash is complete (or after you've let the garment marinate on the stove top) toss it into the dryer to dry completely before adding your pompoms!

Using a hot glue gun, begin affixing pompoms to the top of the dress.

You want to cover the whole front of the bodice.

With the pompoms affixed, start creating the rest of the gumball accoutrements with felt!

You can create the price sticker using white felt and a marker to write 25 cents on it. The dial can be created by cutting a circle and little rectangle out and gluing them together. The slot where the gumball comes out can be made by trimming a small trapezoid out of the black felt.

And, voila!

Insta-gumball costume!!

Time to celebrate Halloween!

What did you dress up as this year?? Did you DIY anything fun? Share your costumes in the comment area!!

Halloween Location Looks: 31 of 31 – Clueless

My month of DIY costumes shot in front of the actual shooting locations continues!! The final look is here and it comes from a movie that made me want to move to LA. Today’s costume comes from:

I love this movie. I quote this movie rather often, so when I decided that I was going to do a month of DIY movie/TV show costumes and shoot them in front of their actual filming locations, Clueless was #1 on my list. I have needed to see Circus Liquor in real life!

Elton drops her off in the liquor store parking lot because she's not into him like he is...

...and she's not into the Cranberries like he is either!

To create her outfit, you can easily make the jacket using a red and black feather boa and a red blazer. I found mine at Goodwill for $3! I cut the boa to fit around the cuffs of the jacket as well as the collar and hot glued it in place.

Then, all you need is a red dress and you're transformed into Cher Horowitz!!

I made it!!

I didn't go to a val party first...

...but I ended up at the same place that Alicia Silverstone went right after!

She gets held up, eek(!!!), but as soon as the mugger asks her to get down, she just can't comply. "This is an Alaia!!"

I've found someone who loves her clothes as much as I do...

My dress  is by a "totally important designer."

I love Cher Horowitz!!

My final and favorite costume of the month!!

Now the question is, what are you wearing tonight????

Film Details:

Clueless (Fox., dir: Amy Heckerling)

Location:  5600 Vineland Ave.91601, N. Hollywood, CA