Vintage inspired dress

Here we have my WIP of a dress I made completely on my own. It is a wrap around dress fashioned after an Advance and an Anne Adams vintage pattern. I do not own the patterns I just saw the pictures of the cover art online.

I actually forgot to put my darts in the bodice! I even had them marked. Not really sure how I missed that step. Also my first time using a ruffle foot went a little awkwardly so the light grey ruffle needs taken out and redone. 

The bodice is lined but not the skirt as I plan on making a petti to go under it. 

It was quite the undertaking. But it cost me about 3$ in materials to make :)

Practicing flower nail art

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So here is my current nail art. I really don't like it very much but I am practicing flowers so it makes sense. I still need to get a set of nail art brushes and tackle the one stroke. I also want to compile a polish wish list because that sounds like fun. 

I know top on my list right now is Halo Hues Angels Kiss holographic polish. Maybe I should devote one post to a polish list and update it as I go? 

I think it's weird, there are so many textured polishes coming out yet I really don't see them getting much attention on polish blogs or videos. I personally love them and am kinda sad knowing it is a fad that will die out eventually. I just can't see them living on as glitters have. *tear*

Oh! Yes and in my next blog I will show you my vintage 1950's style dress I am working on that I designed myself. I have a few more things on it I need to go back and fix and add the buttons and button holes. Someday I hope to work my way up to tutorial making on youtube :)

[EDIT] Oh and how could I forget? My last book haul!

  Were coming upon that time where it gets a bit nippy outside and drifting into a book doesn't sound so bad! Two of these I have already read and took to the exchange. I am currently reading Runestone. I'll put my GoodReads at the top of the page after :)

Out with the old I guess.

(So my old blog I had since 2002 decided to go pay members only. It kind of irked me but really I wanted to start over anyway. Xanga used to be really nice but slowly became so focused on the most popular users. I was being bombarded by all this junk I didn't want to see while all the smaller users got overlooked. Search function only directed you to the big bloggers OR what was posted within the last ten minutes. You felt completely alone. So here I am starting over and maybe this will inspire me to blog more often now.)

These were my natural nails right before they broke. I am wearing a Revlon's GIRLY 206 polish that looks like a jelly sandwich. I wish Revlon would make more than this but they only came out with two colors in it. I like the Revlon version much better than the color show because color show seems to just put black and white flecks in different colors of jelly while Revlon threw many different colors of sparkles in theirs. 

(here you can see the only thing that changes is the jelly not the specks)

Why buy all these when you can buy just the specks alone and make the exact thing out of jellies you already have? 

Ok well I guess that's enough for my first blog. If you love nail art crafts and sewing sub to me :)