10% Seamstress

As I mentioned on fb, I recently altered my LEL's Easter dress this afternoon. It was insanely easy, so please, no one be impressed!
Just like how I am an "add-to-it" chef, I am also a "10% seamstress." Basically, I try to find the best deal on clothes in store, then I come home and alter them only slightly to fit my needs more.
Lorelai's Easter dress was purchased at half price looking like this:

Cute, simple, comfortable, and affordable...pretty much all the "musts" on my check off list.
As cute as it is, is was a little big and a little lacking in the pizazz department.
So I decided to hem from the straps (I did not want to mess with the sweet little ruffles on the bottom).
I also purchased some purple flower buttons to place over the hem line to help hide the alteration.
Hobby Lobby was all I needed.
A spool of thread and 2 buttons, complete with a 40% off coupon at checkout, and I was out the door.

It seriously took 5 mins and it made such a difference.

It all cost me under $20. I figure by the time I buy the chiffon, the satin, the ribbon, the thread, the buttons, and oh yeah, a similar dress pattern, I would easily spend that much and more...not to mention time, effort, and the probable fact I might royally screw up at least once.

I don't even have a sewing machine.

So anyway, I think my "10% seamstress" plan works pretty well for me right now. Who knows, maybe as time goes on that percentage will increase. 

More pictures of my sweets in her dress after Easter!

M.LEWIS