advice for life

...just in case you are a lazy launderer [moron] like me:

DO NOT WASH A SWEATERDRESS WITH TOWELS

downtown thrifting

google maps says portland has 4 thrift stores on congress street.  ...i found 3.  the 4th i think may have been replaced by a ski shop.  regardless... it was 30 degrees and blustery.  last dry day before the snow that started at 5am and has just begun to let up.  thus... i wore jeans, a leather jacket, and flipflops.  even the homeless people were giving me weird looks.  back off.  i hate wearing shoes.

rather gaudy sweater clips.  i hope to wear them soon

and who doesnt need a silver-tone kitty brooch?  complete with weird hangy crystal thing. 

silk shirt crop

according to the blog archive, i bought this shirt in october.  and i didnt get a decent pic of it then cos i was already considering re-donating it.  welp clearly i didnt and tonight finally got around to refashioning it into something wearable.  [i bought it cos its green silk and im a sucker.]  and yes two projects in one night cos im unemployed and going out of my effing mind.

step one: lay shirt out flat and take blurry picture

step two: cut off sleeves and bottom.  find similar shirt and trace neckline badly.  cut anyway.

step three: use towel and stove as makeshift ironing board to press bottom and sleeve hems, make crappy crappy bias tape for neckline and struggle for an inordinate amount of time.

fin

a finished project?!

ye gods. 

i purchased a badly fitted dress at a thrift store in november.  wore the top half as shirt in december.  and now in january, i have completed the bottom half as a zip up skirt with a back tie! 

and really..it took me 20 minutes when it came down to it.  so lazy

a little bum tie [thought about sewing on more black fabric to make it a bow but... naw] and it obviously can be turned so the tie is on the side or in the front.  and at waist or hip.  cos im pretty much rectangularly shaped

and a nice neat zipper!

liz's laundry

• jacket: thrifted
• scarf: h&m
• dress: dkny outlet
• jeggings: uniqlo

• sweatshirt: zara
• tank: ny&co
• skirt: target
• scarf: h&m
• leggings: charlotte russe

the second pic is my everybody, everywear entry for black and white.  yes i know it has lavender and burgundy.  it turns out its rather difficult to dress in all b&w without going to an office.  or really having somewhere to go besides the car wash... in my defense im also apparently coming down with something.  im sure it has nothing to do with the fact that my apartment is 80 degrees on a regular basis..except the one day the heat broke and it was 60.  awesome...

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