More fun with re-purposing and reconstructing! Once upon a time, this was a girls velvet party dress….i cut the top off, let all the gathers out, and sewed in a channel to run many lengths of tea-dyed lace ribbons through, draw-string style so that it can fit many waist sizes.  When they are are tied in a big bow, they form a “bustle-ish” effect. To the ends of some of the ribbons, i sewed on random skeleton keys.

I embellished the front of the skirt with tea-dyed  vintage doilies, a cameo applique,  an old wind-up key,  vintage mother of pearl buttons and other trinkets. Sewed on a whole bunch pearls.

It’s another of those projects that took forever to complete, with soooooo much hand stitching of embellishments….but i think it was worth it! I imagine some mad ghostly housekeeper wandering around a dim old mansion with her jingling keys, unable to remember which key opens what lock…..lost in the corridors forever.

Hoping you are having a spooktacular day!

xoxoxo

Little Electra Marie loved her daddy ever so much..she wanted to be just like him when she grew up, and was so delighted when he gifted her with “Junior Mad Scientist Kit”…..just like Papa’s work, only smaller for a small inquisitive girl.

The only problem was that her kit could never seem to generate enough electrical current to make her experiments come to life. One day, she crept into her papa’s lab to use his tools…

…..ZAP!!!!!!!!!! Too much electricity flowing into her small experiment was just too much was her undoing…..perhaps her Papa can use the correct voltage to bring her back one day…..

This was one of my BIG projects for the Halloween season….a re-purposed coat that i went completely insane on! I embroidered six large, happy skeletons all the way  around the bottom and gave them vintage mother-of-pearl eyes I stitched on lots of lace that i tea dyed with Earl Grey for accents at the waist and cuffs. Finally, i sewed on a cute little vintage heart shaped doilie on the breast pocket, and  a tea-dyed lace rosette with a vintage button in the center on the collar. Really happy with the end result….really sad that it’s too small for me and needs to find a home with a smaller skeleton than mine!

Hoping everyone is well and wonderful today!

xoxox

This morning, i saw a flash of wings….

She turned to look back at me, smiling so sweetly….

She sat down to rest for a moment…

She seemed so content in the morning sun, and i could not help but admire her loveliness…

But she soon explained that she must return to her work, gathering sprigs of rosemary, for remembrance, and disappeared with a rustle of wings among the branches.

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She sat down to rest for a moment…