Cowl-Neck Tee

This week I made a resolution to start using up the clothing items in my "alter-me and I will be beautiful" clothing pile.  This pile has grown to about 4 skirts, 5 tops, and various other pieces of clothing.  It may not seem like alot but being that I am working out of my bedroom for alterations and this pile is taking up my floor space.

So as an effort I went scrounging for some tutorials/ideas to alter some tees that I had stuck in the pile because I really never wear them as a result of the wide/lowcut neckline.  Well as I was stalking pursuing Katy's awesome blog: Sweet Verbena  (if you haven't checked it out, well, you should!...like right now) I discovered this tutorial:

(click the pic)

(among the other really neat tutorials she has...scroll to the bottom for a list of some of my favorites)

and then I thought "hmmm....that cowl neck adds extra fabric around the neck region...I'll bet that it would work just splended on those shirts I have at home!"

Dress Conversion

There have been quite a few postings out there lately channeling Shabby Apple's sort of T-shirt/Skirt/Dress style which looks extremely comfortable and wearable.  I've gotten bit by the bug and decided to try my hand at it. This is how we turned out!

The top is a t-shirt I had gotten quite a while ago from Gap.  I love their t-shirts because thy are nice and long since I have a long torso to cover but I really don't wear blue shirts all that much since I just think it's kinda monochromatic when I wear blue jeans most of the time...seriously I think I have maybe 1 other blue shirt...